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Could you imagine being Greek and meeting a Christian in, like, 80 AD? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"So yeah the son of God was on earth, but you just missed him. He was crucified about 50 years ago. Your dad might've met him."

And then Mount Vesuvius fucking explodes

Edit: I meant Roman, I wrote this late at night.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Why Greek specifically and not Roman?

Also Caesar and Cicero and some of the fall of the Republic all time greats were all crowded around this time period too. It was like MCU, but less lame

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

It was like MCU, but less lame

No matter how cringe capeshit is it will never be as cringe as the Romans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

IIRC people in that part of the Roman empire commonly spoke Greek because of Alexander the Great's conquest of the area centuries earlier. So you'd be more likely to run into someone bilingual in Aramaic and Greek than you would Aramaic and Latin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I fucked up. It was late and my wires got crossed.