I also regret that she didn’t go into the sexual norms Romans did have, or put the guy who was concerned about being black at ease that they wouldn’t have noticed or cared, and would be more concerned about his lack of a “civilised” language. Both sexual free-for-all Rome and racist Rome are common misconceptions that basically come from more recent history, and the way the Church or European colonial empires wanted to paint themselves relative to it.
She suggested that Marcus Aurelius wasn’t a good Emperor for the G*rmanic tribes he slaughtered, acting like they were PEOPLE or something, or like they shouldn’t have been grateful for having Roman civilization brought to their barbarian lands! (also it was self-defense, but I get what she was saying and why she didn’t meander off into the details)
I also regret that she didn’t go into the sexual norms they did have, or put the guy who was concerned about being black at ease that they wouldn’t have noticed or cared, and would be more concerned about his lack of a “civilised” language. Both sexual free-for-all Rome and racist Rome are common misconceptions that basically come from recent history.
G*rmanic ‘person’ able to phenotypically pass as from any part of Italy: 🤢
Getting your dick sucked by a man = Very manly!
Sucking a man’s dick = Effeminate, and probably Gr*ek as well
The past is such an interesting place, in how it challenges our preconceptions about the values in our own societies by demonstrating some… really wild deviations from modernity, lmao
Wait, where was the G*rmanic simping?
I also regret that she didn’t go into the sexual norms Romans did have, or put the guy who was concerned about being black at ease that they wouldn’t have noticed or cared, and would be more concerned about his lack of a “civilised” language. Both sexual free-for-all Rome and racist Rome are common misconceptions that basically come from more recent history, and the way the Church or European colonial empires wanted to paint themselves relative to it.
She suggested that Marcus Aurelius wasn’t a good Emperor for the G*rmanic tribes he slaughtered, acting like they were PEOPLE or something, or like they shouldn’t have been grateful for having Roman civilization brought to their barbarian lands! (also it was self-defense, but I get what she was saying and why she didn’t meander off into the details)
Berber man with citizenship who speaks good Latin: “Make this man one of the most powerful in the Empire!”
G*rmanic ‘person’ able to phenotypically pass as from any part of Italy: 🤢
Getting your dick sucked by a man = Very manly!
Sucking a man’s dick = Effeminate, and probably Gr*ek as well
The past is such an interesting place, in how it challenges our preconceptions about the values in our own societies by demonstrating some… really wild deviations from modernity, lmao