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Actual roman epitaph for a dog

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Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]

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Both. Both are true.

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There's definitely some story mileage in a British dude with no cultural sensitivity whatsoever still wanting to return every artifact that Britain has ever stolen out of pure self-interest because one of those motherfuckers is Maximally Cursed and he can't tell which

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So I went to ancient Ithaca…

Odysseus in the Iliad: great. The only one in the entire army with half a brain cell.

Odysseus in the Odyssey: peak dumbass. Half a brain cell was forgotten in Troy. Points his house out on Google Maps to the monster trying to kill him. Disaster

#the odyssey #ancient greece #greece #classics memes #classics #tagamemnon #Odysseus #self reblog

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I’m back in the uk and have access to my tumblr again!

This is your warning to prepare for lots of pictures in the coming days from everywhere I visited in Greece, from sanctuaries to Homeric heroes at the tops of mountains, to Mycenaean tombs which may or may not have been open to the public (can you tell I went with a Homeric specialist… it’s over for y’all when I finally get approval to go to Alexandria)

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Something I think ppl who aren't used to it struggle with when it comes to ancient history is that frequently 'we do not and cannot know this' is the only truthful response a historian can give. People severely overestimate how much we actually know about Ancient Rome.

I remember talking to someone at a party once about the debate over Septimius Severus's ethnicity (whole other can of worms) and they asked if genetic testing of his remains was not a way to settle it and I was like oh. Oh okay you are under the impression we have the physical remains of Roman emperors from the second century AD alright then. (We. Do not.)

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Reblogging this to say that I have arrived in Delphi, but tumblr said I can’t make new posts so I will upload all the pics in two weeks when I’m back in the UK❤️

The Tholos of Delphi, Greece

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i love dropping my pen putting my glasses on my desk and rubbing my face like an exhausted divorced academic in the 1980s who is greying and sexily tousled and has been up for hours digging through the yellowed pages of old obscure treatises about etruscan pots

#me reading this after dropping my pen and putting my glasses on my desk to scroll through tumblr half way through my Etruscan arch reading

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Guys I am going to Greece for the first time this Friday (Delphi, Sparta, Athens, Cephalonia) and I am so fucking excited

also shoutout to the Dilettanti Society who are funding it

#tagamemnon #classics #greece #personal

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ANCIENT EGYPT BY TRAIN (2023) — 1.01 Alexandria Site Director Mahmoud Abd El Rahman explains the preservation of the mosaics in the Villa of the Birds, Kom El Deka, Alexandria.

#villa of the birds my beloved #1st century Alexandrian villas are my shit #and it’s only because I can’t get the funding for it that it has yet to become everyone else’s problem

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Alexander the Great’s general in India is said to have been surprised by such parrots talking like humans.

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Cameo of the Emperor Augustus. It used to be decorated with a golden laurel wreath.

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The house of Paquius Proculus, Pompeii.

Photo: Luigi Spina.

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we've done it again folks