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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
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)
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.
The job interviews would certainly be more entertaining.
But I see your point. I'm afraid you were born 2500 years too late.
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!
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.
Couple years? That seems optimistic
Calm.down diogenes
Look I'm just saying I want to know which of my friends have a cloaca
(Yes this is a Diogenes "behold, a man!" joke)
come to the nordics where we sauna naked
Can this be a copypasta pls?
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.
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.
300 SPARTANS and 700 Athenians
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/)
A mad lad linked a Seleucid series on an earlier Seleucid shitpost and that was a fire read
Yeah but it got sacked by goths, so I kinda admire Rome
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.
Dude I know tons of goth girls I'd happily let take me to the sack
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