i told you when i came i was a stranger

archéologue | 28 | montréal

[patdyuri]

rest in peace france 😭😭😭

[shithowdy]

american blackbirds are icterids but european blackbirds are thrushes but american robins are thrushes but european robins are flycatchers and they are named robin because (checks notes) brits in the 1400s called them "robert" on account of they are just some familiar guy who shows up in your yard. hold on post canceled is that really why they are called that? what the fuck. they did this with jackdaws and magpies too? i can't even be annoyed. how human. "who's that? that's bob." fuck dude it sure is.

[soulindisarray]

Original handwritten lyrics, Psycho Killer by Talking Heads, c.1975.

[duchessvongooseberg]

david byrne tryna figure out how the fuck u spell "qu'est-ce que c'est":

[kyleesarthell]

Siren!

[karvina]

stop thinking with your dick and start thinking with your pussy. ok now stop thinking with your pussy and start thinking with your dick again. meditate on the differences between them. call me back when you get it.

[fallout-lou-begas]

[pangur-and-grim]

you ever just look over and see the animal?

[sharkodactyl]

moment of unspeakable beauty today when one of my coworkers called another coworker "judas" for not splitting a can of white monster with her, and i got to watch the guy who sits next to me open a new google tab, type in "jeudis," and say quietly to himself "french thursday...?"

[silvernevermind]

small town diner waitress voice: Omelas? Oh, oh no, easy mistake, you're in oh - MAY - las right now, with an A. Plenty' people get the name mixed up. Nope, no utopia here, just our small little town. *face gets really grim* We do still.. Okay well we do still have a kid that we... I mean it isn't working but- well- You know. It- It's fine. I'm sure it'll start working soon.

[theburialofstrawberries]

awesome awesome interview with Emily Wilson

[pmamtraveller]

The Spectral Titans, by Anthony Machuca

[eatpussypraylove]

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

fully sober in the club googling iliad full text

[fawnblooms]

Trashed off my ass in the library with a hardback copy of the iliad

[divorcedwife]

studying history is like. here's to another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be. thank you women who fight for abortion and contraception and independance from men for another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be

[suturesque]

vodun day, 2020 benin. julio sacristan

[m1male2]

Baiae, the submerged city in the Gulf of Naples.

Throughout the 1st century BC, the city of Baiae was a retreat and leisure destination for emperors and wealthy Romans. Tectonic movements between the 3rd and 4th centuries AD caused much of the coastline between Pozzuoli and Cumae, including Baiae, to sink. Today, its remains lie 5 meters below the sea.

[someonesoonforgotten]

Classicists help me, what are the most well known primary sources mentions of Baiae?

I vaguely remember reading about this place in a primary source second or third year of Latin undergrad, but I can’t remember where and it’s driving me crazy.

[catilinas]

i’m not sure these are objectively the most well known primary sources on baiae, but the ones that come to mind for me are the various mentions in cicero’s pro caelio, propertius 1.11 (about cynthia in baiae), and martial epigrams 1.62. these are all more about associations of baiae with promiscuity/unfaithfulness than the geology though. im sure pliny the elder talks about baiae in the natural history but it is probably not confined to just one passage and also i haven’t read it.

you can also see all mentions of baiae in ancient sources on topos text!

[evvergreen]

tumblr is the website for if you're just someone's weird sister

[thoodleoo]

time for another round of one of my favorite games, "try to picture what this roman graffito looks like from its description"! today we have EDR167813. click the read more to see how accurate the picture in your head was

go my lambda