Just watched this and thought it was dope. I especially liked the Roman buffets and Foreman grills.

  • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    How often do I think about the roman empire? Given my house is built on the remains of the Antonine wall daily

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Sympathizing with G*rmanics! How far the noble discipline of Classical studies has fallen! (I also was still interested in hearing which Emperors she thought was ‘least bad’, but no such luck q.q)

    A funny thing to add (which she is doubtlessly aware of because she is FAR more educated on the matter than me, just giving short answers) is that Roman women had the right to be represented in court, but in the Late Republic, there was a female lawyer who was so successful arguing her clients’ cases that her fellow (male) lawyers successfully lobbied for women to be banned from the legal profession, except when representing themselves. What fragile masculine egos!

    She hits up almost all of the ‘most common’ questions about Ancient Rome. Absolutely fantastic find!

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Wait, where was the G*rmanic simping?

      I also regret that she didn’t go into the sexual norms Romans did have, or put the guy who was concerned about being black at ease that they wouldn’t have noticed or cared, and would be more concerned about his lack of a “civilised” language. Both sexual free-for-all Rome and racist Rome are common misconceptions that basically come from more recent history, and the way the Church or European colonial empires wanted to paint themselves relative to it.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Wait, where was the G*rmanic simping?

        She suggested that Marcus Aurelius wasn’t a good Emperor for the G*rmanic tribes he slaughtered, acting like they were PEOPLE or something, or like they shouldn’t have been grateful for having Roman civilization brought to their barbarian lands! (also it was self-defense, but I get what she was saying and why she didn’t meander off into the details)

        I also regret that she didn’t go into the sexual norms they did have, or put the guy who was concerned about being black at ease that they wouldn’t have noticed or cared, and would be more concerned about his lack of a “civilised” language. Both sexual free-for-all Rome and racist Rome are common misconceptions that basically come from recent history.

        Berber man with citizenship who speaks good Latin: “Make this man one of the most powerful in the Empire!”

        G*rmanic ‘person’ able to phenotypically pass as from any part of Italy: 🤢

        Getting your dick sucked by a man = Very manly!

        Sucking a man’s dick = Effeminate, and probably Gr*ek as well

        The past is such an interesting place, in how it challenges our preconceptions about the values in our own societies by demonstrating some… really wild deviations from modernity, lmao