#I study Latin not Greek

[thezestywalru]

The way that I’m working on my first Percabeth au in years and it’s a legally blonde au. These new 12 year olds crushing on Walter have nothing on me ( a person who wrote horrible PJO fanfiction when they were 12 and is now a classics student)

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percabeth #shitpost #fanfiction #legally blonde #writing #walker scobell #leah sava jeffries #annabeth chase #percy and annabeth #I study Latin not Greek #elle woods

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

#classics #mythology #ancient greek mythology #ancient roman mythology #comparative literature #latin #hebrew #ethnic studies #fuck capitalism #communism #i love my useless degree idc #academia #university #dark academia #Greek #philosophy #liberal arts #humanities #women and gender studies #cultural anthropology

[lowellsgraveyard]

the latin verb "ardere", "to burn, to be on fire" also meaning "to desire" is so . i love people, i love classics, and i love seeing the ways in which people of the past perceived and experienced certain emotions

#classics #latin #also adding onto this #deponents in greek #as much as they can be a pain to translate and remember #my prof talked to us about how from the deponents we can see how the ancient greeks might have perceived certain emotion #and LIKE idk that's so cool I think #anyways #university #ancient greek #classical studies #classics major

[royalapocalypse]

I hated school but it scares me how much i want to learn, i want to learn about anything and everything. Tell me about the recent book you read, tell me about the stars and tell me how to recognise the planets and the constellations, tell me about the theories of psychologists, tell me about Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, tell me about morals and your opinions and the society and tell me about crime and norms and your favourite character, teach me latin, greek and any language you speak, tell me about random fun facts you know, tell me about norse mythology you’re so obsessed with and tell me about the greek god and goddesses you adore, tell me your favourite quotes and lines and poems and stories, tell me about mythical creatures and the multiverse and the world in your head you always seem to travel to. i want to learn about history and philosophy and sociology and criminology and science and astronomy and i want to learn about media and archaeology and architecture and design and biology and languages and law and– i want to study something the four walls of my classroom could never teach i want to learn something that is beyond the daily life.

#i have no motivation #i don’t know where i’m going with this #i don’t know where to start #dark acamedia #light academia #study aesthetic #i want to study but i don’t want to study #academic validation is so hot #but i want to be the smartest person #desi academia #chaotic academia #learning #biology #psychology #astronomy #media #shakespeare #oscar wilde #latin #greek #criminology #archaeology #architecture #norse mythology

[oldshrewsburyian]

I’m about halfway through Katy Hays’ The Cloisters and I’m so annoyed by its treatment of academia/academics. Currently, I’m most annoyed by the plot point that claims professors "thought nothing of throwing out material they had already incorporated into their research.”

...Before I checked her author bio, I immediately assumed that Hays had never met an academic or peeked inside an academic’s office. One does not simply throw away material! Okay, I culled my grad school folders full of offprints, but they still take up a shelf. And throwing away material central to one’s research topic?!? Never.

Maybe this seems nitpicky, but I often feel as though books of this kind, though belonging to a subgenre allegedly celebrating such things, have contempt for the substance of what it is that scholars do and how they (we) do it. And this irritates me, not least because I don’t understand why.

#the protagonist somehow picked up multiple languages at her tiny liberal arts college but has not even studied abroad? #make it make SENSE #i managed to have 3 solid languages by the time i graduated from a similar no-name school #but latin AND greek? and medieval vernaculars before she's even started grad school? come on #put the academia in dark academia challenge #katy hays #the cloisters #currently reading

[katesheretoday]

friendly reminder your bones are probably pink

#bones #pink #im perfect #health #relatable #reminder #taxes #doctor #friendly reminder #pink again #osteology #yes I know osteology I took four years of Greek #osteo is bone and logy is study of in Latin #I’m literally so smart

[daily-whistlepaw]

daily wwhistlepaw until gre becomes PoV day 1054

went to a doctor today about my painful right hand, it might probably be tendonitis, so I have to use this hand sparingly (and my other has been unusable for four years, so i'm without properly usable hands right now :/). I'll try to keep the usage to a minimum, and keep it for a Small whis every day, but you'll have to excuse my even more lacking updates as I try to keep going until the pain's mostly gone

#warrior cats #whistlepaw #windclan #medicine cat apprentice #the problem being i'm at university and I need to study a lot and i study by writing #and I have a monstrous amount of vocab still waiting for me (about 200 words extra for latin and a good amount of pages for greek) #plus all the other things I need to write and the notes I techniclly take in class #i'm kindof stuck here right now :/

[classicslesbianopinions]

Very weird/random question but what’s your favorite translation of the first line of the Iliad? Mine is Fagles’s - although mainly cause I like the style I don’t know how accurate it’s considered.

