A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.
RULES:
No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.
Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.
Follow Lemmy.world rules.
Not sure where to start on Roman history?
A quick memetic primer on Republican Rome
A quick memetic primer on Imperial Rome
Explanation: When the Roman legions were just beginning to change into a standing, professional army, they had gladiators teach new recruits techniques for dodging and warding blows. While the later legions wouldn't need the instruction of glorified athletes, as they would develop a core of veterans with dedicated training duty, it was useful in getting them started.
Here we see a 100% accurate recreation of those Roman training techniques!
This is a reference to an ad for a shitty mobile game. An animated Roman soldier is trying to stab an Egyptian woman but she dodges him by swinging dancing and swinging her hips. It's a city builder game themed around ancient Mediterranean civilizations.