#Classical Greek

[tower-of-hana]

Latin Teachers: Welcome to Latin class, where we hold your yaoi hostage behind millions of weird non-finite forms!

Classical Greek Teachers: Welcome to Classical Greek class, where we hold your yuri hostage behind millions of weird non-finite forms!

Classical Arabic Teachers:

Me: wait let me guess

Classical Arabic Teacher: If it's any consolation, this time they're mostly verbal nouns.

#linguistics #linguistic #languages #shitpost #linguist shitpost #lingblr #classic shitpost #classics memes #classics #classical greek #latin memes #latin shitpost #latin language #arabic #classical arabic

[callmeleomercury]

i’m all about being a classics major and learning latin and greek until it’s 11:45 on a friday night and i’m writing paradigms for verbs…

#original post #sorry i’m a classics major #aesthetic #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #classics #ancient greek #classical greek #latin #classical latin #university #college #classics major

[lowellsgraveyard]

queer teen with little rep reading full book series to get that one trans character rep -> improving my greek and latin translation skills by reading classical texts for that One Line

#“for he too is Alexander” well I guess I'll be reading diodorus now #I think im still enough of a repressed gaytrans 14 yo inside that this would acc work #symposium two souls one body cut in half thing yeah I can do it #classics #tagamemnon #ancient greek #latin #classical greek

[illustratus]

The Horses of St Mark’s Basilica, Venice

The horses were placed on the facade, on the loggia above the porch, of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, northern Italy after the sack of Constantinople in 1204. They remained there until looted by Napoleon in 1797 but were returned in 1815. The sculptures have been removed from the facade and placed in the interior of St Mark's for conservation purposes, with replicas in their position on the loggia.

It is certain that the horses, along with the quadriga with which they were depicted, were long displayed at the Hippodrome of Constantinople; they may be the "four gilt horses that stand above the Hippodrome" that "came from the island of Chios under Theodosius II" mentioned in the 8th- or early 9th-century Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai. They were still there in 1204, when they were looted by Venetian forces as part of the sack of the capital of the Byzantine Empire in the Fourth Crusade. The collars on the four horses were added in 1204 to obscure where the animals' heads had been severed to allow them to be transported from Constantinople to Venice. Shortly after the Fourth Crusade, Doge Enrico Dandolo sent the horses to Venice, where they were installed on the terrace of the façade of St Mark's Basilica in 1254. Petrarch admired them there.

In 1797, Napoleon had the horses forcibly removed from the basilica and carried off to Paris, where they were used in the design of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel together with a quadriga.

In 1815 the horses were returned to Venice by Captain Dumaresq. He had fought at the Battle of Waterloo and was with the allied forces in Paris where he was selected, by the Emperor of Austria, to take the horses down from the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and return them to St Mark's in Venice. For the skillful manner in which he performed this work the Emperor gave him a gold snuff box with his initials in diamonds on the lid.

#horses #bronze #st mark’s basilica #venice #venetian #fourth crusade #sack of constantinople #constantinople #crusaders #classical antiquity #sculptures #classical greek #history #europe #european #hippodrome #napoleon #horses of saint mark #triumphal quadriga #horses of the hippodrome of constantinople #northern italy #republic of venice #crusades

[aelstudies]

Monday

Second week of winter term. I realized this morning that I only posted once last week. I will try for three or more posts this week. Hopefully it works out.

More Classical Greek this morning. I don’t have class Mondays, so I usually spend it studying. It is sunny today, so instead of going to campus I went to the library by the beach. This way I can spend my lunch break and workout time galavanting by the lake.

#aelstudies #student #studyblr #university #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #university studyblr #study motivation #study inspo #study inspiration #library #public library #support your local library #classical greek

[ursulazandt]

#mine #sappho #real sapphoheads will know #classical greek #sappho memes #lesbian

[literarydesire]

Only 13 days till I start university and begin my classical studies degree!!!! This time next year I should be semi-fluent in both Latin and Ancient Greek so just you wait.

#light academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #books and libraries #poetry #aesthetic #books #chaotic academia #art #literature #dark academia #tsh #classical greek #classical studies #philology

[irate-iguana]

UwU this, OwO that. Every day I am haunted by the knowledge that ΘωΘ is actually a word in Classical Greek.

#probably in modern greek too #technically with proper capitalization and accent it’s Θώθ #but i still can’t unsee it #translation: thoth #(egyptian god) #my friend pointed the greek alphabet face out to me and i have never been the same since #it’s an undeclinable noun too #meaning it always looks like this every time it appears #ancient greek #classical greek #attic greek #languages #original post #shitpost #classics #tagamemnon #esmer says things

[thatstudyblrontea]

July 16, 2022

Completed my notes on the Gerundive in Russian, while wondering why I have to study, at barely an A2 level, something that is hardly found in day to day interactions – am I learning to comunicate, or just to read prose? Guess we'll never know, folks. Also leveled up on a Duolingo unit. In the evening, I went to see Euripides' The Suppliants in an actual roman amphitheatre in Nora – god, it was just so beautiful. The performance was amazing, the 7 actress that composed the cast were super talented, the sky got increasingly darker in sync with the cathartic arc of the tragedy, the themes were so actual and close that they gave me literal goosebumps. There probably aren't many people to whom I can say – go watch a Greek tragedy in a roman amphitheatre! –, but if you ever get a chance to, take it!