no this is such a great question but i haven't read enough different translations to really have a favorite. i can say though that the first line of the iliad comes up a lot in conversations about translation and is super interesting to translate because of the word order-- the first word in greek is "μηνιν," translated as "wrath" or "rage" or similar. and "wrath" being the first word is really important because the iliad is all about achilles' anger, so opening on "wrath" really strongly communicates that. and in greek it works because the word endings are what tell you what each word is doing in a sentence, but in english we don't have as many word endings, so we rely on the order of words in a sentence to figure out what it means-- so like, the most literal english translation that makes actual sense is "goddess, sing the accursed wrath of achilles son of peleus," and if you use the greek word order, "wrath sing goddess son of peleus achilles accursed," it doesn't make sense. but in greek it works because "wrath" has an accusative ending, which marks it as the direct object/the thing being acted upon, and "accursed" (which is actually technically in the second line!) also has that ending, which means it goes with "wrath." so greek has a ton of freedom in poetry to put words wherever. and the problem as an english translator is to figure out how to emphasize "wrath" in that line while also making it sound natural in english.

so anyway fagles' first line ("Rage--Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles...") is both very accurate to the greek and solves the problem of how to make the sentence make sense while maintaining the significance of rage to the story. so i do quite like it! and i've heard other translators use it as an example of a good translation too. but it's such an interesting question!

#mod felix #trying desperately to explain noun declensions so i can give appropriate context to people who haven't studied latin or greek #if it doesn't make sense tell me and i'll say it better #anyway this is the kind of thing i live for

[stackslip]

i hate declinative languages out of sheer principle, which is why i'm taking two online classes in two famously declinative languages :))))

#latin and ancient greek. which is kinda necessary for my doing anything related to late antiquity #can you believe i ever considered studying linguistics when i am famously not a fan of languages....... #eli talks

[daily-french-words]

différend : nm. désaccord causé par un opposition d'opinions ou d'intérêts entre des personnes.

ex : Le différend politique entre sa mère et son père amplifie les tensions au sein de la famille.

5/10

disagreement : the act, state or fact of disagreement; a difference of opinion.

Don't confuse it with the adjective différent!

Historically, it's a variation of différent, which comes from the verb différer, which was itself borrowed from the Latin form differens.

#i love etymology so much man #can you tell yet? #it's so underrated #french isn't that interesting because it's all greek or latin with some english sprinkles #germanic languages tend to be much more interesting #no i swear #i'm omw to lose my mind because of language studies #anyways tag time! #différend #french #french vocab #main #french vocabulary #french words #daily french word #having a blondie moment she's so much fun to listen to #have a good day

[thebirdandhersong]

My ideal plan after graduation, if I had no limits or setbacks on the financial stuff, and if I were guaranteed a spot in every university I applied to:

2024: working year. to save up for a master's, to get some experience, and to recover from my BA lol

2025: master's number 1 (concentration undecided but location most likely in the UK)

2026: rest and recover... possibly work in Canada, take a course or two at the theological college I live close to right now, spend time with family, write fiction, do some research

2027: start ph D (location unknown)

sometime in the future: a second master's in a different area of literature or in classics :)))

#this is highly improbable i just like to dream!!! #at this point in time i want to learn Everything and do it All but i'm still figuring things out xD #if i do a master's in classics i need to brush up on latin and greek... if i do medieval studies i DO need to actually get started on middl #middle and old english (at least get familiar with it) #we don't have time period/specialization specific degrees at my uni for english--you're either in eng lit or eng ling #anyhow i am So Excited but i need to think a lot and pray!! #(adventures in class)

[kse22chili]

Cubitum eamus?

I was surrounded by green landscapes. The leaves' and trees' color matched with my flowy skirt. My mustardish skirt danced with the breeze, a graceful waltz under the blinding light of my usual guest. This guest has always been there with me. Specifically every Sunday. And peculiarly its light gets stronger and brighter everytime that I appear in its presence. It's really strange. Perhaps, Zeus is content when seeing me, and his only way to contact me is by increasing the brightness of his Sun. Nonetheless, I'm thankful of it.

I could feel the warm breeze timidly touching my bare arms and uncovered shoulders. It was such a hair-raising feeling that it bizarrely made me slowly close my eyes while enjoying that docile embrace.

The crunch of grass under boots made my eyes slam open. That crunch of boots on dew-kissed ground resonates - a rythmic dance between man and nature. Each step, a whispered promise of connection, as if the meadow itself aknowledged his presence.

I turned around. There stopped a gigantic man. He was so majestic that I nearly stopped breathing. There was no oxygen enough for me. The nature was taking it from me.

Despite this, I continued looking at him. I didn't dare to say a thing. No voice could get out of my mouth.

