Im A Thot For Grain

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[mtolympusmemes]

Poseidon: dude, you’re never picky with who you hook up with. Have a little dignity

Zeus: nah man, hook ups are like Pokémon, gotta catch ‘em all

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

If you ever thought the ancient world actually conformed to that tragic, dignified, white-statue aesthetic… think again

[sarcastic-trickster]

I was looking at Zeus’ Wikipedia page and I know what kind of God he is, but this gets me every time.

[thoodleoo]

laocoon when the trojans don’t listen to him after he tells them not to bring the trojan horse into troy

[medoisa]

me, in tears: please. just give me some words with meanings

ancient greek author: hhhhhhghhh pardigle

[ceres-suggestions]

Ille vs. iste

Ille: that

Iste: thot

[fellowallflower]

if the iliad is one of the oldest extant works of western literature, then one of the oldest love stories ever written is between two men. im not crying

[bookwormwinnetou]

Alexander the Great to himself when he had to leave India: this is so sad Alex

[roamngreenwoods]

why do I feel like Solon meant this in the exact same way a tumblr text post would

[medoisa]

diogenes the cynic personally appeared to me in a dream and asked me to make this meme

[thoodleoo]

what teaching middle school latin is like

good side: i’ve gotten my toughest class to willingly do some spoken latin at the beginning of class

bad side: this is mostly because i taught them how to say “i want to die” and now they won’t stop saying it every time i ask them how they are in latin

[markantonys]

octavian reading antony’s will in the senate: op literally wants to be buried in alexandria with cleopatra but go off i guess

[ceres-suggestions]

Literally Anyone in Classical Epic: Oh, hello there stranger. I too feel like a stranger in my own land, since my noble lord, son of this noble lord, son of that noble lord, has gone missing, twenty years ago fighting in Ilium, leaving behind me, my wife, my three sons as well as his noble mother and young lad, done great injustice by these savage and ignoble suitors who shamelessly

This poor stranger: Uh I just wanted to get some milk

[murhuedur]

[ancient-rome-au]

new Latin idioms

Roma uno die non est deflagrata

“Rome wasn’t burnt in a day”

definition by @shorthalt

Danubium transgredi

“to cross the Danube”

abandoning a civilized lifestyle, becoming or acting a barbarian, indulging baser desires

Frigidarium primo intravit

“He entered the cold bath first”

doing things out of order (the Roman custom was to use the hot bath first, the warm bath second, and the cold bath last)

Plus Citra

“more on this side”

in other words, closer to home. for when you’re in the mood to stay in for the night and be a lazy blob rather than explore the world.

Pullos sacros permulcere

“to cuddle the sacred chickens”

(inspiration from @clodiuspulcher)

Ranas belli fervefaciens

“boiling the frogs of war” 

gradual escalation of diplomatic tension and military hostilities without a distinct stage at which war was formally declared (inspired by The Weeds podcast)

Difficilior quam labor tertius decimus Herculis

“more difficult than the 13th labor of Hercules” 

a sarcastic way of calling something trivially easy (Hercules was obliged to undertake only 12 labors)

Vulcanus pepedit

“Vulcan farted”

i.e. a fumarole

[thoodleoo]

someone: oh, you like ancient greece and rome! do you ever think about what you’d do if you lived back then?

me, a person who has planned out my entire life as an ancient roman noblewoman who disdains the rest of her class and spends most of her time with upstart roman senators, hopping from lover to lover in an attempt to use their love for me as a way to sway their politics toward land reform and free grain for the poor of rome; or else my life as a farmer raising goats and sheep in a poetically idealized bucolic landscape with my lover, drinking wine, making my own bread and cheese, playing pipes under the shade of a beech tree: oh, every once in a while

[ceres-suggestions]

if this isnt a whole mood

[medoisa]

also… we all know rosy-fingered dawn is pretty but i just read a passage (Il 24.695)  where shes called κροκοπεπλος (saffron-robed) instead….. i love