Codswallop

Ali - she/her - 30 something

[thoodleoo]

lesbian flag colorpicked from the marine life mosaic from the casa dei mosaici geometrici in pompeii

[thoodleoo]

this is how the trojan war cycle goes in my head

[memories-of-ancients]

Terracotta vase in the form of a lobster claw, Greece, circa 460 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[pangur-and-grim]

Thought you might relate to this with your editing woes (congratulations on the book, by the way!)

honestly, I'm having the inverse experience in which all the edits being made are so smart and so obviously the right thing to do that I'm filled with agony for having not written it that way from the start. like, she'll substitute a colon for a semicolon, and I'll scream "OF COURSE!!! I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!" and throw myself across the room

[pangur-and-grim]

it is a funny quote, but I agree with all this 100%

[thoodleoo]

stop what you're doing right now and look at archaic period terracotta fox scratching its head

ok you can continue

[in-ois-oisou]

Medieval kittens, from a 13th century English manuscript, (Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 533, fol. 13r) 

[classics-cassandra]

If I won the lottery I wouldn’t say anything but there would be signs

[memories-of-ancients]

Rhyton in the shape of a dog's head, Greece, circa 480 BC

from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

[anti-potato]

sources? a little birdie, et al (2024)

[mcaelius]

[catullus101]

The so-called Leningrad Painter gave us the only example of a woman working in a vase studio in Attic art on this mid-fifth-century BC hydria, the Caputi Hydria

[judgejudyofficial]

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[judgejudyofficial]

everybody say thank you Marcus Aurelius

[sylvyspritii]

Thank you Marcus Aurelius

[nihilproject]

Ἔξεστι περὶ τούτου μηδὲν ὑπολαμβάνειν καὶ μὴ ὀχλεῖσθαι τῇ ψυχῇ: αὐτὰ γὰρ τὰ πράγματα οὐκ ἔχει φύσιν ποιητικὴν τῶν ἡμετέρων κρίσεων.

(M. Aurelius, Meditations, 6.52)

[epilepticsaints]

[kallistoi]

[image description: an illustration of a chef carving meat off of a spit, except the meat is edited to be a cone-shaped diagram of hell as described in dante's inferno. end description.]

[kebriones]

He is sobbing face down are you happy now.

[makokind]

can u imagine if comic sans had. serifs

[makokind]

actually nvm what the fuck is this shit

[kebriones]

460 BCE attic kylix from the louvre showing Atalante.

HER OUTFIT!

[whatifwekilledgodandwebothgirls]

Is this ... real ? This looks like a pradoy . There is no way they had this cunty people back then

[kebriones]

it's real

[whatifwekilledgodandwebothgirls]

What is she wearing and why exactly is she wearing that ?

[kebriones]

I honestly haven't done anywhere near enough research on ancient clothing, but since in mythology she was an althete, the top is porbably an apodesmos for support (a breast band, but the way it's drawn is very striking and I can't find anyone discussing this) and the bottom is probably just a very tiny loincloth/perizoma. No idea about the hat.

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive