True Roman Memes For True Romans

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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)!

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The photo is colorized, of course; only black and white film in 270 AD (media.kbin.social)

submitted 4 months ago by PugJesus@kbin.social to c/RoughRomanMemes@kbin.social

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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

Explanation: The Emperor Aurelian put great effort into encouraging the worship of Sol Invictus ('The Unconquerable Sun') as a unifying, 'non-cult' god that the entire Roman Empire could rally behind in addition to each region's traditional gods.

I loved this picture so much when I found it that I decided I had to do something with it

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