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How often do you think about the Roman Empire?
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NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Pretty often. It’s one of my favorite subjects. Actually I just finished reading a book about it the other day.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Wait, did you expect him to be circumcised?Have watched the uncut Caligula
midnightAI
Member
Doesn't it depend on what is on TV, Film, whatever is trending?
When I was watching the Spartacus series it was every day until I finished watching it + a while longer wishing there was more.
Gladiator, Plebs, Life of Brian, Pompeii and Up Pompei, Rome (series, awesome), even 300, although Greeco-Persian, still makes you think of Rome as they look like stereotypical gladiators.
So while I don't think of Rome randomly each day, if films or TV series about Rome come out then I do like to watch them
(I like to watch some reaction channels, especially ones with Americans who react to our British comedies and at the moment an American couple are reacting to Plebs once a week, so at the moment the answer to the poll is once a week for me)
When I was watching the Spartacus series it was every day until I finished watching it + a while longer wishing there was more.
Gladiator, Plebs, Life of Brian, Pompeii and Up Pompei, Rome (series, awesome), even 300, although Greeco-Persian, still makes you think of Rome as they look like stereotypical gladiators.
So while I don't think of Rome randomly each day, if films or TV series about Rome come out then I do like to watch them
(I like to watch some reaction channels, especially ones with Americans who react to our British comedies and at the moment an American couple are reacting to Plebs once a week, so at the moment the answer to the poll is once a week for me)
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Cyberpunkd
Member
Considering the Roman Empire laid the foundation of Europe we have today even if you do not know it you are probably thinking about it in some way each time you think about the European history.
Tams
Member
The latest social media contagion. Women are in shock at how often men think about the Roman Empire.
(their actual names)
There's an interesting point to be made in how this highlights how the differences in the inner thoughts of men and women are likely greater than the differences in our outward interactions.
Calling one of your daughters 'August' and no 'Augusta'?!
Clearly not a true Roman weeb (reeb?).
Unknown Soldier
Member
kanjobazooie
Mouse Ball Fetishist
I think about Genghis Khan more often.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I’m not trying to be a prick, but that’s a reductive vision of Europe’s history.
Unknown Soldier
Member
You'll have to forgive people like him who are super woke and therefore don't acknowledge the explicit gendering of Latin and all it's descendant languages
Cyberpunkd
Member
Went back to check my kids' names, I'm at 2 out of 3 (but the third one is derived from Latin one, so I guess 2.5 out of 3).
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Jsisto
Member
Lol stupid men with our introspection, philosophy and learning and caring about the past. Why can’t we do normal things like know what someone’s astrological sign is and what that says about them, and comment on The Dodo videos about how animals are better than us. Such lovable dolts, us men are!
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NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Well, Islam started eroding the eastern empire’s territories as soon as the middle ‘700s. Constantinople had actually been more or less a mere city-state for about a century when it finally fell, its empire lost to neighboring forces long before.
Dr.Morris79
Member
Yeah that’s understandable, an empire doesn’t go from its greatest height to nothing overnight. At the end there was hardly anything left. Still history does record that date when it finally fell.
Toots
Gold Member
Piping hot take :
We're at the end of the roman empire (the concept of society it represents anyway).
Rome is falling and we as its citizens are afraid.
Extremely mild take :
Zuck is a cuck, who thinks he's Cesar but is in fact Nero. Facebook is his burning of Rome, except he didn't burn some buildings one can build back, he burned our collective mind. Hard to recover from that :/
We're at the end of the roman empire (the concept of society it represents anyway).
Rome is falling and we as its citizens are afraid.
Extremely mild take :
Zuck is a cuck, who thinks he's Cesar but is in fact Nero. Facebook is his burning of Rome, except he didn't burn some buildings one can build back, he burned our collective mind. Hard to recover from that :/
Ammogeddon
Member
Stop
Pontificating
Quality
Romans
Pontificating
Quality
Romans
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
I don't know what's real anymore. Who are these people? Where are these people? Who am I? Am I real?
Wildebeest
Member
It's hard to think about Rome so much when you are thinking about the earlier Greek and Egyptian history.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Popularized slavery and child sexual abuse? To be fair I might be confusing them with the Greeks.EviLore I'm disappointed you posted an X with Y'ALL in it
However I do think about the Romans everyday. I mean what did they ever do for us?
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Gold Member
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
AlteredForms
Banned
Because it's been romanticized and a source of pride and nationalism from Italians and Europeans alike. The Roman Empire did a lot of good, but it did bad also like any empire in history. The same thing happened to the Spartans of Greece, who are seen as protectors of Europa from the brown-skinned Persians who wanted to conquer them and turn them all into slaves, when in fact the majority of Spartan population were slaves lol.
BlueAlpaca
Member
Speaking of Rome, I'm listening to this great podcast currently:
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
once a month. Sometimes multiple times a month.
last time i discussed this with my dad was a couple of weeks ago.
I think men are just into history and sports. I think about sports and video games everyday. History pretty much every other day. World War 2, World War 1, Alexander, Socrates, Plato, Roman Empire, the pyramids! lmao.
last time i discussed this with my dad was a couple of weeks ago.
I think men are just into history and sports. I think about sports and video games everyday. History pretty much every other day. World War 2, World War 1, Alexander, Socrates, Plato, Roman Empire, the pyramids! lmao.
Toons
Member
Yeah, when they'd pair you up as a teen with a much older man who would routinely penetrate you so you could "develop a close bond!"
Ain't nothing manlier than that!
Now, I don't spen a ton of time thinking about the romans... but I spend plenty of time thinking about things derived from their introductions to society so.... I guess that kinds counts but that seems like a rigged scale.
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Toons
Member
Zuckerberg definitely knows more about languages than you do lol. He named them exactly what he wanted to make them.
BossLackey
Gold Member
All the time.
I try to practice Stoicism and I love ancient history. I have many books on ancient Rome.
It's amazing what they did and were capable of.
I try to practice Stoicism and I love ancient history. I have many books on ancient Rome.
It's amazing what they did and were capable of.
RAÏSanÏa
Member
Considering the importance of Down with the Patriarchy with some women I thought it would've been higher. Particularly to the spiritually inclined with Cleopatra as Deity and the difference between the establishment of Venus Victrix and Venus Genetrix in uniting Rome and Egypt. Perhaps glamour confuses on a larger scale with details still uncertain and muddied. Women in my circle have historical interests and some freedom from survival concerns for creative efforts and introduced me to Roman related things so they are aware if not continuously thinking about it.
I think about the disintegration of the Roman Empire as part of a continuum often.
I think about the disintegration of the Roman Empire as part of a continuum often.
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