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villa of livia's garden room fresco, from palazzo massimo

known as ad gallinas albas (of the white hen) because of pliny the elder's tale in his naturalis historia, recounting the myth of livia, newly bethroted to octavian augustus, having a white hen holding a laurel branch in its beak dropped into her lap by an eagle, interpreted as an omen of good fortune.

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oh hey um we kinda damnatio memoriae-ed your boyfriend. yeah we chiselled his name off all the inscriptions and everything. he’s ███ ██ ████ ██████ now. sorry.

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Aristocratic Roman women, from a mural at Pompeii

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defend my thesis? like with a sword?

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No song nor poetry can convey tragedy like a cat who wants through a door

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 Bacchus - Study of a Male Face with mustache and beard. Greco-Latin style   Gédéon François Reverdin French 1722-1828. lithograph.    http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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she has two degrees in classics and still can’t spell peloponnesian on the first try (I’m she)

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the feminine urge to be a first declension noun

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babygirl your manuscript tradition is so […]

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atreus house curse but it's just every undiagnosed issue you've inherited from your parents

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i love you zeugma i love you tmesis i love you chiasmus i love you synchysis i love you litotes i love you metonymy i love you tricolon crescens i love you polysyndeton i love you anaphora

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what the fuck is a “passport”?? if someone needs proof of your identity just show them the scar you got in a wild boar hunt as a youth

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between odysseus carving his marital bed from a tree trunk and penelope weaving and un-weaving a funeral shroud to stave off her suitors, i think what homer is telling us is that the foundation of a good relationship is arts and crafts

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it has been 0 days since our last ancient poetry incident

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i can't vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. "oh i'd never do that i would have remembered my father's warning and been fine". do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn't want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you're too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you'd be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.

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Does anyone have a commentary on Fasti book 5 that they could send me scans/pics of? I only need notes on ~30 lines (5.451-480). I’m prepping a Halloween lesson on the Lemuria for my students!

Thanks in advance!!

xoxo icb

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