rallying the amish

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[nikerebecka]

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

to me the thing about deification is that something fundamental is lost in the process

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

people can’t be immortal. so in order to be immortal you can’t be a person anymore. you have to be distilled. stripped of everything. till you come out the other side as an abstract concept.

[miamlsunshine]

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

telemachus' first interactions with athena are everything to me. he has no idea he's speaking to a goddess so there's no posturing, no pretense. just: “greetings, stranger. sit, rest, have some wine. btw not to be indelicate but my life is a joke & these suitors fucking suck. welcome to ithaca”

[musubeans]

saw a car dragging a labubu facedown through the street

[tattedpetticoats]

[thoodleoo]

classicists will make the ugliest least functional website in the history of html and it will contain the entire library of fragmentary papyri of the works of aeschylus. for free

[thoodleoo]

i am learning about so many beautiful websites from this. they are like horses to me

[thoodleoo]

"i asked chatgpt-" well i consulted the oracle at delphi and she told me that my kingdom will only fall when a mule becomes king of the medes

[grecoromanyaoi]

citationless behavior

[grecoromanyaoi]

sourceless behavior

[thoodleoo]

what reading some modern adaptations of the iliad feels like

[a-state-of-bliss]

Gianfranco Ferre Spr/Sum 2006

[grecoromanyaoi]

its called alpha/beta/omega dynamics bc the ancient greeks wouldve loved them

[grecoromanyaoi]

u think they wouldntve loved it if cis men could reproduce by themselves? u think they wouldntve jumped at the opportunity to kick All Women down a comically long set of stairs???? be serious

[babymorte]

why are men so self conscious about their height when there are so many more important flaws to be self conscious about like the lack of emotional intelligence

[catilinas]

when priam is like hi helen you have done nothing wrong in your life ever i only blame the gods and fate. btw who is that massive hottie on the battlefield. and helen is like you have been at war with this guy for the past nine years how do you not know who agamemnon is

[emmastory]

alla mingalёva

[odd-dolly]

[measureformeasure]

aeschylus is dead sophocles is dead euripides is dead and me i feel not so good

[splendidemendax]

—aristophanes, 405 bce

[uncleclaudius]

Mosaic with sea creatures from the House of the Faun, Pompeii.