#Greek classics

[haitani-trash]

if you told me 10 years ago when i was doing my ancient history degree that i would ever shed a single tear for odysseus i’d have told you to get fucked but here we fuckin are mate i’m crying big girl tears

[m1ssnovember]

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FIGHT!

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Iliad Book 1

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Anna Komnene, Princess and Historian

Anna Komnene is one of our only sources on the First Crusade from the Byzantine perspective. She was a Byzantine princess, historian, and intellectual. Read more about her life here! #history #crusades #womenshistory #AnnaKomnene #historian #writer

“For even the greatest of deeds, if not haply preserved in written words and handed down to remembrance, become extinguished in the obscurity of silence” -Preface, The Alexiad Anna Komnene is one of the first female historians and one of the most valuable primary sources of the Middle Ages. Her written account of her father’s reign, The Alexiad, is our only source of the First Crusade from a…

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Louise Gluck from Meadowlands

[godzilla-reads]

Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

[rebelsafoot]

saw the second last production of the penelopiad starring jennifer morrison!! as someone who absolutely LOVES the odyssey, ouat, and house it was literally my dream performance the entire cast was SO GOOD!!! i dont think any experience will ever top this night i am so glad i got the chance to see this

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[klairluna]

Percy Jackson to Homer pipeline is real eceryone…

[la-pheacienne]

How Medea was justified ?

I had said that she was justified by the gods. There is this cool thing about greek tragedies that everyone forgets, especially non-greek people : everything is determined by the gods. Religion. Ancient greek people were religious people. When you try to analyse greek classics and evaluate who is justified and who isn't, the first thing you need to do is see how their actions are perceived by the gods. You need to be in touch with the moral code of the story, not substitute it with your modern moral code. There is a reason why Medea is justified by the gods for killing her own children, while Clytemnestra is NOT justified by the gods for killing her husband. Nowadays killing your cheating authoritarian husband who killed your kid is kind of justified, but killing your own kids isn't. This wasn't the case in the ancient greek world, for many many reasons. I'm not going to explain it in details because I would need the whole morning for this, but for starters you can read the texts and most of the time, they have all the answers you need. I will just say that not only Medea is justified by the gods, but she is actually an agent of the divine will herself.

When Medea escapes to Athens in the divine chariot given to her by Helios, at the end of the play, the Chorus says this :

"Zeus on Olympus, dispenses many things. Gods often contradict our fondest expectations. What we anticipate does not come to pass. What we don't expect some god finds a way to make it happen. So with this story".

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I think itd be funny if every week, not even for the actual tournament but just for fun, there'd be a Lloyd vs Antigone poll, and each week ppl would get more and more exhausted till there are like 3 voters and Lloyd FINALLY wins . (joking)

@classics and ninjago fandoms this actually sounds like a really funny idea would yall wanna do it [if/when Antigone is eliminated from the actual bracket]???

[obsessiveacademic]

"I haven't read the Iliad yet"

"what?! why haven't you read The Iliad yet? It's a must read for classic enjoyers"

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Iliad book 4 b like:

[safirefire]

From the author of one of my favorite romcoms (The Trouble With Hating You) comes a new book in the Rick Riordan Presents imprint: A Drop of Venom

link to book and full summary from images above

The Aru Shah series was fun and I’m excited for this now. It is a Perseus and Medusa retelling set in India. Also Manisha is giving strong Liya Thakkar vibes and I’m here for it. TW for assault.

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