>tfw you'll never live in classical antiquity.
>>1048228
iktf frater
>>1048228
tfw think about this every day
>>1048254
I also do this unironically
wonder if I'm autistic
>>1048261
You are. But it's okay, we all are
> tfw when you will never see the glory of Rome
>>1048279
I am unhealthily obsessed with everyday life in antiquity
>>1048228
> you will never marry your fellow nobleman's virgin daughter who just so happens to be significantly younger then yourself.
JUST
>you will never be Enrico Dandolo and break the back of a great empire for pure personal game
I think about this.
A lot.
What are /his/'s favourite antiquity related books?
>>1048289
Me too. I study the history of all aspects of culture around me and try to use the knowledge of this history to better connect with the past. I don't know why it interests me so. This isn't my field of study.
It's just really important. Like...incredibly important.
>>1048228
>implying I want to die of dysentery
>you will live to see your 5th birthday
*sigh*
>you will never go campaigning with your brothers
>you will never feel the warmth of knowing that you are the civilised world
>you will never put barbarians to the sword as they dare raid your land
>you will never hail your general imperator and march on Rome to dislodge an illegitimate emperor
>you will never participate in the Jugurthine War...with HIM
>you will never put dirty non-Roman Italians back in their place...with HIM
>you will never push Mithridates's shit in...with HIM
>you will never convince "enemy" fellow Romans in the second civil war to fight on your side...for HIM
>you will never proscript and grow rich off the properties of the enemies...of HIM
Why even live?
>>1048296
>back of a great empire
>great empire
>great
Come on Anon, you can try harder.
>comitia curiata
>plebian tribunus
>praetors
>consul
>plebiscite
I know, on a rational, intellectual level, that it was the same shitflinging borefest as modern politics but damn if it doesn't sound cooler.
