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punicwarsshitposting · 2 months

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#punic wars #hannibal barca #scipio africanus #ancient history #tagamemnon #ancient history meme #Battle of Lake Trasimene #Battle of Cannae

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earlgrey24 · 2 months

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Brutus seeing the graffiti of him stabbing Caesar all over Rome, c. 44 BC

#ides of march #ides of march 2024 #julius caesar #brutus #marcus junius brutus #et tu brute #history #ides posting #ides memes #happy ides of march #ancient rome #roman republic #history memes #history shitposting #hall of fame

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demigoddessqueens · 2 months

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Happy 2,068th to when we should totally just stab Caesar!! Grab a knife with your bestie!

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jay-wasreblogging · 2 months

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Why are gangbangs only for sex? Why can't I join in a group assassination if I want to?

#quote by a senator probably #also please tell me y'all know the og meme of this #julius caesar #ides of march #march 15 #march 15th #tumblr holidays #meme #caesar #theatre #ancient rome #stabby day #history

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legbootlegit · 1 year

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I was bamboozled by this copper merchant. Stay away from these swindlers.

#funny #memes #ea nasir #ancient history #obvious plant

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girlcatilina · 7 months

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me as a parent

#ancient history #classics #iliad #homer #achilles #patroclus #tagamemnon #diomedes #odysseus #just roman memes #classics memes

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destielmemenews · 5 months

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"The North Hertfordshire museum will now refer to the emperor Elagabalus with female pronouns.

Museum policy states the pronouns used in the displays will be those ‘the individual in question might have used themselves’ or whatever pronoun ‘in retrospect, is appropriate’."

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#destiel meme #destiel meme news #world news #news #ancient rome #roman empire #roman emperor #elagabalus #rip elagabalus you were a real one #trans history #i guess #transgender #trans woman #this is pretty cool actually #now can we get the same treatment for historical persons that weren't horrifically assassinated

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metis-metis · 10 months

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People write 100,000 word theses to explain what this meme did in 3.

Credit to The Classics Library

#tagamemnon #classics #ancient history #ancient rome #history #academia #rome #barbie #Oppenheimer #movie #meme #barbenheimer

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firnen-the-teragram-teabag · 15 days

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diocletion-aint-shit · 7 months

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Classics tumblr should try starting posts with invocations to the muses.

"To the goddess I call, of memes she sings

Make light of the epics, those ancient things

Give cause to jeer Atreus' son

Within the tags, of his name make a pun"

#tagamemnon #classics #ancient history #greek mythology #the illiad #memes #greek myth memes #classical memes #mythology

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punicwarsshitposting · 1 year

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Artist?

#punic wars #hannibal barca #scipio africanus #ancient history #tagamemnon #ancient history meme

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toaarcan · 2 months

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It's that time of year again.

#Ides of March #History #History Meme #Rome #Ancient Rome #Julius Caesar

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its-not-a-pen · 1 year

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[餘知傳] The 2nd Century Warlord (Part 1)

based on the story by @romanceyourdemons

art by @its-not-a-pen

first day as a second century warlord i have my men tie branches to their horses’ tails to stir up dust and make it look like there’s a lot of us but i forget it just rained so there isn’t any dust and the enemy can clearly see there’s like twenty of us all spread out in a line

second day as a second century warlord i bribe a bunch of kids to start singing a nursery rhyme i carefully crafted to spread misinformation and further my strategic ends but they change the lyrics to be about poop and the enemy isn’t misdirected at all

third day as a second century warlord i lure my enemy into a narrow valley and send a team of archers to shoot them from the high ground but there was a feral hog napping on the trail up to the overlook and they couldn’t decide whether to try and shoot it or just go around and by the time the hog woke up and left on its own the enemy had already passed safely below

fourth day as a second century warlord we attempt to join a battle on the side of the guy we want to ally with but he and the guy he’s fighting have really similar names and it’s finally dusty and i misread the standards and attack the wrong guy. so now we’re stuck with this total loser of a liege lord, because how the fuck do you explain that after a battle?

