#dio cassius

[venusira]

Reading Kleiner and thinking "Wow, this is an oddly specific and biased passage on the feelings of Cleopatra towards Octavian. Have I missed something huge what's going on?" Just to look back in the passage and see it's actually two paragraphs of Dio Fucking Cassius being the most annoying loser ever

[taberecusuflet]

Tabara de Scufundari – Micii Speologi

Tabara de Scufundari – Micii Speologi

[punsbulletsandpointythings]

"Today we are calling out Dio Cassius for being problematic and the Historia Augusta for just being a PROBLEM!"

Me, paraphrasing my favourite prof, but like....not by much.

[iamangryandreadytoriot]

All this ruin was brought upon them by a woman a fact which caused them [the Romans] the greatest shame

Dio Cassius in Scandalous women by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

[iaspo]

[36] ὅτι οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι διεκηρυκεύσαντο τῷ Ἀννίβᾳ ἀνταπόδοσιντῶν αἰχμαλώτων ἀξιοῦντες γενέσθαι, οὐ κατηλλάξαντο δὲαὐτούς, καίπερ καὶ ἐκείνου Καρθάλωνα ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸ τοῦτοἀντιπέμψαντος: ἐπειδὴ γὰρ 1 οὐκ ἐδέξαντο αὐτὸν εἴσω τοῦτείχους κατὰ τὸ πολέμιον, οὐδὲ ἐς λόγους αὐτοῖς ἐλθεῖνἠθέλησεν, ἀλλ᾽ εὐθὺς δι᾽ ὀργῆς ἀνέστρεψεν.

[hydrargyrum80]

I just accidentally 13 volumes of Loeb and a Riverside Shakespeare

Books that cost fifty cents each should probably NEVER be illegal.