#( ;classics )

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the urge to call caelius 'just a little guy' when talking to my y12 about his characterisation in the pro caelio

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shoutout to myself for choosing to translate odysseus’ epithet of polytropos as “mr worldwide”

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classics culture is there being no true canon so if you wanted to believe achilles juggled fire in his spare time you wouldn’t technically be wrong

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i’ve had to explain what classics is so many times i think i’ll settle on replying to “so what’s your degree?” with “i study dead things”

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so medusa right

if she has snakes for hair, would that mean the rest of her body hair was just really tiny snakes too? if so, does she wax them out?

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my summary of the iliad so far

achilles is a mommy’s boy and agamemnon is bad at reverse psychology

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stupid classics thing:

quoting snippets of poetry/prose as though it's The Cool New Meme except no one knows what the hell "you to whom the god has nodded with a favourable ear" actually means