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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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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

Explanation: The top figure is a depiction of the Roman Emperor Aurelian, who put a great deal of effort into encouraging sun worship in the Roman Empire. There is some controversy over whether Aurelian's sun worship was derived from Syria and had only Roman influences, or was derived from native Roman traditions and had Syrian influences. He is generally highly regarded as a general and a driven man, both contemporarily and by modern historians.

The bottom figure is a bust of Akhenaten, I believe, who tried to implement sun worship in Egypt and failed.