ancient rome’s number 1 horse girl

classics undergrad and caligulagirl they/them ancient world sideblog of @alaspoorperyton

[mangozic]

Narcissus

Character design I did for Game Graphics Contest a few months back! the theme this year was “The Beast, but Beautiful”.

(character design board below 👇 )

[thoodleoo]

trojan king SHOCKS greek warrior by begging him for the body of his son in perfect dactylic hexameter

[thoodleoo]

classicists will make the ugliest least functional website in the history of html and it will contain the entire library of fragmentary papyri of the works of aeschylus. for free

[thoodleoo]

i am learning about so many beautiful websites from this. they are like horses to me

[thoodleoo]

everybody tagging this with perseus: i would love to live in the beautiful world you do where perseus is the least functional classics site youve used

[thoodleoo]

extremely funny to me that the plot summary of the posthomerica on wikipedia words things this way. it makes it sound like the trojans are watching blood seeping out of the temples like

[thoodleoo]

i knew that some of the herculaneum papyri had been given nicknames but i didn't realize brent seales named one of them fucking. fat bastard

[pomp-quio]

and later -

Pharsalus haunts Philippi haunts Pharsalus haunts Philippi (Carrhae is also there)

all i can say is that the roman matron in book 1 of pharsalia crying out that she sees philippi broke something open in my brain and i have since then been obsessed with the ghosts of battles haunting each other both forwards and backwards in time

lucan civil war (trans. braund) I.693-694 || lucan pharsalia (trans. wilson joyce) introduction to VII || lucan pharsalia (trans. wilson joyce) footnotes to IX || lucan civil war (trans. braund) notes to VII || lucan civil war (trans. braund) VII.591-592 || shakespeare julius caesar V.1.81-83 || lucan pharsalia (trans. wilson joyce) glossary || manilius astronomica I.898-919 || welch magnus pius: sextus pius and the transformation of the roman republic || lucan civil war (trans. braund) notes to book IX || lucan civil war (trans. braund) IX.271-272 || lucan civil war (trans. braund) VII.847-848 || lucan pharsalia (trans. wilson joyce) footnotes to VI || masters poetry and civil war in lucan's bellum civile || tempest brutus the noble conspirator || shakespeare julius caesar V.3.38-39

[copycatvagabond]

Odyssey concept cover, trying to teach myself book design

[catilinas]

when priam is like hi helen you have done nothing wrong in your life ever i only blame the gods and fate. btw who is that massive hottie on the battlefield. and helen is like you have been at war with this guy for the past nine years how do you not know who agamemnon is

[aorish-deactivated20251222]

my knowledge of ancient rome is really shifted compared to the average modern because i dont know any romanofascists but i do encounter a lot of catullus and ovid girlies on tumblr

[aorish-deactivated20251222]

cant take cicero seriously ive read too many posts about people keeping him trapped in their basements and forcing him to drink strange liquids

[ambassadorquark]

comic about content

[aurpiment]

Next-level: Ephesian Artemis with top surgery scars

[p-clodius-pulcher]

This sucks so bad I am going to [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] introduce reforms for the Roman state

[rafterdarkr]

why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where's the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees

[idiotcommander]

Absolutely genuis

[muffinworry]

Every few minutes, someone honks. The woman behind the wheel shifts and lowers her sunglasses to glare at the circling cars in the rearview mirror. Vultures. Let them curse. She keeps her doors locked and her phone battery charged. Penelope has been waiting in the arrivals lot for far too long, and she refuses to give up her place for anyone.

[measureformeasure]

aeschylus is dead sophocles is dead euripides is dead and me i feel not so good

[splendidemendax]

—aristophanes, 405 bce

[clodiuspulcher]

This Richard Dawkins tweet is like. an evergreen source of humor but it also sounds 100% like something from Seneca’s Moral Letters

[clodiuspulcher]

Seneca Lucilio suo salutem- priore nocte vidi virum humillimum, sine domo. Scripserat non “cibum mihi necesse est”, non “laborem mihi necesse est”, sed “opimam puellam mihi necesse est.” Quid factum sit? 

Vale.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Do you call your historical blorbo by a nickname?

Yes, one they actually used during their life.

Yes, it's one I made up.

Only sometimes (eg talking to friends, in your own head, etc.)

No, I use their full name.

No, I use their full name and titles.

Other/Nuanced/I don't have a historical blorbo and I'm observing the rest of you

Voting ended onFeb 15, 2025

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

The majority of votes being for not having a historical blorbo tells me that this has not reached the target audience.

I'm going to start pspsps-ing at the people who call Empress Elisabeth "Sisi" and everyone who calls Friedrich II of Prussia "Fritz." I know you're out there!

[catilinas]

wretchedly perish then said cicero wednesday

[gaiuscaesarcaligula]

[bambasbatenthusiat]

SORRY FOR REPOSTING I FORGOT THE STRIPES please Reblog this version…..😔