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Apulian rhytons in the shape of animal heads (340ish, BCE)

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hot take but people pitching novels as “queer anti-colonial retelling of [XYZ classic story/myth]” is just as bad as “feminist retelling of Greek myth” and nothing makes me want to run in the other direction more

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friends, romans, cuntrymen, lend me your holes

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I love subjects and topics

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Please do not untie him, he is experiencing the sirens

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Cicero wrote such long fucking sentences I'm not sure if I dislike translating him or Catullus more

#on the bright side - behold my excel translating setup #I feel like some kind of economics major (derogatory) #I miss drawing arrows on the paper. but this is so much more convenient for changing stuff around #alas #cicero #catullus #latin #learning latin #learning languages #studyblr #classical studies

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Virginia Woolf calling me out

#mid read commentary #booklr #bookblr #virginia woolf #orlando

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dreamt i bought a tiny cabin with nothing in it but a reading nook and bookshelves

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It's goddamn catullus again

#classical studies #mid read commentary #catullus #orlando #virginia woolf

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It's exam season

#studyblr #student life #university

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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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Book reccomendations in the academic spirit

#book reccs #book reccomendations #book reccomendation #fantasy #historical fiction #booklr #bookblr #jonathan strange & mr norrell #jonathan strange and mr norrell #jsmn #js&mn #jsamn #susanna clarke #babel #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #babel or the necessity of violence #r f kuang #rf kuang #pablo de santis #vita nostra #marina dyachenko #Sergey dyachenko #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt

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In my Hector of troy era

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Google how do I study when this country is crumbling before my very eyes. Google help

#seriously i feel so dejected #AND IT'S 27⁰C IN LATE MARCH #just kill me at this point #studyblr

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#I'm a latin/roman history major of course it's mythology #polls

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this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

#gilgamesh

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it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...