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talking about the history of domestication of horses in the class i volunteer for at the barn tonight and of course i had to bring up the polidoxus mosaic

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very glad ancient roman historians are not alive today because i'm not sure i could handle the inevitability of suetonius describing augustus and livia as malewife and girlboss

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Back from my minor breakdown to say ✨happy Saturnalia✨ folks

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…WE HAVE BEEN INTO HOUSES WHERE THE CHILDREN HAD MANY TOYS AND BROUGHT THEM EVEN MORE TOYS, AND IN HOUSES LIKE THIS THE CHILDREN GET PRACTICALLY NOTHING.

“Huh, we’d have given anything to get practically nothing when I was a lad,” said Albert.

BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT, IS THAT IT?

“That’s about the size of it, master. A good god line, that. Don’t give ‘em too much and tell ‘em to be happy with it. Jam tomorrow, see?”

THIS IS WRONG, Death hesitated. I MEAN…IT’S RIGHT TO BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT. BUT YOU’VE GOT TO HAVE SOMETHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT HAVING. THERE’S NO POINT BEING HAPPY ABOUT HAVING NOTHING.

Albert felt a bit out of his depth with this new tide of philosophy. “Dunno,” he said. “I suppose people’d say they’ve got the moon and the stars and suchlike.”

I’M SURE THEY WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO PRODUCE THE PAPERWORK.

“All I know is, if Dad’d caught us with a big bag of pricey toys we’d have just got a ding round the ear hole for nicking ‘em.”

IT IS…UNFAIR.

“That’s life, master.”

BUT I’M NOT.

“I meant, this is how it’s supposed to go, master,” said Albert.

NO. YOU MEAN THIS IS HOW IT GOES. […] IT IS HOGSWATCH, said Death, AND PEOPLE DIE ON THE STREETS. PEOPLE FEAST BEHIND LIGHTED WINDOWS AND OTHER PEOPLE HAVE NO HOMES. IS THIS FAIR?

““Well, of course, that’s the big issue-” Albert began.

THE PEASANT HAD A HANDFUL OF BEANS, AND THE KING HAD SO MUCH HE WOULD NOT EVEN NOTICE THAT WHICH HE GAVE AWAY. IS THIS FAIR?

“Yeah, but if you gave it all to the peasant then in a year or two, he’d be just as snooty as the king-” began Albert, jaundiced observer of human nature.

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT’S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU’RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?

 - ‘Hogfather’ by Sir Terry Pratchett.  Not the most oft-repeated part of the book, but one worth rereading.

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unexpected wisdom from a 1950s Oresteia translation

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i’ve seen classics takes that are factually incorrect, ignorant, racist, misogynistic, and just plain weird, but i have never in my entire career come across anything as deranged as “hector is a privileged murderer and achilles is the victim in their relationship”

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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

— Valis, Philip K. Dick

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When I find myself in times of trouble, Theognis comes to me - speaking words of wisdom:

I am a beautiful and prize-winning horse

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Artemis: It’s bad enough my brother slept with half of the sorority this year, but now he’s lifeguarding at the club and every divorcée and cougar in town is asking me for his number. My twin is a manwhore and I’ve become his pimp.

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Hypotheses

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There’s something about wandering in and out of London bookshops, alone, daydreaming.

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at this point it’s probably possible to determine my exact emotional state by whether or not im drawing helen of sparta again :)

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Hermes: Dionysus gave me a beer, petted my head, and called me kiddo.

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from ml.books

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i would ask if wikipedia was ok if roman naming conventions weren’t just Like That

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pentheus when he meets dionysus in the bacchae