Seriously why everyone want to be rome so bad? Like its okay to just be the leader of your own big murderous empire without having to rip off Caesar again

  • Catiline [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Here's King William depicted as a Roman Emperor with Queen Mary on a coin minted from gold supplied by the Royal African Company.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_and_Mary_Two-Guineas.jpg

    A statue of King Charles II in Roman regalia.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Rhc-charles2.jpg

    And, as I linked earlier, the whole 'Emperor of India' thing.

    Hence, the title Kaisar-i-Hind was coined in 1876 by the orientalist G.W. Leitner as the official imperial title for the British monarch in India.[9] The term Kaisar-i-Hind means emperor of India in the vernacular of the Hindi and Urdu languages. The word kaisar, meaning 'emperor', is a derivative of the Roman imperial title caesar (via Persian, Turkish – see Kaiser-i-Rum), and is cognate with the German title Kaiser, which was borrowed from the Latin at an earlier date.

    They're all simps for Rome, I'm afraid.

    Edit: Not to mention the whole 'Britannia' thing which featured a Helleno-Roman personification of the British Empire prominently in colonial propaganda.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I'm not sure why you're such a stickler for Kaisar-I-Hind when emperor is derived from Imperator. The moment someone claims to be an empire in romance or Germanic languages, there is some rome fucking in there.