#classicsposting

[copycatvagabond]

Odyssey concept cover, trying to teach myself book design

[glitch-ed-art]

Save me scuffed Agrippa 🙏

[autistic-ophelia]

Every day my theory that if you have a silly enough name you are morally obligated to study Classics grows stronger and stronger. You will never in a million years guess the name of the fucking French guy whose paper I’m reading because his name sounds like someone pulled a gun on you and forced you to come up with the name for a French caricature in half a second.

[david-lanndlord]

*translating an Ancient Greek text*

damn I've never seen this word before. can't be bothered to research if it appears anywhere else, though. call that a half-ass legomenon

[thesarosperiod]

"they died from a disease they caught from their father"

[little first-draft snippet of a bigger thing i'm working on. sometimes you just need to write about medea.]

[ignanimus]

new elegical genre just dropped: parapausithyron (stopping in front of the door because you're too anxious to knock)

[helenoftroydidnothingwrong]

I don't know why people are so worried about a "cure for cancer" when Pliny already told us it was cabbage

[yaoiankles]