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: The first bust is of Hannibal Barca, the famous Carthaginian general. The second is a Medieval portrait of Scipio Africanus, a contemporary Roman general whose father was killed by Carthaginian forces dispatched by Hannibal (and commanded by his brother) in Spain.
Problem? Hannibal had in the course of his stunning military victories, by some estimates, killed one in five Roman males alive at the time, so there were quite a few dead Roman fathers to his name.