33 History Memes for Dark Academics Who are Finally Reading 'The Secret History'

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Dec 20, 2024 4:00 PM EST

I finally started reading 'The Secret History,' and holy moly, y'all…I finally understand what all of those TikTokers were going on about in 2020! If you've never heard of this book, it's about a group of Classics students at a small liberal arts University in Vermont who descend into an inescapable spiral of murder and betrayal. That description I wrote makes it sound like a super lame book that TikTokers would like, but I swear that us normies can also have fun with it. A big aspect of it is that these elite, rich, and intelligent students don't feel like they don't deserve to be punished for killing a man because he's a stupid townie and his life isn't as important. I'm sure that those of you who study ancient history for fun and enjoy scrolling through ancient history memes don't think your life is worth more than others, so have fun scrolling away! 

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    "The wifi password is on the back of the router." The back of the router:
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    Ancient Egypt 2500bc Finally, another pyramid that shows my greatness. Siberia 2500bc TRÖÖÖÖÖÖÖT Well said Ivan Mammothovich
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    People when I tell them the first civilization in the Americas weren't the Olmecs, but the Caral-Supe الات
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    The Oracle of Delphi Croesus If Croesus goes to war he will destroy a great empire. The Oracle of Delphi So I'm conquering the Persians, right? Croesus I'm conquering the Persians, right??
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    THE FIRST PERSON TO REDISCOVER GREEK ANTIQUITY MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE ST
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    Diogenes Aristotle Plato Socrates Pythagoras
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    Alexander the Great: Dies His generals: ITALY OH NO! Caucas Sa CRET OH NO! SPARTA MediteTIONAR Granicus ADCYTH Gordion DS333 Side ARMENIA CAP Zadracarta Hecatompylos MEDIA stana OH NO! CYPRUS The Empire of Alexander the Great and his conquest course from Greece to India to Babylon (334-323 B.C.) ANYWAY ANYWAY Susa BABYLONIA ARABIA Caspian ack Sea sea Mediterranean ANYWAY ANYWAY ANYWAY Alex Eschate 325 Ales in the Himalaya Kabed Angaeum Nicar Bocephala BACTRIA Alexandria Alex Alesandria In Aria P
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    "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined" CLASSICAL ART MEMES facebook.com/classicalartmemes KING PYRRHUS OF EPIRUS SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT (
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    Chinese people during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history I used to be in the Resistance, but I got so good at it that I started resisting them.
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    I AM GATHERING AN ARMY TO COUNTER DONG ZHUO AND YUAN SHAO THE SAVE THE HAN, RIGHT? LORD MENGDE, TO SAVE THE HAN, RIGHT?
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    When you're at the family reunion and nobody wants to talk about the Gallic Wars 00
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    THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN THE SEA PEOPLES ATTACKED
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    Bronze Age mindset: Odysseus was offended by the insinuation that he was a merchant, not that he was a city sacking pirate.
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    - Screw Zodiac signs — what's your favourite late Bronze Age kingdom? Thebes Mycenae Troy Ephesos Hattusa Hittite Empire Mycenaeans Knossos Pi-Ramesses Memphis Ugarit Tyre Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East c. 13th century BCE Hanigalbat Carchemish Megiddo Egyptian New Kingdom A Ancient History Encyclopedia www.ancient.eu Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Thebes Assyria. Nineveh Terqas Ashur Babylon O Kassite Babylonia Uruk- Susa Elam Anshan O Dilmun
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    Tin during the Bronze Age: Tin now: I will help you forge the most powerful weapons known to man bukkit :( MemeZila.com
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    Late Bronze Age metalsmiths when their friends ask what that weird new metal they're using is called: imgflip.com Iron
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    *Famine Starts* Sea People: Bonjour
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    WHO WOULD WIN? dozens of organized and advanced Late Bronze Age empires and cultures around the Mediterranean some angry, floaty bois
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    Egyptians Hittites Some people on boats with weird hats
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    Marvel: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover in history Me: Pylos Troy lolcos Sardis Invasions/Migrations Dorians Libyans Shardana (to Sardinia?) 'Sea Peoples' Thracians Mycenae Knossos Hattusa 1115 BC Ninevah Carchemish Tarsus Harran Assur Alalakh Aleppo Ugarit Enkomi Qadesh Paphos Kition Byblos Tyre Hazor Sippar Babylon Nippur 1175 BC 1178 BC Askelon 1208 BC Sais Tanis Memphis State victory against invaders (with date) Cities that were sacked Cities that survived the collapse Mycenaean
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    ingofficeandfrost Sea peoples Late Bronze age civilizations
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    *someone shares a Sea Peoples meme* Me: and widespread drought and famine, great power conflicts, broken international trade, class strife, and earthquakes, may have forced populations to migrate - so invasions are both a symptom of and cause to the perfect storm that ended empires A
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    Late Bronze Age invaders BRONZE AGE SCRIBES Dorians POPULAR HISTORY WRITERS Thracians Lukka Karkiya Peleset Shekelesh Sherden Weshesh Sea Peoples Ekwesh Denyen Tjeker Libyans Semitic peoples Kaskians Chaldeas
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    Maybe the real Sea People 16 are the friends we made along the way
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    Written History: *exists again* The Sea People:
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    imgflip.com >"history is written by the victors" >sea-peoples arrive > causes the collapse of a the bronze age >refuses to write anything >leaves
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    THE BRONZE AGE! IT COLLAPSED! لح HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? THAT IS A VERY GOOD QUESTION. SAYS HERE THE SEA PEOPLE DID THIS. THAT JUST RAISES FURTHER QUESTIONS!
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    Imgflip.com SEA PEOPLE WHERE DID YOU COME FROM? WHERE DID YOU GO? COTTON-EYE JOE
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    "THE SEA PEOPLES CAUSED THE LATE BRONZE AGE COLLAPSE" FAMINE, DROUGHT, AND A HIGHLY INTERDEPENDENT TRADE NETWORK imglip.com
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    Babylon & Assyria It took me 50 years to rebuild my empire after the Bronze Age Collapse! Greece You didn't forget how to write? Egypt You rebuilt your empire? Our writings indicate we never fully recovered Arzawa Hittites Minoans Punt Ugarit Non-Peleset m Sea Peoples Cypriots You guys survived the bronze age collapse?
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    Greek Dark Ages Dorian invasion Mycenaean Greeks This meme is written in Linear B
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    ПРОКУРАТУРА ABTOHOLHOY PECTIVESTI KPMM The Dark Ages caused by the Bronze Age collpase The Dark Ages caused by the -Rome's fall
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    ANY BAD EVENT IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE? SEA PEOPLES. imgflip.com H HD HISTORY.COM
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