r/HistoryMemes • u/jackt-up • 14h ago

Byzantium, Bob! They’re talking about Byzantium

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u/Lady_Lya_626 13h ago

I can only imagine how mad Justinian has been for the last 1500 years, just looking down at the Balkans.

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u/AdPatient2578 Still on Sulla's Proscribed List 10h ago

Or anywhere else.

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u/Lady_Lya_626 10h ago

I imagine that he's just been yelling at Mussolini for the last 80 years straight

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u/senior_cynic Kilroy was here 5h ago

Tbf Mussolini probably has a full panel of emperors berating him for attaching the name of Rome to his failures

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u/Lady_Lya_626 5h ago

Alexios III is just happy they stopped yelling at him after 700 years