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thoodleoo · 7 hours
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6th grade is probably my favorite grade to teach because they're the perfect combination of relatively enthusiastic and "just now starting to learn not to take things too seriously" without typically getting "too cool" for anything we do. as a result they're the best kids to read marcus aurelius to because they still think it's fun and will quiet down for it while also finding some of the things marcus aurelius says amusing. the best part about it though is that if i accidentally get distracted and forget to give them their dose of 2nd century CE stoic philosophy they call me out on it because they really want to hear what he has to say
what im saying is the other day in class i may have had a small group of 11-12 year olds yelling "WHAT ABOUT MARCUS" at me because i forgot to read them a passage from the meditations at the start of class
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ennuyeuxbabe · 2 months
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this is how your email finds me
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girlcatilina · 4 months
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Dionysus as grapes, detail from fresco of Dionysus on Vesuvius, Pompeii, before 79 A.D. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
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wingedcupidx · 4 months
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he's a ten but he doesn't listen to his wife and goes to work after recieving an ominous prophecy that he might die that day
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lykeios · 2 months
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every day i wake up and i think about virgil
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federal-goose · 6 months
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caesar is making me question the classics degree. if i see one more unnecessary relative clause i might just have to stab him
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ithaca-my-beloved · 5 months
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i hope nobody beat me to this one
(@kradnie has pointed out that lucretia my reflection actually came out in 87 but the top result on google said it was 85 for some reason so uhhhhhhhhhhh please ignore that)
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myrmidoink · 5 months
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had a dream where i was the border guard in papers please and a bunch of sheep went through the border crossing and their passports said that their names were no-one and they came from ithaca and then this random guy materialises from under the sheep and puts a BURNING FUCKING STAKE IN MY SINGLE EYE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CURSE OF POSEIDON UPON YOUR SMART ASS GOOD LUCK GETTING HOME YOU MOTHERLESS FUCK
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perroulisses · 4 months
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I just going to drop this here
The way the double S in Odysseus, Ulysses and Odyssey, gives me a resemblance of sea waves is never going to stop being kinda beautiful for me
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chronicallyblonde · 2 years
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obsessiveacademic · 2 months
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"I haven't read the Iliad yet"
"what?! why haven't you read The Iliad yet? It's a must read for classic enjoyers"
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thoodleoo · 2 days
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another day drinking at the symposium. everyone keep asking me if they can fuck socrates. buddy, they won't even let me fuck him
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ennuyeuxbabe · 2 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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girlcatilina · 4 months
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what if we we started a cycle of violence on the streets of late republican rome and then took turns murdering each other. what then.
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catulluslover · 16 days
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HOW DID GREEKS AFFORD THE THEATER SHOWS?
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In Ancient Greece, during the classical period, theater was born. Of course, it was very different from the modern one, but that's where everything started.
Theater is the most interesting part of Greek literature and has so many peculiarities and characteristics that are really fascinating, but I wanna talk about one in particular.
How did they afford it?
Before getting into it, we have a couple of considerations to make.
Plays were represented only during religious festivals that were held every year: play writers had to present 3 tragedies and 1 satiric drama, which were acted out for the public and the judges who then had to choose a winner.
At these festivals, everyone participated: theater was the first form of public education and all citizens, didn't matter rich or poor, had to be there. To make sure that everyone could participate, the government paid the ticket for citizens who couldn't afford it.
So, each religious festival brought a lot of expenses.
But Ancient Greeks found a way to find the finances for them.
The government of the πόλις (= the city) knew how rich each citizen was, so they went to the richest and asked them to pay for the festival.
Usually, they didn't refuse, because it was a great honor, but it could happen that the chosen citizen said that he wasn't the richest. If that was the case, this citizen A had to indicate the actual richest citizen. So the government went to this citizen B and asked him to finance the festivities.
If citizen B then accused citizen A of lying and so on, it was applicated the αντιδοσις (antidosis): the two citizens had to switch their possessions, so the truth would have come out, as one would became poorer and the other richer.
However, this only happened in the theater of the V century.
In fact, in the IV century, apart from all the other changes, the government didn't pay for poor citizens anymore for money problems. So the public wasn't the πόλις (= the city) that needed to be educated anymore, but the already educated leading class.
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lykeios · 1 month
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guys (me) will turn 19 and base their whole personality on the iliad
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