#lucretius

[latin-literature-tourney]

Latin Literature Tournament - Round 1

Propaganda under the cut!

Lucretius Propaganda:

His description of atomism is pretty damn accurate for an ancient Roman poet with literally no clue what the fuck he's talking

In this house we love Epicureanism

Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucreti / exitio terras cum dabit una dies

Petronius Propaganda

You really can't go wrong with the Cena Trimalchionis--crazy food, astrology, werewolves...there's really something for everyone

When Nero ordered him to commit suicide, threw a sumptuous party about it and broke all his expensive stuff so Nero couldn't take it. Queen Shit

Part Menippean satire, part Greek novel: a genuinely Wild fucking combo that makes one of the weirdest and coolest pieces of Latin prose out there

#tagamemnon #lucretius #petronius #latin #latin literature #latin literature tournament #classics #tournament polls #tumblr polls #bracket #satyricon #de rerum natura

[cyberianpunks]

…For if atoms did not tend to lean, they would

Plummet like raindrops through the depths of space…

#art #collage #text #on the nature of things #lucretius #monochrome #swerve #free palestine

[philosophybits]

Fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things

#philosophy #quotes #Lucretius #On the Nature of Things #illusions #delusions #confusion #rhetoric

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Denarius.

Moneyer: L. Lucretius Trio

Cultures/Period: Roman Republican

Date: 76 B.C.

Place of origin: Italy, Rome, Lazio

Medium: Silver

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #roman #ancient history #archaeology #sol #denarius #coin #currency #stars #moon #lazio #silver #76 b.c. #lucretius

[bugcowboyart]

The Ringleader

Every game should have a necromancer drag queen ringleader of an interplanetary circus from now on. Peak fantasy. GOTY.

Based this a little more on some of VA Daniel Jacob/Vinegar Strokes looks because the in game model wasn’t giving enough face OR hair OR glitter for my personal preference.

Also isn’t it weird that Lucretius has rounded ears but the game calls them a high elf but they have the same staff as Ethel??! Hmmmm

#Lucretius #Lucretius bg3 #give this woman her clown body parts #baldur’s gate iii #Baldur’s gate 3 #vinegar strokes #drag queen #drag race uk

[henk-heijmans]

Zdun reads Lucretius, Warsaw, 1977 - by Aleksander Jałosiński (1931 - 2014), Polish

#Aleksander Jałosiński #Warsaw #Lucretius #man

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"So potent was Religion in persuading to do wrong." -- Lucretius

#Lucretius #religion #religion poisons everything #religion is a mental illness

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante, in terras.

- Lucretius

What once sprung from earth sinks back into the earth.

#lucretius #latin #roman #quote #femme #beauty #earth #body

[macrolit]

Vintage Penguin Classics from the 1950s

#penguin books #penguin classics #literature #homer #balzac #stendhal #lucretius #guy de maupassant #classic literature #1950s

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Lucretius #On the Nature of Things #perspective #subjectivity #individuality

[somnolentdesolation]

The substance of this vast world is condemned to death and ruin.

Lucretius

#lucretius

[latin-literature-tourney]

Welcome to the Latin Literature Tournament!

Selections are based on my university's Latin reading list, with a couple names added to round it out to 32 contestants. So unfortunately, not every author managed to make the cut--I'm sorry to all three of my fellow Silius Italicus fans :(

I'm accepting propaganda for any of the competitors! Drop your arguments, panegyrics, hot takes, and trash talk in an ask!

Polls open up on Monday, 4/22, and will be open for a week! All reblogs are greatly appreciated!

#tagamemnon #tumblr polls #tournament polls #tournament #bracket #classics #ancient rome #latin #ovid #vergil #cicero #tacitus #seneca #catullus #pliny #cato #livy #lucretius

[weil-weil-lautre]

The grandeur of this enterprise [the history of scientific investigation and experimentation] of four hundred years is incontestable. Our simplest actions are ruled by a necessity which, when we relate it to all things, presents the idea of a world so totally indifferent to our desires that we feel how very nearly nothing we are. By conceiving ourselves, if one may so express it, from the point of view of the world, we attain to that indifference about ourselves without which there is no deliverance from desire, hope, fear, and becoming, without which there is no virtue or wisdom, without which one lives in a dream. An eclipse is a nightmare for the man who does not know that the sun's disappearance in the eclipse is analogous to its disappearance when he puts his hands over his eyes; when he knows it, the eclipse is simply a fact. The purifying effect of the contemplation and experiencing of necessity is sufficiently conveyed in some marvelous lines of Lucretius; misfortune endured in the right way is a similar purification; and classical science, too, is a purification if it is rightly used. It tries to read behind all appearances that inexorable necessity which makes the world a place in which we do not count, a place of work, a place indifferent to desire, to aspirations, and to the good. The sun which it takes for an object of study shines indifferently upon the unjust and the just.

Simone Weil, "Classical Science and After," On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God, 10

#simone weil #weil #sw #quote #science #love #god #desire #hope #lucretius #philosophy

[lionofchaeronea]

A Hymn to Epicurus

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.1-13 You who first were able, out of such great darkness, To lift a light so bright, illuminating life’s good things, You it is I follow, o glory of the Greek people, And in the marks you’ve pressed I now place the fashioned Traces of my feet – not so much desirous Of vying with you, no, but rather out of love That I desire to imitate you; for how could a swallow compete With swans, or what could kids, with their shaky joints, Be able to do in a race like a horse’s mighty power? You, father, are the discoverer of things, You supply to us our ancestral precepts; from Your writings, famous one, as bees in flowering glades Taste of all things, in like fashion we ourselves devour All your golden sayings – golden, ever worthiest Of life that never ends. E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda vitae, te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc ficta pedum pono pressis vestigia signis, non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amorem quod te imitari aveo; quid enim contendat hirundo cycnis, aut quid nam tremulis facere artubus haedi consimile in cursu possint et fortis equi vis? tu, pater, es rerum inventor, tu patria nobis suppeditas praecepta, tuisque ex, inclute, chartis, floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant, omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta, aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.

Bust of Epicurus of Samos (342-270 BCE), founder of the Epicurean school of philosophy (the Garden), from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. Roman copy after a third century BCE Greek original. Now in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo credit: Sailko/Wikimedia Commons.

#classics #tagamemnon #Latin #Latin language #lingua latina #translation #Latin translation #Ancient Rome #Roman Republic #Lucretius #Titus Lucretius Carus #ancient philosophy #Hellenistic philosophy #Epicurus #Epicureanism #De Rerum Natura #didactic poetry #dactylic hexameter #hymn

[bugcowboyart]

if Lucretius told me to to lip sync for my life I would simply *ottos irresistible dance*

Now my list of fantasy media with drag queens reads:

1. Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce

2. D20 dungeons and drag queens

3. Bg3

Though I am changing some aspects of her because she needs more hair, more makeup, and more glitter imo 

#sketch #more fantasy should have drag queens in it #bg3 #lucretius #necromancer #drag queen #vinegar strokes #drag

[funeral]

Every person tries to flee himself—yet despite ourselves, we remain attached to this self which we hate.

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, III

#lucretius #philosophy #quotes #p