Small bookstores have an effect on me like that of the Lotus Eaters. I walk in saying “I’ll just browse for a few minutes” and walk out an hour later with a hardcover, two pens, and a sticker.
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maybe the best way to deal with impostor syndrome is actually to pivot to full-blown hubris
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literally do not understand why Hollywood keeps doing historically inaccurate Ancient Greece movies when the actual story is more entertaining and insane 10/10 times
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hey babe wanna go on a discus-throwing date? promise nothing will go wrong
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someday I'll remove the lotr reference from my working thesis title. definitely not today. but someday.
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latin prof calling Augustus “the boy” bc Cicero did once
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black figure crab hmmmmmm
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ptolemy ghostwrote this post
imagine if scotland refuses to give the body back
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anyone remember what they did to Marcus Crassus for his greed after he died? anyway--
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props to my friend who says studying classics made him a better person because I have just been getting progressively worse since the day I enrolled
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objectively the funniest thing I’ve ever seen was a tik tok called “fiction books about greek mythology” like tsoa and stuff but then the Iliad was also one they showed
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my greatest strengths are my heart and my capacity to love. also this big sword.
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girl help im feeling sympathy for paris prince of troy
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doing everything I can to make sure my archaeological footprint would absolutely fuck with archaeologists in the future
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i want to yassify Julius Caesar
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i have greek and latin exams today and ALL I can think about is how odysseus was Young when he left for the war
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