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[uberreiniger]

Somebody posted this link over at wtf_history and I've been laughing ever since.

http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm

It's a list of graffiti found on the walls of the ancient cities of Pompei and Herculaneum. It runs the gamut from "So-and-so was here" and "[boy] loves [girl]" to comments on local businesses, to boastings of sexual prowess, to stern adminitions not to perform cunnilingus against the city wall or defecate in public. In other words, everything you'd expect from modern graffiti.

Some gems include:

The one who buggers a fire burns his penis

Which is ironic because as we all know, in Pompeii fire buggers YOU.

and...

Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

Well... he certainly told them now didn't he?

Comments

[germsama.livejournal.com]

"Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!"

lolololololol!

[ravenbrenna.livejournal.com]

This makes me think of a handout my ancient history teacher gave us in highschool. It was a translation of some manuscript or journal or something from Egypt talking about how a father had a teenaged son who would not do what he was told and was basically acting like a teenager.

This link really just proves that no matter how much the culture and the times change people are just always the same.

I've always found that sort of stuff to be very interesting.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I know. It fascinates me to no end.

[ravenbrenna.livejournal.com]

Me too.

I used to want to make a career out of ancient history. But yeah...I decided against it. I just want to learn this stuff on the side.

[sidhe-etain.livejournal.com]

I got about halfway through before I had to stop since I'm at work and was chuckling incessantly. Great stuff.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

If you like that, you should read Suetonius' Twelve Caesars. Wild Hare Grove is doing it for book study. It's a biography of the first twelve Caesars, largely consisting of the various rumors, scandals, and gossip about each. I am not very far into it yet, but have so far learned some rude songs that soldiers sang about Julius Caesar, and that he was involved in enough extramarital affairs as to totally annoy the Senators, one of whom referred to him on the Senate floor as "every woman's man, and every man's woman". I'll be excited to get to the chapter on Caligula, later.

[fadedsecret.livejournal.com]

Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT IS THE BEST LINE EVER!!!!!

[anirishspitfire.livejournal.com]

Priceless. XD

At least some of them were sweet too, I loved:

"If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girl friend"! ^_^

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Their graffiti ran the gamut from beautiful to vulgar. They weren't very different from us at all.