Demotica

Because I'd rather be digging.

[poupon]

Wow thanks for the ingot man let me just inspect the quality real quick

Dude come on

[victusinveritas]

[razielim]

oh i'm going to misusle and straight up fuckle this knowledge so badly

[thehmn]

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

It was a global problem

[netherworldpost]

;)

[romanceyourdemons]

proposing a new historical framework called “the very long nineteenth century: we’re still in it”

[romanceyourdemons]

we have not left the early modern period and frankly i have my doubts that we ever will

[nathanielthecurious]

i love this description. the ability to bring down the moon is literally so basic to thessalian womanhood that even girls can do it

[heelfoutventje]

[thatsbelievable]

Source: The New York Tattler, July 8, 1909.

[alltheprettyancientthings]

College of the Augustales, Herculanuem.

You can see a close up of one fresco section here.

[byjove]

GET HER ASSSSSSSSS

[thoodleoo]

honestly the ancient greek graffiti in egyptian tomb KV9 may be my favorite inscriptions ever if only because "i didn't like anything except the sarcophagus" sounds exactly like something i'd hear someone say in a museum in the modern day

[doloneia]

the most unrealistic part of the iliad & odyssey is actually every single time they talk about a hecatomb of cattle like its nothing. 100 cows? in this collapsing late bronze age economy? Where Are You Getting These. Who’s Your Cow Dealer. Can I Have Their Address

[playwrongs]

Via @finelythreadedsky

[cykelops]

I don’t want to hear any writing advice from Stephen king not because I think there would be no value in it but because whatever works for Stephen king is between him and god and that demon he made a pact with that lets him write 3000 words in one sitting daily.

[roamngreenwoods]

unexpected wisdom from a 1950s Oresteia translation

[en-theos]

homer will introduce a new fun little guy on the battlefield and tell you a lil about this fun little guy so you'll go awww little guy! you're my new favourite! and then homer goes YAAAAAGHHH and KILLS your new fun little guy!!! homer!!

[thoodleoo]

possible my favorite footnote from bostock's translation of pliny's natural history. he means slugs probably.

[thoodleoo]

lesbian flag colorpicked from the marine life mosaic from the casa dei mosaici geometrici in pompeii

[thoodleoo]

maybe the funniest way to handle a prophecy from the famous oracle at delphi. "i don't know what that is so i will not do it thank you"