Roman Empire

There was no official flag in the modern sense, yet various military standards and symbols like the SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus - "The Senate and People of Rome") and the Imperial Eagle (Aquila) were used to represent its power and authority.

The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most influential civilizations in history, known for its centralized government, powerful military, and lasting cultural legacy.

Males appear to think more often about the Roman Empire (e.g. contemplating while shitting into the toilet, showering etc...) than femoids.

History

The Roman Empire at its peak.

The Roman Empire controlled much of Europe, the Mediterranean, Western Asia, and North Africa, reaching its height under Trajan (98–117 AD). Founded as an empire by Augustus in 27 BC after the fall of the Roman Republic, it experienced a long period of stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana. The Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD, while the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire lasted until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Roman culture, law, language, and architecture deeply influenced later European and Mediterranean civilizations, shaping Christianity, the Romance languages, Renaissance art, and modern legal and political systems.

Saeculum obscurum: The Rule of the Harlots (896-964)

Saeculum obscurum ("the dark age/century"), also known as the Rule of the Harlots (German: Hurenregiment) or the Pornocracy, was a period of time (896-964) where popes in Rome were strongly influenced by promiscuous slutty women of the corrupt aristocratic family (the Theophylacti), namely by Theodora and her daughter Marozia who used their sexual relationships with popes and/or their favorites to exert considerable political influence. This era is seen as one of the lowest societal points of the history of the papal office.

Liudprand of Cremona — a historian, diplomat, and the bishop of Cremona born in northern Italy, whose works are an important source for the politics of the 10th-century Byzantine court — wrote about this which is now embedded in "The Works of Liudprand of Cremona: Antapodosis, Liber De Rebus Gestis Ottonis, Relatio De Legatione Constantinopolitana" — Some male feminist, SJW and/or foid historians nowadays try to insuade that Luiprand of Cremona was a misogynist who made his claims up, or whose claims are at least 'unverified'.

Theodora and Marozia

Naked Theodora and Marozia taking a bath together -- It's unknown whether or not they also incestuously fucked each other.

Theodora was a senatrix (female member of the Roman Senate) who married Theophylact I to use him to exercise de facto control over Rome’s secular government and influence over the papacy (directing political affairs, the militia and public office appointments). After her husband's death, she got back with her former lover Giovanni da Tossignano, who's rumored to have been raped by her regularly. She was generally accused of whoring around with statusmaxxed clerics and nobles behind closed doors, and of using those relationships to her advantage.

She and her family installed and removed popes (they're credited with placing puppet pontiffs and manipulating papal succession throughout the early 10th century → several short, politically controlled pontificates) and engineered dynastic alliances and marriages (notably advancing her daughter Marozia’s matches), which brought military backing and allowed the family to seize and hold power in Rome.

Her Daughter, Marozia, became the adulterous cumslut concubine of the 45-year-old oldcel Pope Sergius III when she was 15/16 years old teenager (who's also rumored to be the actual father of her son John, which is why the latter Pope John XI may have descended from Sergius III), while actually having other lovers or husbands.

When allied with Guy of Tuscany to seize Rome (capture Castel Sant’Angelo), she imprisoned John X to then kill him in custody (accounts vary between murder, smothering, or death by mistreatment), so she could then place short-lived popes (Leo VI, Stephen VII) on the throne, and to eventually getting her son John XI elected pope in 931.

Marotia and Theodora, and these damsels were not only her equals but could even surpass her in the exercises that Venus loves. [...]

Theodora, who, as I have declared, was a quite shameless harlot, saw the young man, and at once was all on fire with lust to possess him. So inflamed was she by his handsome person that not only did she offer herself to him as his mistress, but forced him to comply with her desires again and again [...] Thereupon Theodora, with a harlot’s wanton naughtiness, fearing that she would have few opportunities of going to bed with her sweetling if he were separated from her by the two hundred miles that lie between Ravenna and Rome, forced him to abandon his archbishopric at Ravenna, and take for himself — O monstrous crime! — the papacy of Rome.

