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I don't know what paddington is doing on that list, but it made me think of the time someone drew a picture of the queen with paddington after she died, and we had scores of people losing their minds at the idea that paddington bear wasn't the same kind of communist as them

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product of a small argument between me and Fish

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Its me, your feral godmother

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pt.4 classics again. he hath returned

cicero in situations pt.1 - classics lesson

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This fucks exponentially no more "good rep" I want exclusively bad evil metal hardcore rep

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A Brief List of Resources for Classical Studies:

TOSC-IN:

A database enabling you to search for keywords in article titles from c.160 Classics related journals. Provides a link to an abstract or full text version if one exists online.

Classical and Medieval History:

Annotated list of Reference Websites

Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World

Online database and resources for studying Women and Gender in the ancient world.

Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World:

“Original electronic project aiming at collecting, recording, documenting, presenting and promoting the historical data that testify to the presence of Hellenic culture throughout time and space.”

Perseus Digital Library:

A showcase of digital and print resources for Classical studies. 

World Archaeology:

Books, Magazines, Blogs, Travel. All Archaeology related.

House of Ptolomy:

Portal website on the Ptolomatic (holla!) Empire. 

Star Myths and Constellation Lore:

Information website about the above. 

Virgil.com:

Basically a portal site and resource for information on all things Virgil. 

Homerica:

Portal and Resource. Link is in French, but you can have the website translated to any language. 

Exploring Ancient World Culture:

“On-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds.”

Subject Centre for History, Classics, and Archaeology:

“The Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology is part of the Higher Education Academy.”

The Iris Project:

“an educational charity introducing the languages and culture of the ancient world to UK state schools in order to enrich the curriculum.”

Roman Law Resources

“ information on Roman law sources and literature, the teaching of Roman law, and the persons who study Roman law.”

Egyptology Resources

“World Wide Web resource for Egyptological information.”

ABZU:

“guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world”.

Stoa:

A consortium for electronic publication in the Humanities, including most notably: Suda-On-Line  English translation of the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine historical encyclopedia. Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy; a practical description of how the various institutions of Athenian democracy actually worked. Metis Bruce Hartzler’s collection of interactive QTVR panoramas for ancient Greek archaeological sites. And Medicina Antiqua A resource for the study of medicine in the Greek and Roman world.

Hellenic History:

From the Stone Age through the Modern Period from The Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW), a non-profit cultural institution based in Athens, Greece.  

Hellenic Culture: 

Website of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture with sites on the museums, monuments, and archaeological sites of Greece.

Athenian Agora Excavations:

Website of the American School of Classical Studies at Althens’ excavations of the Athenian Agora.

Digital Classicist:

Concise information on projects applying computing technologies to Classical/Ancient Historical research. 

VROMA:

Online scholarly community of teachers and students who share an interest in the ancient Roman world; images, texts, history and many other resources. 

GNOMON Online:  

Recent journal articles and book in the Classics. Type general search term under “Alle Felder” (All Fields) or specific “Autor” (Author) and hit “Suche Starten” (Start search).“

Ancient World Mapping Center:

University of North Carolina. Cartographic resources, including a collection of free digital maps for educational use. 

Ancient Scripts: 

A website by “enthusiasts” rather than scholars but very interesting!

The Beazley Archive Classical Art Research Center:

Databases and study tools.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 

Timely open-access, peer-reviewed reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology). This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR’s publication, from 1990 to the present. 

Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

It investigates the performance of ancient texts in any medium and any period, from Greek tragedy to Roman epic, from stage to screen, from antiquity to the present day. 

The British Library Digitized Manuscripts

Contains digitised versions of a quarter fo the British Museum’s Greek manuscripts. 

The Ancient World Online:

A blog which, much like this, presents a variety of online resources for the Ancient world. 

Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy:

A website which seeks to store virtual Greek and Latin epigraphy of the ancient world, through a federation of multiple archive banks. 

Projekt Dyabola: 

Litterature and Object databases. 

The Digital Sculpture Project:

A website devoted to studying ways in which 3D digital technologies can be applied to the capture, representation and interpretation of sculpture from all periods and cultures. Up to now, 3D technologies have been used in fruitful ways to represent geometrically simple artifacts such as pottery or larger-scale structures such as buildings and entire cities. With some notable exceptions, sculpture has been neglected by digital humanists. 

Animus:

The open access Canadian Journal of Philosophy and Humanities. 

American Philological Association’s Society for Classical Studies:

A “ principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations.”

The Classical Association of Canada:

Access to a wide variety of resources about Classics in Canada including graduate programs, and the monthly bulletin. 

Corpus Thomisticum:

The works of St. Thomas Aquinas in Latin. 

J. O’Donnell’s commentary on Augustine’s Confessions:

An on-line reprint of Augustine: Confessions, with commentary by James J. O'Donnell. 

LANGUAGE RESOURCES:

UC Berkeley Ancient Greek Resources:

Pronunciation Guide; Accentuation Drills; Vocabulary Drills; and much more.

Akropolis World News:

The news of the world in Ancient Greek- a great way to learn and practice the language.

Logeion:

Quick look-up of Greek and Latin words across all of the Perseus lexica.

Dictionaries [VIA Perseus Project]: LATIN || GREEK

NUMISMATICS [COINAGE]:

American Numismatic Societ’s MANTIS:

Database on more than 600,000 objects. 

 CHRR Online: 

Coin hoards of the Roman Republic Online archive.

Online Coins of the Roman Empire:

Similar to CHRR but coins of the Empire. 

Roman Provincial Coinage Online:

A standard typology of the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire. 

British Museum’s Roman Coinage:

A series of resources on Roman coinage. 

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum:

The Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum is a British AcademyResearch Project, the purpose of which is to publish illustrated catalogues of Greek coins in public and private collections in the British Isles. 

MANUSCRIPTS:

Digitalized Greek Manuscripts:

Princeton’s Modern language translations of Byzantine sources, digitized Greek manuscripts. 

Pinakes:

Pinakes s'ouvre à de nouvelles collaborations institutionnelles et accueille maintenant des projets de recherches sur les manuscrits de divers domaines. On trouvera l'ensemble des partenaires et des financements passés ou actuels sur la page Colophon. 

Greek Codicology/Paleography:

A detailed biliography on Greek codicology. 

Resource Lists by School: All links are to Classics, or Antiquities portals for more resource lists. 

Oxford Libraries

Cambridge Libraries

University of Toronto

Berkeley Classics Department

Library of Congress: Classics and Medieval History

Virginia Tech: Electronic Antiquity

Brock University: Classics Research Guide

Cambridge Ancient History Series

Williams.

University of Texas

Princeton University

Text Databases [Via Oxford]:

Antiquity

American Journal of Archaeology

Archaeology Magazine

Arion

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Classical Philology

Classical Quarterly

Classical Review

Eranos

Greece & Rome

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Journal of Field Archaeology

Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies

Journal of Roman Archaeology

Kernos

Phoenix

Pomoerium

Syllecta Classica

Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphie

Gateways:

Argos - search-engine for all major classical resources

Classics Section of the Intute gateway.

Voice of the Shuttle Classics Page from University of California, Santa Barbara

Classical and Biblical Literary Research Tools compiled by Jack Lynch at Penn

Reading Classics Gateway

Kirke Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie

NOTE: So I compiled a list of some of my favorite classics sites to use. I also put in links to other school’s departments and libraries. Almost all Universities which have Classics departments have resources lists. If you want to add to the list, please do!

All of the schools above have much more extensive lists for you to use! I made this list in little over half an hour, so there is much room to be expanded on. 

NEW ADDITIONS: 

Latin Library at Packard Humanities Institute - http://latin.packhum.org/ (PHI numbers standard way to refer to Latin texts, look at the ones Perseus uses - it’s PHI).

Brepolis - http://www.brepolis.net/ - may need to access this via your institution or its ezproxy (includes the Library of Latin Texts A and B LLT-A and LLT-B and many other interesting resources).

L’Annee Philologique - http://www.annee-philologique.com - another one in which you’ll have to use via your institution’s ezproxy or other online database (we use ebscohost). Many journals you submit articles to expect references to other journals use the abbreviations in APh.

For databases of journals, first start at JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org - again, institutional access is required.

((Via: monumentum))

The Latin Library - A collection of Classical and Medieval texts in Latin, organized by author. 

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook - A collection of mostly primary source texts translated into English.  Not comprehensive, but covers a broad range of topics.

((Via: hodie-scolastica))

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they're playing

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Hey everyone it's me Fish here to talk about my 2 stupid cringe Minecraft ocs because I'm stupid and cringe WOOO

Okay so I should preface this by saying that a lot of what I'm talking about here is based entirely on my own headcanons/interpretations of how Minecraft works + some of it is just plain old made up. I looooooove spreading misinformation. Also I don't have any sort of drawing of them so have my shitty descriptions.

