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.
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Not sure where to start on Roman history?
A quick memetic primer on Republican Rome
A quick memetic primer on Imperial Rome
Explanation: Just some political violence in the Late Republic! The two sides, Optimates (conservatives) and Populares (reformers), were constantly at each other’s throats, and even small offenses could blossom into violence, like here. This particular incident gave the conservative Optimates the excuse to murder a prominent Populare politician, Gaius Gracchus.