Ancient Rome Au - Tumblr Posts

The Magnus Archives in Ancient Rome slash Greece - according to my friend

"Martanicus, Martanicus!!"

"What Jocrates?"

"Martanicus there's a giant wooden horse outside"

"..."

"Martanicus this must be a gift from The Eye Martanicus!!"

"Jocrates.."

"Give me the parchment Martanicus, I need to trauma dump"

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"Scripture of Juluis Ceasar, regarding.."

au where high-quality copies of important history books and scientific treatises are considered of such high value that they are exchanged among kings and emperors like political hostages to secure peace or when valuable books are stolen in one war, future wars are fought over trying to recover them (cf. eagle standards)

au where all of the contents of Library of Alexandria are fastidiously duplicated by an army of scribes and distributed to a series of heavily-guarded, protected, luxuriously maintained libraries throughout every corner of the empire, including the emperors’ palaces in Rome and Byzantium au where roman law requires that the library and fire department of every town most be built in each others’ immediate vicinity, and all libraries must be equipped with bells to alert the fire department

“average ancient greek general founded 3 cities named after himself” factoid actualy just statistical error. the median greek general founded 0 cities named after himself. Alexander the Great, who conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire and founded over 10,000 Alexandrias in his lifetime, was a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted