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#lingua latina #latin #latin memes

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i know i talk a lot about the relationship between humans and animals in ancient rome and i’m constantly very emotional about it but i NEED you all to look at this part of a mosaic of a race horse named polidoxus that says “whether you win or not, we love you, polidoxus”

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you know he had to do it to em

(red/black figure ancient greek pottery version)

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just misread ‘can’t stand minions’ as ‘can’t stand minoans’ and spent 5 minutes pondering how much of a grudge you could really have against the population of bronze age crete

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This is so funny keodkrkejeheb

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An old school edition of Ovid with some interesting additions.

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Made some memes to appease my Classics 40 TA

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My second try at making panis quadratus! Still getting the hang of shaping it, and had to substitute some herbs, but it tasted wonderful just the same.

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every time i see someone mention hannibal on here i assume theyre going to be talking about hannibal barca, the carthaginian general from the 2nd punic war. i have never once been correct about this but that will not stop me

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Horace (starting a poem): The beginning warmth of spring, so lovely, earth released at last from winter’s white hoarfrost, the breezes so pleasant and the young goats playing in the grass…

Horace (ending a poem): you’re gonna die really fucking soon you know that? any day now. in the grand scheme of things. so drink up that wine while you can bc when you’re in HELL you won’t BE ABLE TO.

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Latin for “Happy Birthday America”! Reblog if you want to wish America a happy birthday too!!

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“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”

— Hypatia of Alexandria

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really gotta give credit to hypatia because, aside from being a super awesome female philosopher and mathematician in the ancient world, one time a dude would NOT stop harassing her to go out with him so she threw her menstrual rags at him

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This is an ancient Roman amulet for luck. Yes those are flying penises.

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Studied on the train today☕️🌻

#studyblr #lingua latina #study latin #latin studyblr #grammar study #studyspiration #study motivation

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let’s talk about CATULLAN ELISIONS though

vivamus, mea Lesbia-atque-amemus

surely, when you say it like that, the ‘atque’ gets swallowed, so the line is nothing but living, loving and Lesbia; so that Lesbia and love are inseparable.

nox est perpetua-una dormienda

I just love the way that turns into perpetuuuuna; it sounds so cute and stresses that it’s a truly endless sleep.

I can never get enough of how clever and subtle Catullus is, and just how much there is to discover in what seems like such simple and heartfelt poetry.  Not to mention how beautiful spoken Latin is; I love how it looks so stern written down, and in the mouth it turns into something liquid and musical and sparkling and clearly the ancestor of Italian.

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I just love the myth of Persephone, i mean the real, original version of it, because it’s not like she got kidnapped, no, this bitch was la-de-da-ing in a meadow and she just happened to find an entrance to the Underworld and she was like “Imma check this out”. And she just wanders into the Underworld and discovers that hey this place ain’t too bad.

Meanwhile Hades is in the background “????? UM??? PRETTY GIRL??? WHY ARE YOU HERE?????? YOU AREN’T DEAD???” 

And Persephone (who was originally called Kore just a little fyi) just looked at him and said “I like it here. I’m staying.”

And Hades kinda just went with it, until Demeter started throwing the temper tantrum of the millenium upstairs and Zeus had to intervene because this shit was getting out of hand and its actually his job to be admistrator of justice. Which considering the shit he gets up to is kinda histerical but that’s another story there. 

And basically Persephone wasn’t a prisoner or kidnap victim at all she just really loved the Underworld and her (eventual) husband, and the Greeks feared her arguably more than her husband because Hades could be reasoned with but Persephone was the one laying the smack down on sinners, and really, who wouldn’t be at least a little scared of someone who’s name means something along the lines of “the destroyer”

Basically, Persephone is amazing and everbody needs to get on her level