this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
31 points (91.9% liked)

Rough Roman Memes

946 readers
56 users here now

A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

RULES:

  1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.

  2. Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.

  3. Follow Lemmy.world rules.

Not sure where to start on Roman history?

A quick memetic primer on Republican Rome

A quick memetic primer on Imperial Rome

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
PugJesus@lemmy.world
PugJesus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
31
"Would you like to share something with the class, Caesar?" (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/roughromanmemes@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Caesar had a tendency to read in silence (ie in his head) which was unusual in Roman society, being seen as furtive and secretive.

Now that's fascinating, I'd never heard that. I suppose it might have derived from earlier times, when the nobility wasn't necessarily literate itself (and so would have a scribe reading aloud)?

Anyway, the chicks sure loved that combover. (Or maybe it was the insane wealth)

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now that’s fascinating, I’d never heard that. I suppose it might have derived from earlier times, when the nobility wasn’t necessarily literate itself (and so would have a scribe reading aloud)?

Not sure about the exact origin of it, but apparently it influences the composition of Roman prose. It's meant to be read aloud, and the cadence of the original Latin is made for it. Literacy was expected of the elite at least since the early Republic, so the tradition would have to pre-date the Republic entirely.

The Romans were an extremely non-private culture, so it may just be an outgrowth of that.

Anyway, the chicks sure loved that combover. (Or maybe it was the insane wealth)

Caesar was a major slut before he became fabulously wealthy (or bald, for that matter), so I guess that gilded tongue had uses outside of the political arena 😏

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Caesar was a major slut before he became fabulously wealthy (or bald, for that matter), so I guess that gilded tongue had uses outside of the political arena 😏

Sadly unlikely. Cunnilingus was seen as degrading for the man.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

So was bottoming, but we all know Caesar was the Queen of Bithynia!