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giantkillerjack · 2 years

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HUMAN SACRIFICE WAS NOT A PART OF THE ROMAN RELIGION OCTAVIAN WTF

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"I have been learning about Roman history in some form or another since I was literally a child and I--I cannot [sputters for a couple seconds]

Augustus! Octavian Octavius Gaius Caesar. Mister Caesar. Augustus. Mister Augustus... sacrificed 100 Roman citizens.

Romans!!! sacrificed!!! Sometime-- before the-- some time before the Battle of Actium, and I can't-- that's-- that's not a fucking thing! I've never heard of that ever happening before and the guy who made the video I was watching said that that was not a fucking thing that people did.

And I cannot believe that after like 20 years of learning about Rome, I'm still learning stuff about Octavius Caesar that makes me go, WHAT! WHAT THE FUCK?! WHAT THE FUCK OCTAVIAN?! Wha-- WHY?! OH MY GOD"

Image description: a video of the original poster, a chubby white transmasculine person in their 20s with short hair and glasses, filming himself while standing in his bathroom and speaking to the camera in a very animated way.

#original #overly sarcastic productions #is the name of the youtube channel i learned this on. they make good content!#roman history #human sacrifice #scopophobia #ancient rome #roman republic #roman empire #Augustus Caesar #octavian caesar #octavius caesar #the battle of actium is where octavius destroyed antony and cleopatra's army. which was shortly before he became a god king #like Rome is a brutal Empire but what makes this so wild is that this would have been PR suicide even in pre internet era days but #not if you are octavius caesar. the scariest bitch to ever live. again the violence is not surprising it is the fact that this was #NOT A RELIGION THAT INVOLVED HUMAN SACRIFICE OUTSIDE OF MYTHS SO IT WOULD BE LIKE IF KING HENRY VIII JUST #SACRIFICED 100 POLITICAL RIVALS TO GOD ONE DAY. LIKE SLAUGHTERED ON AN ALTAR #AND YOU ARE JUST HEARING ABOUT IT NOW AFTER LEARNING ENGLISH HISTORY YOUR WHOLE LIFE. LIKE WHAT. HOW.#this is so irrelevant to octavius' massive influence on history that it literally wasn't! even! a footnote! in any of the textbooks I read!#obsessed that a person could make so much history that MASS HUMAN SACRIFICE is not even mentioned 99% of the time. terrifying! fascinating!#transcript #image description

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