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“Counting or not counting gang violence” *gets stabbed to death on the Appian Way*

#we are Clodius pulcherrr we carry the flaaame #THE gang violence guy dying to gang violence is so beautifully ironic #publius clodius pulcher #my special bastard <3 #Ancient Rome

giottogal

If there's any character in this world who suffers from literary Ken-ification it's Patroclus. Especially in the zeitgeist of today (thanks tsoa), it's always Achilles AND Patroclus, never just Patroclus. Who is he? Why does he exist? He is Achilles' boyfriend! What's his job? Death! In the sense that he just. Dies. That's just his job now. Death. Death and Achilles' boyfriend. That's it.

giottogal

I read the thing

I am a changed woman. Sorry for even making this post when Victor Hugo said it 150ish years before me

runerigous

#I love this post we are sooo on the same brainwave #One reason I love Iliad 17 so much is bc it talks a lot about Patroclus’ relationships with others outside of Achilles and what he meant #to them and it’s SOOOOO *chefs kiss*#sick of patroclus woobification #that’s my man!!!!!#Patroclus #the Iliad

publiusvergiliusmaro

Elagabalus should’ve been at the club instead of ruling the Roman Empire :(

publiusvergiliusmaro

Stop booing me I’m right!!!!

#this is ancient rome we’re talking about. come on now

Elagabalus should’ve been at the club instead of ruling the Roman Empire :(

#elagabalus #Ancient Rome #please god don’t be weird about Elagabalus on this post thank u!!!!#tagamemnon

thoodleoo

thank you pliny the elder for telling us about pyrrhus (of the infamous pyrrhic victory) and his immortal, spleen-healing gripper

#hm. bad #pliny be wildin #tagamemnon

I love you james purefoy I love you kevin mckidd I love all the cast members of hbo Rome who refused to have involvement on game of thrones bc of how Rome got screwed over. Based as hell

#hbo Rome #they’re sooo real for this and I respect them #james purefoy #kevin mckidd

nathanielthecurious

i found another really good G-rated pompeii graffito. a normal polite beginning of letters was "if you're well, that's good, I'm well". this woman wrote on a wall:

To Alexander from Livia. If you're well, I don't care very much. If you're dead, I'm rightly glad.

#so happy to share a name with this icon #also. Livia Drusilla @ like all of Augustus’ heirs according to Tacitus #queen shit #Ancient Rome

Can you IMAGINE the discourse that would occur if HBO Rome was released this year oh my god

#the servilia/Octavia discourse alone would be ASTRONOMICALLY bad #hbo rome #Rome #Rome hbo

theweight

my three beautiful daughters igneous sedimentary and metamorphic

#Agamemnon somehow

libraryleopard

I’m going to classicist hell but it’s okay

#the SCREAM i scromed #help #the iliad #this isnt even a copypasta patroclus is Like That #jk

publiusvergiliusmaro

[Clytemnestra voice] quick, hand me my terf-killing axe

#bringing back this evergreen post #i wish all terfs a very die like agamemnon #the oresteia #tagamemnon

helenvaughans

i love how season 2 of hbo rome is really just a broad overview of octavian’s psychosexual hangups

#i hate how true this is #ngl tho the choking kink was a surprise #and the line where he basically says beating livia would turn him on. ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED #hbo rome #they were unhinged for this

Not to engage in Iliad disk horse but I saw someone on here unironically complain that Achilles and Patroclus weren't "canon" in the translation of the Iliad they were reading and I just. I feel like I need to say that whoever told you Patrochilles were explicit lovers who kiss and stuff in the Iliad was lying to you. This isn't TSOA or that one Aeschylus fragment

#like. go ahead and interpret their relationship how you want but you don't get to complain when they don't kiss even in the original greek #please learn to separate the iliad from tsoa #thank u #the iliad #sorry for the disk horse everyone