#lucan

[latin-literature-tourney]

Latin Literature Tournament - Round 1

Propaganda under the cut!

Ennius Propaganda:

The man who started it all... wrote the first Latin epic in dactylic hexameter (fuck Saturnians, all my homies hate Saturnians)

Among his many contributions, wrote a minor didactic work on where to find good fish

Was buddies with Scipio Africanus

Lucan Propaganda

Really said "what if the Aeneid was more fucked up" and honestly, respect

Every line of the Bellum Civile goes So Fucking Hard. The most metal piece of poetry out there

It's got something for everyone: witches, necromancy, archaeology, blood and guts, aristeia, ghost messengers, siege warfare, dubious protagonists, Ptolemies...

#tagamemnon #Latin literature tournament #Ennius #Lucan #Ancient Rome #tournament polls #bracket #Latin #Latin literature #classics #epic

[makanidotdot]

So Lucan is a little pathetic Milo Thatch type human dude who has the ability to teleport in and out of the Emerald Dream (but he can't do it on command). He just constantly is getting manhandled by Broll and Tyrande as they drag him around this book lmao.

#yes i used the alex jones running meme it kills me #warcraft #stormrage #tyrande #lucan #broll #a book can be both genuinely good and genuinely bad at the same time

[smoosie]

my Invincible brain rot is severe

behold, the Wolfrumites !

#invincible #mark grayson #oliver grayson #nolan grayson #omni man #grand regent thragg #anissa #general kregg #invincible fanart #thaedus #onaan #ursaal #conquest #lucan #thula #viltrumites #viltrumite #wolf #wolves

[marcusagrippa]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “the pharsalia” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever i don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw sulla's ghost intoning oracular words of doom

my buddy lucan pacing: the narrative is lying to us

#this has probably been done before #pharsalia #ough #lucan

[my-name-is-apollo]

Phemonoe, the Pythian priestess on why the Delphic oracle has grown silent:

"...or perhaps Apollo, determined to exclude the guilty from his shrine finds none in this age worthy of opening his closed lips."

- Lucan, Pharsalia (Trans. A. S. Kline)

...

Internal screaming

#Apollo #Phemonoe #Pythia #guys this has changed something in me #Gods not interacting with the humans anymore in this age because of the corrupt nature of humanity #is something that's common in my religion too #(well the myths of my religion to be specific) #not that I'm too religious #but it's cool to see similar concepts in Greek mythology and Hindu mythology #especially since they're often quite different from each other conceptually #Apollo info #mine #Lucan

[tokoyamisstuff]

Comic Spoiler!

It'll never stop being hilarious to me that getting laid on earth was all the Viltrumites needed to stop being evil lmao

#invincible #invincible spoilers #invincible comic #thragg #anissa #kreeg #lucan #kregg

[ovidiana]

The Dead Romans Society - Shadows

#happy belated deathday lucan! #tagamemnon #dead romans society #cicero #cato #lucan #pompey #caesar #blood tw

[lil-grem-draws]

🪄 "Come with me! I have something to show you!"

The best boy Lucan Brattleby taking you out adventuring on your birthday 🦁❤️

#Hogwarts Legacy #Lucan Brattleby #HL #Lucan #Gryffidor #I am obsessed with him #I don't drw often but gods #he deserves more attention #i love lucan with all my heart

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: Lucan [1977]

#Lucan #it always surprises me when a western themed episode of a show actually treats Natives like real people instead of caricatures #I'm so fucking here for it

[dionysus-complex]

καὶ λαὸς ἐγκρατὴς αὐτόχειρ δ᾽ αἱμάσσεται, or some such

(Sophocles, Antigone 170-74 and the opening lines of Lucan's Bellum Civile and Statius' Thebaid; translations mine)

#my translation #sophocles #lucan #statius

[judathians-art]

Lucan’s public whipping is at 12pm

(orig tweet under cut)

#Warframe #Drifter #Drifter OC #Lucan #Lodun #Duviri Paradox #My Art #Judathian's Art

[zoestorm]

In the 1300s Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy, in which he's led through hell by one of his heroes, the Roman poet Virgil.

In the fourth chapter of this book Dante meets four other heroes of his: Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. They, together with Virgil, tell Dante how good of a poet and writer he is, and how honoured they are to be able to meet him.

So.

Please remember this if you ever feel guilty about writing self-indulgent fanfiction, okay? 😉

#writing #dante #virgil #homer #horace #ovid #lucan #divine comedy #la divina commedia #dante alighieri #the divine comedy

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 19: The Library of Alexandria (Miscellaneous II)

I welcome your suggestions for both Library of Alexandria and other lost works of World Literature and History, as there will be future polls.

#The Library of Alexandria #Time Travel #Lost Works #Lost Cultures #Lost Folklore #Lost Religions #Ovid #Medea #Marcus Caelius Rufus #Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus #Lucan #De Incendio Urbis #Sallust #Julius Caesar #Quintus Ennius #Marcus Terentius Varro #Gaius Lucilius

[my-name-is-apollo]

On the prophetic nature of the Delphic god (Apollo):

What god of heaven suffers earth’s weight, knows every secret of eternity’s course, aware of the world’s futurity, ready to reveal its presence to the nations, and endure contact with humankind? A great and mighty power, whether the utterance it produces determines fate, or whether it merely voices destiny.

- Lucan, Pharsalia (Trans. A. S. Kline)

This is actually the first time I've seen someone talking about the possibility of prophecies determining the fate, so this took me by surprise. Also the first time I've seen the knowledge of the future being a weight that Apollo has to carry, so that's very interesting too.

#Apollo #Also lol at him having to “endure contact with humankind” #Lucan: humankind (derogatory) #I'm reading the part about the Delphic oracle in this work and I'm in awe #will def most more later #Apollo info #Lucan #Pharsalia #mine

[knightsofsomethingorother]

Questing Beast Infestation

#knightsofsomethingorother #KOSOO #arthurian shitposting #arthurian meme #lucan #mordred #gareth #gaheris #arthur #bonus sketch

[ovidiana]

Lucan in Averno

Inspired by Sonya Taaffe’s poem (text under the cut)

Lucan in Averno by Sonya Taaffe

Halfway off the path nobody keeps to,

the poet meets himself in Hades

like a creditor on the stairs, a started ghost

with a face of wet ashes and wrists hollow as wax

the stylus dug too deeply, emptying of words.

Scared, with a cynic’s grin, he holds out

a half-corrected scroll, laurels frozen in his hair

like hemlock. Is he whispering his name?

Am I whispering it for him?

So casually we practice this blasphemy,

raking up the dead, their rings and calcined bones.

My tongue between his teeth will speak

of Cato, Caesar, and a nameless soldier’s corpse,

my fingers follow Nero’s razor cuts.

The past will lead on, saying nothing more

than what it has already ceased to say.

#lucan #sonya taaffe #lucan in averno #marcus annaeus lucanus