Okay so first up:

Charlie Griffin

Charlie is a 28 year old man who hails from a desert biome. Deserts are typically very scarcely populated due to the amount of monsters that inhabit them, but those who do settle there make them into pretty lawless or at the bare minimum wild places. Charlie comes from town built with the pure intention of holding prisoners and making them fight to the death. The prisoners are allowed to use weapons given to them or make their own, and the winner of a fight is given a reward in the form of a single item (within reason, of course).

Charlie found great success in the arena and crafted his own weapon, a peculiar redstone contraption around his waist. It is two long dispensers on a harness around his waist that are filled with chains. Also attached to the harness are the 5 iron heads of each main tool, which Charlie can attach to the end of the chains. Running from the back of the dispensers to his gloves are wires lined with redstone, leading to buttons on the side of his forefingers. Holding the left button extends the chain, holding the right one calls it back.

He's an incredibly loud and boisterous man, making his presence known to the people around him at all times. He knows fully damn well that he's good at killing people and absolutely loves it. He's way more comfortable in the arena than anywhere else and longs for the call of his fans as he secures another victory. Furthermore, the reason he is actually in jail is due to murder. He doesn't just casually enjoy killing however, instead he enjoys it knowing that the people he does kill are bad people as well.

While his outfit is commonly a worn out prison uniform and the chain contraption on his waist, Charlie is a tall, well-built man with long and unkempt dirty blonde hair that always has grains of sand in it and brown eyes. His body is covered in scars from plenty of different sources, and his teeth are surprisingly very white. There's a saying among his fans that if you can see the sun shining on his teeth, your time has come.

His favourite food is pumpkin pie, though due to his life as a prisoners he's become very accustomed to beetroot stew and carrots. He's never met an Enderman in real life and really wants to.

And secondly:

Luciora

Luciora is a Witch aged 231, and unlike other Witches refuses to use potions or magic to de-age her appearance. Luciora lives in a swamp inside her hut with her pet cat, Apollo. There are essentially 3 types of Witches. Wild Witches, Pillager Witches and Tranquil Witches. Wild Witches are those who wander the world without a purpose, losing their mind and attacking anyone on sight. Pillager Witches are those who aid the Pillagers in their attacks on Villagers, fully indoctrinated into the regime. Tranquil Witches are those who reside in huts in swamps. They are generally more sophisticated, calm, and helpful to those passing by.

While she is very good with potions, Luciora prefers to study enchantments, especially enchanted books. She has stashes of them in her home, and spends a lot of time reading them and learning more and more about them. The biggest thing she learned was how to utilise the enchantment without actually putting it on an item. For example, she learned to use a Frost Walker book to turn the water beneath her feet to ice without putting it on boots. It only works for as long as the book is open, but she has some degree of control of when it activates and when it doesn't.

Like most Tranquil Witches, Luciora is rather gentle and spends a lot of time at her hut. Her days are spent either reading books, brewing potions, or meeting up with other Tranquil Witches to improve the local community. She can't stand the fact that she's even remotely related to Wild or Pillager Witches, hating them for their senseless violence. While she may still be shunned by Villagers, she refuses to hurt them in any way, though that doesn't mean she actively protects them. She cares most deeply for her cat Apollo, who spends most of the day asleep. When he's not asleep, however, he is always walking all over her books and getting himself nice and wet in the swamp, then laying all over Luciora's bed.

Due to her refusal to make herself appear younger than she actually is, Luciora has pale, wrinkled skin and a large nose with a wart. Her hair is dark grey and is about chin-length, and her eyes are a pale purple colour. Commonly, she wears black robes and does have a black hat, though she doesn't wear it very often. The brim is rather large and gets in the way, so she keeps it in the house for Apollo to lie all over. She carries a few potions and books with at all times, primarily potions of healing, regeneration and swiftness, and enchanted books containing Frost Walker, Swift Sneak and Flame.

Yes, she went to the Deep Dark and collected a Swift Sneak book. She even took some skulk and put it in a jar that's on her windowsil. Apollo is her 6th cat, and so far her favourite, even if he does make a mess.

I hope this was at all interesting to read about my stupid ideas. Long ass post so I don't blame anyone for not reading this far. But if you did. You are loved and you're super awesome.

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he s my marvellous boy :)

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he's zooming

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he is rizzen

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they're learning about sea shells

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He and his best friend spotted you across the senate and they would like to know if your house is for sale

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