Why Men Are Obsessed with the Roman Empire

Eddie Ejjbair
3 min readFeb 27, 2024

Late last year, a meme emerged (below) about how much men tend to think about the Roman empire. Apparently, it’s quite a lot — which begs the question, why?

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Eddie Ejjbair

‘Gradually it’s become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: a personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir’