#classics

[envyclearlace]

I just wanna be a fairy and live in a tulip

#im exhausted #is that too much to ask #burnout #cottagecore #aesthetic #fairycore #grandmacore #baking #bread #cookies #flowers #dark academia #romantic academia #classics #literature #poetry #barbie #good vibes

[textsfrommtolympus]

Dionysus: The cop who broke up my party said it was the best party he’s ever busted.

#Dionysus #greek mythology #greek myth #greek myths #classics #tagamemnon #mythology #myth #classics memes #Greek mythology memes #mythology memes #Greek myth memes #incorrect myth #incorrect greek mythology #incorrect Greek myth #incorrect myths #incorrect classics #incorrect greek gods #greek gods #gods and goddesses #texts from last night #greek gods and goddesses #source: texts from last night #ancient greece #source: tfln #tfln

[lionofchaeronea]

The goddess Artemis, wielding her bow and quiver of arrows. Attic red-figure lekythos, attributed to the Carlsruhe Painter; 450s BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#classics #tagamemnon #Ancient Greece #Classical Greece #classical mythology #Greek religion #Ancient Greek religion #Hellenic polytheism #Artemis #Goddess Artemis #art #art history #ancient art #Greek art #Ancient Greek art #Classical Greek art #vase painting #red-figure #lekythos #Carlsruhe Painter #Metropolitan Museum of Art

[demoralised]

300 SL roadster

#mercedes #benz #mercedes-benz #300 sl #roadster #classics #classic cars #vintage

[macaulaytwins]

for Bunny being as homophobic as he is he sure did commit his college career to learning about the gayest society™️

#tsh #the secret history #dark academia #bunny corcoran #henry winter #camilla macaulay #literature #shitpost #dark academia aesthetic #donna tartt #charles macaulay #richard papen #txt #ancient greece #classics #greece

[ancient-mystery]

#rare books #old books #used bookstore #dark academia #bookstore #classics

[jeannereames]

What do you think were some of ATG’s biggest/best innovations in warfare? Additionally (and this is kind of a thought more than a question) I thought it was incredibly fascinating how quickly he took to naval warfare despite most Macedonian military expertise being land-based (although I might be wrong)

It took him a while to catch on to naval power, actually—perhaps not surprisingly as Macedon was never that sea focused. Some recent archaeology suggests Pydna was a Macedonian port from way back, and certainly Archelaos moved the capital from Aegae to Pella in order to get a protected port on the Thermaikos Gulf. Later, Kassandros would combine several old settlements NE of Pella into Thessaloniki. Yet the goal of all these seems to have been trade more than military, albeit by Kassandros’ time, he was thinking military too, and certainly the Antigonids did.

Philip rather famously had to retreat his own “navy” (essentially a bunch of pirate-type pentakonters) when only about 20-30 Athenian triremes showed up during one of his campaigns in the north. He would manage to seize over 200 triremes when they were beached but couldn’t take them on the water. The non-Athenian boats he freed, but the Athenians ones? Did he use them himself? Nope, he broke them down for siege engine timber. As we’ll see, siege engineering is where he threw money.

He did realize he needed a better navy before going up against Persia, but his solution was to use Athens’, not build his own—despite owning acres upon acres upon acres of perfect ship timber. It still takes money to build those ships, even if not paying for the timber, and ol’ Phil just didn’t have it then. Plus, navies have to be maintained (ships deteriorate), and I’m not sure Philip cared enough to make that sort of long-term commitment. Alexander is the first Macedonian king (that we know of) to invest significantly in building warships, not just borrowing other people’s, and that wasn’t until late in his career, India forward.

Why the change? I’m about 90% convinced his real next target (before his death) wasn’t Arabia, but Carthage. So obviously, he needed a huge navy, and Persia’s navy (which he was now responsible for) had been famous. Yet he was also building boats for trade linking India back to Asia, specifically Babylon, which is why he made the whole Gedrosia trek in the first place. Baloney on him trying to outdo Cyrus and Semiramis. That’s largely imposition by later authors. He was looking for trade routes.

I do find it curious that the nation who supplied Athens with such copious amounts of ship timber that it became the 3rd front in the Peloponnesian War was not, herself, a naval power.

