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[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 99 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"...according to what he himself wrote about his own accomplishments."

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH 39 points 2 years ago

The dude knew how to propaganda.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 65 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Rome is overrated. That meme about men always thinking about ancient Rome is dumb.

Ancient Greece however, now that's a different story. Tell me about Athens all day

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes I often think about Athens, well Athenian men mostly. How they had these battles of wit. Long and hard battles of wit. Almost naked battles of wit. Man against man. Yes I think of that time sometimes.

(I'm heterosexual BTW)

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Real talk, and admittedly this is a tangent, but does anyone else think it's weird as hell that for most of us we don't know what literally like 10% of bodies of our absolute closest relationships look like, unless we're sleeping with them?

Shame is weird as hell to me, and the fact that we feel like we have to hide our natural state of being from the people we otherwise implicitly love and trust wholeheartedly will always make me kind of sad.

Or, in other words, more public nudity please.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The job interviews would certainly be more entertaining.

But I see your point. I'm afraid you were born 2500 years too late.

[–] Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Or 50 years to early? Look global warming, increasing prices, overcrowding, decreasing resources or a looming nuclear world war 3 might just be the case to revert back to ancient times! Just hold on a couple of years, we'll get there don't you worry about a thing honey!

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Oi! Anaximenes, you claim you are smart enough to fill this position of Software engineer, and yet your phallus has the size and the stench of a donkey's! You must be a brute, unfit for this job.

Epiphanes! Do not lecture me about my phallus, when your testicles look like undeveloped figs and you have a woman's chin. I will beat you with this keyboard.

I see. You can start Monday.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Couple years? That seems optimistic

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

come to the nordics where we sauna naked

[–] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Can this be a copypasta pls?

[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Like how the Spartans are remembered for thermopylae even though they weren't the only ones fighting there. And then the Spartans went crying to the Persian to help them fight Athens in the Peloponnesian War. And also the first person to run a marathon died after delivering the message so now people hear that story and think I bet it won't kill me.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

300 SPARTANS and 700 Athenians

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 16 points 2 years ago

Rome as a whole doesn't interest me a huge amount, but I can't think of any period in history more fascinating than the fall of the Roman Republic. And the Battle of Alesia does form part of that.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you familiar with acoup.blog? If not, you might like it. It's a blog by a historian named Brett Devereaux and there's a decent amount of interesting Ancient Greek content on there. I particularly enjoyed his series on the pop culture understanding of Sparta Vs actual history: (https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/)

[–] glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

A mad lad linked a Seleucid series on an earlier Seleucid shitpost and that was a fire read

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah but it got sacked by goths, so I kinda admire Rome

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hell yeah, one of my top life goals is to get sacked by goths

Ok, first, invent systemic racism.

Now, in a move of true genius, do it to your army.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Dude I know tons of goth girls I'd happily let take me to the sack

[–] glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Tbh Zeus & Poseidon is better than Caesar III

Gotta have that hydra roaming & shitting on your city till you get that temple to Hercules erected

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago

*has a second fucking wall built.

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Omg I love that story. Was literally worth learning Latin to read the original accounts (although Caesar does tend to exaggerate).

[–] glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Amo narrationem Alexandri et Aristoteli in agris. Narratio fuit in libero Latini. Coitus intellegebatur. Heu! Dedidici paene omnia!

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I hope the coitus is consensus

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 years ago

This reminds me of the women's meme about bringing up horoscopes, even if you don't believe in them, to see how he reacts.

This could be the spear counterpart; if she walks away when younhistory rant, it wasn't meant to be.

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does someone have a knowyourmeme link for this one? I don't know what to Google.