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🏛 Se or Jules 🏛 M.A. in Ancient Mediterranean History and Religion 🏛 and Greek/Latin philology (derogatory) 🏛 main blog @pseudole

[honorthegods]

LGBT Meets SPQR is a collection of authentic Latin texts on LGBTQIA+ topics for middle and high school Latin classes (appropriate for ages 1

LGBT Meets SPQR includes:

a blog featuring Greek and Latin texts highlighting LGBTQIA+ topics 

resources and lesson plans for teachers, including Pride activities, quotes from Roman authors from Africa for Black History month, printable coloring books, and lesson plans for Latin language classes

Lists of classical-themed novels and non-fiction in English for young adult readers ages 14 -17

ABCs of LGBTQIA+ Representation in the Greek and Roman World: 101 People from Mythology and History to Know

[stcantarella-moved]

[cryptotheism]

Do you think Plato could've taken a cave hyena

RAW STRENGTH: Cave hyena wins

PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE: Also the cave hyena

[wandering-jana]

The Ancient Roman House of the Birds, named for its mosaic with 33 different bird species.

Italica, Spain

Dec. 2019

[gaius-sempronius-grackle]

I'm sorry this is the funniest fucking thing I've ever seen in my entire life???

[gaius-sempronius-grackle]

There's so much happening here

[gaius-sempronius-grackle]

One very interesting thread that runs through this person's musings is this strange idea that Gen Z are solely in charge of the New York theatre scene. And listen I rag on Gen Z as much as the next millennial but girl let's be so fucking for real

[gaius-sempronius-grackle]

Also just the idea of Gen Z Pericles. Now there's your play!

[gaius-sempronius-grackle]

Gonna start saying "Are you looking to get yourself labrys'd?" to pick up other butches at the club

[gaius-sempronius-grackle]

The concept of Downtown Macedonia is just. haunting.

[mariussuggestions]

You: Oh, The Senate Does Not Approve Of My Politics What Shall I Do

Me:

[mcaelius]

tribune of the plebs summer

[dragongirlsweetie]

i keep forgetting ichor means blood of the gods i always use it to mean some kind of nastly little fluid that's yucky and foul

[ashenmind]

it’s both!

maybe the gods are kinda yucky and foul

[acertainidontknowwhat]

The House of the Relief of Telephus in Herculaneum.

[fluentisonus]

they hate me for my classical pronunciation of christmas carol latin

[mosertone]

Herm of Dionysos, Greek, Asia Minor, 100-50 BC

[harpertheidiot]

Got the god-sent plague before even entering the walls of Troy. Agamemnon is pissed. I'm the worst Achaean ever. Thinking about falling upon my own sword... #sadachaean

[yendts]

was reminded of that one meme so i had to draw julia balbilla and claudia damo

[beardedmrbean]

[thoodleoo]

intrigued by the sheer number of spells in the PGM dedicated to causing whatever the hell "evil sleep" is

[thatlittleegyptologist]

While I’m still here: please can we dispel the myth that the Ancient Egyptians had absolutely perfect burials, did everything precisely, and never messed it up.

That’s so far from correct it’s laughable. We have legal documents from when embalmers gave a family the wrong body , ones from when the mummification was janky (tutankhamun is quite literally the jankiest mummification known to man), re-use of coffins, hasty reuse of funerary items if someone else died before whoever was supposed to use them, canopic jars very rarely have the right organs in, and so much more.

Every way you can think of to fuck up a burial, the ancient Egyptians were capable of and that should be recognised. They’re real people not a romanticised ideal.

[en-theos]

clodia as a character very interesting (for as much as she is allowed to be a character outside of Catullus' own poetry #eidoloncore and the pro caelio) since she doesn't seem to be (merely) attracted to power like so many other contemporary figures on the late republic stage, but to talent (points at catullus) (points to caelius). she is predominantly at the top of the world and she gravitates towards those who either by nature or devotion excel. hot