Ancient Rome AU

because Ancient Rome needs fanfiction

[max1461]

If you go on the mathematics genealogy project and go to Euler and just keep clicking, you can find a path that takes you all the way back to Avicenna. Although I think they are stretching the definition of "thesis advisor" somewhat the genealogies still seem correct in spirit. One of the guys has his university listed as "Ilkhan Court at Tabriz".

[max1461]

i want to study at Ilkhan Court at Tabriz university

i will spell color as رنگ and measure distance in parasang. i would watch buzkashi on the steppe all day while drinking ayrag with my yurt mates. i'll have khorkhog every day that's worth 5 dirham. i would go to naadam festivals every year. i am also more likely to meet tatars, Ibn al-Fuwati, Shams al-Din Juvayni and Hülegü Khan.

i wish i was perso-mongol :(

[ancient-rome-au]

[Wikipedia article]

[vulpes-aestatis]

Baby sphinx trying to be like mama and waylaying travelers, but all its riddles are completely non-sensical like the ones a 1st grader would tell

[ancient-rome-au]

tautological place name detected in Little Rock, AR

[femmenietzsche]

At least three Ancient Greek authors denied that Helen ever went to Troy; instead, they suggested, Helen stayed in Egypt during the Trojan War. Those three authors are Euripides, Stesichorus, and Herodotus.[72][73] In the version put forth by Euripides in his play Helen, Hera fashioned a likeness (eidolon, εἴδωλον) of Helen out of clouds at Zeus' request, Hermes took her to Egypt, and Helen never went to Troy, but instead spent the entire war in Egypt.

Insanely stupid retcon. Late period Marvel shit

[daciancatamite]

"you couldnt make seinfeld today" you couldve made seinfeld in 45 B.C.

[daciancatamite]

kramer: *barges in* *crowd cheering* jerry! caesar just made himself dictator perpetuo!

[sexchangedotcom]

ancient roman women whose husband keeps looking at the neighbour's boy quintus and he never looks at her that way and she can't even chainsmoke in the kitchen because they don't have marlboro blues in ancient times. and she can't even go to the club because they haven't discovered drum and bass music yet. her friend clodia's having visions of a woman named doechii but neither of them knows what that means

[ancient-rome-au]

new frontiers in horse girl [laudatory] [source]

[cozyrogue]

the "rip ___ you would have loved ___" meme is inherently more fun with ancient characters. rip clytemnestra you would have loved morse code. rip theseus you would have loved the airtag. rip callisto you would have loved wearing shorts.

[newsiesiswhyimhere]

rip Icarus you would have loved parachutes

[memories-of-ancients]

Todays anthropium score. Did a good showing but I totally messed up a couple artifacts.

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[ancient-rome-au]

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I got the first one not quite right because I guessed the time and place the art was depicting, instead of the time and place that the object was made! Fortunately, that resulted in a guess that wasn't too far off.

[ancient-rome-au]

Some of my favorite YouTubers collaborated to drop videos at the same time on the influence of Neoplatonism on Christianity

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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[ancient-rome-au]

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oops. lol. i guess i don't know much about material cultures outside of the West and the Near East!

[regina-bithyniae]

I would be great at being Unidentified Hellenistic Ruler. King of Some Small Slice of Asia, leading an entourage of Macedonian transplants ruling brutally over marginally hellenized subjects, with prententions vastly exceeding my military achievements.

Bro, I am like totally like Alexander's #1 successor. For real dog.

[centrally-unplanned]

The "me and my boys are starting a podcast" of the Hellenic Age.

[regina-bithyniae]

Hellenistic rulers would've made the best midwit bro podcasts. Episodes:

If We Make Our Pikes Just One Foot Longer We Can Win Every Battle By Poking Them First

Why do my native conscripts keep running away at the start of the battle every time?

[idiotic philosophical takes from a guy who skimmed aristotle maybe once]

Only three episodes because he lost interest and got really into poisonous fitness supplements

[thememedaddy]

[memories-of-ancients]

The Byzantine Empire doesn't fall. It backs the Central Powers in World War I. Loses badly. Much of the empire is occupied by French and British forces. The Emperor is overthrown and executed by the Socialist Worker's Party of Greece. A bloody civil war ensues, only ending due to Bolshevik intervention from Russia and the establishment of the Romanoi Soviet Socialist Republic.

[ancient-rome-au]

solid summary of the functioning of the Roman senate post-476

[contemptible-scoundrel]

U not built for these steppes son

[ancient-rome-au]

reddit.com/r/romandodecahedron

this is amazing. i'm glad to find a congregation of fellow enjoyers of historical esoterica. thank you for sharing!

[ancient-rome-au]

Oh gosh here's a true gem:

This fan art of a Roman dodecahedron is a breath of fresh air on an internet increasingly spammed by uncanny AI-generated images. This has more charm than the generic style most AI image generators seem to have adopted.

Artist's instagram here.

[ancient-rome-au]

oh boy the mods stickied an effort-post