Rome 1x9
Added 2024-09-04 05:28:09 +0000 UTC
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Lmao π Stacey Ehrmantraut's "arch"...I meant bend
Tyrik Taylor
2024-09-13 21:37:33 +0000 UTCBeen a little while since I've been able to sit down and watch! From last episode; the stuff that Cleopatra was smoking was Opium I think-- meaning that her going through withdrawl was more intense than just smoking that good green. Caesar's child with Cleopatra is not his first child. He HAD a daughter that was married to Pompey-- but she dies in the first ten minutes of the show in childbirth. That was the message Caesar got at first. "Caesar the Merciful" - This but unironically. Caesar did his absolute best to be seen as a merciful man to other Romans; despite the fact that if you take him at his word he killed a Million Gauls and sold a million more into slavery. Cato was one of the coolest people in the Republic IMO. His whole thing was that the only way that a Roman should act is like the ancestors. He wore black robes because that's what the senators did in his Great-Grandfathers time. He was wholly uncorruptable in a time where corruption was rampant. He rallied against Caesar AND Pompey before he felt as though he had to side with one of them. In real life, he failed his first suicide attempt and was kept by Scipio so that he could heal. When he woke up, he ripped open his stitches and pulled out his own intestines-- more willing to die by his own hand than to see Rome in the possession of a tyrant. I always wondered about the PTSD that Soldiers from this time period must have faced; Imagine spending 10-20 years stabbing other dudes with a FUCKING SWORD and then coming home being told to run a damn shop. Damn. Speaking of Soldiering; you're kinda right. Most soldiers were just plebs, true; but almost EVERY Senator, Consol, Censor, and noble position from top-down are Veterans and Soldiers; in Rome, being a soldier was part of the politics. If you weren't a successful General, you wouldn't have a shot in hell at making Consol. One of the few exceptions to this is Cicero; he became a Senator based purely off of his skill at argumentation and as a lawyer. Almost every man in Politics at the time had military background except for him; it's why Marc Antony was so comfortable intimidating him. "Soft pink hands." Never held a sword.
JJDumbface
2024-09-08 09:27:19 +0000 UTC
