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Because I suppose we all need somewhere to squee.

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Same! Especially as most of the classicists I know aren't into the same things as me, then ta daa! Millions of them all in one place with the same interests! (exaggeration, but meh *shrugs*)

I went to the Ashmolean for the first time this summer and had a bit of a squee at the Prima Porta Augustus in the cast gallery and kinda freaked out my grandad by asking him to take a photo of me with it...

Nero's my absolute favourite because he's just amazing, but I love Caligula too (if I ever have a son I'm determined to call him Gaius after him). I also have a soft spot for Hadrian because of his relationship with Antinous <3 How about you?

I specialised in the Julio-Claudians, so naturally like them best. I haven't focussed much on the ones that came after the Flavians so don't know the later ones that well

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I know! So many people with a interest in the early Roman empire, it's actually brilliant. :DD

I can relate. When my Classics class got to take a trip to Greece I was basically hovering around all week on a Classics high and freaking out my friends... Not that I really cared. I got to go to the Parthenon! And walk around the ruins of Olympia! And go over what was (technically) the Isthmus! Reason for any sane person to hover. ^^

I identify with Claudius to a slightly odd amount, since he was bullied by so many people and never really expected to become emperor, but Hadrian is also one of my favourites (I want a Horrible Histories sketch about him because that'd be AMAZING... Or even just his wife, having it off with his historian while he was away. <<) And a fair few others, including Nero and Caligula and Commodus and Domitian and Elagabalus, who I don't like as such but am absolutely fascinated by. They all led such interesting lives that you can't really help but be in awe of them! (Even if they did horrible, horrible things.)

I'm also really, really fond of the imperial women - the empresses and daughters and even the cousins. I may fangirl Livia a little too much, though she was badass, and Agrippina the Younger killed my favourite emperor but still fascinates me (and maybe makes me admire her a bit too, yes) because she was so cunning and so intelligent and actually incredibly brave in her death.

Oh, same! My course, at least for the past year or so, focused mainly on the Julio-Claudians and so I know a lot more about them than the ones that came afterwards. (I'm fully determined to read up, though, because for every slightly dull one there seem to be five ones who led absolutely brilliant lives.)

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It really is!! :D

om you're so lucky! I went to Rhodes when I was 7 but that's the only time I've been to Greece. I'd love to go and travel through Greece and see the sites. I've been to Rome twice (once with college, once with uni) and got teased as I took notes all the time - but I wanted to know and remember as much as I could! Everyone was desperate for my notes once we'd got home, haha.

Oh, Claudius is amazing. He ended up as such an awesome emperor despite everything everyone held against him. And totally agree, a HH sketch about Hadrian would be awesome! I'm fascinated with Elagabalus too, especially since I know a couple of people who are trans and are genderqueer as it brings him into a whole new level of understanding in my mind.

Nero's horrible things he did are part of the reason I adore him...I wouldn't change him for the world. He's a dispicable character but so amazing at the same time.

Livia is amazing, as is Agrippina the younger! I've always adored them in an awestruck kind of way combined with a 'nooo!' kind of way... you know what I mean, obviously!

I did 2 years of Roman History at AS and A Level, the first year being Roman Britain and the second the Julio Claudian Emperors - I was so much better at the emperors than Roman Britain. Then when I went to uni I did Ancient History and Archaeology and basically specialised down into the early Roman Empire and late Iron Age Britain/Europe (there weren't enough modules offered for me to solely concentrate on the Romans, boo). I adore them so much, and I'm one of the only people I know who has read Suetonius and Tacitus for fun...but Suetonius especially is so entertaining!

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oh, and regarding Hadrian, if you're in the UK did you go see the Hadrian exhibit at the British Museum about 4 years ago? It was amazing! I went on my own and had such a fantastic time looking at everything, and it's made me desperate to go to the Louvre to see the massive bust of Antinous again.