GREEN for GREECE | RED for ROME

100% Ancient civilization content (mostly greek and roman) with a dash of that young academic snark.

[design-art-architecture]

Museo Capitolino Rome Via @antoniopedrophotography

[neapolis-neapolis]

Athena (I sec.), da Villa dei Papiri - Ercolano, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli.

[jaded-mandarin]

Louis Laguerre. The Rape of Proserpine, Design for the staircase of Devonshire House, London, 1704.

[labentiasidera-deactivated20210]

Adiumenta

Salvete omnes :) Classics has always been less accessible for many, especially marginalized people. This is all the more true right now. In the coming weeks/months I’m planning to put out more resources here designed to help people who lack access to a “traditional” classics education. If there is anything you would like to see, or anything that would be especially beneficial to you personally, please let me know and I’ll do my best to include it! If you have been excluded from the Classics community or from education in Classical languages, I would like to hear about your experiences to get a better idea of how to best promote inclusivity. Feel free to leave a reply to this post or message me (I will keep messages strictly confidential!) 

Hope y’all are doing well <3<3<3 curate ut valeatis

[the-evil-clergyman]

Seated Satyr by Andrea Briosco (1520)

[thus-said-the-soul]

“There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin.”

Latin: Est non dulcior innocentia nostris molli peccamine .

Greek: ἐστί μὴ ἡ γλυκύτερα καθαρότης τῶν ἡμῶν μαλακῶν ἡμαρτημένων.

—Hozier, Take Me To Church (2014)

[thoodleoo]

there’s a lot of evidence that the iliad and the odyssey were actually composed by a variety of poets through an oral tradition rather than just by one poet, so what if the homeric texts are actually just a very long game of D&D

[thoodleoo]

homer, the dm: okay achilles, agamemnon has just taken away your war prize, what do you want to do achilles’ player: i roll to have a diplomatic conversation with agamemnon achilles’ player: *rolls a 1* homer: you throw the staff of speaking at agamemnon’s face and storm off to sulk with your boyfriend

[earlhamclassics]

Homer, the DM: Your beautiful Patroclus is dead. What do you do? Achilles’ player: I fight everyone. Homer, the DM: You can’t fight everyone. How would you even– Achilles’ player: *rolls a 20* I fight everyone. Homer, the DM: *sighs* Fine. You cut a path through the Trojan army, enemy dead strewn in your wake. Achilles’ player: How many? Homer, the DM: …lots. Enough to clog the friggin’ river with bodies. Achilles’ player: I fight the river. Homer, the DM: You. can. not. fight. the. river. Achilles’ player: *reaches for dice*

[charlesoberonn]

The myth of Achilles, but instead of holding him by the heel, Thetis sumberges him fully so that Achilles is completely invulnerable and Thetis has one invulnerable hand.

[charlesoberonn]

She only needs one oven mitt when taking cookies out of the oven.

[aphony-cree]

But there would still be two small parts of him that are vulnerable because they were covered by her fingertips at the time, stopping the water from touching them. Which means those fingertips are also vulnerable on her hand 

Achilles *putting those little round band-aids on two parts of his ankle before battle*

Thetis *knitting fingertip oven mitts for her thumb and forefinger*

This is a Greek comedy I could get behind 

[obaewankenope]

What if she put him in a sack and dunked him in? The water would saturate the sack and soak him and so long as she pulled him out quick, he wouldn't drown. Then they'd have a sack that's invulnerable too and can be used as the most unexpected shield ever.

Imagine Achilles storming Troy with one (1) invulnerable sack for a shield

[adspexi]

thetis just sticks him in one of these bad boys

and swirls him around like a batch of chicken nuggets until he’s invulnerable all over. 

[libraford]

Ah yes. Minotaur. The first cowboy. 

[libraford]

I said this to my girlfriend and she just started listing synonyms for ‘bad’ at me. 

[c-aesarion]

World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in the Black Sea

Carbon dated to 500 BC, the ship is among 72 found at the bottom of the sea and may have been depicted on an ancient vase.

This is a huge discovery!

[susanpevensle]

today i had a man tell me, in all earnest, that i obviously wasn’t very good at my classical studies degree because zeus only had one son, hercules - his source was the disney movie hercules

[comradeclodius]

Here’s a lil doodle of Odysseus talking about Achilles, based on a post by @incorrectclassics :)

Link to the original post: http://incorrectclassics.tumblr.com/post/84526660621/his-username-is-patroclus-his-password-is-also

[c-aesarion]

Podcasts!

Hey guys- I’m going on dig in a few days and want to load up on Classics and non-Classics podcasts-- so I thought I’d start a conversation! What are your favorites?

[books0977]

Dancing Nymphs (1718). Adriaen van der Werff (Dutch, 1659-1722). Oil on panel. Musée du Louvre.

In collaboration with Pieter van der Werff, his brother and assistant. Two women dance before a shepherd playing a flute.

[didoofcarthage]

Red-figure cup with Achilles and Odysseus, attributed to Douris

Greek (made in Attica), Classical Period, c. 470 B.C.

Found at Vulci in modern-day Lazio, Italy

British Museum

[thecornercoffeeshop]

The Vatican Museum

[thoodleoo]

romans when they see a province they haven’t conquered yet