https://youtu.be/ukv3JhR4K58?t=181 From a public bath in Ostia

  • Torenico [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Friendly reminder that when Pyrrhus of Epirus went to Italy to help his allies, he was told that he'll be facing "some barbarians from the north". These barbarians were the Romans. Another reminder comes in the form that Rome itself, the Kingdom of Rome, was founded by what would later become (by Roman standards) mere Barbarians, thieves, bandits, murderers and people who were expelled from other settlements.

    • p_sharikov [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      And most of the women who lived there in the early days had literally been abducted

    • dave297 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Weren't the Romans at their height thieves and murderers their whole thing was killing people and taking their land and stuff