In terms of military innovation, Philip did more with basic equipment. He created the sarissa, devised the hammer and anvil tactic, and employed combined arms in a masterful way. He’s also the one who invested in artillery. That’s where his extra money went, instead of into ships. Alexander largely refined technology.

Alexander’s military innovations were more in the realm of ideas. Philip had made a few moves towards advancement on ability (not birth). Alexander pushed that forward post-Gaugamela. If he couldn’t touch the highest positions (and may not have wanted to right then), he did introduce advancement on bravery and ability with the lower-level offices among both infantry and cavalry. Especially with cavalry, this would have been tough to force through, as cavalry was traditionally for the elite (who could afford horses). Naturally, they expected to advance based on family connections. Also, following the downfall of Philotas, the cavalry was divided up into increasingly independent units. It started with the division between Hephaistion and Kleitos, but after Kleitos’s death, Alexander broke down the Companions into six hipparchies…not unlike the way the infantry taxeis were each under the command of a single general, who then answered to the man in charge of that wing of the army (Parmenion or Alexander, or later, Krateros or Alexander). This both allowed the army to operate more efficiently, but also prevented too much power concentrated in the hands of any one person. AND it rewarded ability, which tied the receiver to the king, breaking down mini-family dynasties within the army. (Such as Parmenion’s.) Philip had tried this a bit with the Pezhetairoi (later called Hypaspists), who were selected for size and courage. Alexander really expanded it, and renovated how the army command structure worked.

Likewise, Alexander had a rare ability to come up with, on the spot, new ways to use old toys. So, for instance, he put siege engines on boats to attack Tyre. In Thrace, earlier, he used a turtle (and gravity) to break apart carts rolled down on troops from above. He also used sarissai to “mow” down a big wheat field to attack the enemy from an unexpected direction. He built ginormous ramps all around Gaza to bring his machines up to the level of the walls. In India, he used “junk” from the countryside to fill in “impossible” ditches and construct a causeway to attack a mountain fort. Etc. Basically if somebody told him, “You can’t do that,” he figured out a way to do it anyway.

Militarily, he was the ultimate problem-solver, and he was brilliant at military organization. But Philip was more the innovator when it came to the tools of war, from weapons and armor to artillery, even if his son would then use that artillery in ways he hadn’t thought of.

#Alexander the Great #Philip of Macedon #Philip II #Philip II of Macedon #Macedonian military #Macedonian artillery #military history #ancient Macedon #ancient military history #ancient combined armies #Macedonian military innovations #Macedonian army structure #Classics #ancient history #tagamemnon #asks

[etherealacademia]

etherealacademia poetry reveal

#dark academia #poetry #light academia #classics #my writing #this was published recently and therefore i’m not embarrassed to post it

[idonthaveaspecificbrand]

my copy of Dracula came in so now I can get ahead of the rest of the class on our assigned reading!

#my textbook (dracula) came in and now i can get ahead of the rest of the class (tumblr) #i bought the fall edition and it’s so pretty #screaming #dracula #dracula daily #classics #jonathon harker

[ladyeliserose]

The Greek gods and what they’d order at Starbucks:

Zeus: Caffe Americano and a steak and cheese panini

Hera: One shot skinny iced latte and an almond croissant

Poseidon: Cool lime refresher and a tuNAH sandwich

Amphitrite: Just a bottle of water

Athena: Iced Latte and a butter croissant

Hestia: Gingerbread Latte and a cinnamon swirl

Demeter: Matcha tea iced latte and a spinach and pea falafel wrap

Hades: Cappuccino and an all day breakfast wrap

Persephone: Pink coconut Starbucks refresher and a cherry crown

Aphrodite: Strawberry açai refresher and a white chocolate and rapsberry Blondie

Ares: Cold Brew coffee and a traditional sausage sandwich

Hephaestus: Chai Latte and a s’mores muffin

Artemis: Flat White and a blueberry muffin

Apollo: Orange mango refresher and a lemon loaf cake

Hermes: Espresso Americano and a bacon sandwich

Dionysus: Peach Iced Tea and a birthday cake cookie

Eros: Strawberries and cream Frappuccino And a chocolate brownie

Hecate: Pumpkin Spiced Latte

Eris: Cookies and Cream Frappuccino and a no meat-ball marinara wrap

#greek mythology #greek goddess aesthetic #greek gods aesthetic #greek goddesses #greek goddess #greek gods #lore olympus #athena #hades and kore #persephone #artemis aesthetic #athena aesthetic #dark academia #classics student #ancient greece #ancient history #classics #ancient rome #classical archaeology #classical civilisation #classics memes #hera aesthetic #dionysus aesthetic #hades aesthetic #persephone aesthetic #zeus aesthetic #hestia aesthetic #hecate aesthetic #poseidon aesthetic #hermes aesthetic

