[mossyshadows]

if you want a retelling of orpheus and eurydice in a modern setting but if orpheus 'successfully' brought her back.. catherynne m. valente recently wrote a short story l'espirit de l'escalier

would give this a miss if you would be uncomfortable reading about reanimated but still dead & decaying bodies & all that entails.. hope that also suggests to you what sort of the macabre route this story has taken! anyway, different retellings are always a delight for me personally and valente is an excellent writer so if anyone reads this, would love to know what u think!

[thenightlymirror]

James Baldwin.

[fluentisonus]

they hate me for my classical pronunciation of christmas carol latin

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Since I talk about the difference between history as a hobby and as professional research reasonably often, here are books I think you should read if you want to think more about how history is created:

Time’s Monster: How History Makes History by Priya Satia

Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-century Europe by Hayden White

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

The Past is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal

Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler

Dust: The Archive and Cultural History by Carolyn Steedman

If other people have books they would consider key, please add them. It might be good to start a longer list.

[enlitment]

Georg Igger's Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge has a useful overview of historiography/is a solid place to start in my opnion

[spineless-lobster]

Shit man, this trojan war is fucked. I just saw a guy raise his hands to the sky and say “grey-eyed athena, strengthen my spear” or some similar shit, and he felled 27 men at once before being whisked away by divine mist. The narrator didn’t even mention him, that’s how common shit like this is. My ass is stuck with a bow and 2 arrows. I think I just heard “would to god my rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw” two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

[heyacciaio]

💔

Kaguya-Hime no Monogatari (The Tale of the Princess Kaguya) - Isao Takahata

[djibrildiopmambety]

Ousmane Sembène, Senegalese director and father of African cinema

"It is good to be at Cannes, but I wish Africa would create something of its own. We should not be eternal guests. It is up to us to create our own values. To recognize them and to carry them throughout the world." —Sembene! (2015)

Clips from Caméra d'Afrique + Sembene! (2015)

[animatedhomunculus]

saw a really good play and now i can’t stop talking like a nytimes culture critic. i was floored by this gripping piece of moving theater that spoke to the current moment and held up a mirror to our society while in the other hand smashing that selfsame mirror with a hammer

[simena]

Louis Welden Hawkins - Perfect Harmony (detail)

[neshamama]

liu qi, "xizhi (geese)," 2023, ink and color on paper

[moon-kissed-corner]

Details from the painting Medea meditating on killing her children (1852), by Bezzuoli.

[nathanielthecurious]

re-doing a very old post of mine as a poll...

which stock character from roman comedy would you be

servus callidus (guy who outwits his master and excels at wordplay)

parasitus (guy whose livelihood is mooching off of rich people)

senex (old man who is horny and/or a strict father)

iuvenis (young man who is horny and/or a disobedient son)

meretrix (enslaved sex worker)

leno (asshole who will do anything for money)

miles gloriosus (guy who fought in the punic war and thinks he's the shit)

mulier (wife and mother, has never passed the bechdel test in her life)

Voting ended onFeb 9, 2023

[sundryvillains]

absolutely shattered that i cant tweet on my academic twitter the same way i speak on this blog

[sundryvillains]

[kashuan]

absolutely obsessed with this statue of hector and andromache I found out about the other day… the tender Content is SO good

[julyhighcry]

to want and be wanted

georges bataille / emily palermo / olivia laing / @chaandajaan / georges bataille / cj hauser / @kvetchkween / @nicholasbraungf / vi khi nao / silas denver melvin

[newskinfortheoldceremony1974]

Ur in his dms im Homering his .odussy

[homosexualslug]

love that will smith has been a meme for loving and defending his wife at an award show twice now. the ultimate wife guy.