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Explanation: During the darkest days of the Second Punic War, fought between the Roman Republic and Carthage, the great Carthaginian ("Punic") general Hannibal had invaded Italy and utterly destroyed several Roman armies in rapid succession. While the Roman Republic as a whole doubled-down on fighting the war to the bitter end, the sense of despair was palpable in some circles.
A group of young Roman aristocrats gathered together at this time, plotting to escape their mandatory military service rather than share the fate of the Filthy Poors(tm), but were interrupted by fellow aristocrat Publius Cornelius Scipio (later known as Scipio Africanus), who was around their age, but already had combat experience in the war. Having heard about their plan (loose lips sink ships), he extracted from them, at swordpoint, an oath to Jupiter that they would stay and fight for the Republic, and not shirk their duty while better men died on the field in their place!
tomiantRough. Roman. Memes.
This is a sub on here?
Like, quid hoc futuo est??
First one I made, even, way back on Kbin! I couldn’t convince the other mods from r/RoughRomanMemes to give the Reddit Exile a try, but I figured I’d at least keep a presence up myself. One thing led to another, and now I’m trying to juggle a dozen comms despite the fact that I was a borderline lurker back on Reddit. XD
MeowerMisfit817why did he get banned
No clue. Not an action on my part.
Oh, I thought the “Banned” meant he was banned from the community. It seems he was actually banned from his instance/Lemmy as a whole.
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Explanation: During the darkest days of the Second Punic War, fought between the Roman Republic and Carthage, the great Carthaginian ("Punic") general Hannibal had invaded Italy and utterly destroyed several Roman armies in rapid succession. While the Roman Republic as a whole doubled-down on fighting the war to the bitter end, the sense of despair was palpable in some circles.
A group of young Roman aristocrats gathered together at this time, plotting to escape their mandatory military service rather than share the fate of the Filthy Poors(tm), but were interrupted by fellow aristocrat Publius Cornelius Scipio (later known as Scipio Africanus), who was around their age, but already had combat experience in the war. Having heard about their plan (loose lips sink ships), he extracted from them, at swordpoint, an oath to Jupiter that they would stay and fight for the Republic, and not shirk their duty while better men died on the field in their place!
Reminds me of the Siege of Malta, in which a bunch of aristocrat youth refused to fight on any longer because it was hopeless, and were shamed into staying by allowing them to leave. Under shameful verbiage of course. They didn’t.
Shame is a powerful force, but I guess this is a recurring theme with young nobility throughout history. They want the glory without the blood.
I believe something similar happened in ancient Athens with the Cretans, who kept coming over and getting drunk and pissing and puking on statues all over town and everyone was like what the fuck are we going to do, so they said, “ok, law is amended- it is only illegal for everyone BUT the Cretans to piss and shit everywhere, because they are animals that don’t know any better and we should be understanding of their handicap”, and as story has it, they stopped. May have been Samosans, I don’t recall.
Shame- the great equalizer.
Romans also took oaths very seriously - while there was no formal/community punishment for violating oaths, it was believed that the gods would take their own revenge (not to mention the damage to one’s reputation). Scipio made them swear that if they broke the oath to Jupiter, that ruin would come to themselves and their entire family.
Even if you don’t believe in the wrath of the gods, becoming known as someone who’d throw his own family under the bus was nothing less than social suicide in the extremely family-oriented society of Rome!
“Punic” bc they thought Carthaginians were Phoenicians! (which is not bad dinkum)
See, I know things! That’s right, I listen to podcasts, mama don’t raise no dumskis!
I fukn love these + explanations
I post to entertain! 🙏
Never stop
“No fortunate sons under my watch”