[p-clodius-pulcher]

Late republican history always reads like:

In the consulship of whovius giveus ashittus, a plebeian tribune* proposed a law to stop setting poor people on fire to heat the homes of the senators. This sparked weeks of bloody fighting in the streets at the end of which the tribune was exploded badstyle and the law was unanimously voted down

* it is speculated that the tribune was seeking praetorship which is why the law was presented to the senate

[blue--period]

endnotes are hostile user design.

[romeinginthearchives]

I made this silly picture for my icon and maybe you'll enjoy this little cicero in the forum too

[romeinginthearchives]

About to start reading a Mark Antony biography...trembling

[romeinginthearchives]

This man's family tree has really got me feeling like

[romeinginthearchives]

I'm having the gay fan fiction problem in my writing about gay fan fiction

[romeinginthearchives]

Why is latin challenging but generally okay, but ancient greek out to kill me

[romeinginthearchives]

What I am slightly confused about with the google shift to completely AI is, sometimes I just was to find the link to a specific website? Like, what happens now?

[pregnant-with-virtus]

Supposedly, a lot of women I know are really into the Roman Republic. They won't stop talking about "Caesaring" or something

[romeinginthearchives]

About to start reading a Mark Antony biography...trembling

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[romeinginthearchives]

Reading fic posted by an anonymous author based on a historical figure that we barely know anything about, almost anonymous themselves...lots to think about

[consulships]

when i first adopted my roman senator from the shelter he was so traumatized from being attacked by an angry mob in the forum that he would just curl up in a ball with his toga and whimper all day. but with careful support now he will eat olives from my hand without growling or biting or filibustering. it's amazing to see what love can do for senators<3

[daciancatamite]

its because youre always on that damn oxyrhynchus papyrus

[romeinginthearchives]

I was reading about Suetonius and his description of Caligula making faces in the mirror to make himself look more 'savage' I just imagine this guy over and over

[cannibality-deactivated20250227]

knuckle tats say FOUC AULT

[anarchocapitalismkills-deactiva]

knuck tats saying POST, and on the other hand, having transcended the limitations of the form, STRUCTURALIST

[existentialeggdogg]

[tyrian-red]

my erotic fanfiction is more historically accurate than yours. here it claims that shes moaning 'yes,' however classical latin didn't have a word that corresponds to Modern English 'yes,' i.e. an affirmative answer to an interrogative. You could have easily avoided this glaring implausibility by allowing her to moan plus, 'more'—as exemplified in my critically acclaimed fic with an unprecedented number of kudos (eleven). I recommend that you log out of AO3 and return only after acquiring satisfactory knowledge of the subject matter.