• @PugJesusOPM
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    142 months ago

    Explanation: In true misogynist fashion, Romans loved to blame things on the evil womenfolk. Livia, the wife of the Emperor Augustus, was a particular target for such ire, as Augustus highly valued her counsel and consulted her on most major decisions.

    • @Kyrgizion
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      42 months ago

      At least she wasn’t Dido.

      • @PugJesusOPM
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        2 months ago

        “No no, you see, a woman had emotions towards a proto-Roman hundreds of years before the Republic even existed, it was totally justified that we engaged in a no-holds barred war of annihilation with each other” - Virgil when writing the Aeneid