Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens

[flaroh]

Manifesting a bountiful 2023 this Cerealia 🤞🌾🔥 Around April 19th, the seven day festival of Ceres would take place in ancient Rome. Mnay games and rituals took place during this celebration, including circus games and animal sacrifice. The Romans believed this worship would help protect their crops from disease and pests 🐀

[fluentisonus]

colonialism and imperialism are not synonymous, the roman empire was colonialist not imperialist.

anon i have bad news for you about where we get the word imperialism

[algernon-charles-swinburne]

Cmon, we're talking about the great Roman Colon here. No empires in sight...!

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[diioonysus]

greek mythology | cursed images

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[thoodleoo]

knowing ancient greek is fun because yeah i can read some of the oldest texts in western literature in their original language but i am also consistently thrown off by the fact that gamma is the third letter in the greek alphabet

[thoodleoo]

petrarch's obsession with cicero is really funny but i think my favorite part of it is when he discovered a copy of cicero's letters to atticus, realized cicero was kind of a little bitch most of the time, and immediately wrote what was effectively a dramatic breakup letter to cicero as if cicero (who, yknow, had been dead for over a thousand years at this point) was going to read it

[thoodleoo]

had to dig a bit to find a screenshot of this and it still makes me laugh. motherfucker was in a parasocial relationship with cicero back in the 14th century

[selinascatnip]

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