antiquity lives rent free in my skull

XXIV · discipula linguae latinae · μαθήτρια τῆς ἑλληνικῆς γλώσσης

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[most-sane-classicist]

i wanna climb up a big rock. not like a mountain but just a huge fucking monolithic piece of stone

[philopalaia]

like the acrocorinth

[venomspecs]

Same, Odysseus, same

[philopalaia]

*furrow my eyebrows*

πείσεσθαι ἢ πείσεσθαι;

[fawnblooms]

I need to be shot with an arrow so I can sloppily drag myself against stone while my mortal enemy has to save my life because they cannot undo the curse without me

[philopalaia]

i need to be struck by one of eros's arrows. i need to fall hopelessly, humiliatingly in love with my mortal enemy. i need to lose all sense and dignity, every instinct for self-preservation swallowed whole by the curse, every reasonable thought drowned by the conviction that wherever they go, i must follow.

and I need it to be killing me slowly enough for them to watch me waste away and learn the cruelest part of the curse, that if i die before it's broken, they'll spend the rest of their life haunted by my ghost. and love denied an object becomes its own kind of curse.

so when i finally collapse at their feet, feverish and delirious, i need them to be the one who catches me. i need them to feel my pulse faltering beneath their fingers and know that my life is in their hands. and i need them to hate the fact that they can't let me die.

[adistraughtjester]

Shout out to my favorite word Theophagy.

[most-sane-classicist]

alright Cronus

[adistraughtjester]

I mean I meant it more so in the sense of ritual practices such as communion BUT I’m willing to explore other options

[philopalaia]

dionysus zagreus?

[cozycoffeereads]

Ancient Roman Mosiacs

[agender-kelpie]

beautiful just beautiful. Art that ai can never create.

[philopalaia]

new moot :D

hello hello!

[dilutedh2so4]

Happy Pride to whatever Helen and Aphrodite have going on

[romehbo]

i think if you put in enough academic investment at some point you should be allowed to talk about long dead historical figures like theyre your friends

[philopalaia]

“oh, ἐγένετο? must be from some verb with a present stem γεν-”

the answer: actually it’s γίγνομαι :) the aorist stem is γεν-

me, foolishly assuming ancient greek would ever do anything predictable

[thoodleoo]

oh so when other people call a baby "cute enough to eat" it's sweet and charming. but when i, cronus,

[philopalaia]

the particle γάρ intrigues me because it exists solely to explain the sentence that came before it. in a poetic sense, it implies that nothing stands alone; just as a sentence with γάρ is tethered to its predecessor, our lives are defined by what preceded us. we are, in a way, the explanatory sentence for the lives of our ancestors

[lesbianshepard]

I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home in my own hands fifteen years ago

Now, Patrice, you will no longer give me a thousand kisses, nor will you be able to lie affectionately round my neck. 

You were a good dog, and in sorrow I have placed you in a marble tomb, and I have united you forever to myself when I die. 

You readily matched a human with your clever ways; alas, what a pet we have lost! 

You, sweet Patrice, were in the habit of joining us at table and fawningly asking for food in our lap, 

You were accustomed to lick with your greedy tongue the cup which my hands often held for you 

And often welcomed your tired master with wagging tail

Ancient Roman epitaph for a dog, found in Salerno.  (CIL X 659)

[finelythreadedsky]

confidently typing "birds" into wikipedia and hitting enter as if that's going to take me directly to the page for the aristophanes play

[philopalaia]

fyi ὄρνιθες does

[roughentumble]

ok im trying to understand the origin on this name, is Timaeus closer to "honored" or "honoring"? i know it's "to honor" +aios, but the wikitionary pages on what αιος means arent very clear to me

[philopalaia]

as far as i know, -αιος mainly forms adjectives meaning something like having the quality of or characterized by, for example Ἀθηναῖος or

if we go by this logic, wouldn't τίμαιος mean an honorable person?

if we wanted it to mean someone who actively honored others, then a a participial form like the name τίμων would be the better choice

[thoodleoo]

"i asked chatgpt" "i asked grok" well i asked socrates and he said the only thing he knows is that he knows nothing