#classics tag

[pompeiusliker]

senator mama mia!!

[morosexualhoratio]

hey girl sorry um. we stabbed your boyfriend in the senate house. yeah a seer told him to beware the ides of march but he didn't listen. brutus and cassius got him. i'm so sorry

[othellho]

[acerbaa]

every day you look and they’ve invented a new use of the ablative

[romanconcrete]

"average roman poem contains 3 individually named trees" factoid actualy statistical error. average roman poem contains 0 individually named trees. Virgil Georg(ics), who lives in the didactic-pastoral idyll and names over 10,000 trees in each poem, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[rotzaprachim]

you’d think that the “every drafted soldier in the world is inherently a literally murderable inhuman monster” webbed site would take greater umbrage at the “what if one of the most famously morally ambiguous war stories of all time became a ya romance and/or action hero musical in a way that significantly dehumanizes the victims and washes the canonical realities of war crime under the rug” thing but you would be wrong

[theoceansandadinos]

Maps of The Iliad (Robert Fagles Translation)

Sorry if they're a little choppy, I matched them casually based on the online version! Thank you