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marc | he/him | 21 | romans. revolutions. all manner of maritime tragedy. an ex-classics-tiktok-microcelebrity, unfortunately

[useless-greek]

ήμίγαμος, -ον, kinda married, Filostr.

[hangsawoman]

therapist: and what do we say when we feel like this?

me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

therapist: no

[fagsromana]

ever since i was a young boy i knew i was destined to be sacrificed for my controversially older lover

[thefighting74]

Just finished The Terror, what a phenomenal show

[fuimustroes]

being pre t at my grown age is genuine social torture every day good god the “perpetual eromenos” bit was funny for a good five years but frankly I am tired and want it to END

[best-of-inspirobot]

[tearlessrain]

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

[tearlessrain]

Rule #2

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

So don’t ever hug a lobster, simply put, it’s impolite.

[catilinas]

oughgghgg the katabasis…… can’t even get into the katabasis without becoming jokerified over daedalus’ doors with the prominent absence of icarus on them…… you can read the ekphrasis but you need a vates (metalepsis powers) to tell you what’s missing and thus what the characters are missing. the ekphrasis is a story of terrible sacrifice followed by escape and relief. the vates vergil says: there is also terrible grief that could not be represented in the art. aeneas wants to stop and look at the details but is called away by fate #hisfate. and would he have noticed the absence of icarus anyway? and then vergil is like. ok so here’s the descent into the underworld here’s the parade of heroes here’s the terrible things rome had to go through for the relief of the golden age of augustus. but don’t 👆look too closely at what doesn’t make it in. and then several books later aeneas doesn’t understand what’s on his shield anyway

[pangur-and-grim]

my mom made a typo in a work email

[butchvirgil]

while obv people getting the iliad's time focus wrong and saying that it ended with achilles' death is a very annoyingly common mistake i also think it's kind of fitting in relation to the ways achilles DOES die in the iliad. he ends the poem having basically killed himself in more ways than one after killing hector and he knows it. the last time we see him we know as well as he does that he's got an expiration date and it's very soon. he's alreasy chased around and killed a man in his own armour. not to mention all the ways in which he rejects life after patroclus' death. from his lying resembling that of patroclus' corpse (κειται Πάτροκλος/κειτο), to being sustained by ambrosia instead of human food just like patroclus is by thetis. like the entire murder/suicide thing going on between achilles and hector PLUS the idea that patroclus' death is modeled after and made to represent achilles' own from a narrative standpoit makes everything much more intresting. i know it's definetly been said before but achilles' relationship with death and his suicidality even should be taken into much more consideration in conversation about him.

[maskdoll]

kicking my feet and giggling like a schoolgirl in love to myself while muttering "i'm going to kill you. i'm going to fucking kill you"

[wifehaver103947]

imagine cloth mother and wire mother in family court competing for custody of the baby monkey

[clothmotherofficial]

I Have Softness For You

[officialwiremother]

i have milk for you

[babymonkeyofficial]

Stop.

[kingsolomonofficial]

Cut the baby monkey in half

[perditaiuventus]

happy pride month to marcus "sed cito curio interuenit, qui te a meretricio quaestu abduxit et, tamquam stolam dedisset, in matrimonio stabili et certo collocauit. nemo umquam puer emptus libidinis causa tam fuit in domini potestate quam tu in curionis. quotiens te pater eius domu sua eiecit, quotiens custodes posuit, ne limen intrares! cum tu tamen nocte socia, hortante libidine, cogente mercede, per tegulas demitterere" antonius

(cinaedus flag by @catominor)

[hortensius-deactivated20240909]

[thoodleoo]

[mutual one] friday afternoon there goes antigone to be buried alive

[mutual two] anyone else here reading about triremes

[mutual three] do you guys think marius and sulla ever explored each other's bodies

[mutual four] i miss her so much (linear b)

[mutual five] 5th century attic red figure kylix posting

[mutual six] do you guys think helen and aphrodite ever explored each other's bodies

[mutual seven] dionysus big naturals

[mutual eight] thesis-level content on the construction of aqueducts in the reign of vespasian

[mutual nine] anyone else think necromancy is kind of sexy

[mutual 10] something kind of gay about the assassination of caesar. like, why are you getting together with a bunch of your friends to stab a man?

[mutual 11] in the club reviewing my noun paradigms

[mutual 12] do you guys think the perfect and the aorist ever explored each other's bodies

[daciancatamite]

i think i hauve Ovid

[freakyvampirequeer]

gem from the les mis pride post comments

[wizardjail]

i mean, you know, people are entitled to their sexual proclivities. let there be a thousand blossoms bloom, as far as i'm concerned. but i ain't spending any time on it, because in the meantime, every three months, a person's torn to pieces by maenads in thebes