How often do you think about the Roman Empire?

[Valmy]

 

The Colosseum hat is a great touch

[crazy canuck]

I can't remember the last time I thought about it. 

[crazy canuck]

Only in mid-March, when I'm feeling stabby.

I wish I had said that

[viper37]

I can't remember the last time I thought about it. 

I'm reading the Saxon stories.  I think the author thinks of the Romans very often.  "Roman road".  "old Roman fort".  "the Romans did this, the Romans did that".  "the Romans were these ancient, great people who were pagans, but father Beocca hated when I reminded him of that".

Gee.  So, I do remember when last I thought of the Romans: this morning, around 5:00 am, when I woke up and I read part of these books.

Didn't the Celts leave anything behind in Britain?  Didn't the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes built anything when they arrived?  Didn't the Vikings built their own damn forts?  You'd swear only the Romans built anything worth mentioning in this Englaland country!

[Josquius]

I can't remember the last time I thought about it. 

I'm reading the Saxon stories.  I think the author thinks of the Romans very often.  "Roman road".  "old Roman fort".  "the Romans did this, the Romans did that".  "the Romans were these ancient, great people who were pagans, but father Beocca hated when I reminded him of that".

Gee.  So, I do remember when last I thought of the Romans: this morning, around 5:00 am, when I woke up and I read part of these books.

Didn't the Celts leave anything behind in Britain?  Didn't the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes built anything when they arrived?  Didn't the Vikings built their own damn forts?  You'd swear only the Romans built anything worth mentioning in this Englaland country!

A probably accurate representation of the views of dark ages people TBH.
We now know many of the Roman roads, forts, and so on were built over Celtic constructions, but that's a pretty recent development in histography. IIRC serious historians up to recent days were crediting everything to the Romans.
So some random English princeling in the 8th century?

Though the pagan focus is weird. I'd think at that point they would have thoroughly rewritten the history and focussed on the Romans as Christians.

[Sheilbh]

Though the pagan focus is weird. I'd think at that point they would have thoroughly rewritten the history and focussed on the Romans as Christians.

Constantine, God's Yorkshireman.

[HVC]

If only Julian was a better desert general

[viper37]

I can't remember the last time I thought about it. 

I'm reading the Saxon stories.  I think the author thinks of the Romans very often.  "Roman road".  "old Roman fort".  "the Romans did this, the Romans did that".  "the Romans were these ancient, great people who were pagans, but father Beocca hated when I reminded him of that".

Gee.  So, I do remember when last I thought of the Romans: this morning, around 5:00 am, when I woke up and I read part of these books.

Didn't the Celts leave anything behind in Britain?  Didn't the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes built anything when they arrived?  Didn't the Vikings built their own damn forts?  You'd swear only the Romans built anything worth mentioning in this Englaland country!

A probably accurate representation of the views of dark ages people TBH.
We now know many of the Roman roads, forts, and so on were built over Celtic constructions, but that's a pretty recent development in histography. IIRC serious historians up to recent days were crediting everything to the Romans.
So some random English princeling in the 8th century?

I haven't thought of it that way.

Though the pagan focus is weird. I'd think at that point they would have thoroughly rewritten the history and focussed on the Romans as Christians.

Uthred is a reluctant Christian at first, then a Norse Pagan, so he likes to tease Christians.  I suspect the author is not much of a Christian himself.  Christianity is rarely seen in a positive way.

[Valmy]

If only Julian was a better desert general

Or at least one that had his armor on.

[jimmy olsen]

Rereading all the classics these days. Lex Arcana, Cthulhu Invictus, ooh and look a shiny new kickstarter by the Achtung! Cthulhu guys set in 160AD called  Cohors Cthulhu, talk about pulptastic!

[crazy canuck]

If only Julian was a better desert general

Or at least one that had his armor on.

 

[The Minsky Moment]

The whole Roman Empire trope is an oversimplification.  In the West, most men can be divided into three groups:  those that think about the Roman Empire, those that think about the Third Reich/WW2, and those that think about the Emperor Charles V. 

There are also some regional variations - Americans thinking about the ACW, French about Napoleon, Brits about the War of the Roses or Cromwell (lots of subregional variations there).  Outside the West it varies still more.

[crazy canuck]

I guess we were once again left to conclude that women are the only sensible ones.

[The Minsky Moment]

I guess we were once again left to conclude that women are the only sensible ones.

Is the Regency Era that much superior?   

[crazy canuck]

I guess we were once again left to conclude that women are the only sensible ones.

Is the Regency Era that much superior?