#classical language study

[thedeadpoets-blog]

oh september, how you have my heart.

[halflifesk666]

find someone who will go stargazing with you and then making love with you right under the stars

[joytri]

weak and weary

[calliope-and-her-words]

The verb "pereo" can mean "to die, to vanish, to be ruined, to be destroyed", but also "to be madly in love". Latin is such a beautiful language.

[duskofastraeus]

Study day 1/100

Language studies: - Spanish grammar modules - Listened to 2 podcasts in Spanish ✔ - Preparation study for DELE C1 ✔ University studies: - German romanticism readings ✔ - Ambassadorial work planning ✔ - Get artistic anatomy books

Notes: not the most productive day, I am still attempting to return to a serious study flow… From now onwards I’ll be quite occupied with meetings and committee preparations for the coming academic year, hopefully I’ll have some time to return to my art classes soon.

[beluosus]

[inbetweencoffees]

So tired that I couldn’t even sleep

Sunday afternoon homework session :D Finished my German homework on writers perspective in The Metamorphosis and felt like I was writing complete and utter nonsense. Math was just as hard, I kept making unnecessary mistakes - I noticed them at some point tho. Despite sleeping 12h two nights in a row I feel poorly; I can’t concentrate, everything I read is blurry and I’m just exhausted. I really need help (lol) - I’ll spent my evening watching tv and writing the next chapter for my fic :)

[1000dactyls]

happy last art post of 2024 i spent it drawing the epic cycle…. Like are you kidding me Who do you think i am (individuals and design thoughts below)

Athena’s curly hair is meant to resemble an owl. In the future I want to incorporate how high and back her helmet sits in ancient art of her. Yes, those are owl feathers! I wanted to lean into her Goddess of War steely (eyed) figure, so focused heavy on large and exaggerated armor with lots of grays. But she’s also the goddess of crafts, so i also added more delicate detailing to her armor and the loops of fabric. Her blue draws on Athenian iconography and also Athens’ naval superiority in Ancient/Classical/Hellenistic Greece. And since the myth of Perseus occurs before the Epic cycle, I thought it was appropriate to give Athena her aegis.

I focused on giving Telemachus a very boyish look since his arc is really about growing into his own, a coming of age. So he has more delicate and refined features than what I imagine “rugged” Odysseus would have. Telemachus wears a signet ring as a symbol of his royal authority. I did debate on if i should make him similarly left handed like his mentor (as well as how i envision Odysseus, given how tricky and slippery he is), but I understand that the ancient Greeks viewed displaying your left shoulder as “barbaric,” which i didn’t think fit Telemachus’s “princely”-ish vibe. I was influenced by most EPIC!Telemachus designs that put him in blue, but i really like putting an edge of red in there as well, both for how striking the blue and red fit against each other and because i think it lends him a more ruly edge that appears in the Odyssey (Telemachus “I’ve never held a conversation in my life, Athena” prince of Ithaca). The blue is supposed to be like the sea surrounding Ithaca, and to make that a bit more clear, i added wave detailing around the top edge of the chlamays. I consulted statues of Telemachus to see what kind of tunic to put him in.

Both of them wear archer gloves (athena on her left hand because i think it would be fun if it she was a leftie but anyway) bc athena is the goddess of war and also odysseus’ patron and telemachus because he’s his father’s son and also bc his name means “far from battle” but can also be read as “fighting from afar” understanding his role in the Odyssey and also how he grew up as consistently unsafe in his own house. ​

I really like these designs and im excited to draw them more :D

[another-little-hippie]

Robert gets silly, gets nervous, then keeps talking like the pro that he is:

[spectrenun]

quae tibi manet uita? quis nunc te adibit? cui uideberis bella? quem nunc amabis? cuius esse diceris? quem basiabis? cui labella mordebis?

Catullus 8

[thedeadpoets-blog]

“i wanted to vanish completely, that even i would not remember me. no feelings, no memories. just the freedom of oblivion.”

— unknown.

[halflifesk666]

And here I am still loving you like day one. My mind wanders back to you whenever it can. My soul yearns yours. And my ears miss your voice. My heart is yours. Keep it safe.

[renegade-hierophant]

Humans see correlation where there is none because of nomenclature.

For example.

On a forum/sub/discord etc. dedicated to studying Latin, nobody is going to post a question whether learning Latin will help them understand French.

But on a forum dedicated to studying Ancient Greek, you'll get a question at least once a week about whether learning Ancient Greek will help them understand Modern Greek.

Why?

Because both "Ancient Greek" and "Modern Greek" have the word "Greek" in them, while "Latin" and "French" don't share a common word. On top of that French is classified as a "Romance" language, which also doesn't sound like the word "Latin".

[parabare-the-scholar]

11.04.2025—Friday!

Today I'm only going to do my Korean homework, study-wise. But I'm finally going to clean my house and then go out with my best friend for some much-needed qualty time outdoors.

I'm really excited about studying in the weekend, tbh, but today I need to rest for the eve.

Happy Friday everyone!

[isaiahpadams]

I am romanticising history again. Emotional about Mesopotamian scribes learning from a list of words essentially that was continuously copied with little change throughout the 3rd millennium, a span of nearly 1000 years. Incredible. They read and copied out what was already an ancient text to them, with sign forms and vocabulary that had been "obsolete" long before.

I don't know, I'm doing some key reading for university, ''Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond." and the idea that our history had a history too, its so terrifyingly beautiful.

Did they also imagine what the worlds before looked like? What it would be like to have those languages no ears will ever naturally hear again as your mother tongue? Even if they were not necessarily literary texts, the words and signs were still older than they could comprehend, and they kept writing it over and over.

"This suggests that the lexical lists had a value beyond their use as simply lexicographic and instructional tools. Likely, their prestige stems in part from their cultural value as symbols of the scribal profession, the tradition of their scrupulous transmission from one generation to the next being intimately bound up with scribal identity." - Christopher Woods

[flamingo-studies]

日本語ブログ　ようこぞ！/ Welcome to my Japanese language blog!

日本語で：初めまして！　フライともうす。　5年くらい前に日本語が勉強している。日本へ行ったことがないんだけど、ぜひ行きたいやねん。いつか日本で勉強したいも。今自分で習っている。趣味は　漫画を読むとか、犬と散歩に行くとか、カンピンやねん。

漢字が少し難しいんだけど、おもろいと思う。そして関西弁がめっちゃおもろいやねん。

私は　スペイン語とか、英語とか、日本語が　はなせる。イタリア語少しんだけど。

英語：Hi! My name is Fry. I''ve been studying Japanese for 5 years or so. I've never been to Japan but I definitely want to go. I'd like to study in Japan someday as well. Right now I'm studying on my own. I like to read manga, walk my dogs and go camping.

Although kanji is a bit hard, I think it's pretty cool. Also Kansaiben (Kansai's dialect) is very cool too.

I can speak Spanish, English and Japanese. And just a little bit of Italian.

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