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you guys just don't get livia drusilla like i do

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I need to actually expand this thought at some point but reading Cicero for intensive Latin made me realize that he treats Catilina and Clodia in similar ways in relation to their corruption of young men (Caelius ofc being a “victim” in both cases)….he uses the word “adulescentulo” (diminutive of the word for young men) in both for example. He also describes them both being sickening to look at soon after lmao.

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My Latin class went to the American numismatics society yesterday and we got to see some absolutely incredible coins. There was an EID MAR coin, a Sextus Pompey coin, the Caesar coin with Venus and Aeneas carrying Anchises. Can’t believe I actually held them…

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Found some time this weekend to sketch a version of this wall painting of Dido and Aeneas (thought by some to be Venus and Mars)…eventually I will finish it

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I read some Petronius for my Latin class and uh he was also in Nero’s inner circle and was forced to commit suicide because he fell out of a favor. So toxic yaoi polycule actually

Romeblr is really overlooking the toxic yaoi potential of Lucan/Nero I think. They were largely raised together guys. Lucan was part of Nero’s inner circle and got political positions through him. Lucan was a Stoic, Nero was notoriously profligate. They were poets together and Nero got jealous Lucan was better and may or may not have banned him from writing poetry because of it. Nero’s fucked up cursed family caused Lucan to write incredible and super edgy poetry about how Rome was a haunted corpse. Lucan joined a conspiracy to kill Nero. Nero found out and made Lucan kill himself. GUYS.

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Because this is one of my most liked posts I’m deciding that when I finish my intensive Latin class I will make art of this. I just need to decide which of the nine houses they would be…probably Second…

This is perhaps the most niche crossover ever, but Augustus and Agrippa had the most perfect Locked Tomb necromancer/cavalier dynamic of any historical figures ever I think

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"In line 123, Cassius underscores Caesar's non-normative status by naming him both deity and patient, more and less than human. More than a calculated exposure of Caesar's falling sickness, his language provides rhetorical confirmation of the variable ways in which disability signified at the turn of the century. Cassius' concurrent representations of Caesar's epilepsy as divine portent and frightening pathology reveals the intermingling of at least two, if not more, early modern disability discourses. While I eschew the mutual exclusivity of these discourses in favor of their coincidence, I am not suggesting that Cassius understands all discourses as equally useful. His insistence on cataloging Caesar's disposition suggests, in fact, that a medical model of disability best serves the conspirators' agenda in this particular moment. Cassius strategically imagines Caesar's political liability as most compellingly metaphorized via the ailing body. Just as external physical "deformity" was often thought to signal internal moral depravity, Caesar's disabled body anticipates his disabled, and disabling, political ideology. In terms of refocusing critical attention onto the presence of disability in the early modern period, however, it is important to note the simultaneity of Cassius's depictions of epilepsy as opposed to their strict politicization. While he does privilege a narrative of disability as pathology to deploy his political agenda in this moment in the play, Cassius troubles the singularity of that particular narrative by also representing disability as marvelous, even divine."

—Allison P. Hobgood, "Caesar Hath the Falling Sickness: The Legibility of Early Modern Disability in Shakespearean Drama" (emphasis mine)

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marcus antonius being anglicized into mark antony is crazy. that is not the same guy. marcus antonius is a roman statesman. mark antony is a debauched filthy rich law or maybe literature student at oxford thats on at least on 3 different party drugs at any given moment. altho both have sex w men but r still homophobic. marc antoine is bisexual n homophobic also.

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Can’t believe I didn’t reblog earlier but thank you sm to the incredible @wishmemellon for drawing my girls :))) they came out so well I’m so honored!!

Commission

For @pharsalianostra

Sorry it took me so long to get through this one… I had a lovely time drawing your ladies and I’m so happy you reached out!

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in the cuck chair with opera glasses and a big foam finger

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2074 slutty, slutty years ago. thank god he's gone

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Third week in omfg that’s crazy. I’ve been doing much better yay and I’ve learned a crazy amount. We’re reading Catullus now!!! And also paragraphs about history that try to be narrative so I like to think of them as stiffly written rpf

As of today, I will spend the next two months doing little else but learning Latin. Very stressed but also excited to fill the gaping hole that not knowing Latin has created in my chest 👍

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I will never really know why the central branch of the New York public library decided to have Brutus and Caesar busts right next to each other in the lobby but always have to go say hi when I visit

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I am so forgiving. None of these other stupid unrepentant bitches could be as gracious as me.

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she was pegging him at 9 am in the fucking morning... think about that

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Palm tattoos that say μέν and δέ.