#roman society & culture

[thesilicontribesman]

Chesters Roman Fort Headquarters Courtyard and Roman Phallus Relief, Chesters Roman Fort, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

[cupcakegalaxia]

People want all the benefits of Christianity without all the repenting of sin, putting it to death and trusting in Christ part.

[leroibobo]

cahokia was a city located across what's today the mississippi river, lasting between about 1050-1350 ce, after which it was abandoned until about 1500. due to its inhabitants leaving little-no written records and no oral histories of it existing, the city's original name is unknown - it was named posthumously for the cahokia people who were living in the area at the time of french contact.

at its peak in the 11th and 12th centuries, cahokia was the largest city north of mesoamerica and the largest settlement of the mississippian culture with a population of 15-20,000. it served as both an economic and cultural center; the city's main trades included farming, logging, hunting, pottery, weaving, and trading. the exact reason for its decline in the 13th and 14th centuries is unknown, with theories including war, political fragmentation, disease, and flooding among others being proposed.

like other mississippian settlements, cahokia is best known for its diligent city planning and extensive earthworks. its basic layout - thought to be inspired by the creators' view of the heavens - consists of four quarters and several soil and clay-constructed mounds oriented in the cardinal directions. all of them are centered on monks mound, the tallest of the earthworks, which may have housed the city's rulers. most residents lived on farmlands surrounding this main area. the city also includes the "woodhenge", an astronomical observatory consisting of wood posts aligned with the positions of the sun throughout the year, which is thought to have been relocated several times throughout the city's history. evidence of a copper workshop and a mass burial site have also been found in some of the city's mounds.

some siouan-speaking nations further west like the osage, kaw, ponca, quapaw, and omaha have preserved some elements present in cahokian culture such as chunkey and their meticulous urban planning. it's been suggested that these nations are a result of former cahokian people or other mississippians in the cahokian sphere of influence gradually migrating elsewhere. though cahokia had great influence, that practically no oral histories of the city exist indicates that former residents either didn't think it important enough to memorialize or didn't want to memorialize it.

[crossbackpoke-check]

yOu'Re gOiNg fOr a LiTeR? | "Habs react to Quebec Maple facts", 10.22.24

[ciderjacks]

Some ocs.

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

[qqweebird]

“men think about the roman empire every day ??? hurr what !?? thats soo wacky” tell me heterosexual white woman how often do you think about victorian england. how often does jane austin come to mind. dont you talk about cottagecore and shit like that daily??

[jameslmartello]

Not Woke, but Catholic.

#livingdivinemercy #frchrisalar #socialjustice #jesus #marx #nietzsche" on YouTube

[zumer-feygele]

I'm listening to the last podcast on the left episode on la llorona and they've gotten into the mesoamerican mythos and history behind the story and I keep wincing because they keep getting shit wrong

[claraetoile]

The library of alexandria didn't burn down in one day.

And it was deeming its knowledge unworthy that fueled the flames.

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[thesilicontribesman]

Dog Paw On Roman Tile, Chedworth Roman Villa, Cheltenham

[poetry-lair]

Dolce è il profumo dei fiori

mentre mi risveglio

dopo un sonno di tedio

e gelida paralisi.

E dopo aver visto

schiudersi i boccioli fiorenti,

lascio che il sole di Maggio

attraversi il mio corpo

e sciolga le mie paure

“Flora (Fresco)” (C): Anonymous

“Spring ” (C): Lawrence Alma-Tadema

“ Nus près d'une fontaine dans un jardin méditerranéen” (C): Paul Jean Gervais

“Floralia” (C): Hobbe Smith

Poem (C): Me

[xartus]

My Roman Empire is actually the Roman Empire

[what-even-is-thiss]

People acting like slavery was good at literally any point in history kinda drive me crazy. There's been many different types of slavery and indentured servitude all throughout human history all with a lot of difference and nuance to all of them and all of them have been bad. Like it's fundamentally wrong to take a person's personal ownership of their own body and life away from them and/or to make them work for no compensation against their will.

Slavery has been a bit different in every society that has practiced it and it is always a different kind of bad with that core immorality of stealing a person's personal autonomy from them at the center of it. People throughout history have always preferred owning themselves to being owned by others. There's no ethical way to own another human being.

Like people talk about slavery in ancient times like more modern examples of slavery should've been more like that. No, they shouldn't have. Because they shouldn't have been practicing slavery at all. Perhaps a third of the Roman Empire's population was enslaved. It was incredibly normalized. Did that make it right? No. That was a third of the population that could legally be killed or sold or raped by their enslavers at any time for no reason. That had no ownership of themselves or their labor.

And to be clear, slavery still exists and it's still bad. The excuse now is just that it's only being done to prisoners. Like all the forms of slavery before it, this justification does not make it right. People being punished for their crimes, whether you think prison time is a justifiable punishment or not, are still people. They need to be given control over what work they apply to do and be paid for their work. This is basic stuff and yet. Forced unpaid labor is still happening. It's all bad. It's all nuanced and and complicated and different and changes with culture and time and it's bad.

Like as someone who loves studying history I hate watching other people who study history try to justify these things. Face your actual history. There's a lot of bad in it. We can't change the past but we sure as hell can stop ignoring it.

[novelemporiumonline]

Ancient Indian Coins of Foreign Rulers

[greco-roman-jewess]

Hey Jumblr I want to let you in on a secret that has made some of my worst days bearable

Blame the Romans

Have some freakish Ashkenazi malady…

Blame the Romans- you wouldn’t be a lactose intolerant with terrible sinuses if it weren’t for genetic bottlenecking caused by Roman slavery

Can’t eat fava beans…

That’s probably the Babylonians fault but YOU KNOW WHAT if the Romans hadn’t destroyed the temples then maybe your ancestors would have returned home and not developed a genetic mutation that causes deadly intolerance to a bean

Your boyfriend turned out to be an antisemitic weirdo and took all your friends in the break up by telling them you were an evil Zionist…

Those people were never your friends AND blame the Romans for renaming the land Syria Palestinina and confusing defiantly very anti colonial college students the world over

You feel like you have no sense of unique culture or identity and your antisemitic brain worms are tell you that you are a leech that produces nothing for society but CO2…

Blame the Romans for intentionally killing and robbing your ancestors of their indigenous land and disrupting cultural transmission

That hot Israeli girl won’t text you back because you don’t know enough about winter barley cultivation…

If it weren’t for the ROMANS you would be disappointed that a HOT JUDEAN GIRL wasn’t texted you back and you might know more about barley if Jewish society had remained agrarian in nature