I think about the Roman Empire a lot

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Why is thinking about the Roman Empire supposed to be something that men do?

I think about it a lot. I like baths.

YABU: the Roman Empire is a toxically masculine preoccupation
YANBU: baths

Same… and the time before that was probably at school.

I asked my DH about this when it was popping up everywhere (he doesn’t really do social media), he looked at me like I was mental.

I regularly imagine settling down with a hairy, ashamed, homebody Roman soldier who decided to stay in Britannia.

I only think of Boudicca and how awesome she was.

Only because of the connection to his hometown (Colchester).

I think he would be very impressed by 21st century levels of political corruption, tyranny and sexual depravity.

Sounds like a Roman version of Outlander :)

I don't think he'd have liked Scandi design though

Oh Atia!

‘Atia of the Julii I demand justice’ ruining her dinner party!

I have a friend who looks just like her! Happily married though

You can have Atia if I can have Mark Antony

I think about the Romans a lot, like a PP I did Latin at school as well but much to the annoyance of my Latin teacher I didn't go onto FE Classics.

I do find myself thinking about Romans a fair bit, we still live with a great deal of their legacy, including their attitudes. I'm not their biggest fan, like every people there were good and bad elements to their culture and what we all lost to their expansion.

I wouldn't have wanted to live in Roman society at any stage, ordinary women did not have much freedom, they just had a lot more freedom than Athenian woman that's hardly something to celebrate.

I do find that period of history fascinating and will watch documentaries on them but I always take the biggest fan of the Romans presenters with a bit of a pinch of salt, this was not anywhere near a perfect society and much of what we know is about the higher classes. This is why Pompeii is so fascianting, it opened up an entireky new perspective with how not just how one or another class lived but how they interacted too, that's important.

You can have both if I have an extra share of territory

I had a similar thought 😉🤣

Trump murdered his mother? And married a male slave, and was married by another male slave?

Gosh, I’ve missed all that, and I would have expected it to be all over the MSM.

You can have any territory as long as it’s not valuable

Ha wait and see

But it is now considered that a lot that was said about Nero and similarly betempered rulers of Rome is that suffered terrible PR after the successors got rid of them.

OP Have you found I Claudius on BBC iPlayer yet? I binge watched it last year. . .

I do if I see a documentary about it on tele or something like that.

Funnily enough, I've been thinking about Roman Britain a lot recently. I did Latin for 5 years at High School, but didn't pursue it. Anyway, something I read which put me on this current find-out-everything-about-Roman-Britain obsession was this :- I had always assumed when the empire was falling and the Roman soldiers in Britain were recalled, that EVERYONE left. But of course after 400 years here, they had married British women, had children, took up trades when they retired from the army, so in fact TONS of Romans never left. This blew my tiny mind.

I always loved Roman history. There are so many different aspects to Roman history there's something for everyone.

The fact that always blows my mind was about how difficult it was to manage and keep a city safe. After the fall of Rome in the first century it wasn't until the 19th century that there was a city as big as Ancient Rome.

Marcus Didius Falco. As voiced by Anton Lesser.

I would love to be a Flavian woman purely because of the extraordinary hairstyles I could wear.

Olympics? 🤔

According to modern classicists, there’s a very good chance Boudicca the legendary leader didn’t exist and her great deeds didn’t happen. 🤷‍♀️