• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    The Greeks didn’t need ET for the Colosseum

    Just to be pedantic, the Romans built the Colosseum. While they did cosplay as Greeks, they weren’t actually Greeks themzelves

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      7 hours ago

      To be further pedantic, the Greeks started calling themselves the Romioi in late antiquity, so some Greeks were in fact Romans, but not all Romans were Greek.