baian pleasures

Dixi. Abei.

[terpsikeraunos]

Salve, Terpsikeraunos!

I was wondering, in the style of making a comment underneath say an instagram post, how would you comment "so beautiful!' in Latin?

My first thought would be to address as vocative plural (pulchrissimae/i/a) but then ran into the problem of what gender to select .

Gratias tibi for helping out a former latin student who is crashing out in trying to grasp the grammar of a language i am starting to forget.

salve! using the superlative is a good idea. i think you'd want to use the accusative of exclamation (corresponding to the gender and number of whatever you're commenting on), unless you are directly addressing the subject of the photo, which would, as you said, require the vocative.

for example, if whatever it is happens to be a feminine noun, pulcherrimam! or you could use the nominative with adverbial quam, like quam pulchra [est]!

[terpsikeraunos]

how to get divorced in ancient rome

[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

[sawasawako-archived]

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

[meduseld]

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?” ― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[rhyslahey]

And the two lines that are missing which add the extra bit of tragedy: “and she said the last good-bye, which he barely heard with his ears, and she rolled back to the same place.”

iamque iterum moriens non est de coniuge quicquam (60)

questa suo (quid enim nisi se quereretur amatam?)

supremumque ‘vale,’ quod iam vix auribus ille

acciperet, dixit revolutaque rursus eodem est.

— Ov. Met. X.60-4

[thoodleoo]

i know this was meant as an insult but tbh if somebody wrote an epitath for me that said "i ate, i drank, i talked a lot of shit, and now im dead" i'd think that kind of owns

[interretialia]

Hahahae optime!

[nerocoin]

speedran this in like an hour somehow ?? bit wonky but idc i just wanted to do it while i still can

redraw / based on a scene from quo vadis 1985 but with my nero and petronius

sketch + ref

[intergalacticsodatab]

Hesiod’s Aphrodite

I did this last summer and I’m still obsessed. As a pagan and someone with a lifelong passion of classics and Greek and Roman myths this piece is close to my heart. The birth myths of Aphrodite are some of my favorite myths and I’m hoping to get my hands on a copy of the Theogony and the Homeric Hymns soon so I can compare the two stories!

Aka I just realised I never posted this when I originally drew this so here yall go lol :)

[nicandros]

The real problem with the classics corner of tumblr is that it's deeply unbalanced. There are not enough hellenists going insane over random ancient greek politicians. The latinists are giving it their all and being completely unhinged on main and we aren't matching their energy. This simply cannot stand.

[scribl1ta]

Fortunata🐚❤️‍🔥

One time I was showing my Scintilla drawing (the right image above, which is from last year and still up on my blog if you want to read more abt it!!) to somebody and she said "she looks like a piece of work"😭😭😭I still like it a lot, but I'm putting it in my list of ideas to revisit now that my style and skills have changed. I ended up referencing so many Jersey shore photos and I really enjoyed pulling those inspirations together with rereading the cena and researching Roman jewelry. I believe Fortunata has an outfit change so even though I love the gold hair net, that didn’t make it into my interpretation although I tried to keep a similar color palette😖 the last thing is this corner of my sketchbook

Thank you sm for reading this far!! I might add more later idk. Happy late pride month <33

[clodiapulchra]

I love this! The style totally reflects the Cena while bringing a fresh perspective. I love the Roman jewellery detail 😄

[clodiapulchra]

John William Waterhouse - Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses

rogo vos, oportet credatis, sunt mulieres plussciae, sunt nocturnae, et quod sursum est, deorsum faciunt (63) . . . miramur nos et pariter credimus, osculatique mensam rogamus Nocturnas, ut suis se teneant, dum redimus a cena. (64)

'I tell you, it is necessary that you believe it, that there are supernatural women, they are women of the night, and what is upright, they make downwards'.

We were amazed and equally trusted this, and kissing the table we begged the Night Women, that they restrain themselves to their own matters while we return from the dinner.

Petronius Cena Trimalchionis, 63-64.

[clodiapulchra]

itaque Fortunata, ut 'ex aequo ius firmum' approbaret, male dicere Trimalchioni coepit et purgamentum dedecusque praedicare, qui non contineret libidinem suam. ultimo etiam adiecit: 'canis'.

And Fortunata, exercising the rightful powers of her position, began to curse Trimalchio and proclaim the shame and disgrace [of that man], who could not contain his own lechery. At last, she hurled at him 'dog'.

Petronius Cena Trimalchionis, 74

Image taken from the film Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini, 1994. Actress: Magali Noël

Hi babes! It's been a long while, but I'm still hyper-fixated on Latin. Introducing a new member to this blog, Fortunata. 'Dog' is the single piece of recorded dialogue Fortunata has in the whole of the Cena, but my goodness, what a line.

[maple-princecore]

F/F

Fairy Princess x River Nymph

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[versacherries]

NASA released the clearest images of Neptune’s rings in over 30 years.

[ancientsstudies]

[hortensius]

The Dead Romans Society - Lesbiae

[clodiapulchra]

the au we all need, and the one we all deserve 😍

[clodiapulchra]

Edward John Poynter - Lesbia and her Sparrow (1907)

passer, deliciae meae puellae, quem plus illa oculis amabat...[Catullus 3.1-5, 16-19]

The sparrow, the darling of my girl, whom she loved more than her own eyes...