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ancient-rome-au

au where the Romans make political memes

historyandmemes

Caesar when he got the message from The Senate to give up his power and return to Rome without his army:

thoodleoo

tbh what if ancient romans can see these shitposts from the afterlife

if julius caesar wants to take my shitposting up with me then his bisexual ghost can come haunt my ass

learning modern foreign languages: Hello. How are you? My name is Jack. Where is the bathroom?

learning ancient languages: Life is long and hard. Each day barbarians slaughter another member of my beloved family, and pirates, with all of our grain having been stolen, have left us to starve. Oh gods, would that you would make me one of those three and four times blessed men who already walk the muddy plains of Orcus!

Only Latin students will get this

#latin #ecce romani

spaztasticnerd

In Latin we don’t say “I love you”. We say “Non te peto, piscem pesto. Quid me fugis?”, which means “you are the heart in my chest” and I think that’s beautiful.

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caligula had anime eyes

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wait romans painted their marble sculptures

it looks like a cheap theme park ride mascot

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yep

here’s a statue of Augustus

and here’s a reproduction of the statue with the colors restored

misterqueasy-blog

i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art

space-gynecologist-deactivated2

"I tried coloring it and then I ruined it"

prokopetz

And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didn’t just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues - often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process - because the bright colours didn’t fit the dignified image they wished to present of the the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.

Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, you’re looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.

(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. It’s not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that they’d found them that way - because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)

stankyleg-deactivated2918973

Sorry, I keep reblogging this over and over, the last comment is unbelievable. Wow.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

I am both intensely pissed off at the way ‘archelogists’ basically tried to change history by destroying or altering statues to literally try and whitewash reality to suit their racist asshole nonsense and also cackling at the fact that Caligula’s statue looks like something I should be speaking into to order my burger with fries…

dotterelly

I’m British, and we are some of the biggest culprits for this. We still have a massive warehouse of goods stolen from other countries. It’s called the British Museum.