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Does anyone know if there’s an equivalent to the Theoi website but for Norse mythology?

I wanted to do some very light research but I’m very very unfamiliar with Norse mythology and don’t really know where to start.

#studyblr #norse paganism #norse mythology #norse gods #mythology

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Big shoutout to The Song of Achilles for letting me be half decent in the CAC Latin Sight Translation Competition today!

#didn’t even like the book so much #but knowing about Achilles before the Trojan war helped a lot lol

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On this beautiful day, I am reminded of last semester when I asked my classmate with it was possible to kill someone already dead… because I sure wanted to stab Caesar myself after translating his work.

#ides of march #julius caesar

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2007

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Queen Puabi's Headdress, from the Royal Tombs of Ur, 2600-2400 BC

from The Penn Museum

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I need to vent for a minute.

I’ve never ever had a teacher so out of touch with her student as my current Latin teacher. It is insane how she seems to not even care!

The first test was near impossible. She took our feedback and said she would try to adapt the next one/give us more ressources. Next one is a little easier, yet there is some grammar/phrasing that are very specific to the author that she just didn’t bother explain. She even said that she wouldn’t have gotten it!! And now comes the midterms where she cuts half of the text and doesn’t bother to make sure it still makes enough sense for us to translate.

Oh yeah, and the exams are purely translation. If you understand all of the grammar but can’t remember what a word means, you’re fucked.

And we barely do any grammar in class. So for all I know, I’m translating stuff correctly by pure luck using the context.

#vent post #latin #ancient languages #the single tear running down my cheek while writing this is iconic #worse part is that I had her last semester and left a long a detailed review yet she seems to not have taken any of it into account

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Any good podcast recommendation on Ancient Greek history?

Starting from the very beginning up until I don’t really care when.

I found out that listening to podcasts helps a lot when I study and I retain more info than when I’m just reading (:

#classical studies #classics #studyblr #ancient rome #university #ancient greek #help #history #ancient greece

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February spread!!

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to really work on my journal, but I’m super proud of this one.

I’ve had lots of ideas on how to make my journal more fun and feel less pressure to write in it, so stay tuned for more.

#bujo #bullet journal #february #bujo February #mood tracker #habit tracker #February spread

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“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.” ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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Sylvia Plath // D. Antoinette Foy

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Follow up on this since I just took the final for this class, I think I fucking nailed it!

It was the type of exam where the answers just write themselves naturally. The only thing that was long was actually writing them.

Thanks again for the podcast recommendation, it helped a lot (:

I basically have to teach myself my History of Rome class and have no one to ask my dumb questions to, so it's going to be you!

Did Hannibal really cross the Alps with elephants? Like aren't the Alps cold and like elephants are like from Africa, I'm just confused about how they survived.

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@academia-lucifer

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So in my Ancient Greek class, we are just about to start translating Lucian of Samosata and I wanted to know if, objectively, it was difficult. Our teacher is pretty evasive when we ask her the question.

I also own Aratus’ Phenomena and while flipping through the pages, I was surprised by how much I could understand right away. Do you think Aratus is easier to translate than Lucian?

#classics #classical studies #Ancient Greek #Lucian #Aratus #university #greek literature #literature

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I basically have to teach myself my History of Rome class and have no one to ask my dumb questions to, so it's going to be you!

Did Hannibal really cross the Alps with elephants? Like aren't the Alps cold and like elephants are like from Africa, I'm just confused about how they survived.

#rome #ancient rome #history #classical studies #classic history #I swear this is the worse teacher I've ever had and I have a minor in physics! #We missed an hour and a half of class and somehow we have 3 hours of videos to watch to make up for that #but don't worry i know how elections work in Switzerland #and that this semester schedule was made by AI

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I know it’s already the middle of October but, hey, better late than never!

At first I wanted to make it a cryptids theme but I realise it was too ambitious with midterms coming up. I settled for a simple automnal theme but it will have its own quirks once it’s filled up (:

#bujo #bullet journal #personal #mood tracker #bujoblr #calendar #bujo layout #bujocommunity #bujoinspiration #october #october bujo