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"…we soon come to the morning star, ‘the white-winged forerunner of the sun' by Ion of Chios, who wrote a hymn to Opportunity, the 'youngest of the children of Zeus':

'Fearless of heart with the halcyons over the bloom of the wave, the spring's own bird that is purple as the sea',¹³ Alcman, of Lydian origin, sings in the 7th century."

- Freya Stark, Ionia: A Quest

#dark academia #Ionia #Greece #ancient greeks #ancient greek #ancient world #Ancient Greece #mythology

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seeing people post ‘weird girl unhinged sad girl books’ everywhere and its just. the bell jar. ottessa moshfegh. maybe gone girl.

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It is nauseatingly narcissistic to intentionally cripple your children so they can't get away from you. Should be possible to legally gatekeep parenting like some kind of test to take to make sure they aren't sociopaths like my mother.

The pain that is encountering the "every girl needs her mom" "everyone loves their mom" narrative in society when yours actively antagonized you because she couldn't control you or your reaction to the sexual abuse she tried to cover up.

The pain that is watching women in their 60s continue to be dedicated agents of the patriarchy at the expense of their life and the lives of other women around them.

I'm happy for those of you with decent mothers. Appreciate them.

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TIL that among expenses deducted from a Roman soldier’s pay was one for the corporate Christmas party Saturnalia feast

#Ancient Rome #history #tagammemnon

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Private theatricals in Jane Austen’s day - my guest post in Regina Jeffers’ lovely Regency blog - is out now! https://reginajeffers.blog/2024/04/17/private-theatricals-during-the-regency-a-guest-post-from-ann-hawthorne/

#writeblr #amwriting #writers of tumblr #writers on tumblr #writeblr community #regency #Jane Austen

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alison weir is a menace and her books have had a deleterious effect on the general public's understanding of tudor history (quoting a friend there), part 12323526:

ok, so, if you're like me, when you come across a quote from a biography that you don't recognise, you will often search the quote to see if it comes up in any others, or what is available of the bho archives by general search. as such, i found this:

"[Elizabeth] told Mrs Ashley that she [had] 'loved the Admiral too well' [...]"

except...what was in quotes showed up in nothing except weir's books, author's notes, and websites.

so. apparently. as per @theladyelizabeth ...this was, as is common with weir, a complete misquote/misattribution.

the primary source in question was thomas parry, and the quote is not that elizabeth loved thomas seymour 'too well' (or...at all), but this:

"[he] loved her but too well, and had so done a good while."

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   Fellows’ Garden Gate, Balliol College, Oxford University. (Oxford, England image pcgn7 flickr) I would love to visit Oxford, but I am afraid I would never ever leave.

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Oxford by tansybranscombe.

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I am… disturbed by the new acceptance of the heroes cheating in ‘spicy hot’ romance novels.

One FB poster said she didn’t want to read X author anymore because, in her contemporary arranged marriage book, the hero cheated on his arranged wife the heroine the next day after the wedding, and several commenters were like ‘well, what did you expect, ‘bad boy’ heroes don’t become good overnight’.

#reading #read #books #bookblr

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Why isn't it more talked about how there's canonically an archmaester who wrote a very, very big Book about women ruling in the aftermath of the Dance. It's a detail that rules so much. A guy literally talking about hundreds of widows ruling parts of Westeros after the war. Why not much talk about Johanna Lannister, born Westerling, Sharis Footly, Lady Tyrell, Samantha Tarly, Elenda Baratheon born Caron, Sabitha Frey, Alys Rivers in her own way...a tide of ruling girls because a bunch of guys weren't cool with a girl ruling & got themselves killed trying to stop it. That's some massive irony.

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Proof

Since I can’t afford an Oxford/Cambridge Classics second degree (…yet), I’m doing the next best thing by researching good note-taking techniques that actual students use, buying history books on Ancient Greece and Rome (Tony Spawforth, Mary Beard, etc), and writing handwritten notes on them in my notebooks.

Stickers of ancient statues to cheer myself up included.

DIY dark academia, I guess?

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Since I can’t afford an Oxford/Cambridge Classics second degree (…yet), I’m doing the next best thing by researching good note-taking techniques that actual students use, buying history books on Ancient Greece and Rome (Tony Spawforth, Mary Beard, etc), and writing handwritten notes on them in my notebooks.

Stickers of ancient statues to cheer myself up included.

DIY dark academia, I guess?

#dark academism #dark academia #Oxford #classics #tagammemnon #the secret history #history #ancient Greece #Ancient Rome

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Bilbo meme like. And, after all, why not. Why should I NOT handwrite my notes on non-fiction about Ancient Greece in a notebook and put pretty stickers on the margins. Who is going to be hurt. Who is going to stop me.

#ancient greeks #ancient greece #dark academism #dark academia

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Also, dark/light academia fans are severely neglecting Last of the Wine by Mary Renault. It’s literally centered on a tight-knit group of friends who are pupils of Socrates the inspiring mentor! And only 1 of these guys is straight!

#ancient greece #historical fiction #dark academia #dark academism #light academia

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cozy gay romance between a shy Greek youth and a brash (but secretly insecure) Roman student come to study philosophy in Athens

Much as I love scheming and political dramas, I’d love to see a Roman Empire-set novel that is not that (and also isn’t a crime novel). Like.

Dark academia set in the Library of Alexandria on its last legs.

Coming of age YA set during the reign of Nero.

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Much as I love scheming and political dramas, I’d love to see a Roman Empire-set novel that is not that (and also isn’t a crime novel). Like.

Dark academia set in the Library of Alexandria on its last legs.

Coming of age YA set during the reign of Nero.

#writeblr #amwriting #writers of tumblr #writers on tumblr #writeblr community #dark academia #writing community #writing

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inthe omegaverse roman republic clodius was caught being an alpha trying to impersonate an omega so he could be tribune of the omegas and also attend omega only religious rites