rosie-is-studying

[rosie-is-studying]

the biggest tragedy about classical education is that people think it's meant to make you become a pretentious snob that quotes plato or seneca unprompted when in truth it's meant to make you a freak who cries and shakes profusely thinking about the fucked up family dynamics from 2000 year old plays

#yep #classics #lit student

[rosie-is-studying]

The only reason why transphobes always ask “what is a woman” instead of “what is a man” is because we all know that a man is a featherless biped.

#this one a personal resonance #anyone else who was in khâgne in 2022-2023? #philosophy #socrates

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So many idiots have masters degrees maybe I could be the next

#fingers crossed

[rosie-is-studying]

the parasocial relationship between you and the guy whose article you cite the most in your paper

#studyblr

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People who fuck around on their laptops during lectures are so important I'm watching someone in front of me play tetris online enraptured

[rosie-is-studying]

extremely upsetting that the ancient romans didn't have zoom because i would pay serious denarii to see mark antony mute cicero's microphone while he's giving a speech

#cicero #mark antony #roman history #classics

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Minotaur is not a species

The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.

#greek mythology #the minotaur #classics

[rosie-is-studying]

the theory that ovid lied about being exiled is hilarious. i don't think it could be true but imagine writing about being exiled and how you're so sad and depressed and begging augustus to let you go back home and the entire time you're sitting in your fancy house in the rich people area of rome and augustus is just extremely confused.

#ovid #classics

[rosie-is-studying]

one of my favorite things about classics tumblr is that everyone on here has their own particular Guy. i can make a post thats like 'we HATE his pathetic impious pussy' or something and it gets tagged with five different ancient roman guys (all accurate)

#classics #studyblr

[rosie-is-studying]

if you were wondering about ancient greek for ‘then perish’, iliad book 21 line 106 θάνε καὶ σύ (lit. die you also). achilles says it.

#classics #homer #ancient greek #the iliad

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there are so many absurd stories in greek mythology but to me for some reason a 1 day old baby stealing cattle beats them all. like. a newborn baby. stealing cattle. I can't even picture it without giggling to myself. he woke up and chose violence

#hermes #greek mythology #classics

[rosie-is-studying]

you time travel socrates to the present day and you take him to the movie theater and he runs out horrified like "by zeus the cave is real"

#socrates #philosophy #classics

[rosie-is-studying]

Reblog for larger sample size whatever

#greek mythology #classics

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”Men think about the Roman Empire” “What’s the female version of the Roman Empire” SHUT UPPPPP. SHUT THE FUCK UPPPPPP. AS A WOMAN I LOVE THE ROMAN EMPIRE. AS A WOMAN I LOVE ANCIENT HISTORY AND BATTLES AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY. THE “GIRL VERSION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE” IS THE ROMAN EMPIRE. IM GOING TO STAB YOU 23 TIMES

#roman empire #classics

[rosie-is-studying]

So ‘Sisyphus’ was trending on Twitter and it was just Classics jokes!

#classics #greek mythology

[rosie-is-studying]

the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

#classics #greek mythology

[rosie-is-studying]

I figured out how the uni library works 🥳🥳