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 (unwritten) constitution of the Roman Republic was utterly byzantine (ha) and plastered with overlapping authorities, arcane prohibitions, and arbitrary divisions. What's more, there's a great deal of 'ad hoc' authority that was distributed at will by whoever was most influential in government at any given time, making even this chart only a loose approximation of how labyrinthine Roman government of the Republic really was!
The Republic also spans a long range of time, to be fair. The Tribuni Plebis for example weren't always elected by the Tributa, nor did the Plebiscita always have force of law.