- "The Works of Liudprand of Cremona: Antapodosis, Liber De Rebus Gestis Ottonis, Relatio De Legatione Constantinopolitana"

Roman Citizens

Bust of Julia the Elder

Sluts

Julia the Elder

Julia the Elder was the daughter of Augustus (1st Roman Emperor) and was a notorious promiscuous slut who was later exiled due to her degenerate behavior. In 2 BC she was arrested for adultery and treason; Augustus sent her a letter in Tiberius's name declaring the marriage null and void and asserted in public that she had been plotting against his own life (he likely knew of her intrigues with other men but hesitated for some time to accuse her):

After marrying her first cousin Marcellus as a teen (he died when she was 16), she got into an arranged marriage with the beta cuckmaxxed Agrippa (man from a modest family who had risen to become Augustus's most trusted general and friend) who was 25 years older than her (see Agecuck) when she was just 18 years old — She, for example, cheated on him (and her later husband Tiberius) by regularly fucking with Sempronius Gracchus (statusmaxxed nobleman) and also fucking Iullus Antonius (son of Mark Antony and Fulvia) behind closed doors. While married to Agrippa, it's rumored that she whilist already also fucked Augustus's stepson which makes him her stepbrother, Tiberius, who became her later husband after Agrippa died but he first had to divorce Vipsania Agrippina (daughter from a previous marriage of Agrippa), the woman he dearly loved.

Suetonius alleges that Tiberius had a low opinion of Julia's character, while Tacitus claims that she disdained Tiberius as an unequal match and even sent his father a letter, written by Sempronius Gracchus, denouncing him. The marriage was thus blighted almost from the start, and the son that Julia bore him died in infancy. He also said Caligula (the son of Julia's daughter Agrippina and Tiberius's nephew Germanicus) would claim after his own ascension that his mother Agrippina was the product of incest between Julia and her father Augustus because he allegedly didn't wish to be thought of as the grandson of Agrippa 'due to his humble origins'.

Several of Julia's supposed lovers were exiled, most notably Sempronius Gracchus, while Iullus Antonius was forced to commit suicide. (yeah, if a foid starts to be adulterous, first the men get exiled or killed for that - good old "patriarchy" ;-)). It was also suggested that some of Julia's alleged paramours were members of her city clique, who wished to remove Tiberius from favour and replace him with Antonius (This would explain the letter, written by Gracchus, asking Augustus to allow Julia to divorce Tiberius).

Reluctant to execute her, Augustus decided instead to confine Julia on Pandateria (small island) with no men in sight and also forbid her to drink wine. She was allowed no visitor unless her father had given permission and had been informed of the stature, complexion, and even of any marks or scars upon his body. She would later be set free, get peculium (property), a yearly income and she was permitted to walk around the city but despite these concessions, Augustus never forgave her nor ever allowed her to return to Rome

"If only I had never married, or had died childless!" - Remark of her dad Augustus if anyone mentioned Julia or her two disgraced children (Slight misquote of Hector in the Iliad)

Femboys

Sporus (later 'Sabina')

Sporus was a young slave boy whom the Roman emperor Nero had castrated and married during his tour of Greece in 66–67 AD, so he could play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina (since they looked alike in his opinion), who had died under uncertain circumstances the previous year (possibly during childbirth or after being assaulted by Nero); he was even named Sabina after their marriage.

After the Roman Senate declared Nero a public enemy, he fled to a suburban villa with a few loyal slaves (including Sporus), and ultimately took his own life with a dagger as the guards approached while Sporus witnessed it. Sporus eventually also ropemaxxed to avoid the shame of public rape.

Nero missed her so greatly after her death that on learning of a woman who resembled her he at first sent for her and kept her; but later he caused a boy of the freedmen, whom he used to call Sporus, to be castrated, since he, too, resembled Sabina, and he used him in every way like a wife. In due time, though already "married" to Pythagoras, a freedman, he formally "married" Sporus, and assigned the boy a regular dowry according to contract; and the Romans as well as others publicly celebrated their wedding.

While Nero had Sporus, the eunuch, as a wife, one of his associates in Rome, who had made a study of philosophy, on being asked whether the marriage and cohabitation in question met with his approval, replied: 'You do well, Caesar, to seek the company of such wives. Would that your father had had the same ambition and had lived with a similar consort!' — indicating that if this had been the case, Nero would not have been born, and the state would now be free of great evils. [...]

After that Nero had two bedfellows at once, Pythagoras to play the role of husband to him, and Sporus that of wife. The latter, in addition to other forms of address, was termed "lady," "queen," and "mistress." Yet why should one wonder at this, seeing that Nero would fasten naked boys and girls to stakes, and then putting on the hide of a wild beast would attack them and satisfy his brutal lust under the appearance of devouring parts of their bodies? 3 Such were the indecencies of Nero.

- "Epitome of Book LXII"

Elagabalus (also Heliogabalus)

Bust of Elagabalus

Elagabalus was a Roman emperor from 218 to 222 while he was still a teenager and was notorious for religious controversy and sexual debauchery; he famously wore Fakeup, dressed as a woman, and allegedly requested gender-reassignment surgery (according to Cassius Dio). He also married a male slave named Hierocles and called him “husband" while hosting wild, decadent banquets and was notorious for shocking Roman elites.

Heliogabalus was bom in an era when everybody slept with everybody; and it will never be known when or by whom his mother was actually impregnated. [...]

One could say that Heliogabalus was shaped by women; that his thinking was done according to the will of two women; and that whenever he wished to think for himself, whenever his male pride - nettled by the energy of his wives, of his mothers, who all slept with him - wanted to manifest itself, we know what the result was. [...]

Yet it’s to his mother he owes this brimming femininity, this Venusian impress which even flashes through the flickering fires of the solar tiara he puts on each morning; to his mother, the tart, the prostitute, the harlot who never knew how to do anything else but lend herself to the brutalities of the Masculine. [...]

he won’t go as far as saying Heliogabalus is a good son, but gives us to understand the contrary, that in Heliogabalus’s love for his mother there’s something incestuous and a touch of sexual inversion in that love of Julia Soemia for her son.

“He was so devoted to Soemiamira his mother”, says Lampridius, “that he did nothing in the republic without consulting her, while she, living as a courtesan, abandoned herself in the palace to all kinds of licentiousness. Also, her acknowledged relations with Caracalla Antoninus naturally cast some doubts on the origins of Varius or Heliogabalus. There are even those who go so far as to say that the name Varius was given him by his companions as befitting one bom of a courtesan and, consequently, who came of mixed blood.” [...]

Heliogabalus as emperor behaves like a hooligan and an irreverent libertarian. At the first somewhat solemn assembly he bluntly asks the great men of the State, the nobles, the senators in attendance, the legislators of every rank, whether they too have known pederasty (= sexual activity involving a man and a boy or youth) in their youth, whether they’ve practised sodomy, vampirism, been succubi or fornicated with animals and, according to Lampridius, questions them thus in the crudest of terms.

One envisages Heliogabalus rouged, escorted by his minions and his women, there amid the venerable greybeards, as he pats their bellies and asks them if they too got themselves buggered (= fucked in the ass) in their youth. [...]

I see Heliogabalus not as madman but as rebel: 1st against the Roman polytheistic anarchy 2nd Against the Roman monarchy that’s been buggered through him. [..]

Whenever Heliogabalus dresses as a prostitute and sells himself for forty pence at the doors of Christian churches, at the temples of Roman gods, he’s not only seeking the satisfaction of a vice, but humiliating the Roman monarch.

When he appoints a dancer to head his praetorian guard, he’s thereby establishing a sort of incontestable yet dangerous anarchy. He exposes to ridicule the cowardice of the monarchs, his predecessors, the Antonines and the Marcus Aureliuses, and finds that a dancer’s perfectly fit to command a bunch of policemen. He calls weakness strength and theatre, reality. He’s overturning the received order, ideas, the everyday notions of things. His is a meticulous and dangerous anarchy, since he reveals himself to all eyes.

He continues his enterprise of the debasement of standards, of monstrous moral disorganisation, in choosing his ministers by the enormousness of their members.

It didn’t prevent his taking personal advantage of this disorder, this shameless slackening of morals, nor of making a habit of obscenity; and into broad daylight, like a maniac and a man obsessed, he brought what is normally kept hidden.

“At banquets,” continues Lampridius, “he seated himself by preference beside male prostitutes, taking pleasure in their caresses, and never received from anyone’s hand more willingly than from theirs, the goblet from which they had drunk.”

- "Heliogabalus: Or, the Crowned Anarchist"