Suetonius's sources: Tiberius was left handed and was quite athletic.
Suetonius: He had a strong left hand, supposedly strong enough to crack the skull of a child or perhaps a young man, knowing his tastes...
Later historians: Suetonious says that Tiberius was so strong he would crack a guy's skull with his bare hand! He has supposedly done that once, because someone insulted his hair.
YouTube historians: SHOCKING FACT ABOUT ANCIENT ROME AND GREECE #69420!! DID YOU KNOW THAT TIBERIUS ONCE CRACKED A GUY'S WITH HIS BARE HANDS BECAUSEHE INSULTED HIS HAIRSTYLE?!?!?!? WHAT A CRUEL FUCKED UP EVIL MEANIE MAN!!!!!!
Tumblr history meme: lol, do you ever get a bad hair day and decide to squash a guy's skull? mood lmao
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So I've looking at my old, forgotten, stacked-in-the-attic writing and I thought I'd share something with you.
It's a few lines of a distrack about Antony from Cicero's POV. It goes like this:
Oh, enough with the fucking proscriptions again
Haven't you learnt anything from Sulla?
Shoulda written another speech and then
You'd get kicked outta the Italian peninsula
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Actual roman epitaph for a dog
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So, apparently Emperor Julian wrote what historians call a satire, and what I call a "crossover crack-fic in which the Greek gods get all the Roman emperors together in a room and make them argue about who's the coolest."
This crack-fic has, incredibly, survived. It's about 90% Julian roasting historical figures through the mouth of Dionysus' boyfriend. Favorite bits:
Julius Caesar, Augustus and Tiberius show up and are appropriately shit-talked. (And, for Tiberius, kink-shamed.) Caligula steps through the door and is immediately yeeted into Tartarus before anyone can say anything about him.
Nero comes in with his lyre and Apollo promptly knocks the laurel wreath off his head.
Alexander the Great crashes the party and he and Julius Caesar hate each other on sight.
The gods ask Romulus if any of his descendants are a match for Alexander and Romulus is internally like "Aw, shit."
Alexander almost storms out of the party because he doesn't get to monologue first.
When it's Augustus' turn to make a speech Poseidon doesn't let him have a cup of water because he's still mad about that one time Augustus blasphemed against him 400 years earlier.
The gods tell each of the emperors to Explain Themselves and Marcus Aurelius is like, "But you gods already know everything about us," and they're like "...That's fair."
Cameo appearance from Jesus at the very end, who's apparently best bros with Pleasure in a sort of "sin with one, get forgiveness from the other free!" deal.
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"The North Hertfordshire museum will now refer to the emperor Elagabalus with female pronouns.
Museum policy states the pronouns used in the displays will be those ‘the individual in question might have used themselves’ or whatever pronoun ‘in retrospect, is appropriate’."
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People write 100,000 word theses to explain what this meme did in 3.
Credit to The Classics Library
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My pronouns in Latin are ista/istam not illa/illam. Please refer to me with all due scorn as the woman of the greatest shamelessness and audacity that I truly am.
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