I Think About This Roman Statue Of Odysseus Escaping Polyphemus' Cave Beneath A Ram Often

A 1964 illustrated Satyricon, translated by William Burnaby and illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor

even our ancestors sang Popipo

cato mpreg… cato mpreg…. cato pregnant with the death of the republic… trying to cut the evil out of him but it just brings death on faster

Big day for the EoG fandom

The Reading (Catullus and Clodia) (Giulio Aristide Sartorio, 1860 - 1932)

classical reception is anything that adapts, borrows from, capitalises on, draws upon, bastardises, etc. the ancient world. there is no requirement that it be "good" to "count". gladiator is classical reception. 300 is classical reception. there are classicists who have written whole articles about soap ads. as a dear friend once put it, it's all reception innit.

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving