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"My father sacrificed me to One Direction"

Ides of March 2025 is going to be a fucking blast because it will have been 2069 years since Caesar's death day

Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969.

i love when you read/watch an influential piece of storytelling and you're like ohhhhhh ok i see. so everyone else was copying this guy's homework

I wanted to meme before the big day.

Not yet, Brutus.. not yet..

My ides tiramisu, if you even care

oedipus-sphinx rap battle.........

absolutely incredible that this fragment is the only evidence we have of a play of aeschylus about iphigenia.

Left myself a note overnight that I was convinced at the time was unmitigated genius

What if I started blogging in the style of middle-schoolers who are trying to translate Latin?

Candle clocks

everyone is so jealous of me bc i lead a monastic life..

everyone tagging my last post with helen and hector: valid but thats also such a lukewarm take. where the nestor fans at

stoicpilled apatheiamaxxing

the elevator pitch for this is "a Toy Story/Night at the Museum-style educational series that teaches kids about art history"

they probably wouldn't let me have the tits-out minoan snake woman but that's ok

do you ever remember the note the scribe left at the end of catullus manuscript G and want to burst into tears

get out of touch and obsessed with functionally and materially useless niche fields and topics of interest enough and you too can develop the coveted "loser's superiority complex"

Oedipus on the Bodies of his Sons. 1912. Gabriel Jules Charles Girodon. French 1844-1941. oil/canvas. winner Prix de Rome 1912.     http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

and here’s a weirdly double exposed mt etna

my girl made me draw it

Call back your courage, send off your fearful sorrow- Perhaps someday you'll recall even this with fondness.

Vergil, Aeneid I.203-204

tumblr users love to talk about how much they love unionizing but when we, odysseus’s crew—

The House of Ancient Hunt, Pompeii.

Photography by Luigi Spina

i think about this roman statue of odysseus escaping polyphemus' cave beneath a ram often

everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one

In the club