fifth day as a second century warlord and some sort of wizard wanders into camp, my loser liege lord wants to execute him for being a wizard but i convince him to let the wizard stay, because i want to do more weather-based strategies and i’m pretty sure having a camp wizard can help with that. after the welcome to the team banquet the wizard steals half the treasury and my liege lord’s wife and leaves

sixth day as a second century warlord my loser liege lord sends me to reinforce a city he’s taken, but in the confusion of leaving i forgot to take the token that would have gotten us into the city, so my men have to wait outside the city walls for like eight hours while i ride back to get it

seventh day as a second century warlord and my loser liege lord finally joins me in the city, it turns out he’s actually a pretty cool guy, and he isn’t even that mad at me for letting the wizard steal his wife. i decide to shoot my shot but i’m really nervous and keep on stalling because what if i mess up our relationship and by extension jeopardize the security of my men, and eventually he just says goodnight and goes back to his room, where an assassin is in the process of setting up to kill him

eighth day as a second century warlord and my loser liege lord tells me to fake defect to his rival warlord, the one i originally wanted to ally with, to find out if he was the one who sent the assassin and why. but my whole way over to the rival warlord i’m worried that this has something to do with the wizard thing or how awkward i made it last night

End of Part 1

This comic was made independently from the creator, I'm just a fan and these are my own interpretations.

Notes under the cut:

the title 餘知傳 [the Story of Yu Zhi], is the styled name of the Second Century Warlord. I translated 餘知 as [plentiful knowledge] since he's defined by a surplus of knowledge but a deficit in luck. It's also great for fish-based puns since it's a homophone. As a nice parallel, Loser Liege Lord's banner is a carp ;))). the art style was inspired by vintage Chinese comics.

The story is set during the Three Kingdoms period, (220 to 280 AD) natural disasters, infighting and civil unrest had dissolved the previous Han Dynasty, leading to a violent free-for-all. I based the clothes on the previous Eastern Han styles, mainly because there just weren't a lot of contemporary references from the 3K period (and it only lasted like, 60 years). I always strive for historical accuracy, however, the Han Dynasty was over 400 years long and some sources don't do a great job separating out the different fashions, so I apologise for any mistakes that occur.

2. there aren't a ton of drawings on what Han children looked like, but in general ancient kids hairstyles are pretty consistent. 9-15 yo boys had shaved heads with two little top knots, girls had natural hair in braids/buns.

3. the crossbow (back left) makes a cameo, it was associated with Zhuge Liang, famous real-life strategist from the 3K era.

4. the LLL and his wife thank the Warlord, (a noblewoman on a battlefield??? scandalous!). it shows the LLL enjoys the unconventional and the wife is not as timid as she appears. I thought it would be funny to make them look as Background Character (tm) as possible.

5. I based the wizard's design on sages from mythology. (Hey, he's not a total fraud, he invented gunpowder 800 years before the Tang dynasty!) Nice little character moment for the LLL who is shielding his wife.

6. What do soldiers do while they're waiting for 8 hours? (<-from the right) playing knucklebones with pebbles, whittling a little horse, feeding sparrows, gossiping with neighbour, drinking from his gourd, napping. A minor warlord can't afford to keep a professional army so they're most likely conscripted farmers who've had to buy their own weapons and armour, hence why they look so unimpressive.

7. LLL offers the Warlord a bitten peach. Inspired by the legend of Mizi Xia who bit into a delicious peach and gave it to the Emperor so he could taste it was well. "Bitten peach" was a byword for homosexuality in ancient China. I thought it would be SO funny if the LLL was actually smooth af and the Warlord was a like a teenaged girl crushing for the first time. He's desperate to taste that peach but is too timid to reach out >;))) man has zero game. negative game, even. truely the PS4 of homosexuals. RIP to the assassin in the back corner who was forced to watch the most awkward, cringe-fail attempt at flirting in the history of china play out.

8. this is what zero peach does to a mf. UnU

#ink drawing #comics #second century warlord #original art #ancient china #op if ur reading this im a huge fan and i love ur work #storytime #tumblr stories #history memes #romance of the three kingdoms

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youvebeengreeked · 2 months

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Happy Leap Day, Plebs.