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looking back over the iliad heroverse and some of it is Bad. so bad. but some of it is. really good.

#not sure i love how quickly helen turns aggressive here but it Is in line with what happens in like book 3 or something #(it's been a hot minute. I remember Nothing) #iliad heroverse #my writing #helen #paris

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#literally me #odysseus #diomedes

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Dating advice for young princes in ancient Greece: get exiled

#hfbdjcjdgh immediately thought of Tydeus & Polynices

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the allure of the thebaid is just how … futile it all is. you grow to love these characters but it just doesn’t matter. none of it does.

#you cant save them. they wont be remembered. there is no glory in this epic. its so stupidly human. #<- prev tags #YES i keep telling people this epic's characters are so painfully agonisingly human and that's why I love it so much #the thebaid

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something something green knight au

#YES THERES ART #odysseus #diomedes #penelope #gawain and the green knight

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(green knight au)

athena sends odysseus out to find another champion and so he terrorizes the court for fun and for chivalry TM, and then diomedes does the whole wager thing and chop off his head (temporary success!) before odysseus picks it back up and rides off laughing. a year later diomedes shows up at his mansion looking for directions to the green chapel. he and penelope think he's hot so they decide to play a little game to test him and invite him to stay a few days

#YES #greek mythology #greek myth #green knight #gawain and the green knight #odysseus #diomedes #penelope

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Fuck it, classics predictions for Tumblr in 2024

Terfs will go so far in their bio essentialism that they will insist that women are fundamentally cold and wet and men are hot and dry, due to being cooked more in the womb

Fake Tumblr activism will accidentally bring back the Oppian Laws

Aeneas will become Tumblrs new poor little meow meow but only after someone publishes a retelling where he and Turnus are in love

Someone invents another fake goddess

Oracle of Delphi blog emerges to catalogue Tumblr moments of prophecy

#this frightens me LMAO #tempting apollo's dodgeball-throwing hand..... #my prediction? #someone writes a book about zeus and hera where hera kills zeus or otherwise ends her marriage and she's the new Girlboss for a few weeks #(or maybe not a book maybe it's a webcomic idk)

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actual modern historians: in this letter, Margaret tells her dearest friend Adela, “my love, I long to worship at your altar of Venus once more. come to me and rain kisses upon my breasts as  you did in Paris last spring.”

people on the Internet: “FrIeNd???” ERASURE. STOP TRYING TO HIDE THE GAY. “OH MY GOD THEY WERE ROOMMATES”

aforementioned historians: she. she opens the letter with “My dearest friend.” we’re literally quoting here, and we just admitted they had sex

people on the Internet: “JUST GALS BEING PALS” EH? R/SAPPHOANDHERFRIEND?

historians: a truly vast number of us are queer

people on the Internet: LOL FELLAS IS IT GAY TO KISS YOUR BEST LADY FRIEND’S BREASTS??? NOT IN HISTORY!!

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i have to stop going on Pinterest because once I open that app it starts the countdown on a ticking time bomb that counts down the time left until I see one of those "LOL historians be like 'ummm these two dudes from the 1600s were JUST BROS' 😂😂😂 they were TOTALLY gay !!!!! historians are sooooo oblivious/homophobic" posts and then i have to get off of my phone and physically pace around the room to calm down

#''historians: they were very close friends'' SHUT UP!!!!! SHUT UP!!! #anti dark academia #one of the comments was like ''funny how you never see this happening with women/women couples'' WHAT????? #WHAT DO YOU MEAN???????

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list of ablatives with rankings

ablative of separation: classic. simple but elegant. she knows what she's about and we love to see her. 7/10

ablative absolute: queen of the ablatives. expressive. versatile. dare i say sexy? she has the range. 10/10

ablative of source and material: it's fine i guess. kind of a pain in the ass to remember when it wants a preposition

ablative of accompaniment: haha you said cum 8/10

ablative of agent: holding hands with the passive voice. they're girlfriends to me. love wins 9/10

ablative of place where: i miss the locative 3/10

ablative of degree of difference: i'll be honest i just like saying this. but that correlative comparative? chefs kiss 7.5/10

ablative of price: what the fuck is this shit? -1/10

ablative of means: love her. another classic, simple ablative. she encompasses so much and doesn't even need a preposition. 7/10

ablative of manner: wishes she was means. also i keep forgetting about her ngl. 4/10

ablative of respect: greek did it better with the accusative 2/10

#latin

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(Ian Johnston Translation, book 20)

#aeneas #oh my god HFBDJGJDJG

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got thoughtful about opinions on bad books so here’s an inverse: what’s a book you had to read for school that you actually enjoyed/have grown to like? mine is Lord of the Flies

#my high school forced us to read a prose version of the odyssey over the summer before senior year and i HATED it at first #(context: im a shakespeare nerd. prose versions of the ancient epics kill me) #but then SOMETHING possessed me during senior year fall break #and i read through the iliad in ONE SATURDAY #and immediately latched onto diomedes #and it's all been downhill from there lmfao

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sorry we left your boyfriend's corpse outside the city gates. the king said if anyone buries him they're going to get put to death. yeah the birds and dogs are eating him :/

#*loud argia sobbing noises*

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"You can't defend *a male Greek myth character*!!! They did *something considered fine in their time but not ours*!!" I'm sorry you're allergic to fun and flaws 😒🙄

#me trying to explain that paris of troy acted within the tight constraints of fate and that he was always doomed to start a war #op i know he isnt one of the guys you mentioned (im a trojan war/thebaid focused person) but literally

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im curious about how many people consider themselves part of classics tumblr and what those people's relationship to classics is IRL, so...

#college major

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do you think actaeon's dogs ran through the woods after killing the stag, looking for their master so they could lead him to the kill

all in the hopes that once the deer had been skinned, they could be given some meat, follow their master home, and curl up on the floor while the venison roasted over the flames

#tw animal death #actaeon #greek mythology #greek myth #thinking about being killed by the thing that you love most #iirc palaephatus euhemerised the myth by saying actaeon was (as we might say today) ''eaten out of house and home'' by his dogkeeping hobby #do you think his dogs survived on their own in the woods after he died. #also do dogs go to the underworld like humans do. did actaeon get to see his dogs in the afterlife. crying.

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don't give me fanfic recs give me fan nonfic recs. tell me what your favorite article you've read recently is

#sorry op this isn't a rec but it reminded me of something stupid i did last month hfbdjfjdh #okay so for context i graduated undergrad last year and haven't done any further classics education #but for some reason the urge to do classics is so. strong #that I turned my own D&D campaign into a mythology and wrote a fake student paper with fake quotes #the article is about cannibalism and underworld punishment but. all the texts and articles it's referencing are fake #anyway. it's Food for Thought: An Analysis of Deven Fenel in the Festum Prīncipī and Festum Aeternum