#reading classics

[fauxunraveling]

starting to read wuthering heights so i can feel included when all of the intellectual people watch the film :) i want to be apart of something

[yeahawvampire]

Albert Camus, The myth of Sisyphus

[moonlady101]

Reading Hamlet and I can't still get over the fact that Shakespeare is even worse than I am when it comes to throwing references about the ancient Greco Roman world.

I mean... His uncle's name is Claudius. And his best friend is Horatio, and Ophelia's brother's name is Laertes... Very subtle indeed.

[i-eat-booooks]

….. And now the work is done, that Jupiter's anger, fire or sword cannot erase, nor the gnawing tooth of time. Let that day, that only has power over my body, end, when it will, my uncertain span of years: yet the best part of me will be borne, immortal, beyond the distant stars. Wherever Rome's influence extends, over the lands it has civilized, I will be spoken, on people's lips: and, famous through all the ages, if there is truth in poets' prophecies, ­vivam--I shall live…

🌬️Finished Ovid’s Metamorphoses!🏺

[hornyforpoetry]

Little hedonistic things to enjoy (Classic Academia edition):

• searching for old CDs and vinyls with classical music at flea markets;

• trying to translate your favourite latin poems in your native language;

• studying Homer in the middle of the night and trying to understand the greek way of thinking;

• exercising your shakespearian accent in front of the mirror, repeating Hamlet's monologue over and over again;

• losing hours after hours in library, researching the origin of the languages and the history of linguistics;

• reading newspapers from then and now and comparing the the journalistic approach, the research level and the wording;

• writing essays and little stories in painted leather notebooks;

• cooking old and even ancient recipes to see how they taste;

• imagining new scenarios after your favourite classic books with your friends and debating if the book could be better with a different ending.

[kainatsstuff]

Why a simple scene like this had me giggling... Oh the angst...

Who thought i will be falling for a fictional man written two centuries ago.

[turningthefrickinfrogsgay]

Happy Classic Lit Tuesday!

I have chosen the book I will be reading… drum roll please…. 🥁✨🥁✨🥁✨🥁✨🥁✨

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde!! 🎉🎉🎉

I read on Pinterest today that it was a good classic for fall so here we are lol. Can’t wait to start it after I finish my bullshit amount of homework lmao.