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Rome’s origin story, of a town founded by criminals and vagabonds, replete with constant war and duplicitous betrayals such as the Rape of the Sabine women, sounds almost barbaric compared to the proud statesmen senators in the later Roman republic. How did the romans themselves view their origin? NSFW
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In much of the popular historical fiction depicting medieval knights, lords and kings, many of the men, if not the majority, wear their hair long. What would said lords and knights used to tie their hair back out of their face, and how would they have styled it?
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[WP] You are a villager in a fantasy role playing game. After delivering your line, the player sighs, pauses his game, and hits “autosave.”
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Rome’s origin story, of a town founded by criminals and vagabonds, replete with constant war and duplicitous betrayals such as the Rape of the Sabine women, sounds almost barbaric compared to the proud statesmen senators in the later Roman republic. How did the romans themselves view their origin? NSFW
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Popular historical fiction likes to portray Viking men as having long hair and beards, and generally Viking women as also having long hair.
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Khosrau I supposedly made a big deal of swimming in the Mediterranean like Persian emperors of old during his invasion of Byzantium. Did he really do this, and would the Byzantines and Justinian particularly understand the intended message?
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