domiporta (nerd)

Hobbies include destroying carthage, crying over long dead people, and talking about bees. Oh, and wasting my time on memes.

[thoodleoo]

when you think about it tho pliny the elder is kind of the funniest guy in the world like. he wrote all these books about natural history that he was wrong about where he confidently claims things like “some animals only have blood during certain parts of the year” and then when mt. vesuvius erupted and destroyed pompeii and herculaneum he said “oh mt vesuvius is exploding? let me go check it out” and then he died

[hungwy]

my ancient greek history professor is making us post memes weekly. i swear to god

[blackpyrefly]

heres one for you

[thepringlesofblood]

my time has come for hyperspecific classics memes

[saltykingsalty]

I…I need context. I’m gonna research all this shit one day.. If I remember after work

[lemonsharks]

I understand most of these!

[unpretty]

julius caesar as just Some Dude is tripping me out

[kelpforestdwellers]

@elucubrare thoughts?

[elucubrare]

K @aeide-thea​ ’s thoughts are better than mine! 

[postmodernjpg]

[randomitemdrop]

Item: horseless chariot

[fishmech]

Paulus Blarticus

[roughromanshit-deactivated20200]

[museum-of-artifacts]

Octopus Mosaic in Pompeii, Italy

#octopus #mosaic #art #history #italy #museum #pompeii #l4l

[ancient-rome-au]

P L E B S    R I S E     U P

[roughromanshit-deactivated20200]

[thoodleoo]

the romans:

cato the elder:

[thoodleoo]

the greeks trying to sneak into troy

[markantonys]

favorite recurring theme in hbo rome: antony’s complete inability to sit properly in the senate

[adolescentglittr]

Ahh yes a true bisexual

[catosuggestions]

carthage must be destroyed. cabbage must be enjoyed.

[thoodleoo]

the worst part about reading ancient roman philosophy is that sometimes you’ll read something expressly saying that people shouldn’t do something that you do frequently and it’s like diogenes threw a plucked chicken at you from 2000 years ago

[thoodleoo]

like

marcus aurelius just fuckin @ me next time

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: ὀμβροχαρής (ombrocharēs), delighting in rain

[thoodleoo]

we talk a lot about how greek mythology is really into furry stuff but i dont ever see anyone mentioning how much feet are mentioned in greek myths. like oedipus is bound by his feet (and his name means swollen foot); philoctetes was bit in the foot by a snake; achilles was “swift-footed” and died when he was shot in the foot with an arrow. the only reasonable explanation for this is that ancient greece on the whole had a thing for feet. in this essay i will

[m1male2]

In Akaki (Cyprus) a spectacular mosaic of the 4th century has been seen, showing a chariot race. The decorated pavement, about eleven meters long and four meters wide, represents a chariot race in a Roman circus. It was probably part of a Roman villa

[thoodleoo]

ancient literature as dril tweets

the iliad: so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement

the odyssey: what donest kill me makes me stronger ((gains infinite strength from being not killed by infinite things))

the aeneid: i regret being tasked the emotional burden of maintaining the final bastion of morality and NIce manners in this endless ocean of human SHIT

the poems of sappho: going t o start saying, “Wife City” whenever i see an attractive woman. e.g… “thats Wife City” or “that girl is Wife City to me”

the poems of catullus: who the fuck is scraeming “LOG OFF” at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off

horace’s odes: they will kick my ass for saying it. they will take my career and my livelihood away from me. but “Wine” , is better than, “The News”

the ars amatoria: Its time to open the dialouge, on the Mens penis.

the commentaries on the gallic war: I put years of hard work into getting my torture degree at torture college & now everyones like “oh tortures bad” , “its ineffective” fuck off

martial’s epigrams: i will tell you this right now: I’m from hell. Im highly fucked up. Ive been known to say rude things and watch the carnage unfold brutally