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Probably too late for this but apple tend with Dido and Aeneas :)

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The ancient Romans were so so right about “eheu” being their word for “alas”. It sounds like the saddest most pathetic little sob. Eheu….

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venus & aeneas

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josephine balmer, chasing catullus: poems, translations & transgressions

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Aphrodite fresh out of the shell 🐚

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In honor of my intensive Latin class almost being over, take a very large collection of pictures of my cat trying to keep me from my homework

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Thank you for the tags the lovely@dreamsofarachne and @theamazingmurderrocks >\\\<

1. Favorite Color: a bluish purple, like a blue iris

2. Last Song: Glory Box by Portishead it’s just ughh so good (I was listening to my gigantic Ovid playlist…)

3. Currently Reading: For the Latin class I’m taking right now, I’m reading the Aeneid and Metamorphoses! Crazy exciting to be doing it in Latin…outside of that I’ve been rereading RF Kuang’s The Poppy War!

4. Currently Watching: His Dark Materials! I’ve been meaning to get to it for a while bc the book series is one of my all time favorites and it’s actually an amazing adaptation more people should watch it

5. Currently Craving: I would love a London fog right now…also lots of sleep

@falsedisciple @o1iveangel @xxmarvelouslifexx @kallistoriae

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this

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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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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