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classics-cassandra · 11 days
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everyone hate my loquacious swag. its always "why did you make this sentence so long" and "why do you use so many commas and em dashes" and never "how did you come up with run on sentence" or "writing that run on sentence looked fun"
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classics-cassandra · 14 days
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stop Shooting me to death with arrows
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classics-cassandra · 1 month
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going to become a homeric bard but the only scenes of the epics that i learn to recite are the ones about characters' massive and powerful thighs
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classics-cassandra · 1 month
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Born to make memes about Ovid, forced to actually convert the ideas behind them into serious academic prose
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classics-cassandra · 2 months
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woke up and immediately got emotional about the herculaneum papyri again
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classics-cassandra · 2 months
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Anyway happy sitting by the fire month
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classics-cassandra · 2 months
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I think I might bite the liver out of the next person who tells me Euripides’ Hecuba is boring
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classics-cassandra · 2 months
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Love my pro milone translation with footnotes basically saying ‘Cicero is lying here’
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classics-cassandra · 3 months
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Back in my SGGK era and I cannot for the life of me find any articles comparing Gawain and Odysseus that aren’t from grade saver style generic school essays. Send help.
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classics-cassandra · 3 months
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Is my fave problematic or did Thomas Mallory just depict him that way?
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classics-cassandra · 5 months
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Orestes stop letting Pylades talk him into kin slaying challenge (impossible)
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classics-cassandra · 5 months
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Everyone wants to go to Oxford University and live in medieval buildings until it’s winter and your windows are single-glazed, or your wardrobe door is broken but it’s a listed building so takes a week to get the right hinges.
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classics-cassandra · 7 months
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contrary to popular belief, i’m actually normal about the house of atreus. i’m lying
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classics-cassandra · 7 months
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Find someone who loves you as much as Jane Ellen Harrison loved Ancient Greek particles
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classics-cassandra · 8 months
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Enemies to lovers nine book slow burn
(Me and Herodotus)
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classics-cassandra · 8 months
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Me: I promise I won’t get drunk and mess up the marriage contract
Me a few drinks in:
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classics-cassandra · 8 months
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yeah sorry but your boyfriend got into a christmas game where he beheaded this supernatural knight and now he has to get the same blow returned to him in a year and a days time. and now he’s making out with said knight & his wife before he gets beheaded. yeah no he definitely didn’t need to behead him in the first place
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