#classics memes

[metis-metis]

[enlitment]

average Cicero moment

[mobytrot]

reading the illiad and the book 10 "waking ppl up" scene happened whereupon i was instantly possessed with the need to make this.

"Then he [Agamemnon] went to Nestor,

the shepard of the people, whom he found beside his black ship just outside his tent,

upon a soft bed, and beside him lay

his finely decorated arms— a shield,

a glittering helmet, and two spears, and also the dazzling metal belt that old Lord Nestor donned when he armed himself for deadly war."

- the illiad by homer trans. emily wilson, book 10, pg 225-226

[murasaki-cha]

My humble offering for this year's ides of march

[absolutechaosss]

Fuck it, classics predictions for Tumblr in 2024

Terfs will go so far in their bio essentialism that they will insist that women are fundamentally cold and wet and men are hot and dry, due to being cooked more in the womb

Fake Tumblr activism will accidentally bring back the Oppian Laws

Aeneas will become Tumblrs new poor little meow meow but only after someone publishes a retelling where he and Turnus are in love

Someone invents another fake goddess

Oracle of Delphi blog emerges to catalogue Tumblr moments of prophecy

[firnen-the-teragram-teabag]

[chronicallyblonde]

julius caesar has been dead for 2067 slutty, slutty years

[pelideswhore]