The Elevator Pitch For This Is "a Toy Story/Night At The Museum-style Educational Series That Teaches

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

good morning, it is sacrifice day! i woke up at 4:45 (after going to bed at 11 bc i was committed to trying to get up at 6 given how badly the 5 am wake up call has been going) and probably should have tried to go back to sleep but did not so. we're just rolling with it. i am, for the most part, feeling calm and relaxed! i'm going to run to starbucks and get breakfast and tea then do my duolingo and then be ready to start settling down at 8.

cato the younger pregnant trying to rebirth the republic.

The Foundation of the World

People do not wish to know that the whole of human culture is based on the mythic process of conjuring away man's violence by endlessly projecting it upon new victims. All cultures and all religions are built on this foundation, which they then conceal, just as the tomb is built around the dead body that it conceals. Murder calls for the tomb and the tomb is but the prolongation and perpetuation of murder. The tomb-religion amounts to nothing more or less than the becoming visible of the foundations, of religion and culture, of their only reason for existence.

Violence and the Sacred, René Girard (1972), quoted in The Girard Reader, James G. Williams ed. (2000)

WHAT a way to begin your book on performance and identity in the ancient world

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

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

even our ancestors sang Popipo

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

my girl made me draw it