OK Veeky Forums, I want you to post your spiciest Late Roman/Byzantine memes, the more obscure the better...

OK Veeky Forums, I want you to post your spiciest Late Roman/Byzantine memes, the more obscure the better. I'll start with some normie stuff to get the thread going

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>eye to eye
kek

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Kek

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A Vandal magister with known Arian tendencies was holding a symposium in honour of Demophilus, a known schismatic.
"Before the toasts begin, you must get on your knees and worship God and accept that he was the most divine entity the ecumene has ever known, even greater than Christus whom he created!"

At this moment, a venerable Praepositus Limitis who had served on the frontiers for decades and understood the necessity of taming the Barbaricum and fully supported the creed promulgated by the great Constantinus rose from his couch and held up a crucifix.

"Who does this represent?"

The Rhenian cur smirked quite devilishly and smugly replied "the created child of an indivisible God"

"You miss the point. Jesus Christ our Dominus is of the same substance as God and thus equal to Him."

The heretic was visibly shaken, and dropped his wine krater and copy of Eusebius' Onomastikon. He stormed out of the banquet hall crying those laetus crocodile tears. The same tears Donatists and Priscillians cry for the "poor" (who today are so holy that saints vie to kiss their feet) as they flee Roman territory to the outrage-committing Bacaudae in Armorica. There is no doubt that at this point the "learned" Vandal wished he had studied the work of the Holy Apostles and become more than a ludicrous teacher of rhetoric. He wished so much that he had a spatha to disembowel himself with due to the shame but he had sold all the city's arms for Gaiseric's ransom pay!

The partygoers politely clapped and all ceased their apostasy that day and accepted Jesus as the true Son of God. An divine light suddenly shone into the room and blazed upon the bust of Augustine and the statue wept miraculously. The Nicene Creed was recited, and Jesus Monogenes himself descended and banished the barbarians to the hellish wastes beyond the limes.

The magister lost his tongue and was castrated the following day. He was exiled to Troesmis, far from from God's Light.

Praise Jesus Consubstantialis

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>tfw i learned more from memes than school

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Flavius Stilicho did not deserve his cruel fate.

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Which pill do you choose?

Purple

Saved.
But what's that black shape over the flag supposed to be?

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Looks like a part of a map, but I cannot recognize it desu

A horse leg

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corfu

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>He wished so much that he had a spatha to disembowel himself with due to the shame but he had sold all the city's arms for Gaiseric's ransom pay!

Bump

>tfw no Michael Bay action flick depicting Constantine and Mehmed locked in single combat on the roof of Hagia Sofia while random explosions destroy the city around them

The isn't Nika right? someone redpill me on chariot race in the byzantine empire

It's not any specific event. But it is correct in that the chariot teams and their fans doubled as political parties in Constantinople.

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Finally an excuse to dump.

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>it might be closer to say tht the roman empire never fell but instead it merely transformed...
Should add a "Fuck off Peter Brown" in that panel

Comparing a conventional war to terrorism is improper and reductive.

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>Wears foreign silk
Actually the byzantines made their own
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_into_the_Byzantine_Empire

>Catholics break from themselves to join the schismatic
WEW

I can think of memes but too lazy to make them.

Concept: This one but as roman going east then returning as a dark tan guy speaking in greek letters

Justinian successfully restored the empire aside from Gaul and Hispania. Why didn't it last?

Gr*eks

The Plague of Justinian

plague, persians, and problematic successions

(((Narses)))

NIKA

NIKA

RACE WAR NOW

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THIS LITERALLY JUST HAPPENED

I was leading a caravan on the Via Traiana Nova, and we came across the Emperor Aurelian, and he started bragging to us how he defeated the Palmyrene Empire and Queen Zenobia, he finished off his comment by saying that his ability to conquer her within a year was clear proof of a woman's inability to rule. Just then, I was fed up with his sexism, so I told him "you know, just because your empire is failing, doesn't mean that you should be sexist and hurt the prosperity of women." He didn't know what to say, and the Praetorian Guardsmen just started clapping! They agreed with me so much that they killed the Emperor on the spot, and the Senate passed a damnatio memoriae on him!!!