#classical memes

[victusinveritas]

[enlitment]

Snake jewellery across centuries ✨

They had many snake rings on display at the British Museum!

The signs explained that snakes were viewed as symbols of healing and renewal (think Asclepius, maybe because of the shedding of the skin?)

I guess it would be due to the later Christian symbolism that people nowadays associate snakes with evil.

Bonus point: Tiresias' story means that snakes are demonstrably about gender, too 🙏

[memexgen]

[anonymous-alien2-0]

Sit yo ass down!!

[idontmatter2you]

Via cheezburger.com

[sherdnerd]

Classics tumblr should try starting posts with invocations to the muses.

"To the goddess I call, of memes she sings

Make light of the epics, those ancient things

Give cause to jeer Atreus' son

Within the tags, of his name make a pun"

[ourpholia]

... sorry, i had to

[tower-of-hana]

Sparta told me helot revolts keep killing his soldiers so I asked how many soldiers he has and he said he just goes to the agoge and gets new soldiers afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding his soldiers to the helots and then the Peloponnesian League started crying.