I was so mesmerized by him that I didn't notice he was getting closer and closer to me. I was laying on top of the meadow. Undoubtedly, I was looking like a sloppy little girl and unashamedly I was staying there unmoving.

Surprisingly, he stretched his arm to me. Oh God. What did I think that he was going to do? That, I better not share with you.

"Aventurine. What are you doing here? Shouldn't you..."

I shockingly raised my head. How did he know my name? That I didn't know, nevertheless, I didn't really care. My name softly coming out his fleshy lips ignited a burning heat inside my heart and tiny body. I obviously zoned out and I didn't bother listening to what he was saying.

#creative writing #poetry #lovers #imagine #original poem #writers and poets #writerscommunity #greek gods #gods #myth #mythology #mythology and folklore #gods and goddesses #latin language #latino #lingua latina #language #english #classical studies #latin men #loves #ares #love #self love #i love him #feeling #writing #writer #writers on tumblr #on writing

[ronanlynchbf]

this summer i need to cut my hair and buy silly t-shirts and stop being apologetic abt merely existing and do things even though i'm very bad at them and be earnest & bouyant and stop thinking i'm being punished when bad things happen and read books i've never heard of and be in any body of water as much as possible and be less afraid of people crushing my heart when i give them it!!!!! Basically i need to go on walks even when i don't feel like it so every time i do i will be enraptured by the world like i always am 🙏❤

#i booked an appointment to cut my hair & got two books i'd never heard of before and every time i go to the thrift store i look for silly #t-shirts and in regards to all the other stuff i will try very hard. and that at least is something. #ALSO i will watch tv shows from ten years ago and go to concerts without feeling alienated when i'm there and stop feeling like i'm running #in a race of time with other ppl my age that i will never win and be open to new experiences and push myself out of my comfort zone 👍 #double also!! i will stop being scared to wear certain clothes bc i think i'll be judged for it and i will be more easygoing with strangers #and i'll stop feeling like i'm slowly wasting away and i will stop feeling like i'm bothering everyone all the time and i will learn arabic #and greek and hindi and freshen up on my spanish & latin. the latter ones i am already busy with <333 #owl app i hate u but u do get me places. oh also if anyone's studying languages atm memrise.com is a pretty good site too!!! #ANYWAY. bucket list 4 the summer 👆 #through rain and wind and other hashtag bad weather i WILL swim this summer mark my words ☝️

[graysbullshit]

everybody gangsta until you gotta memorize the grammatical case system

#classic studies #ancient greek literature #latin language #attic greek #i have the feeling the old greeks fucking hate me #if i have to learn articles again im gonna flip #ancient greek language #classics #classical studies

[bookwyrminspiration]

and also :0 what languages do you know?? wishing you luck in learning more of the/more languages!! may we become even more multilingual than before

I love talking about languages!! My dad and I are both huge language people

Quite obviously, I'm fluent in English. I have functional fluency in Spanish (took the official test for it, but my Spanish is by no means perfect) and a 2 year degree in Modern Languages with a concentration in Spanish. I can also passably communicate in ASL--I was literally one class away from finishing my ASL 2 year degree and then they cancelled the class, and am now unable to finish it. My ASL is also imperfect, but I can hold basic conversations and tell stories and such. I did also study french for 2 semesters (required for my Spanish degree), but I didn't retain like any of it.

I'd like to revisit French one day, and I'm interested in Nahuatl as well. And Persian, because I grew up Baha'i and surrounded by the language but picked up none of it. There's like a million languages I want to know I can't list them all. Slightly related, knowing morse code and braille would be lovely. I just think languages are so neat!!

here's to us becoming more and more multilingual than before!! I wish you luck with all your languages too <3

#quil's queries #soryasongsaa #basically every time I hear a language I'm like wow...wish I spoke that... #but top of my list is spanish. for. probably obvious cultural language loss reasons #oh also greek/latin would be nice #so many historical things in those languages...the doors it would open intellectually... #GOD i love language #my dad is currently studying linguistics and sometimes he shares things with me and I'm always like :0 #my dad and I are like. just variations of the same person it's ridiculous (in a fun way) #my mom and sister are each their own people and then my dad and I are like >:0 why r u so much like me

[studywurfavwasian]

olive essay & coffee from my favourite coffee shop :)

i also saw black adam today w my dad & when they were walking in the cave at the beginning i leaned over and went — “it’s cuneiform!!” (i was very excited.)

everyday i stray further from greece and rome and move towards becoming a full blown persian, akkadian, sumerian, babylonian, and ancient egyptian scholar.

#classics #studyblr #academia #ancient greek #ancient greece #latin #study aesthetic #study inspo #study inspiration #classics studyblr #classic academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #i love writing essays on olives #ancient civ #ancient rome #minoan #mycenae