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Aristophanes: hilarious on the page, brain-melting when the actors have strap-ons.
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PittTheElder posted:The Storm Before The Storm. All about the causes of Sulla's Civil War, and why the Roman Republic was bleeding to death long before Gneaus, Marcus, and Julius came along. mike Duncan is bad OP. his take is that those crazy gracchi, boy they sure took things too far by not respecting  whereas Plutarch makes it abundantly clear that no matter how good and non-disruptive the Gracchan proposals were, the rich rear end in a top hat senators weren’t going to give the people jack poo poo
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Aug 26, 2019 01:22
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in fairness duncan assigns a lot of blame to the senate, but he also frames the elder gracchus violating the mos maiorum as when things started to go badly, leading him to say both sides are bad actually. he has a similar Simon-schama-rear end centrist take on the French revolution because he doesn’t understand class dynamics
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Aug 26, 2019 01:56
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You have been PROSCRIBED. Justice will arrive shortly at your location. For your comfort, we recommend you compliantly follow the example below: 
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Aug 26, 2019 13:15
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Flavius Aetass posted:Most historians aren't doing research as to whether or not a ship sunk. what about the White Ship?
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Sep 3, 2019 13:57
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Flavius Aetass posted:scientifically, according to this contemporary image “sorry for party rocking”
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Sep 3, 2019 14:06
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this is more medieval than ancient, but... Emma of Normandy: History’s Greatest Skank?
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etalian posted:The only way to beat the Romans was to use one weird trick like convincing it was a good idea to send a column through the Teutoburg Forest or starve the armed goths at Adrianople
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Sep 5, 2019 02:52
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Squalid posted:I love crazy local myths and folklore makes more sense than the Aeneid
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Sep 6, 2019 03:19
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twoday posted:Even when I say "The West" or "Western Civilization" or "The Middle East" I am using language that is rooted in the idea that Jerusalem is the center of the universe. I still use "The West" because I don't know a better way to express that idea that is short and understandable to everyone else Occident
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Sep 9, 2019 00:48
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Ghostlight posted:Occident is still the same idea it just moves the centre from Jerusalem to Rome. also you sound like a prick if you use it as a bonus
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Sep 9, 2019 01:16
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An Abderite is dreaming that he is selling a pig and he is asking 100 denarii for it. Someone is offering 50 but he won’t take it. At that point, he wakes up. Then keeping his eyes shut, he holds out his hands and says ‘Oh well, OK, give me the 50’.
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Oct 21, 2019 18:43
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I think Caligula had irony poisoning and used the horse to mock how bad the senators were but the dipshit historian senators wrote him straight, unaware that he was both “on one” and “doing a bit.”
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Oct 21, 2019 20:00
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twoday posted:Sertorius was cool as hell 
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Oct 22, 2019 21:51
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twoday posted:How Sertorius came to be worshiped as a demi-god by his ragtag army of Berbers and Iberians after being exiled in North Africa: the original Big Boss
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Oct 22, 2019 22:51
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has anyone figured out how to make Greek fire yet?
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Oct 26, 2019 00:57
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twoday posted:yes, the greeks oh please they can’t even make a balanced budget
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Oct 26, 2019 01:51
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twoday posted:the great plague of london that’s still going, the English still live there
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Apr 8, 2020 14:40
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both them and me would quickly die from strange diseases
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Apr 14, 2021 20:41
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didn’t they have ledgers?
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Apr 29, 2021 22:59
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twoday posted:Maybe the fact that the daughter is fishing out three obols from the mouth with her tongue while the standard rate for a prostitute is three obols is maybe some kind of implication that Philocleon's daughter is a prostitute? Aristophanes works; a lot of other humour is kind of racist but not because we don’t know what it means to be Thracian (or we’re all Thracian)
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May 1, 2021 10:21
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 when dudes are rockin’
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Inceltown posted:White Guys were painting cockatoos for a long time before they had boats going to Australia. interesting look at the middle ages live animal trade
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Jul 7, 2021 03:29
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bring back the claudian letters
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Sep 13, 2021 13:48
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jesus also had tremendous posting energy
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Dec 10, 2021 09:23
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Drunkboxer posted:Just finished this. rip Menocchio, blabbed about books he read so much he was tortured and burned alive he makes more sense than the church metaphysics, that’s why he had to die
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Dec 14, 2021 23:20
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I preferred Candide tbh
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Dec 30, 2021 07:40
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Ardent Communist posted:Could be for putting on the back of your head so you don't get attacked by animals. magpies are too smart for this lol
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Uglycat posted:So I've shared the scraps of rumors I heard with anyone that would listen, and they'd often add some other bit that fleshed things out. this is the Herodotus method isn’t it?
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Jul 31, 2022 10:50
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dying from a combination of ague, grippe and dropsy
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Aug 9, 2022 01:09
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:“lets just set up a system where everyone retires so i can go raise cabbages on my villa. i am a very smart imperator.” it’s a pretty sweet villa
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Aug 11, 2022 21:18
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Real hurthling! posted:when the senator paid a pleb family for an adoption and then bought the tribunate election to allow optimate laws to pass unblocked it must have felt a lot like being a modern cspamer to the politics addicts of the time that guy (p clodius pulcher) had massive cspam energy
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Aug 12, 2022 07:29
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pescennius n****
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Aug 18, 2022 11:58
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Barry Foster posted:here ya go took a while but I enjoyed this series
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Aug 19, 2022 10:37
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Some Guy TT posted:but thats really not an argument that can be plausibly drawn from the original offending article because the author clearly seems to believe that its good that incels are being told to gently caress off because theyre bad people who deserve it and women when given free agency in romantic relationships dont make bad choices they’re right OP
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Sep 21, 2022 10:39
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edward the confessor whined about his mother, was too nice to the people that killed his bro and a dick to his wife. the only good thing he did (set up the normans) was an indirect result of him promising the crown to anyone he could
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she has a roman nose tho
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Nov 26, 2022 06:01
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Slavvy posted:Doesn't that person have a history of scalding hot history takes? the last part of that article uses a jacket in the all quiet on the western front remake to ask whether wwi was the first holocaust, so yes
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Pistol_Pete posted:I like to imagine an alternative Britain where England never happened me too
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