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The original was posted on /r/redrising by /u/uncrazimatic on 2023-08-09 19:05:46.

With so many names, places, and concepts eliciting the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, I was waiting for Pierce to make a clear unambiguous reference to the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire.

It finally came with Diomedes (or was it Helios) calling Ilium ”our Constantinople, our Rome” when he heard news that it was under attack by Fa

I say unambiguous because Thessalonica already has association with the early Roman Empire due to its import in the Bible’s New Testament