Dido’s Wife

sideblog for classics and history main: @somewhere-in-the-rain katherine, she/her, british, 18

[didoswife]

if I see one more person calling Dionysus a ‘fun party god’, I’m going to clobber them with my four different translations of the Bacchae and then force them to listen as I explain in depth how sinister, cruel and manipulative he actually was

[somewhere-in-the-rain]

I’m rereading the Aeneid right now and just wanted to say that seeking revenge for the murder of your favourite pet deer is still the most valid reason anyone has ever had to start a war