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460 BCE attic kylix from the louvre showing Atalante.

HER OUTFIT!

#unrestrained summer fun

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I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

#v much so

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"unalive" should just mean the opposite of undead. if undead means a dead thing thats alive, unalive shuld mean an alive things thats dead. no i dont have any examples. ☝️yet

#doomed by the narrative

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i know we all love that mary ruefle poem about how the sirens in the odyssey were singing the odyssey but i think they were singing the iliad, i think they were singing an iliad in which the war makes sense and was worth it, an iliad in which odysseus is the hero, not achilles, an iliad in which a hero is simply a hero and not a mourner

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Felices Idus Martias!

Felices Idus Martias!

Happy Ides of March!

(Fons Imaginis.)

#ides of march

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I bring you… my silly little comics. Saw a tik tok this morning about British Museum recognizing emperor Elagabalus as a trans woman 🏳️‍⚧️, and I just had to draw this.

#i love this #we support women’s rights #but also women’s wrong

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As punishment for your crimes you are thrown into the Labyrinth to be a living sacrifice to the Minotaur that lives inside. However nobody seemed to put together that since he is half bull; the Minotaur is actually a vegetarian.

#ariadne #tagamemnon #lovely

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cast your votes!!

#I’m going to say fuck corinthian because she’s a pillow princess and honestly deserves it #and I’d be happy to marry either ionic or doric

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Antler engraving found in Lortet Cave in the Hautes-Pyrénées region of France. It was carved from a reindeer antler and shows a group of reindeer crossing a river or lake full of swimming salmon. Dating to the Magdalenian period, approximately 17,000-12,000 years ago.

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saw someone misspell "stochastic terror" as "socratic terror" so I'd like to clarify that stochastic terror is the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act that seems random but is not, while "socratic terror" is what every athenian felt when they went down to the agora in the 5th century and saw an old man with a beard approaching them

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Classicstober day 16: Circe🌿

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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

#time is a flat circle #that’s it

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"Cis is a made up word"

Yeah. By the Romans. Thousands of years ago. At the same time the word “trans” was. Because they’re both Latin, you see.

#you know wich word was invented much later? #straight

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it must be said the ancient greeks got a little funny with it

#Keep The Change You Filthy Macedonian

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minos was such a pussy. if my wife gave birth to an epic minotaur baby i wouldn't have locked him in a labyrinth. i would have taken him to the mcdonalds play place (athens) every day and let him eat as many stray mcnuggets (athenians) off the floor as he wanted. i love you hungry son

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I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains.  Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does.  Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be.  Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does.  This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.

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ennius was real for writing this actually. it's easy to make fun of it for being kind of goofy but i've never enjoyed reading a line of latin poetry in proper scansion as much as this.