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[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

One of the funniest things here is that unlike heavily mythologized figures like Gilgamesh or various biblical leaders Rome's legendary founder isn't even believed to have existed at all. Like they didn't just make up stories about some old king, he was just invented and named after the city relatively late in its existence. It'd be like if America's civic cult developed to the point that "Uncle Sam" was written into the historical record as a literal demigod who built Jamestown by himself and led a bloody crusade across the continent before writing the constitution himself.

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