arma virumque deleo

is there a beginning? is there an end?

[telemachea]

the answer is the bullet hole in his back

⁀જ➣ call me pat(roclus) or jase, they/he, 18

⁀જ➣ writes stuff (mostly poetry) draws stuff (rarely)

⁀જ➣ classics & literature freak

⁀જ➣ insane about (post)modernism, the gothic, tragedy, incest, cannibalism, postcolonialism, classical reception & female homoeroticism

⁀જ➣ professional male hysteric

⁀જ➣ armand med malpractice stan

⁀જ➣ no.1 hozier fan

find me on: substack, spotify, & my writing + art portfolio

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#& the rest is history - history nerd things, both original and reblogs

[telemachea]

patroclus minh

[Text ID:

you swear that you love me but there’s love

and there’s loving you the way I do: like a fist, 

like a knife, 

like toeing the cliffs of Dover one summer and waiting

for the break;

/End ID]

[msvhs-deactivated20251231]

The Color of Pomegranates (Նռան գույնը), dir. Sergei Parajanov (1969)

[jimbo-jester]

op disabled reblogs but I found this from this post. you should check out the reblogs they’re funny ash

Hi so that’s not a pun, that’s the turning point of the story. Hope this helps!

[pisshandkerchief]

everyone's "well-adjusted" and "mentally healthy" until the "sometimes I wish I'd never been born at all" part of Bohemian Rhapsody comes on

[reticent-vampire]

another normal day at the normal things to say factory for assad zaman

[skytouches]

“Finally, Some Concrete Career Advice” by Natalie Shapero, published by The Rumpus

[apoemaday]

Odysseus’ Decision

by Louise Glück

The great man turns his back on the island. Now he will not die in paradise nor hear again the lutes of paradise among the olive trees, by the clear pools under the cypresses. Time begins now, in which he hears again that pulse which is the narrative sea, at dawn when its pull is strongest. What has brought us here will lead us away; our ship sways in the tinted harbor water. Now the spell is ended. Give him back his life, sea that can only move forward.

[fluentisonus]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

[didoofcarthage]

Red-figure kylix with youth and his lover (interior) and youths and men in athletic activities (exterior), attributed to the Carpenter Painter

Greek (manufactured at Athens) Archaic Period, c. 510-500 B.C.

terracotta

Getty Museum

[whimsicalfairytales]

The “nobody” scene in the odyssey is absolutely not just a clever pun—it’s a character defining moment for Odysseus because he refuses to be nobody. He devised an incredible plan that worked and he could have saved his men and returned home much sooner but he just had to yell to the cyclops that he isn’t nobody—he’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca so now Poseidon knows who to curse which severely fucks up the rest of the journey.

The “nobody” scene highlights both Odysseus’s cleverness but also his arrogance and those two traits define Odysseus throughout the entire story. It’s a foundational aspect of Odysseus’s character and cutting the scene displays a shocking level of ignorance and disregard for the themes in the source material.

[jewishdaredevil-deactivated2022]

the sight of men’s tits leaves me feeling weak and restless with lust. i need to be tucked into bed like a victorian woman dying from too little cocaine

[telemachea]

not even sure if i even want to go to this uni bc the main reason i applied was for the chance of gaining a fellowship/scholarship for my masters and phd 😭

[pesti-devota-futurae]

rip catullus you'd have loved the song doin' time

[kourotrophos]

"Screaming in Translation: The Elektra of Sophokles" by Anne Carson

[telemachea]

i think if i Make ItTM i need to find an eton guy and eat my usual struggle combo of baked beans and raw eggs while making deliberate eye contact and regaling them with the more insane stories from my state school

[telemachea]

the thing about fathers is that he's your worst fear but you are also doomed to become him