fessa rerum

(mostly) classics blog

[freenarnian]

You've heard of the man, the myth, the legend. Now get ready for the woman, the omen, the portent.

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

Jolene

[smiles-advice]

you are not lazy. you have not fallen behind.

you are doing the best you can under difficult circumstances.

[academicssay]

[tullycicero]

doing a classics degree is spending all of your time trying to convince people that your degree is worth studying, only for them to ask you what you're working on, at which point you have to look at them in shame and say "what is it like to be a donkey with a human mind?"

[tullycicero]

me: i love my degree my subject is valid

stem student: are you studying for donkey erotica paper again?

me:

[thoodleoo]

surely this reread of the aeneid will fix me

[thoodleoo]

forget girl dinner it's time for girl breakfast

[thoodleoo]

would love to show ancient romans the sheer number of them that are portrayed by british people in shows about rome today. this would do psychic damage to cicero i think

[vigilantsycamore]

"The Divine Comedy isn't funny because that's not what comedy meant back then" incorrect. the Divine Comedy is hilarious because partway through Dante's field trip to Hell, Virgil is like "and here's where we keep the Popes"

[thoodleoo]

the bacchic mysteries are mysteries TO YOU. i know what's in them tho

[thoodleoo]

my limbs have been torn asunder

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

Imperial passport of Kublai Khan “I am the emissary of the Khan. If you defy me, you die.” 1240 A.D. [886x960]

[chimaeraundying]

[agamemedon]

Could you imagine the vibes on that boat after Odysseus’ crew go against his word and open the bag sending them all the way back to where they started near enough…

I like to think there was a moment somewhat like this

[metis-metis]

The men after opening the bag of wind, eating the Sun God’s cattle, etc:

Odysseus who just wants to go home:

[lunapuppiesareawesome]

In fairness the men all tried to stop Odysseus when he told the giant they had just blinded his name and address (it’s Odysseus’ fault Poseidon hated them) so they all had their moments 💀

[metis-metis]

When has any group trip not ended in arguments😂😂

[aroacedavestrider]

people will hear you talk about struggling with mental illness and say “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it”. brother what part of the body does the mental illness happen in. what do you think is the problem

[thoodleoo]

the best part of the aeneid is that aeneas did NOT put his whole pussy into getting to italy or even half of it. he limped through his fate with barely a quarter of his pussy and cried about it the whole time and by god can i relate. go king give us as little as you can

[academicssay]

[terpsikeraunos]

mundus rotundus undabundus

“the round world [is] full of waves” - latin proverb created just now, by me, upon realizing that this particular sentence is possible

[stitchposts]

[hesbuckcompton-baby]

people who don't study history will simply never understand the joy of reading historian beef. there's nothing like it

[julius-caeser]

Boys night on the 15th of March, in the senate! so excited so hang out with the boys, heard theres cake, hope someone brought a knife.