Did the Romans or Greeks have "Chads"?

did the Romans or Greeks have "Chads"?
what did they call them?

Hercules was basically chad

yeah but did they use Hercules as a nickname to describe guys who could fuck any girl they wanted?

They didn't use Hercules as a nickname, but they did use him as a role model for what a Chad was

Romans had Patricians, close enough.
Also Spartans are pretty Chad-like.

>close enough

>the virgin Darius
>the Alcibiades Alexander

In Classical Rome they were called "Patricians"

Patricians was name for nobility and ruling class. Anyone born into a noble family could be a beta.


You're better off asking a historian that question user, you're unlikely to find anyone on this board with such trivial knowledge of the classical Roman are Greek languages, and their proper contexts (shit gets taken waaaay out of context).


This board is mostly young anons who take an interest in history as a hobby or may have a bachelor or undergraduate degree, at any higher level they usually have their nose in a book somewhere, or busy writing one themselves.

"When Eppia, the senator's wife, ran off with a gladiator 15 to Pharos and the Nile and the ill-famed city of Lagos, Canopus itself cried shame upon the monstrous morals of our town. Forgetful of home, of husband and of sister, without thought of her country, she shamelessly abandoned her weeping children; and----more marvellous still----deserted Paris and the games. Though born in wealth, though as a babe she had slept in a bedizened cradle on the paternal down, she made light of the sea, just as she had long made light of her good name----a loss but little accounted of among our soft litter-riding dames. And so with stout heart she endured the tossing and the roaring of the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, and all the many seas she had to cross. For when danger comes in a right and honourable way, a woman's heart grows chill with fear; she cannot stand upon her trembling feet: but if she be doing a bold, bad thing, her courage fails not. For a husband to order his wife on board ship is cruelty: the bilge-water then sickens her, the heavens go round and round. But if she is running away with a lover, she feels no qualms: then she vomits over her husband; now she messes with the sailors, she roams about the deck, and delights in hauling at the hard ropes."

Maximinus Thrax.
>He was in any case a man of such frightening appearance and colossal size that there is no obvious comparison to be drawn with any of the best-trained Greek athletes or warrior elite of the barbarians."

here's a virgin helping a chad outchad another chad

He wasn't Chad, he was just unnaturally large.

Something approximating the Chad is that Romans had the concept of a "Bellator". That is, a soldier who didn't conform to standards of discipline and restraint, and instead performed individual feats of heroism and derring-do, saving comrades from inescapable situations and taking down multiple enemies in single combat, that sort of thing.

Constantine was considered a Bellator, to the point where he was admonished by his advisors in official state literature for it. It wasn't always considered a good thing, especially if you were high ranking.

They were called heroes

From graffiti found in Pompeii:
> (gladiator barracks); 8767: Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion

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Spartans

Chad spartans and virgin helots?

No because "Chad" is a modern post-Industrial Revolution degenerate phenomenon.

I don't know enough about the Greeks, but my impression is that each city had its norms.

The Romans would call hypergamous people "effeminate degenerates". They were mostly prudish people who thought that men should be able to put their rationality above base desires.

Cato (the Elder) expelled some guy from the senate because he embraced his wife in front of his daughter.

I'm Just to clarify, the guy who was expelled embraced his own wife, not Cato's.

Valentinian was also called a Bellator by Ammianus Marcellinus

Must be why he liked to yell

That's rather weird. Why did it matter it was in front of his daughter?

Or do you mean Cato's daughter in this case?

No They didnt have people Who were autists and stayed all day home and had the time to come up such a retarded concept that only autists who are completely alienated can think of

Cato by no means represented the majority Roman viewpoint on anything at that time though.

Public shows of affection were considered not good.

He is an example of what the Romans thought proper. The Romans did consider hypergamous males worse than trash and did use "he is promiscuous" as an accusation (true or not) against their enemies. Domitian was likely not promiscuous and was accused of promiscuity, for example.

That image really confuses me.

>Another embraces Cato's wife in front of Cato's daughter

Dammit that'd be comedy gold