#studyblr #study blog #study space #studyspo #studying #light academia #desk aesthetic #study aesthetic #studying aesthetic #uni student #uniblr #study inspo #study inspiration #teablr #classical period #classical greek #classical literature #ancient greece #euripides #the suppliants #ancient greek #ancient greek literature #tea #tea cup #langblr #russian langblr #russian language #language learning

[tryingtostudyblr]

Exam Diary Day 7 - 14.06.22

No exams today which was nice, but still plenty of revision had to be done lol, but the warmer whether is definitely a nice change!

Today I:

Practised piano

Revised lines 156-187 of book 11 of the aeneid

Revised chapters 45-52 of the histories

Arranged some things for my gap year :)

Hopefully everyone else is enjoying the sunny weather if you have it and exams and end of year things are going OK :)

Currently stuck in my head: Bloom Bloom - The Boyz

#tryingtostudyblr #studyblr #langblr #am i a studyblr? #classics #studyspo #lawyerd #greek #classical greek #latin #study notes #heysaher #a level revision #alevelblr #alevel studyblr #a level 2022 #a levels #A level latin #A level greek #a levels 2022 #exam season #exams #exam szn

[miss-nymphetamine]

Out of nowhere, there's a possibility that I might be teaching Ancient Greek again next year, this time fully professionally (I mean, with a real salary and benefits).

And it feels... a bit surreal.

One of these days I'll tell you how I just walked away from academia and how it was something I had made my peace with but missed anyway, so this is a surprise but I think a nice one.

Yeah. It's definitely nice.

#Greek #Ancient Greek #Classics #Classical Philology #Ancient world #teaching #languages #ancient languages #Classical Greek #education

[tower-of-hana]

Non-linguists: The way weebs are butchering Japanese and then loaning it into English is unique and bad.

FatAthenianThighs69: UwUus, Greek διόπερ kawaii est! We should learn their language so we can sound cool like them!

SocraticToeSucker: I'm trying but they have all these weird sounds! I know how to pronounce "ph" but I can't figure out how to pronounce "th", "kh", and "ch".

FatAthenianThighs69: Honestly I just pronounce them like aspirated stops, it doesn't really matter I think my future Hellenic boywife will understand me when I debate him on philosophy. Greeks are really wise, they can figure it out.

SocraticToeSucker: You're right what's important is that we use as many Greek words to describe things as possible.

FatAthenianThighs69: Right you are! Now are you coming to Agora Rome this year?

SocraticToeSucker: Yep my Aristotle cosplay is finally finished.

FatAthenianThighs69: Why did it take so long?

SocraticToeSucker: I had to wait for the ships to return.

#greek #classics #linguistic #linguistics #languages #shitpost #linguist shitpost #lingblr #greek shitpost #latin shitpost #latin #latin language #lingua latina #greek language #ancient greek #classical greek #anime #manga #japan #weebs #weebshit #helleboo

[queen-of-bohemia]

my room

the pile of (mostly) french existentialist novels on the floor and windowsill- camus, de beauvoir, sartre, marcel, wright - packed tightly with makeshift bookmarks, notebook annotations shoved between pages, dictionary splayed open next to them for cross-referencing

collection of joan didion and james baldwin novels on my desk - organised by personal preference; thus subject to change on a biweekly basis

the pocket dictionaries for russian, greek, french, korean next to my wallet and keys, because they are totally just as important and necessary

half-burnt matches next to the fake gum cigarettes my friend got me from the george bush museum in the us - it made us laugh when we found them and i kept the package for posterity

greek aorist and latin ablative endings pinned on my walls - scrawled in my horrific slanted writing, barely legible to anyone other than myself

the shrine to mary beard on my bedside table

the bag of cosmetics and skincare products that my grandmother brought me back from seoul - floral scents and cherry blossom perfume my room

scarves and coats thrown haphazardly over armchairs - dark tartans juxtapose the rattan and floral brocade cushions

#dark academia #donna tartt #language student #latin #classical greek #romanticising my highschool experience one tumblr post at a time #just the beginning folks ~ my winter break has begun and i am now insufferable to be around

[meluhha]

Alexander Balwinder Iskander Jaswinder

ever wonder why Punjabi names end in -nder or rather, why that isn’t unique to Punjabi?

#punjabi #india #aryan invasion #greek #sanskrit #ancient history #Alexander the great #macedonia #indus valley #punjab #pakistan #south asia #buddhist #buddha #alexander #jaswinder #bhangra #classical greek #colonization #colonialism #bollywood #tamil #dravidian #history #pallava #yavana #brahmin #vedism #hindu #hinduism

[call-me-kore]

“the gods do not grant us all their favours at one time” - Nestor

Homer’s Iliad, Book 4

Tr. by Rieu

#homer's iliad #aesthetic #classical greek #dark acedemia #quotes #literature #life quotes #relatable quotes #deep quotes #literature quotes #the iliad #homer #classical studies #class civ #classics #classical civilisation #light acedemia #greek gods #ancient greek #life #motivation #way of life #gods and goddesses #religion

[aelstudies]

Wednesday

I’m on campus in the library this afternoon. I’ve got a Classical Greek translation to do, and a research proposal to start on.

I am in the exam period at my school. I already wrote my Classical Greek exam. I have papers to pass in and my Shakespeare exam left to go.

I will be very happy when these are over and I can rest a bit over the holidays.

#aelstudies #student #studyblr #university #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #university studyblr #study motivation #study inspo #study inspiration #university library #classical greek #research proposal