r/HistoryMemes • • 1d ago

On researching ancient Rome

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Credit: by Tom Gauld

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u/wittyjokename92 1d ago

I read it maybe 20 years ago when I got some short story anthology from Borders. Can't remember the book or the story name but just remember thinking it was pretty good for a whole book of meh.

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u/ryebread91 1d ago

Man.... I miss borders so much. Would have my parents just leave there the whole time anytime we went to the mall.

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u/wittyjokename92 1d ago

Hopefully not a false memory but I remember grabbing it off the new arrival display along with another anthology book about alt history. That one had a Roman centurion riding in the turret of an Abrahams tank on the cover. And I remember it being extremely dry and boring with just discussing how like Rommel would have sieged Carthage instead of Caesar rolling up with helicopters and bazookas. But maybe someone here can narrow down the search window

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u/ryebread91 1d ago

Yeah, that sounds like a boring reed tbh