It’s a sad song / But we sing it anyway.

Hi I’m Ren. They/them. Hellenic polytheist, gaelpol. Hades, Persephone, Hestia, Lugh, Bres, Bridgid, Donn.

[kebriones]

the more you research ancient greek mythology the more you get a massive headache. Nobody sites sources properly. Information gets tossed around and mixed up into salads and everyone's theories and hallucinations have become this massive mess held together haphazardly by scraps of ancient findings spanning hundreds of years and a bunch of different cultures. I want to know the truth and the facts. nevermind how fragmented and incomplete.

[herb-on-a-stick]

Noone told me about the mirror that has Cassandra swinging an axe at Paris when he first came to Troy because she saw that he'd bring ruin to their city, I love her

Deiphobus is also trying to get him because Paris humiliated him in the games lol

Folding mirror ca. 3rd century BC, Museum der Alten Kulturen, Tübingen

[medusaspeach]

Persephone and the Horae - reupload

[ex35life]

Demeter and Persephone

I made this for Mother’s Day, and I forgot to post it

[antiquedeuce]

Sacred fruit

[panthermouthh]

Swift-footed Achilles, son of Peleus 🏹

Prints

[mothermara]

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

[unicornwonderlaand]

Hestia, the guardian of sacred fire

[rosa-maltz]

Eros and Psyche

[asphodelon]

“I missed you”

[romanconcrete]

they should call it thezzing out at the thesmophoria

[teashoesandhair]

PLEASE I'm begging the neopagan girlies to stop spreading misinformation online, because I've just seen someone argue in earnest that the UK government has banned swimming in the ancient geo-thermal spring at Bath due to a hatred of 'native Celtic spirituality', and completely ignoring the fact that it was closed after a girl contracted a brain-eating amoeba and fucking died

[jan-jan-binks]

Ancient geo thermal spring at Bath perfec t size for put girlie n to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort woman bathe soundly put girl in Geo Thermal Spring. Put Neopagan In Spring. no problems ever in sprinng because good Amoeba and Water for girl brain weak of big girl head. Ancient geothermal spring yes a place for a person put neopagans in ancient celtic water can trust spring in Bath for giveing good love to girlie. friend amoeba.

[teashoesandhair]

[marzipanandminutiae]

I also love how like

there are two modern spas in Bath with pools that use the natural geothermal water. the amoeba is only an issue in stagnant water, so properly circulated, it's fine

you can literally still swim in the same water!! the only thing you can't swim in anymore is the specific Roman bath pictured above!!

so like. they're not mad that the government is preventing them from Communing With Sulis Minerva(tm) or whatever. they're throwing a hissy because they can't do it in the most #YeOldeAesthetic way possible

...except Oh Wait!!

thermae baths, Bath, UK

Spa Village Bath at the Gainsborough, Bath, UK

they literally can

the ONLY experience one can no longer have in Bath, re: the hot springs, is bathing in a literal extant Roman building

that's it

Stupidity, Unlimited

[celticstudies]

top tip: search "celtic" on any social media site to immediately deal 50 billion points of psychic damage to yourself

[liquidstar]

People will tag fucking anything related to Greece as mythology. They'll literally see pictures of pillars and be like "#Greek Mythology" malaka I promise the pillars are from real life

[classicslesbianopinions]

Resources for the Internet Classicist

I've been meaning to make a new pinned post for this blog with a few resources etc. for a million years and now I'm procrastinating so here it is.

Link to old pinned post (articles about racism and white supremacy in classics) here. I highly recommend checking it out.

Under the cut you will find a list of resources that I have found invaluable. Please put your own in the replies and reblogs!

Dickinson College Commentaries: Latin and Greek grammars, word lists, and intermediate level commentaries on ancient texts.

Perseus Digital Library and Scaife viewer: absolute classic. Ancient texts and dictionaries. You can click a word in the text and see its potential functions and its definition in a few different dictionaries. also will let you view some texts side by side with an English translation.

philolog.us: literally just Lewis and Short, LSJ, and Slater dictionaries imported from Perseus, but with a really simple interface that makes it the easiest online dictionary to use if you just want to look up a word.

Logeion and Morpho: Logeion lets you look up a word in Latin or Greek and see it in a ton of different dictionaries at once. Morpho will tell you all the possible forms for any given word.

Diogenes Viewer: app that basically does what Perseus does except you can download it. There's a web version with open source texts but to get the full benefit you need to have both the app and the TLG and PHI Greek and Latin text databases downloaded. Send an ask off anon if you want more information about those.

Haverford Bridge: vocab lists for selected texts. There's also a page with the tools they use to generate the lists so you can make your own.

johnstoniatexts: texts that Ian Johnston has translated and put online for free. It doesn't have everything but it has kind of a mind-boggling amount considering everything on here is translated by one person. The translations tend to be a little wordier than I prefer but it's still my first stop when I'm looking for easily accessible translations to recommend to people because I know they're fairly recent and reasonably well-done.

Geoffrey Steadman: free early intermediate level commentaries in Latin and Greek. If you use them and have the means please consider giving him a couple dollars!

PHI Latin Texts: lots of Latin with word + author search functions.

theoi.com: theoi has source material in translation for a number of gods and mythical figures. They don't have everything but if you're looking for every story with x god it's usually a decent place to start.

Intermediate Ancient Greek Language: free open source Greek textbook covering Greek in more detail than your intro textbook/course.

This list is not comprehensive and I will probably keep adding to it!

Also if you're looking for anything feel free to send an ask and I'll see if I can find it and/or poll the masses (everyone following this blog). Anon is off at least until I'm done with finals but if you ask to have it answered privately I'll honor that.

[catilinas]

some that i use regularly include:

allen and greenough’s latin grammar on dickinson college commentaries (which you have already mentioned). specifically the indexes, for instances of ‘is this a specific weird verb use or am i stupid’

digital prosopography of the roman republic for quickly searching genealogical/prosopographical/dates of magistracies etc info for the roman republic. it’s like broughton’s magistrates of the roman republic but better

attalus, specifically their index of names and chronologies of sources

topostext, which maps primary sources onto. a map. of the ancient world

indexes to the works of ronald syme. you do have to download this one and it is massive and hurts my computer to search. but it is very useful if you are rummaging through syme

[medusaspeach]

Persephone and the Horae - reupload

[greekgodsaskblog]

Persephone sketches