esther greenwood

❝some girl a hundred years ago once lived as i do. and she is dead. i am the present, but i know i, too, will pass.❞ xxiv

[rodrickheffeley]

well im not the moon im not even a star

[hangsawoman]

me when i go walking on sunny days and end up on a tree lined street and look up at the gaps of sunlight and miss you more than anything

[miamaimania]

“Entwined” at New Orleans Botanical Garden ☀ Lovers frozen in stone while plants plot their gentle takeover

[nubbsgalore]

slope point, the southernmost tip on new zealand’s south island, is hit with such persistently violent southern antarctic winds that trees grow in the leeward direction. (click pic or link for credit x, x, x, x, x, x)

[egypt-museum]

Hieroglyphic inscriptions, Temple of Kom Ombo

[7pleiades7]

Jupiter and Juno (1597-1604) by Annibale Carracci (Italian, 1560 – 1609), fresco, Farnese Gallery, Rome.

[animentality]

[ancientcharm]

Fresco from the triclinium of House of the Vettii, Pompeii.

[paleotool]

Roman brothel tokens.

[thoodleoo]

"i asked chatgpt" "i asked grok" well i asked socrates and he said the only thing he knows is that he knows nothing

[iamheavymeta-lll]

Los Jardines Boboli — Florence, Italy

[julius-caeser]

is that a knife in your pocket or are you just happy to see me, hehehe wait what-

[enlitment]

average Cicero moment

[enlitment]

average Cicero moment

[saintjustienne]

There is something deeply bittersweet about getting so invested in the life and works of someone who is long gone. You read about them, you collects informations, you think you know them, but your knowledge will always be incomplete. We base our perception on what we have, which sometimes is not very much. You cannot know how they really looked like (if they lived before the invention og photography) or how their voice sounded. A million little details you would like to know. You can grasp something of their lives if you are lucky enough to have personal objects, diaries, letters preserved... but even then it's not enough. They lived, they breathed like you do, and now they are gone. You both walked on the same earth but there are centuries separating you. There is a certain ache in that.

[brisim-claimhte]

The best thing about being a chronically online papyrologist in training is being assigned an unpublished fragment to decipher, and slowly realising it's talking about the purity of mesopotamian copper.

Two millennia after Ea Nasir, the Romans are worried about buying impure copper ingots, imported from Mesopotamia.

[fadedlovemp3]

Jenny Holzer vs. Wallace Stegner