My Dearest One, My Darling Dear

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[poetrylesbian]

[poetrylesbian]

[terpsikeraunos]

Women have consistently earned a larger share of humanities degrees than men, but the humanities constitute a diminishing proportion of the

Women currently earn the majority of advanced degrees in the humanities. This has been the case at the master’s degree level since 1970 and

sources for gender distribution of classics degrees

[archaeologistproblems]

Archaeologist problems: Women (in the US at least, likely similar in many other countries) currently earning 70% of recent archaeology degrees, but still being forced to listen to some random guy's (uncited and unfounded) sea peoples theories.

[micewithknives]

Adding Australian data to this - 58% of currently employed consulting archaeologists (CRM equivalent) were women in 2021, and this number was increasing. It’s understood that this is even higher when we factor in academia numbers, and graduate numbers in general, but less data is available on this

[uritur-infelix]

Yep, I've made this point on another social media network. It's completely inaccurate to assume that men are more interested (or knowledgeable) about the ancient world.

I dunno who started this narrative (though I suspect TikTok probably had something to do with it), but it's dumb as hell.

[ancient-rome-au]

Discovery in the Judean Desert Reveals a Widespread Practice of Forging Royal Purple Garments in Ancient Rome

Clothing in antiquity functioned as an immediately legible social code, a woven system of signs in which the appearance of a garment, the na

There was such a thing as "counterfeit" Tyrian purple. Incredible.

[catilinas]

more benches in museums

the benches need to have backs!

[strawberry-crocodile]

the layer of frizz around a girl's dry wavy hair is actually her halo

[cryptic-curation]

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.

[clownboybebop]

Those sick fucks at Ocean Spray will mix anything with a cranberry

[nonlynear]

[suddenly disillusioned] my illusions..

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[anais-ninja-bitch]

unrestrained summer fun

[dogpuppy]

[1five1two]

Carved ripples on granite. Shen Lieyi.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

i kind of hate it when they cast the same 10 superstars who are in literally everything in a movie. celebrity-sickness

[tsarina-anadyomene]

not every movie needs to be an ensemble cast of timothee chalamet, zendaya, tom holland, robert pattinson, and anya taylor-joy

[littlemerald]

Mfs on twitter are saying Christopher Nolan should adapt the Aeneid or Dante's inferno next. ohhh you guys want Classical students to kill themselves

[a-mythologynerd]

I refuse to watch Nolan’s Odyssey. I like my blood pressure at normal levels

[a-mythologynerd]

My friends and family keep teasing me about wanting to watch it with me. Why would you do that to yourself? You know how annoying I am?

[thoodleoo]

reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess

[thoodleoo]

catch me on the playground playing sacrifices

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[luna-azzurra]

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

[sealsandlacenet]

sau sage