Salvete Omnes!Found this on a Facebook group of the same name and thought I should share.
You know you love ancient history a little too much when..
1) You can't wait until your 30th birthday, because then you get to enter the Senate.
2) You insult your siblings in Latin, and get away with it, because your parents have no idea what you said.
3) You know more about forum gossip than what's happening with celebrities today.
4) You made togas and/or greaves for your Barbies/GI Joes.
5) You say you're a republican.....and deliniate between boni and optimates.
6) You know who the boni and the optimates were.
7) You threaten to deny your enemies fire and water within 100 miles, and to throw them off the Tarpeian rock.
You think a toga is dead spammy.
9) You got excited as a child when you heard the Senate was debating on CSPANN, and were depressed when you didn't see the conscript fathers.
10) You can and do have an informed discussion on whether Caesar killed the republic, or whether Sulla and Marius set a precedent for him.
11) You can't resist pointing out, whenever democracy crops up in conversation (assuming you haven't initiated it) that Athens was a better example than modern societies.
12) You think calling someone an oligarch is a deadly insult.
13)You think that litigation is the answer to most problems, including ridding the world of troublesome politicians.
14) You can't wait till your 18th birthday, because you get the right to mouth off in public settings.
15) Mention of the Spartans is bound to provoke a negative reaction. Anyone who praises them is clearly an enemy of democracy. TRAITORS!
16) You know more about the infrastructures of ancient democracies than about the political system of your own country today.
17) You laugh at topical jokes in Aristophanes, especially ones about Cleon.
18) You dressed up like a Legionnaire for consecutive Halloweens. Your parents may or may not have claimed you were adopted when taking you around the neighborhood.
19) You find yourself identifying with the Greeks in to the point where you say things like "when we beat the Persians at Marathon" or "that damned Alexander".
20) You have the urge to date all materials as B.C.E.....if only **sigh**
21) You correct your high school teacher when she claims Octavian was the first emperor. You then digress into how Octavian and Augustus were the same person. People stare at you weirdly while you do so.
22) Your "To Do" list includes the item "take out those pesky Parthians - soon!" and yet it never gets done.
33) You can actually pronounce the names "Gaius Julius Caesar" and "Pompeius Magnus" correctly *and* are able to give a recap of why they turned from friends to enemies.
34) When in the voting booth, you write in the name Gracchi. You then complain because you think your tribe should have voted before all the other people standing in line.
35) You feel the need to conquer new lands, merely to add another descriptor to your name. Africanus, anyone?
36) You compare your significant other to one of your ancient heroes, and find them lacking.
37) Paul Cartledge is your GOD.
38) When you say "It's all Greek to me" it means you completely understand something.
39) You drop latin phrases into essays, casual conversations...and drunken texts/phone calls.
and finally......
You would tap any of the following men:
Sulla, Marius, Cato, Cicero, Scaurus, Pompey, Caesar, Titus Labenius, Marc Antony, Octavian/Augustus, Brutus, Alexander the Great, Phillip, Darius, Xerxes, Ptolemy, Crassus, Hannibal, Hamilcar, Hadsdrubal, Pliny, Plutarch....
Or Women:
Cleopatra, Fulvia, Aurelia, Arsinoe, Barsine, Roxanna, Livia Drusilla...