At least 2-3 times a day, I love their technology, the aqueducts the roads and the stone work. I love to think about post empire when the Germans Gauls and British were living around their ruins unable to build structures like they could. I think about the citizens and how similar their lives are to ours then how drastically it changed post empire. I think about how awful it must have been to be a slave in that time.

I got hooked on rome from Dan carlins hard core history series on the fall of the republic and he did another one on Cesar in Gaul.

Weekly

I find that I think about the Byzantine Empire more often than the Roman Empire

I don’t know where this trend came from. I haven’t thought about the Roman Empire since the last Historia Civilis video came out.

Whenever I see a post or comment about it online

All the time! I studied Latin and Classical History for years so it’s a deep interest of mine. I often reminisce about the trip I took to Italy with my Latin class to visit Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Everyday, memento mori, remember thou art mortal.

Barely at all before this whole “How often do you think a out the Roman Empire” thing popped up

But there is some context that I more often think about that is related.

First: You are now aware of the position of your togue in your mouth.

Diagonies is one that comes up at least once every couple weeks at work, this usually leads to Rome.

Second: You are now manually breathing.

Basically ancient philosophers is a topic that comes up a lot with some of my friends, so Rome comes up in relation to it.

Third: Don’t think of a pink elephant

But in general I’d say before this whole thing it was basically at most once a month.

I did not know it was a trend or whatever until reading all the comments. But I probably think about the Roman empire most days.

Often because of how much I read. Me and a friend were debating the other day over whether the European Union is simply a Neo-Roman-Empire or if it’s its own separate thing. She argues if the Romans never fell, they would’ve reformed into the European Union anyways because their style of governing is simply today’s style.

Pretty often. One of my main research interests is the Gospel of Thomas which ends up extremely tied to events around the Roman empire.

Just a day or two ago I was looking at when Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura was popularly being read and cited given the apparent link between those two documents.

I frequently think about the late phase of decadence and dysfunction, followed by collapse. I figure the American empire is treading a similar path, just on a faster timeline.

Probably a few times a week average, and I’m not much into history but into the aesthetics and cultural legacy. After all… Most RPGs reference it somehow, so it’s not that hard to find triggers for thought.

5 times total in the past 2 years…and the latest 3 times were because of posts like this in the past month…so basically, almost never.

Im a little shocked and in a bit of disbelief that some people think about it daily or even weekly.

Not often. I imagine they are just like us, but much more brutal. I am as intrigued by the earlier civilization on the other side of the world. e.g. the approach to war stratrgy/methodology by Sun Tzu to train concubines to march like soldiers. I wonder what’s the acceptable way of doing it today.