A new meme shows men are way more into ancient history than we realized. Mike Duncan — host of the popular podcast ‘The History of Rome’ — explains why
The other thing is that I have a lot of women in my life and female fans, who themselves really love the Roman Empire and think about the Roman Empire. And so to have a lot of this be so thoroughly genderized — we all understand that if you were going to do a sample of who’s really into Roman history, it’s going to skew male.
Well, I think this is true of the demographics of the people who listen to my show, and the people who buy my books, is that it does tend to be more male-heavy. And I think a lot of it probably can come back to a Roman history becoming equivalent to military history, and military history is definitely something that is always going to be more of interest to men than women, just on a practical level. It’s a lot of stuff about battles, and armies, and generals.
Oh, yes. 100 percent. There’s a really strong tendency to associate yourself mentally with the senatorial aristocracy of Rome, which was this incredibly small population inside the Empire. I mean, you’re talking about a couple of dozens of families who are doing very, very well. Everybody else has an incredibly short lifespan. You’re dying of various diseases. There’s no health care. You’re doing subsistence agricultural labor.
I mean, I think it probably comes down to a bit of the representation matters thing. As men, we can always look past and see men who were poor, men who were middle-aged, men who were smart, men who were dumb, men who were emperors. Every available option is available to us if we’re doing historical fantasizing. And if you want to get into it, you probably were reading about those great people, because they’re the ones who left records. And there’s the ones that we know about.
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