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“Ladies, many of you do not realize how often men think about the Roman Empire,” Flavius wrote in the video text.
Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century. Women were not allowed to be active in politics, so nobody wrote about them.
Ladies, ask the men in your life how often they think about the Roman Empire — the answer might surprise you. In a new TikTok trend, women describe discovering that their partners and male ...
William & Mary Classical Studies Professor Vassiliki Panoussi’s new book explores the traditional, and not so traditional, ways that women held power in the patriarchal society of ancient Rome.
The faces of Roman women of the upper classes are cold, hard, finished, and impenetrable as cameos. In a face which is at all beautiful you will not find a line which is not perfect, and this ...
Within a few months, the question "how often do men think about the Roman Empire?" conquered Instagram, TikTok and countless group chats — and then morphed into something else. What links this ...
“Ladies, many of you do not realize how often men think about the Roman Empire,” read the post’s text, superimposed onto crumbling Tuscan columns.
In a new show at Altman Siegel, the photographer's saturated prints of Roman statues challenge assumptions about the virtue of unadorned white marble.
No one can doubt that hundreds of thousands of hard-working, god-fearing Roman women lived silent, unrecorded lives, and bore children to carry on the state. Rut the lady had nothing to do with them.
A viral TikTok trend has women baffled at how often men think about the Roman Empire. Here's what that says about us.
Jewish men (and women) think about the Roman Empire all the time. We can’t avoid it. A rabbi responds to a new TikTok meme, noting how Jewish tradition was shaped by its encounter with the Romans.