beware the ides of march

Julia. 26. Former Classics and Ancient History major, now doing a Master of Museum Studies. This blog is mainly Classics with some other history and stuff mixed in. I follow from @poetrylesbian. Studyblr is @smartstudy.

[catoswound-moved]

oh gaius julius you have to stop. your dictator too perpetuo. your head too bald. your girt too ill. they'll kill you gaius julius.

[catilinas]

she bona on my dea until caesar’s wife must be above suspicion

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

I mean, I don't want to sound stupid, but I always assumed that the Ancient Romans were mammals

[escuerzoresucitado]

[catoswound-moved]

pompey convincing cicero to come to him during caesars civil war

[mcaelius]

[treecitysessions]

[leninonlyfans]

the most heartbreaking part of Caesar's assassination is that he had thought that Brutus was arranging a no loads refused public cumdump event for him

[bloedgetuige]

its never cicerover.......my consulship for a kiss upon his shoulder......

[bloedgetuige]

oh lover....you shouldve gone to greece....

[en-theos]

*walks up to a same sex couple* so which of you is the hellenist and which is the latinist?

[consulships]

HOT senators at your location want to HOMOEROTICALLY MURDER YOU!

[consulships]

roman senator pussy got me acting impudicus et imprudenter

[officialpenisenvy]

aristophanes first pioneered the idea of political lesbianism in his seminal work lysistrata

[penny-anna]

Something I think ppl who aren't used to it struggle with when it comes to ancient history is that frequently 'we do not and cannot know this' is the only truthful response a historian can give. People severely overestimate how much we actually know about Ancient Rome.

I remember talking to someone at a party once about the debate over Septimius Severus's ethnicity (whole other can of worms) and they asked if genetic testing of his remains was not a way to settle it and I was like oh. Oh okay you are under the impression we have the physical remains of Roman emperors from the second century AD alright then. (We. Do not.)

[penny-anna]

Can't stress how much of high level study of Ancient History is devoted to trying to make sense of what actually factually happened. When I was at university (10+ years ago now) the discipline was embroiled in the lengthy and ongoing process of trying to unpack not just the biases in ancient sources but the centuries & centuries of biases within the field itself. I don't imagine this process is ever going to Stop. It's not uncommon for historical accounts to be so garbled & contradictory that it's not possible to reconstruct the real events behind them.

Once in an introductory lecture one of my professors was talking about this problem and articulated it very simply as 'we know real things happened between real people, but we aren't sure what they were'. Sums it up really!!

[lesbiaeneas]

that tweet that's like "i love when it gets busy at starbucks and the gay baristas get mean" but the gay baristas are marcus tullius cicero and starbucks is the dying roman republic

[grecoromanyaoi]

[grecoromanyaoi]

[ospreyonthemoon]

PUNIC WARS THREE

[grecoromanyaoi]

[thanook]

PUNIC WARS FOUR

[caesxr]

the first triumvirate was a real diversity win if you think about it

[caesxr]

sorry for not elaborating on this one. i meant because caesar was neurodivergent (bald) and the other two were probably some flavour of lesbian