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flavia iulia helena ❦ CIL VI 01134

Some details from the "Zibaldone Magliabechiano" (Florence, BNC Banco Rari 50), a manuscript of miscellaneous latin texts copied by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1330s-50s.

#boccaccio #manuscripts #I saw it!!! irl... how i love it...

mermaidenmystic

Ampio Orizzonte (Broad Horizon) ~ 1910 ~ Ettore Tito (Italian artist, 1859-1941)

#great so now I want to reread to the lighthouse

petrarca e boccaccio beach episode (they hold hands)

cappucci medievali stay on in spiaggia (mentre si fa la settimana enigmistica)

#boccaccio #petrarca

send me asks of things to draw while I'm at the sea :)

venomspecs

Posters for the Greek theater of Siracusa. Duilio Cambellotti (1876-1960)

#grecoposting

calleido

sant’angelo in formis, capua, italy

whatever. most important simile in the world. to me. she holds him as dear as a shipwrecked sailor holds the beloved land. i've been crying since 8th century BC. they are really homophrosyne.

#i saw that bleak americanata that was Nolans movie and the erasure of the bed-scene was enough for me to reread book 23 at midnight #and the idea that is penelope that in the simile holds the place for the shipwrecked sailor instead of odysseus and touches and kisses him #as a refugee would kiss the land that saved him. breaks me.#what I really most missed in this movie was not 'historical accuracy'. It was the humanity of the odyssey.#and you could say to me: but Nolan made Odysseus bitten by remorse and guilt and ptsd and ok but that's not it.#the odyssey isn't about the bleak remorse of an invader. that's not the point. and there's so much more to odysseus than just brooding #we never saw any of his tricks. he was stripped of all the cunning and lies and prudence. what we saw was an american veteran slammed in 'a #ALSO taking away the nobody trick in book 9 is not just 'taking away a pun' as Nolan thinks. is misunderstanding this epos #which is about A POLYTROPOS man. Instead no! Let's make him hit the cyclops with a spear. acting like whatever hero of thymos.#no metis detected #and don't make me start on penelope. Nolan is lucky that I really do like anne hathaway but good heavens what were those lines.#odyssey #Odysseus #Penelope #Grecoposting

everydaylouie

cat game

thoodleoo

you've heard of faithful translations now get ready for unfaithful translations where i'm constantly cheating on the text i'm translating with another text that i find more interesting

petrarchesco

Francesco Petrarca appears in a dream to Giovanni Boccaccio, as per the Liber VIII of De Casibus Virorum Illustrium. From a 15th century french translation of Boccaccio's work (BNF, Fr. 226, f. 210r).

#it's them again. my favorite guys.#I love how much petrarca is petrarcking in this one #usually these miniatures from de casibus idealize him quite much making him look young and handsome #here is... realistic almost?#petrarca #boccaccio

fluentisonus

going down those long spiral stairs to the tube bc the escalators are broken

#dante tag

tbh i think im gonna go to the cinema to watch nolan's odyssey. i kinda hated the trailer and marketing ideas, i don't really enjoy the blockbusterization and americanization of ancient texts, i am quite neutral about the cast (matt damon is too anglosaxon to be #myodysseus), and i despise the costumes, but i do miss homer quite much. i just did my last greek-lit exam in uni and i thought that i would have been fed up and worn out w homer and greek-lit, but turns out that i have severe homer-withdrawal after passing several weeks on it. so maybe this could be the cure.

ok so list of what would i like to see (but probably won't)

That scene in book 20 where Odysseus speaks to his heart as if it were a dog

Flashbacks of Helen mimicking the greek general's wives' voices. Odysseus pressing his hands on his comrades mouths

That other Helen flashback in which she meets Odysseus under-cover

About book 4, I don't think we will get the menelaus-proteus adventure but it would be so incredibly cool. Seals. Metamorphic sea god. Nolan look at me. It would be so cool, Nolan

All of Demodocus songs. The one about Hephaestus's net... come on Nolan, it's a trick, it's a metis story, it's functional to the themes (I don't think we will actually get it)

Hermes turning into a seagull

The impossible hug between Odysseus and his mother in the nekyia

Odysseus as his trickster doliometis polytropos self

Penelope's trick of the bed. Athena holding back dawn to prolong the night

Bit more color than the dark brooding palette of the trailer please, thank you very much

#odyssey #grecoposting