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 an incident known as the Asiatic Vespers, the ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus, Mithridates, decided to murder some 80,000 Roman civilians living in Anatolia (modern-day Turkiye).
For some reason, this did NOT discourage the extremely warlike and vengeance-obsessed Roman Republic from its expansionist aims. How strange!