I know this is a joke/meme, but I sincerely think of the Roman Empire a surprising amount of times. I find myself obsessing over how Roman citizens were living just as complex lives as we are today, or about Marcus Aurelius’ life and philosophy, or about how the Republic fell and became a totalitarian state.
Have you ever read: I, Claudius? If not, you should. Going by your description, it should really scratch that itch in a very well written way. Recommended to you by a fellow Roman Empire fanatic ^^
Edit: And to answer your question: Yes, quite often I do.
The excellent “I, Claudius” BBC TV series was repeated recently (I think it was on BBC4). One of my all time favourites. I had forgotten how funny the Caligula episode is, and the demise of Messalina is truly bone-chilling.
I read several pages of the The Daily Stoic…well…daily…so pretty much at least once a day.
at least twice a month. it’s just fun to fantasize about
makes me think back to my middle school latin teacher who would get super into everyday life & culture and just talk on and on about that stuff. she was pretty mean actually but her passion about rome was infectious
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Totally genuinely, I never, ever think about the Roman empire. Don’t understand how this is a thing across social media 😂🤷♂️
I find that I think about the Byzantine Empire more often than the Roman Empire
They’re the same thing, τέκνον 🙂
Αυτό είναι το αστείο
This is the joke
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5 times total in the past 2 years…and the latest 3 times were because of posts like this in the past month…so basically, almost never.
Im a little shocked and in a bit of disbelief that some people think about it daily or even weekly.
Whenever I see a post or comment about it online
All the time! I studied Latin and Classical History for years so it’s a deep interest of mine. I often reminisce about the trip I took to Italy with my Latin class to visit Pompeii and Herculaneum.
More often than I think.
I don’t know where this trend came from. I haven’t thought about the Roman Empire since the last Historia Civilis video came out.
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Pretty often. One of my main research interests is the Gospel of Thomas which ends up extremely tied to events around the Roman empire.
Just a day or two ago I was looking at when Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura was popularly being read and cited given the apparent link between those two documents.
Barely at all before this whole “How often do you think a out the Roman Empire” thing popped up
But there is some context that I more often think about that is related.
First: You are now aware of the position of your togue in your mouth.
Diagonies is one that comes up at least once every couple weeks at work, this usually leads to Rome.
Second: You are now manually breathing.
Basically ancient philosophers is a topic that comes up a lot with some of my friends, so Rome comes up in relation to it.
Third: Don’t think of a pink elephant
But in general I’d say before this whole thing it was basically at most once a month.
I did not know it was a trend or whatever until reading all the comments. But I probably think about the Roman empire most days.
I have no idea when the last time I thought about Rome period, let alone in any sort of in-depth way. I’ve learned a bit in school and a few years ago went through a YouTube deep dive history phase but Rome was a topic just as much as any other culture.
So exceptions aside… I never think about Rome?
