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God, I can't wait until I'm a corpse in a museum cause then someone will have to take care of my body for me.

Humidity and temperature controlled glass box HERE I COME

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i’ve taken the habit of going ‘[insert minor inconvenience] delenda est’ whenever something even slightly annoying happens and that is peak Classics Student Energy.

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the thing i love about archaeology is that it makes the simple things, the mundane things, the taken for granted things, seem so magnificent. a handful of seashells discarded after the meat inside was eaten? incredible. a stone hand axe used to chop down trees? amazing. a piece of cloth worn by a hunter? tremendous. it really makes us realize how special the human experience is, and how vast our potential is as a species. we are capable of so much magnificence, but we rarely take the time to step back and look at all we’ve been able to accomplish. if you haven’t realized by now that everything around us is truly miraculous, then you haven’t been paying attention.

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the assassination of Julius Caesar  

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might fuck around and memorize the entire odyssey in an attempt to become this era’s first bard

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the Ides of March on tumblr is like classics Easter - we celebrate a guy that got deified after being brutally murdered

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augustus, exiling ovid: our Community Guidelines has changed and adult content will no longer be allowed in Rome.

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Ah yes. Minotaur. The first cowboy. 

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sir that’s my emotional support fantastical yet ultimately ironically harmful narrative revolving around an exclusive clique of classics students

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema A Favourite Custom

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what a fucking power move

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~ Statue of Calliope.

Culture: Roman

Date: A.D. 2nd century

Medium: Marble

Provenance: Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 18 (Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio-Clementino, Sala delle muse, 18)

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