Memes of antiquity

#AllQuestionsABoutArt Memes of Antiquity

Imagine: instead of Telegram - clay tablet , instead of stories - drawing on a vase , and instead of comments - writing on the wall .

The ancient Greeks and Romans made fun of gods, heroes, and themselves: they depicted absurd scenes from legends and myths, created caustic captions, and left real "comments" on the walls of Pompeii—from declarations of love to "Here was..."

So memes appeared long before the internet. Ancient authors simply had one drawback: they couldn't include a laughing face.