classics-cassandra

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Being an Oxford student is genuinely just thinking to yourself, Is there a string quartet nearby, or has the sleep deprivation just reached the auditory hallucination stage?

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ancient greek male voice: i live under the literal female tyranny in this household. i have to be confined to my andron while you go gallivanting around the whole oikos and no one has a right to enter or see you or else there'll be a great hue and cry

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If I won the lottery I wouldn’t say anything but there would be signs

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I want to put Ischomachus from Oeconomicus 7 and Juvenal’s persona from 6 in a room and make them fight

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don’t go to grad school in classics it’ll ruin your ability to enjoy ancient history jokes on tumblr (which is really what matters) and you’ll find a part of yourself thinking things like “actually according to livy, remus wanted to name the city remora, so this joke about remus naming it reme is inaccurate” or “actually ea-nasir and the etruscans were separated by at least 900 years and even if you consider the villanovans as already being etruscan they don’t exist in the bronze age so this bronze age tumblr dashboard meme makes no sense” or “ugh nobody on this thread about the song of achilles understands the last 200 years of the homeric question or has even read the relevant passage from the homeric hymn to apollo” and then the other part of you will go “christ what an asshole”

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in a loving and fulfilling relationship with a beautiful woman named perseus.tufts.edu

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goddddddd i feel so fucking stupid all the time i feel like that meme of the ogre reading joyce

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Menander/Terence’s adelphoi walked so that the parent trap could run

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Of course slugs are nocturnal, of course they’re even more stereotypically evil. Thank goodness for the brave heroes of the night, hedgehogs.

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thrilled to learn that theres an ancient greek word meaning "you are dumb as a bird or perhaps a locust"

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"average greek myth involves a god turning someone into something else" factoid actualy just statistical error. average greek myth involves 0 gods turning someone into something else. metamorphoses ovid, who lives in exile and writes 40000 transformation myths a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

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Born to read pastoral poetry sub ramis arboris altae, forced to read the theory of atoms

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They could never make me hate you, Ovid’s Metamorphoses book iii

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in the iliad. straight up “singing it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. My menis

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funniest part of sophocles' ajax is at the beginning when athena calls to ajax while he's murdering cows like "HEY BIG GUY. YEAH YOU MURDERING EVERYONE AND TORTURING YOUR PRISONERS. CMERE" and odysseus is like "ATHENA WTF DON'T BRING HIM OVER HERE" like truly the comedy duo of the god of war strategy and her pet war criminal

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To be loved (first draft) is to be changed (2nd draft)