I know it’s a joke but she-wolf iconography was very common in rome:
She was one of the great symbols of rome, but wolves as a whole were seen as complex entities embodying both good and bad, and adopting ‘moral ambiguity’ as a symbol of your nation is honest not the best brand image. Plus, since rome’s whole thing was stealing accomplishments wholesale from the greeks and pretending they’d been rome’s all along (early reddit!), they really needed to adopt a symbol of Zeus for… tedious theo-political reasons, which is why we wound up with the Aquilla.
The other founding myth of Rome is that time they raped and kidnapped all the women from their neighboring cities because they were literally all criminal incels.
Moral ambiguity as evaluated by Roman Culture, not by modern standards. They minted coins depicting the rape of sabine, it wasn’t viewed as a shameful or evil act.
I know it’s a joke but she-wolf iconography was very common in rome:
She was one of the great symbols of rome, but wolves as a whole were seen as complex entities embodying both good and bad, and adopting ‘moral ambiguity’ as a symbol of your nation is
honestnot the best brand image. Plus, since rome’s whole thing was stealing accomplishments wholesale from the greeks and pretending they’d been rome’s all along (early reddit!), they really needed to adopt a symbol of Zeus for… tedious theo-political reasons, which is why we wound up with the Aquilla.The other founding myth of Rome is that time they raped and kidnapped all the women from their neighboring cities because they were literally all criminal incels.
I think Rome was fine with “moral ambiguity”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_the_Sabine_women
Moral ambiguity as evaluated by Roman Culture, not by modern standards. They minted coins depicting the rape of sabine, it wasn’t viewed as a shameful or evil act.