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benvoolioo · 1 year
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hey girl, um, we were having a bacchanal and we kinda tore your boyfriend to shreds. yeah, ripped his head clean off. sorry about that :/
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I have acquired several dusty tomes (books) from the ancient archives (college library) with which to perform evils (research paper writing).
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mysharona1987 · 1 year
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Tell me you’ve never read The Odyssey without outright telling me you’ve never read The Odyssey.
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beluosus · 2 months
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literarydesire · 1 month
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That thing when you ask your professor a question and they get that distant look in their eyes and stare into space for a while and you can see them racking their brain for an answer and then, they get really excited when they realize that they dont know so now they have an excuse to research something new >>>
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flaroh · 1 year
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"This is the tomb of the dog, Stephanos, who perished. Whom Rhodope shed tears for and buried like a human.
I am the dog Stephanos, and Rhodope set up a tomb for me"
This piece is a tribute to two members of the ancient world, who lived in the Greek city of Termessos in modern day Turkey. We know about them today as Stephanos, a dog, had a tomb dedicated to him by his owner, Rhodope, who was also laid to rest nearby. As far as I can research, we don't know the exact details of when they lived, or much about their lives, except that Rhodope wanted us to know how much Stephanos meant to her.
His tomb was found near Rhodope’s own inscribed sarcophagus, which states that she set up the tomb completely and exclusively for herself. This suggests she was a single, independent wealthy woman.
Stephanos' remains are lost to time, but based on the size, and his role as a lady's companion dog, it is likely he was a melitan breed. This breed was a small, spitz-type dog that was incredibly popular in antiquity.
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ennuyeuxbabe · 3 months
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this is how your email finds me
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volumniafox · 3 months
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Help Finnish classicists out! The University of Helsinki is planning on cutting all courses on classical archaeology. The University of Helsinki is currently the only university in Finland that provides any kind of education on the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean and losing this program would be a huge loss for the classics field here.
This is a bad decision considering the quality of research by Finnish scholars and the amount of outside funding our projects bring to the university. This is a short-sighted decision made by the dean of the faculty of arts. In the long run, this will be detrimental to Finnish scholarship in classics.
Symposion ry, the students' association for students of classical archaeology and classical philology at the University of Helsinki, currently has an open petition that will be presented to the dean. International attention and media coverage would be very, very helpful, so please consider signing! You can also leave a comment if you wish, but that is not mandatory. All comments will also be presented to the dean.
You can read the petition (and also sign it) in English, Finnish, and Swedish here:
https://www.adressit.com/antiikin_materiaalisen_kulttuurin_opetuksen_on_jatkuttava_helsingin_yliopistossa
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shakespearesdaughters · 7 months
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You don’t know how much I would kill for a version of this book from Camilla’s perspective. I have so many questions. Who was she really? What role did she have to play in all the events that unfolded?
I can’t help but think it must have been more sinister than the other characters due to Richard completely omitting anything about her character and personality to such a degree. He romanticized her more then Henry and Julian to such an extent she’s an enigma.
Her story about what happened to the farmer is completely different from Henry’s. She was the only one covered in blood. The group is very protective of her as evidenced by the scene when she injured her foot. She’s the only one in the group who remained cool and unfazed after murdering Bunny. She is seemingly unaffected by the breakdown of the group. She’s aware of the nature of Francis and Charles relationship and does nothing to help him. When Charles begins to spiral further in his addiction she leaves him behind and goes to Henry for protection.
Did she murder the farmer? What did she really think about Richard? Or Henry? How much did she know? How much did she manipulate? So many possibilities.
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benvoolioo · 1 year
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oh, so murdering my husband on his return from troy after he sacrificed our daughter to Artemis makes me the bad guy??? god forbid women do anything  🙄
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unsightlythinker · 2 months
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Homeric Odysseus and EPIC Odysseus are ultimately two very different breeds of chaotic human.
And as someone who is currently studying The Odyssey as part of their Classics course…I love both Odys in equal measure.
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A piece from the Getty Villa that I am very not normal about: The drinking horn with the two kissing gay centaurs.
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beluosus · 2 months
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literarydesire · 7 months
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The Secret History really makes Greek professors out to be mysterious and high-class but my professor is called Dorothy, wears socks in sandals, knits during class, knows 14 languages (including Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European) and has asked me questions like; “If you were a kitchen cabinet, what kind of cabinet would you be?” during break. Nothing mysterious about that woman but she’s so very talented and so much fun to be around.
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flaroh · 1 year
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My mock book covers of the Iliad and the Odyssey ⚔🌊✨
☆Merch Here☆
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ennuyeuxbabe · 3 months
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what if the odyssey read like doctor seuss like. Tell me O Muse! Of a many-deviced man who wandered full many ways, and liked green eggs and ham.
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