#classical memes

[diocletion-aint-shit]

Classics tumblr should try starting posts with invocations to the muses.

"To the goddess I call, of memes she sings

Make light of the epics, those ancient things

Give cause to jeer Atreus' son

Within the tags, of his name make a pun"

#tagamemnon #classics #ancient history #greek mythology #the illiad #memes #greek myth memes #classical memes #mythology

[ourpholia]

... sorry, i had to

#my art #an old one that i forgor to post over here #sorry achilles darling #it was too tempting #achilles #achilles hades #patroclus #patroclus hades #hades #hades game #hades supergiant #hades fanart #fanart #mythology #greek mythology #greek mythology memes #classical memes #meme

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

I had a triggering week so I got silly and it’s everyone’s problem.

#greek mythology #theseus #the minotaur #tagamemnon #ancient greek art #classical art #my memes #classical memes

[bussyplease]

I made this a while ago on paint at midnight in a fever like state and needed to post it here

#classical music #classical composer #composer memes #classical memes #benjamin britten #shostakovich #johann sebastian bach #schubert #clara schumann #robert schumann #gustav mahler #johannes brahms #stravinsky #prokofiev #vivaldi #saint saëns #tchaikovsky #rachmaninoff #beethoven #lili boulanger #chopin #bartok #richard wagner #franz liszt #mozart #claude debussy #mendelssohn #joseph haydn #maurice ravel #leonard bernstein

[earlgrey24]

See the reason why I find Dante immensely relatable is because I too would cope with the pain of exile by writing a long self-indulgent self-insert fan fiction starring me and my favourite classical poet

#dante #dante alighieri #history shitposting #italian renaissance #la divina commedia #divine comedy #vergil #virgil #renaissance #literaure #not naming any names ofc #classics #classical studies #poetry #ancient rome #classical memes #hall of fame

[scherzokinn]

#that happened #maurice ravel #ravel #erik satie #satie #classical music memes #classical music history #music history #history memes #classical memes

[thoughtportal]

#twitter #tweet #tweets #classical memes

[maryoliverdotcom]

i have reached a very insightful conclusion after re-reading antigone and medea

#classics #medea #antigone #classical memes #creon

[capn-o-my-soul]

#the birds >> poetics #memes my sister sent me from twitter #196 #memes #meme #classical literature #classical memes #ancient greece #aristophanes #aristotle

[anonymous-alien2-0]

We don't own cats, cats own US

#cats #cats of tumblr #funny memes #life #adult life #dank memes #memes #comedy #best memes #funny #relatable #classical memes #hilarious

[beckmessering]

wake up babe, explicit version of o mio babbino caro just dropped

#is there just someone yelling ‘fuck’ at the end or what? #opera #classical music #puccini #giacomo puccini #opera shitpost #classical memes

[diocletion-aint-shit]

You know what, I want the translation where Agamemnon gets called a slut

(Emily Wilson, discussing the differing translations of "kunops" for Agamemnon and Helen)

Source - https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/09/20/emily-wilson-iliad-translation-terms/#NSWGIGV4DVGZVGY2EDVSAYSJYM-1

#classics #ancient history #tagamemnon #memes #greek posts #ancient greece #classical memes #greek mythology #the iliad #emily wilson

[mattsmemes]

#meme #mattsmemes #memes that make you go hmmm #classical art #classical memes #bug #bugs #insects #turn over the rock #run #eek

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #girl dinner #persephone #not my art #hades and persephone #classical memes

[ibiseremita]

Ok hear me out: A sitcom centered around some classicists weirdos called "The Homer Theory"

#tagamemnon #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra #classical studies memes #classical memes

[earlgrey24]

Today on Rejected Academic Paper Names:

Achilles and Patroclus: Two Bros Chillin' in the Same Urn Five Feet Apart 'Cause They're Not Gay

#the iliad #achilles #patroclus #tagamemnon #achilles x patroclus #history memes #greek mythology #history shitposting #homer #classics #classical memes #ancient greece #sorry if this has been done before #history #academia memes