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Terracotta vase in the form of a lobster claw, Greece, circa 460 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Thought you might relate to this with your editing woes (congratulations on the book, by the way!)

honestly, I'm having the inverse experience in which all the edits being made are so smart and so obviously the right thing to do that I'm filled with agony for having not written it that way from the start. like, she'll substitute a colon for a semicolon, and I'll scream "OF COURSE!!! I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!" and throw myself across the room

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stop what you're doing right now and look at archaic period terracotta fox scratching its head

ok you can continue

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Medieval kittens, from a 13th century English manuscript, (Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 533, fol. 13r) 

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

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Rhyton in the shape of a dog's head, Greece, circa 480 BC

from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

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sources? a little birdie, et al (2024)

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The so-called Leningrad Painter gave us the only example of a woman working in a vase studio in Attic art on this mid-fifth-century BC hydria, the Caputi Hydria

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Ἔξεστι περὶ τούτου μηδὲν ὑπολαμβάνειν καὶ μὴ ὀχλεῖσθαι τῇ ψυχῇ: αὐτὰ γὰρ τὰ πράγματα οὐκ ἔχει φύσιν ποιητικὴν τῶν ἡμετέρων κρίσεων.

(M. Aurelius, Meditations, 6.52)

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

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He is sobbing face down are you happy now.

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can u imagine if comic sans had. serifs

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460 BCE attic kylix from the louvre showing Atalante.

HER OUTFIT!

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I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

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"unalive" should just mean the opposite of undead. if undead means a dead thing thats alive, unalive shuld mean an alive things thats dead. no i dont have any examples. ☝️yet

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i know we all love that mary ruefle poem about how the sirens in the odyssey were singing the odyssey but i think they were singing the iliad, i think they were singing an iliad in which the war makes sense and was worth it, an iliad in which odysseus is the hero, not achilles, an iliad in which a hero is simply a hero and not a mourner