Cripple. History Major. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMtoRough Roman Memes@lemmy.world•Elagabalus, what are you doing THIS time?English
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    20 minutes ago

    Explanation: Elagabalus was a teenaged Emperor of the 3rd century AD who became infamous for their (as their gender identity is an object of perpetual debate)… outrageous abuses of autocratic power in pursuit of personal gratification. How much of this is true and how much is sensationalism is up for debate, but it’s pretty accepted that Elagabalus did anything except wield power with wisdom or caution. Such is what happens when you put a goddamn teenager in charge of a continents-spanning empire.

    Also, funny enough, the Roman Emperor Nero (also became Emperor while a teen and infamous for his abuses of power - seeing a pattern?) supposedly liked to dress up and protoyiff.

    He so prostituted his own chastity that after defiling almost every part of his body, he at last devised a kind of game, in which, covered with the skin of some wild animal, he was let loose from a cage and attacked the private parts of men and women, who were bound to stakes, and when he had sated his mad lust, was dispatched​ by his freedman Doryphorus;

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMtoRough Roman Memes@lemmy.world•"Ah, your cities are so wonderful! I can only imagine how neat and clean Rome itself is!"English
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    10 hours ago

    Explanation: Roman coloniae were built in a very orderly and rational fashion, as planned cities with a grid of streets and the best position possible. Such coloniae were built to imitate Rome as closely as possible - in style, in local government, in the forums and arenas and temples. One might be tempted to think that their glories would pale to Rome itself! But the city of Rome was a few farming villages which, bit by bit, morphed into the largest city in the world at the time. It was infamous, even to Roman writers, as a clogged labyrinth with narrow streets and winding roads; a metropolis of filth shadowed over by hundreds of years of architectural marvels.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMtoRough Roman Memes@lemmy.world•Interpretatio is way simpler than monotheist theologyEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I might be able to offer some insight here - Carthage, as a state, was unduly burdened and then eradicated in a, quite frankly, shameful manner, but Carthaginians were ethnic Punics. Rome, after Carthage itself was destroyed, allowed the Punics of North Africa to continue practicing their culture, religion, and language without interference. Hell, in the future, Emperor Septimius Severus was part Punic, even, and spoke Latin with a Punic accent! So it’s really just a matter of the Roman Republic holding an irrational grudge against a single city.

    As for the druids, they were wiped out, specifically, because Rome was trying to keep the Gauls and Britons from revolting as much as they could. Druids were a priestly caste, but also a caste of leaders that people could rally around. Other Gallic and Briton religious practices survived unmolested.

    Both were also accused of human sacrifice by the Romans (who considered such practices both immoral and an offense to the gods), and whether that was true is a whole can of worms waiting to be opened. “Not today, Satan” I say!

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