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There's A Reason Why Your Boyfriend Or Husband Is Obsessed With The Roman Empire

We asked scholars what’s behind the viral TikTok trend.

WestNet News wire Source: HuffPost
There's A Reason Why Your Boyfriend Or Husband Is Obsessed With The Roman Empire
We asked some professors who specialize in ancient cultures why everyone's boyfriend and husband seems to be thinking of Rome.
Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty Images
We asked some professors who specialize in ancient cultures why everyone's boyfriend and husband seems to be thinking of Rome.

Like many women last week, Kait Grange was shocked ― nay, flabbergasted! ― to learn how often her husband thinks about the Roman Empire.

Since last week, women have been recording conversations with their husbands or boyfriends on TikTok in which they ask them, point blank, how often they think about the Roman Empire. Almost unanimously, the answer is a lot.

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