A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.
RULES:
No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.
Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.
Follow Lemmy.world rules.
Not sure where to start on Roman history?
A quick memetic primer on Republican Rome
A quick memetic primer on Imperial Rome
Explanation: The Macedonian phalanx involved a great number of troops with pikes, some of whom had to raise their pikes up in the air to prevent crowding the troops in front of them or poking them in the back of the head. Obviously, ROMAN FORMATIONS ARE FAR SUPERIOR TO THIS GREEKOID NONSENSE
There's a whole set of articles analysing this one: https://acoup.blog/category/collections/legion-and-phalanx/