https://ancientrome.org/tags/asterix/ Recent content in Asterix on Ancient Rome Hugo en-us Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/asterix-the-roman-empire-as-comedy/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/asterix-the-roman-empire-as-comedy/ <p>René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo began publishing Asterix in the French magazine Pilote in 1959, and the series has been introducing children to Roman geography, imperial bureaucracy, and the gap between official rhetoric and actual practice ever since. Over thirty-nine albums, several animated films, and four live-action feature films, Asterix has reached an audience that no academic history of Rome has approached, and it has done so by taking the Roman Empire seriously enough to understand what is actually funny about it.</p>