Sarcasm is a form of art

INTJ - Slytherin - Bookworm - History and Ancient Greek Philology student - Tea lover

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Socrates was teaching my English class dressed in drag.

[xvaniex]

Every time the rain falls, think of me.

Persephone to Hades in spring (via xvaniex)

[learninglinguist]

Learning modern languages: Hello! How are you? My name is Josh. I am happy today. Where is the bathroom please?

Learning ancient languages: Life is long and unbearably hard. Each day barbarians slaughter another member of my family. Pirates, sailing swiftly across the wine-dark sea, have kidnapped my sister and stolen our grain. We are starving. Oh immortal gods! Soon we all will die.

[renwei]

If Not, Winter — Sappho (tr. Anne Carson)

[itsaseamonster]

In Ancient Greek we don’t say “I love you” we say “εἰ δὲ θανόντων περ καταλήθοντ’ εἰν Ἀΐδαο αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ καὶ κεῖθι φίλου μεμνήσομ' ἑταίρου.” which translates into “And though the dead forget the dead in the house of Hades, even there I shall still remember my beloved companion.” and I think that is beautiful.

[ofthewinedarksea]

The three stages of getting into classics

[captainlatin]

 Fun fact: 

The word ‘ostrich’ is actually an Anglicisation of a Frenchification of a Latinisation of a Greek word, which means ‘sparrow-camel.’

Eng. Ostrich < Old French ostruce < Late Latin avis (’bird’) + struthio (’camel’)

struthio < shortened form of Ancient Greek στρουθιοκαμηλος < στρουθιων (’sparrow’, cf. cognates English ‘thrush’, Latin turdus) + καμηλος (’camel’)

So really, the English word ostrich means ‘bird-sparrow-camel’.

[incorrectgreekquotes]

Zeus : Anyone else feel good when their brain releases a bunch of endorphins?

Hades : Can’t relate.

Poseidon : Why would my brain release a bunch of dolphins?

[all-about-kejtyy]

dad: why are you drinking coffee at 10pm?

me: time is an illusion. once you realize that, you can transcend, and live in bliss

me: *takes sip*

me: also i have a 10 page paper due in the morning that i haven't started