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: Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who caused Rome such distress in the Second Punic War, spent much of his later life on the run from Roman forces and emissaries hoping to get him handed over, tied with a neat ribbon, for a brutal execution. Hannibal, naturally, was not keen on enabling this. By one account of Hannibal's death, Roman soldiers had surrounded the residence he was in, and he drank poison to avoid being taken alive.