Day-Dreaming Academica

Archaeologist and Historian, Classics and Dark Academia

[galina]

What are days for? Days are where we live— where can we live but days?

[andantegrazioso-deactivated2018]

[iamdreamingagain]

New stamps, stickers and note pad can only mean one thing- lots of potion crafting!

[lionofchaeronea]

Head of a wounded Amazon of the so-called “Capitol-Sosicles” type; Roman marble copy after a lost Greek bronze original, created by Polyclitus or Cresilas at Ephesus, ca. 440-430 BCE.  Found in the Horti of Maecenas; now in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

[classicarte]

Prélude et fugue en ut (do) mineur, Op. 37, n.° 1 – Felix Mendelssohn

Une sculpture d’un ange.

[s-c-r-ee-ch]

Apollo and Athena on a full moon 🌕

Academy of Athens

[tittiloi]

Sguardo al passato, Centrale Montemartini, Roma ©Tiziana Loiacono

[vintagepales]

[iamdreamingagain]

How clear, how lovely bright...

[iamdreamingagain]

Fountains Abbey

[iamdreamingagain]

That feeling when you read a certain passage from a book/article that makes you fall in love with the subject all over again

[savagedefectives]

barthes

[typodescript]

[ID text: Why do some people, including myself, enjoy in certain novels, biographies, and historical works the representation of the “daily life” of an epoch, of a character? Why this curiosity about petty details: schedules, habits, meals, lodging, clothing, etc.? Is it the hallucinatory relish of “reality” (the very materiality of “that once existed”)? And is it not the fantasy itself which invokes the “detail,” the tine private scene, in which I can easilty take my place? Are there, in short, “minor hysterics” (these very readers) who receive bliss from a singular theater: not one of grandeur but one of mediocrity (might there not be dreams, fantasies of mediocrity)? end ID]

[iamdreamingagain]

The academic life is getting excited over a book having an entire chapter discussing an obscure topic that just so happens to be highly significant to your thesis.

[iamdreamingagain]

[iamdreamingagain]

My art process is called ‘hope for the best’

[seasonsschange]

[hongdaedits]