[birdwarde]

Happy World Oceans day! 🌊

[crowwkui]

mock book cover 📚 i couldn't come up with a good title ᴗ_ᴗ

[catoswound-moved]

you cant even begin poems with "i will sodomise and facef uck you" anymore. because of woke .

[queixumes]

[unquietgravekeeper]

Holy fuck

[ariaste]

Catullus really was dealing with fandom antis 2000 years ago and we are still dealing with them now and they still do suck in exactly this way

rip catullus you would have hated tumblr

[professorsparklepants]

Are we going to talk about the fact that the translator turned it into a shape poem. Of a penis.

[afraidtoblink]

[Image description: the first image is a screenshot of a Wikipedia article, reading: "Catullus 16 or Carmen 16 is a poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC). The poem, written in a hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) meter, was considered to be so sexually explicit following its rediscovery in the following centuries that a full English translation was not published until the 20th century.[1] The first line, Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō ('I will sodomize and face-fuck you'), sometimes used as a title, has been called "one of the filthiest expressions ever written in Latin—or in any other language".[2]"

The second image is the poem in question, indeed arranged to look like a phallus. The text reads: "Catullus 16 / Translated by Scurfield / I'll fuck you in the ass and face fuck you, / cocksucker Aurelius, and butt boy Furius. / You think that because I write tender poetry / That I too am so soft? Pious poets might be chaste- / their poetry need not be, whose charm and wit, / if tender and rather sensual, / can incite an itch / not just in boys but / in those hairy men / who can't move / their limp dicks. / So what if I write / about a thousand / kisses? You think / I'm less of a man? / I'll fuck you in the ass / and face fuck / you." End ID.]

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[ladysantos]

typhon, father of all monsters

[dilutedh2so4]

Christopher Ransom did devour with this line

[river-of-wine]

Hades gives Orpheus a trial he knows he himself could never succeed at, but it isn’t just that Hades knows he would turn around. Hades has been failing this trial every single year. He shows up too early. He turns too soon. He is so full of doubt that even the natural order of the world, that Persephone will return to him, is not something he can trust. Hades would fail the trial he has given Orpheus, and he already has. All alone, his blood runs thin.

[wandering-jana]

The Ancient Roman House of the Birds, named for its mosaic with 33 different bird species.

Italica, Spain

Dec. 2019

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Bea Arthur and Mel Brooks - History of the World, Part I (1981)

[pikaole]

Cock-of-the-rock

[memories-of-ancients]

Askos in the form of a duck, uncovered in Volterra, Italy, dated 330-310 BC

from The Louvre

[alexandriad]

minoan pottery // mycenaean fresco motifs

available on merch HERE and HERE!

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

“I would eat his heart in the marketplace” is legit the most savage line I have ever heard, I’d like to personally thank Shakespeare for putting into words that feeling of rage and protectiveness women get when some fuckboy hurts another woman

[aeleolus]

Okay first off, I will always reblog this post, but secondly, I went to Shakespeare in the Park tonight to see this and all the women cheered *so loudly* when Beatrice said this line, and the guy in front of me looked around all shocked and a little scared and said “… oh wow” and it was ICONIQUE

[officialgaryoak]

the fact that walls get dusty is ridiculous. you're vertical. act like it.

[toroimage]

[inziladun]

John Duncan - Ladies of the Minoan Court

[thoodleoo]

extremely good lebes gamikos (a type of pottery used in wedding ceremonies) showing that even the immortal gods cannot escape the punishment of mama's chancla

[rherlotshadow]

Lambs and standing stone