brothers inseparable, even in flames of the pyre

Eve || They/she/he || 20s || Not a classicist, just an undergraduate and an enthusiast/ hopeful classicist-in-progress, a few other things thrown in here but I mostly post beautiful horrible things about the Late Roman Republic. terminally afflicted with knowing about caesar.

[thempyrealexicon]

Call me Eve (or my username.) mostly caesarposting.

I follow and like from my main (@girleinhard)

thempyrealexicon -> urbanpraetor -> thempyrealexicon again

Bluesky-> evempyrealexicon

This blog is *mostly* for my terrible Roman Republic posts. I don't know nearly as much as I want to yet and doubt I ever will (although that's the beauty of it.) Classics undergrad. I want to get the most joy out of it as I can so I need a space to be a freak about it in my own way. mostly caesarposting and catoposting (and cicerposting but who doesn't here)

State educated + private school abolitionist

My main interest has historically been Caesar, and I recieve a fair few asks about him. However, I am still not a classicist and do not trust myself to answer questions. I am not an expert and will make mistakes.

This being said, I am very open to recommending scholarship or offering recommendations to people who want to start reading about Caesar (academic + general audiences.) I do complain about ides of march posting on this site and so on but don't take this as me being unwilling to talk to/otherwise judgemental of people who want to get started. however - obligatory disclaimer once again that I'm not qualified.

If I don't reply to things immediately it's because I take a while to compose replies and I'm a relatively shy person.

I don't really trigger tag posts on here. General warnings: this is a classics blog. There will me mention, discussion and etc of rape, violence incest and more.

Do not send me asks talking about how strange or weird I am/ my posts are, even with friendly intentions. It is not a compliment and it's very, very annoying. I assure you, my conduct and the way I talk about my interests are both not terribly different from how most people discuss their fictional interests on this site. I am not that bizzare for having mentioned Cicero in my post.

mirth, birth, reverie <3

[thempyrealexicon]

caesar malaria goo

[losangelesqueens]

they need to give out research grants for rpf

[thempyrealexicon]

for caesars birthday I'm giving him lingerie and more malaria

[thempyrealexicon]

PROBABLY CAESAR'S BIRTHDAY ALS9 CAN WE KILL HIM AGAIN

[catilinas]

autism representation written by a marcus tullius cicero: cato states his opinion as if he were in plato’s republic and not romulus’ shithole

[catilinas]

[thempyrealexicon]

one caesar ingot

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

i wish you could study yaoi in college....

[consulships]

i would care about the world cup if there were more players on the pitch and rhe pitch was made of marble and bricks and concrete and filled wirh benches and the players wore voluminois white jerseys and the ball was a sort of decree or law and the referee was called "tribune of the plebs

[consulships]

aand they all had stiicks and also they could fist fight

[thoodleoo]

have been losing my shit over the fact that 1. there's a passage in polybius's history where he tells us that the tyrant demetrius of phalerum once made a giant mechanical snail to parade through athens and trail slime everywhere 2. people have been trying to figure out how this massive snail worked since at least 1937

[romanconcrete]

glad tumblr is back we were getting desperate over on discord

[thoodleoo]

the romans really would ask if anyone was going to put a picture of a guy riding a penis like a horse on that and then not wait for an answer

[hypokeimena]

every single time people are like "you can read this ancient or classical piece of lit for free on project gutenberg!" and then link to the worlds most dogshit and sexist translation it makes me insane. don't do that.

[hypokeimena]

feel free to reblog this without the addition but i feel bad being catty without offering a solution so here is how to operationalize how to find a good translation of classic/al lit:

check gutenberg for list of "free" out of copyright translations so you know what to avoid (if it is from 1970 or earlier it's probably just a non-starter)

check wikipedia or an online bookstore shopfront or equivalent to find or make a list of (your language) translations

pick one that was done: (a) (mandatory) in the last 30 years (as recent as possible) (b) (optional, if you have multiple modern editions) by a woman

find it in the usual way you find cheap or free books (libraries, institutional access, thriftbooks, other options, etc)

from a classical studies perspective: unless you are specifically studying the translation and reception of these works across time there simply is no reason you should be reading translations from the 1890s (thru really the 1950s and even later in some cases), that call women whores and bitches simply for existing on the page🧍‍♀️. unrelatedly, emily wilson's excellent recent odyssey translation is currently on sale on audible for $8 even if you don't have audible i have heard tell.

obligatory statement here that some authors whose translation style is much more accessible to a broad audience are not especially beloved by academics who work in the same field for persnickety reasons (see: the way classicists get about anne carson being the trending translator on tumblr dot edu) so don't necessarily pay too much attention to THAT sort of persnicketing, but do be sure that whoever is translating the work actually knows the original language well enough to work with it (i.e. for academic translators maybe check their wikipedia page for a controversy section to make sure that, for example, the translator of rumi can actually read rumi). this is probably harder for modern publishing where translator info isn't as widely publicized and i don't have great advice for you other than finding and googling the translators' name in the hopes that they've done recent interviews or have a website etc etc etc.

however, all works of literature require the reader to come into being - they are a conversation between you and the historical/ancient author. the translator is just adding another voice to the conversation and there is nothing wrong or Dangerous or traitorous etc about reading thru a translator! ideally they're just helping the ancient author get close enough to you to be comprehensible, so a more recent translation is always going to do a better job of that bc it's closer to where YOU are in the first place.

[plasmapop]

11/07/2026 • somethingy somethingy double dactylic the doubling patterns within civil war. it’s the proem of the pharsalia

[wavaur]

the way they were dragging keaveney will always bring a smile to my face

[thempyrealexicon]

attis owning club I'm inside you