Senatus Populusque Romanus

Call me Crassus the way I'm *not* comitting mass fraud.

[in-verrem-we-trust]

Hullo! I'm very not normal about the Roman senate, and Rome in general. I'm currently doing classics at uni. This blog is just so I don't keep spamming my other blogs with Rome T-T

I'm gonna be honest, I will probably also post Ancient Greek and Persian stuff, just not as often.

This is a sideblog, I follow and like from @carissimuspuer

I'm 19 and use he/him :)

I write Roman/Greek history/mythology stuff sometimes on Ao3- here's the one I'm working on atm:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61908274/chapters/158298124

This account will probably be a mix of shitposts and actual stuff I'm learning :)

[most-sane-classicist]

we don't talk enough about how epic the musical fanart has infiltrated our perception of Odysseus and seeped into odyssey fanart. Stop drawing m'y man with straight ass light brown hair and some blue and white sheets. I want curly black hair Odysseus who is jacked as hell in his grey fucking rags with his little hat.

[pjharvey]

our age of blogs is collapsing

[wizardarchetypes]

i get a $250 million production budget to adapt beowulf into a summer blockbuster and at the end beowulf is contemplating his reign as king in his old age and the passing of time and we hear some kids say something he doesn't quite understand and he says stoically "it's as if the English i speak is becoming old..."

[pjharvey]

our age of blogs is collapsing

[dykeselfcest]

recent epidemic of adaptations that take lots of liberties with the source material and also, separately, are bad. but then if you say "this is bad" you get hit with "you're just being a source material purist and you don't understand the vision"...like. well actually I think it rules when people do new and different things with classic works. I just think these particular new and different things suck ass.

[ousnavi]

not a fan of when the aeneid is naturally brought up with iliad and odyssey discussions just for it to be dumbed down to homer fanfiction

[the-etcetera-archive]

trying to research a very specific historical question is a great way to convince yourself that nothing exists nor is anything concretely known

[real-language-facts]

invented a new word today. its 'plagiarism'. im a genius i know

[gauffcaraz]

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

not naming names but some of you are so creative and talented it's an honor to have you in my phone

[markantonynumber1fan]

Agrippa always looks so worried and stressed on his sculptures. Then again if my best friend was Octavian of all people I don’t think I’d be particularly happy either

[vyvilha]

i successfully substituted the phrase "i am going to kill myself" as an expression of intense emotion in my daily speech to a more mental health friendly phrase "i am going to crucify six thousand people along the appian way" and i think it's. Well i don't know what to think

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

RIP Sisyphus he would've loved emails.

[plasmapop]

30/04/22 • poem for the anniversary of lucan's death, cut out from his wikipedia + talk page

Lucan's Death - clarify

a youth born in a century he regarded as a kind of death, who grew up in a city burning with rhetoric.

he studied poetry until it bled into history, the biography of a dying Republic

the wound at the core of the Silver-Voiced war-ode he was not allowed to recite or publish.

A conspiracy is when you are discovered breathing fire (and the rest of the story is better unsaid).

bleeding to death—30 April 65 AD—what survives, or who? an Orpheus looking back on a City in flames,

the poem superfluous. his last words were disrupted. an unspeakable judgement given to crime. but

his masterpiece of grief escaped, circulating unfinished in the veins of other poets. read it and he lives.

[thoodleoo]

me and the other commanders were really impressed by how you sat in your tent and played on your lyre during the battle today. especially when the trojans tried setting our ships on fire. we thought that was really cool of you

[toddsolondz]