the thinks
of rome.
the comitia were the assemblies where the roman people voted. this is ours, and it asks a single question: have you thought about the roman empire today? one vote a day. the census of our collective imperial thought.
6240
76%
a.d. xvi kal. avgvstas · anno mmxxvi
⁕ comitia diurna · today’s vote ⁕
have you thought about the empire today?
⁕ calendarivm · the tablet of the month ⁕
ivlivs
each day is a roman arch. its interior fills with cinnabar in proportion to the part of the senate that declared it thought about rome. the hollow stone arches have not been voted yet.
1 71%
2 64%
3 62%
4 83%
5 88%
6 79%
7 74%
8 69%
9 61%
10 58%
11 81%
12 90%
13 77%
14 72%
15 86%
16 67%
17 63%
18 84%
19 91%
20 78%
21 88%
22 ·
23 ·
24 ·
25 ·
26 ·
27 ·
28 ·
29 ·
30 ·
31 ·
⁕ causae · why we think of rome ⁕
the of the month.
i 18%
roman law
a legal heritage that still governs us
ii 16%
a road or an aqueduct
the engineering still standing
iii 15%
a film or a series
gladiator, almost always gladiator
iv 13%
a meme
the roman empire of the feed
v 11%
a latin quote
alea iacta est, and the like
vi 10%
current politics
bread, circuses and news cycles
vii 9%
roman concrete
that outlasts ours
viii 8%
something else
the mind wanders to rome on its own
⁕ connexio ⁕
fasti measures the . comitia, the present.
fasti tells what happened in rome on a day like today. comitia tells how much we thought about rome today. one looks back; the other, the reflection rome still casts on us.
i. every day
one question, one vote. the minimal ritual of the house.
ii. every vote
feeds the census: how much, and what reminded you.
iii. every trigger
links to the encyclopædia entry that explains it.