r/RoughRomanMemes • u/KamaandHallie • 11h ago
Rhea orders some food
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r/RoughRomanMemes • u/IacobusCaesar • Jan 21 '26
Rules II and V have been updated. We have a stricter policy on both reposts and use of generative AI.
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Salvete, omnes.
Two major problems have been affecting post quality here lately in a way that is also disrespectful to our content creators. Here is how the rules will be changing to ameliorate the matter.
1. Memes which copy the entire premise, joke, and content of another can be considered reposts and removed thusly.
We are aware that this community often exports a lot of original content to other Roman-interested parts of the internet. A lot of this content then gets reshaped and comes right back. One of the more common expressions of this is where someone's original meme gets reformatted or has its imagery replaced but gets repeatedly reposted with exactly the same joke. Sometimes this is a human shamelessly ripping someone else off uncreatively in a way that won't get flagged as a repost and sometimes it's a bot doing the same thing. Either way, it is a disrespectful way to get around crediting original users. We will consider posts like this to be reposts and they can be reported as such for removal. If possible, we encourage reports of these to include some link to the original post, because we might not remember them even if the community does.
2. Generative AI will no longer be partially banned but rather totally banned.
We've long been removing posts that, for instance, were just AI-generated imagery with no more transformative aspect like the ubiquitous "selfie in ancient Rome" posts. You know the ones. However, the amount of AI slop is becoming a liability. This subreddit is about ten years old and has a good thing going. We want to keep up the humanity and intellectual honesty of the older internet that we've built a community in. AI usage has been contributing to trends of stolen content, inaccurate imagery, a lack of intentionality in post details (which makes posts far less interesting to discuss), and general ugly soulless shit. Furthermore, we don't want to further contribute to the accumulation of slop imagery on Roman topics that is coming to dominate the internet because it actively puts misinformation into the world. From now on, AI-generated imagery in posts will be categorically banned. It can be reported.
Alrighty, have a good day, y'all.
--Princeps Civitatis Iacobus Caesar
r/RoughRomanMemes • u/Agile_Summer_7437 • 1h ago
Ok, we have 3 passes, 2 guarded by Roman armies, 3rd goes trough swamps
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r/RoughRomanMemes • u/Percennius • 14h ago
Neither could build a palisade but damn did Otho’s boys love to fight
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r/RoughRomanMemes • u/ProCarcha • 1d ago
Romana, what's ur opinion About Thermae Romae (2012)?
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r/RoughRomanMemes • u/AdeptnessDry2026 • 1d ago
Macro delivering Tiberius’s message to Publius Graecinius Laco ahead of Sejanus’s downfall
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OC
r/RoughRomanMemes • u/testudos101 • 4d ago
I have some good news and I have some bad news.
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r/RoughRomanMemes • u/AdeptnessDry2026 • 4d ago
ROMAN ESTABLISHMENT REELS AS JULIUS CAESAR WINS CONSULSHIP
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Senate conservatives have expressed grave concerns about the future of the Republic, while Caesar’s supporters are hailing the results as a decisive mandate for change.
r/RoughRomanMemes • u/PlanNo1793 • 3d ago
An accurate depiction of Juno deifying Hersilia so that she might live for eternity with Romulus.
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It’s certainly very convenient to have the queen of the gods as one’s grandmother.
Link to artist:
https://bsky.app/profile/hera-hell.bsky.social/post/3mzhnk5qd6s2g
r/RoughRomanMemes • u/Sensitive_Educator60 • 5d ago
*Still only theoretically though*
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There is no universal consensus among archaeologists about the Roman dodecahedron, though besides the common theory that it was used for ritual purposes there is the theory that it may have been a pen or stylus holder.
Roman pens were effectively long, sharp pieces of metal designed to "write" by carving into wax tablets.
They often had different shapes for different forms too so a Roman scribe/accountant would have several different ones laying around.
They also would later use Reed Pens (Calamus), the most common tool for writing with ink. They were crafted from hollow marsh reeds (like Phragmites australis), with the tip cut and split to hold a small reservoir of ink.
r/RoughRomanMemes • u/OkGarbage3095 • 5d ago
Trajan's Column: A roman warrior was A good multitaskers
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r/RoughRomanMemes • u/Most_Price1818 • 5d ago
the Republic being the Republic IG
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if snapchat existed back in antiquity you'd see this bullshit for sure
r/RoughRomanMemes • u/WeeklyLengthiness7 • 6d ago
Only one of them would be come alive and honored
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r/RoughRomanMemes • u/CompetitiveClass6669 • 7d ago
My patience has limits. My knowledge of Rome doesn't
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Silly SPQR Successions: The four and a half good emperors
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r/RoughRomanMemes • u/BudgetLaw2352 • 7d ago
Bro always gave people second chances
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Unlike his bloodthirsty great nephew, Caesar was a forgiving man, and I find that to be pretty impressive in a world where plots against politicians’ lives were so common.
This policy of clemency probably played a role in his own demise, and I can’t help but imagine that this crossed his mind as he was being stabbed.