The past several weeks there’s been an internet meme going around about how often a woman’s boyfriend, or men in general, thinks about the Roman Empire. This segues well into a topic I was planning to blog about, which was a case of a gladiator committing suicide via an unsavory tool. The meme has peaked and is probably fizzled out by this point, but as usual it takes me a bit to get blogging these days. Here are my thoughts on the Roman Empire, in particular in relation to a peculiar and perhaps darkly humorous incident.
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