My best friend has a very eccentric prof with a loud Irish accent, and she always says funny things in class. Here are a few gems:
“Cornelia just sat in Misenum, casting shade. sub tweeting people”
“Take those sheep, drive to a bandit community, and say ‘I have brought you 500 sheep. Make me your king’”
“The Roman mindset was very much 'wait for it, wait for it, wait for it....NOW IT'S ON FIRE!'”
“If you were late to an appointment, people just assumed you'd been murdered by bandits. Imagine living in a world like that. I mean there's still places like that in the world today...anyone live in [local sketchy city]?”
“What are you supposed to do in Rome when bandits are robbing your house?” “Shoot them!”
"Shepherds were hardcore. You were out there with basically no clothes, people trying to steal your sheep, fighting off wolves with a stick”
"If you're a shepherd, who are you going to meet most often? Other shepherds! and then you join a group and once you've got 10 shepherds you say "I think we've got a gang here!""
"And yeah, I think for most people being rude to the emperor was a life goal"
"I guess shepherds weren't that bad, they wouldn't shiv you. They would just stab you in the front...while coming at you in the dark"
"The fresh pirate of bel-air"
"The pirates would just hang out in the harbours waiting for the navy to leave, and once they saw them feck off they'd go “Huzzah! Piracy!”"
"He recruited slaves, did black magic, was a necromancer..." “me too" (really quiet girl in the front row)
"piracy is in the eye of the beholder"
