Dok & Suu's Romanophilia Thread of Wonders

[Suu]

Anti-Graffiti crews sacked Rome in 455AD?

[Doktor Howl]

Anti-Graffiti crews sacked Rome in 455AD?

Have you SEEN the graffitti at Pompei?

[Suu]

Anti-Graffiti crews sacked Rome in 455AD?

Have you SEEN the graffitti at Pompei?

Pompeii was buried in 79AD! The Vandals ran on top of it. Fuckers.

[Doktor Howl]

Anti-Graffiti crews sacked Rome in 455AD?

Have you SEEN the graffitti at Pompei?

Pompeii was buried in 79AD! The Vandals ran on top of it. Fuckers.

Someone had to pat the ashes down to make sure that filth stayed covered.

[Jenne]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707/ ~> I thought this was cool.  I unfortunately am out of town during the advance screening of this at my local art moviehouse.    But I still plan to go and see it.

[Suu]

Anti-Graffiti crews sacked Rome in 455AD?

Have you SEEN the graffitti at Pompei?

Pompeii was buried in 79AD! The Vandals ran on top of it. Fuckers.

Someone had to pat the ashes down to make sure that filth stayed covered.

Fuck your Germanic tribes.

[Doktor Howl]

Anti-Graffiti crews sacked Rome in 455AD?

Have you SEEN the graffitti at Pompei?

Pompeii was buried in 79AD! The Vandals ran on top of it. Fuckers.

Someone had to pat the ashes down to make sure that filth stayed covered.

Fuck your Germanic tribes.

They were only trying to have a good time.  It wasn't easy having a good time in the 5th century.

[Suu]

Their idea of a good time plunged the world into the Dark Ages. Uneducated filth that they were.

[Doktor Howl]

Their idea of a good time plunged the world into the Dark Ages. Uneducated filth that they were.

Actually, that was coming anyway.  The Romans had pretty much fucked themselves fighting the Persians, and their society was fairly rotten anyway.

Also, if you read Ammianus Marcellus, the thing with the Visigoths was precipitated with a murder of a Visigoth chieftain by a Roman officer, for no apparent reason.

If you're doing Roman history, I have a shitpile of original sources I could loan you.  I am fairly certain I have all the surviving original stuff (2 large bookcases), with the exception of Vegitius and some of Livy.

[Suu]

Yeah by that time the Romans were fucked, I know. The Germanics were just looking for an in and knew when the right time was to strike. Constantine may have been a piece of shit, but he knew to move the capital when he did for more reasons other than the strategic position of Byzantium on the Bosporus, or it could have been even more devastating.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The Romans had it coming.

[Doktor Howl]

Yeah by that time the Romans were fucked, I know. The Germanics were just looking for an in and knew when the right time was to strike. Constantine may have been a piece of shit, but he knew to move the capital when he did for more reasons other than the strategic position of Byzantium on the Bosporus, or it could have been even more devastating.

Well, not only that, but the Eastern empire was stuffed with resources, including people.  It was able to last 8 more centuries, until the 4th Crusade fuckinged its shit royally, and then finally tore itself apart in civil war in the 14th century.  It was basically not much more than a collection of villages and an underpopulated, run down capital city when 80,000 Ottomans showed up and finally put an end to their asshattery.

[Doktor Howl]

The Romans had it coming.

That's just what the Hebrews thought.

[hooplala]

Damn... art talk is over then, hmm?

[Mangrove]

Anti-Graffiti crews sacked Rome in 455AD?

Have you SEEN the graffitti at Pompei?

Yes. And here it is:



[House of the Mysteries in Pompeii. Contemporary caricature etched onto a wall, presumably of whichever Caesar was kicking around at the time. Resemblance to Mr McGoo entirely coincidental]