[tragicallyunaesthetic]

tumblr holidays:

the met gala

halloween (the month)

the ides of march

nov 5 (new!)

#edit: I have updated this post three times now if you look in the reblogs #tumblr #the ides of march #ides of march #met gala #Halloween #spooky month #spooky season #hell night #nov 5th #november 5th #mine. #classics

[goldentangerines]

every now and then i have to think of the roman family from two thousand years ago that buried their little daughter in a boy's athletic-themed sarcophagus and i weep a little because that's the softest declaration of love i can possibly imagine

#gremlin speaks #archaeology #ancient rome #classics #roman archaeology #ancient art #art history #art #sarcophagus #academics #academia #roman history #rome #families #peoplehood #love #family

[euripideez-nuts]

lake como, italy // lago di como

#dark academia #italy #alps #light academia #classics #photography #personal #academia aesthetic #yearning #romantic academia #studyblr #studyspo #classics student #cottagecore #romanticism #lake como #lago di como #architechture

[deadlypoetacademia]

The urge to shift to another city and cut ties with everyone and start a new journey and visit bookstores and cafes and wear aesthetic clothes and be that mysterious quiet one who has a history and won't speak of it.

#dark academia #books and libraries #writers #spilled words #poem #poetry #dead poets society #classic literature #words #aesthetic #classic #classic rock #classics #reality #romance #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academism #dark acadamia quotes #darkacademism #verses page #new poets society #love poem #deadlypoetacademia #dark aesthetic

[metis-metis]

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

#tagamemnon #classics #ancient history #chaotic academia #Greek mythology

[universemagicreading]

Someone once said that the titles of jane austen's novels are the name of the problems in the books. For example: in pride and prejudice the biggest problem is the conflict between pride and prejudice. So that makes Emma the biggest problem in Emma and, now that I have started reading the novel, I have never agreed more with something than I agree with this.

#books #classics #jane austen #austenland #emma woodhouse

[sickly-victorian-boy]

Do you ever think about how many of the items now considered priceless artifacts were once commonplace items? The coins we now marvel at from behind the glass at a museum were once tossed around, stepped on, and traded around. The pottery painstakingly pieced back together was somebody’s favorite wine jug. The decorative pin now rusted and bent once held together the shoulder of someone’s chiton. History is simply a trail of ordinary people going about their day, and I think there’s an odd sort of beauty in that.

#ancient greece #ancient rome #history #dark academia #light academia #academia #ancient history #classics #aesthetic #cheerio

[pol-ski]

.❤️

#latin language #latin civilization #latinblr #catholic #monk #roman catholic #western civilization #latin poetry #poland #langblr #studyblr #classics #monks #Catholic academia #dark academia #catholic monks #latin #study motivation #chicago #usa #*

[sapphic-dark-academia]

if i can’t hand my lover a cup of coffee and kiss their forehead while they are working then what even is the point

#dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #classic academia #classics #chaotic academia #academic #academia aesthetic #sapphic #nblw #wlw #sapphic dark academia #romantic academia aesthetic #romantic acadmeia #romanticism #academia #coffee #light academia #light academia aesthetic

[darkacademiavibes]

Borrow books, share pdfs, email ebooks. Understand that academia is expensive. Make it more accessible, help someone gain knowledge. Dismantle the disparity with second-hand books and hand-me-downs. Share. Share. Share.

#dark acadamia aesthetic #light academia aesthetic #aesthetic #dark academia #autumn #apollo #donna tartt #books and literature #bookstore #chaotic acadamia #grey academia #the secret history #the picture of dorian gray #classical art #classics #litereature