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: In true misogynist fashion, Romans loved to blame things on the evil womenfolk. Livia, the wife of the Emperor Augustus, was a particular target for such ire, as Augustus highly valued her counsel and consulted her on most major decisions.
At least she wasn't Dido.
"No no, you see, a woman had emotions towards a proto-Roman hundreds of years before the Republic even existed, it was totally justified that we engaged in a no-holds barred war of annihilation with each other" - Virgil when writing the Aeneid