#annals

[jugoslaven]

BL manga used to be 50+ chapters long and have side characters and stories now you can either read a maximum 6 chapter one shot or a korean webtoon that has 94 chapters and looks like this

[linailiina31]

Me waiting for my milk 🤤

Who else wants to give me some milk! 🤤

[aborted-your-virtus]

Just found out that Ancient Rome had a genre of literature that just focused on idealised suicide, noble deaths and martyrdom. Can’t say I’m surprised.

[moonlady101]

Okay so I get that Suetonius is the most famous biographer when it comes to Julio-Claudian emperors (Thank Robert Graves for that), but he will never be as wild as Tacitus when it comes to narrating facts. I mean the man has the audacity to say he will be completely neutral to mantain historical accuracy and then proceeds to roast every single person he can name (with the exception ofc of his golden boy Germanicus, who never ever did anything wrong in his life).

Some of my favourite stellar moments are:

Why women are incapable of ruling without a) Sleeping with everyone (like Messalina who, let's not forget, was a teenager while Claudius was almost 50); or b)Murdering everyone (Because of course Livia murdered his step grandsons who were in Gaul and Lycia).

Tiberius being completely disgusted by the senators and wanting to get rid of most of them but only managing to become a very broody and antisocial person. (Points to the anecdote of Arruncius who thought he was getting murdered and begged for Tiberius forgiveness by sneaking into the palace and grabbing his knees, making Tiberius fall to the ground).

Nero killing his half brother by poisoning at a dinner party and saying he has epillepsy and he'll be fine while continue eating.

Claudius asking a freedman after Messalina's coup d'etat if he was still the emperor.

There are many more. If you want to know about this stuff, but don't want to read the entirety of the Annals (yes, that's the book's name), I highly recommend reading Agrippina by Emma Southon. She's so much fun and you can learn a lot about women in power in ancient Rome which is always a great thing to do!

[arc-of-creation]

Oh brother, an Arcean. I knew an Arcean once. I take it that you also believe in loving thy neighbor and mercy and altruism?

Well, sorry, pal, but that's not how the world works. It's the survival of the fittest, and the fittest are the Helixians. We know that power makes the world go round, not love. You're lucky you're not in my universe, because things will get bad for your kind once Judgment comes.

[medievalistsnet]

A medieval chronicle written by a woman: The Annals of Quedlinburg - Medievalists.net

Relatively few surviving works from the Middle Ages were written by women. One of them is a monastic chronicle known as the Annals of Quedlinburg, created in the early eleventh century. A look into this work reveals some interesting insights into the writer and her abbey.

[gracchisuggestions]

[...] it was Seneca who sought a female's aid against a woman's fascinations, and hurried in Acte, the freed-girl, who alarmed at her own peril and at Nero's disgrace, told him that the incest was notorious, as his mother boasted of it, and that the soldiers would never endure the rule of an impious sovereign.

Acte to Nero: 

[father-of-the-void]

Undoubtedly the liberator of Germany; a man who, not in its infancy as captains and kings before him, but in the high noon of its sovereignty, threw down the challenge to the Roman nation in battle with ambiguous results, in war without defeat; he completed thirty-seven years of life, twelve of power, and to this day is sung in tribal lays, though he is an unknown being to the Greek historians, who admire only the glory of Greece, and receives less than his due from us of Rome, who glorify the ancient days and show little concern for our own.

Tacitus on Hermann, Annals