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In 509 BC, In a time when history and legend converged, the Romans overthrew their last ever king. The birth of the Republic led to several wars and some of the most legendary deeds of the Romans! [Thread]🧵

Let’s all encourage @MemoryMedieval as he ascends to the great heights of Roman history enthusiasm

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Someone made a Paulie Walnuts centurion

A Roman Centurion with his century

Sir William Marshal

William Marshal

15th century knight

Easier to dispatch a great big fat fuck waddling around than a normal sized man

Menelaus wounded

Samnite warriors

The ordeal of Mucius Scaevola

Ancient Greek helmets through the years

In 321 BC, The Romans were utterly humiliated by the Samnites who lured them into a trap and defeated them in a bloodless ‘battle’ at the Caudine Forks. [Thread]🧵

Arms of the Gonzaga Dukes of Mantua featuring an east Roman tetragrammatic cross

Did you know that there are surviving rondel daggers which are the same length as surviving examples of a gladius?

In 1062, Emperor Constantine X *might* have sent an embassy to Anti-Pope Honorius II proposing: 1) acceptance of universal papal authority, 2) willingness to accept the pope and western emperor as fellow Romans, 3) a suggestion to campaign to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. 🧵

What are you most disappointing historical realisations? Mine were: • Correct pronunciation of ancient Latin (Caesar, Cicero, Veni, vidi, vici etc.) • east Roman soldiers not looking like classical soldiers into the Middle Ages • Samnites didn’t call themselves Samnites