#classical memes

[diocletion-aint-shit]

Classics tumblr should try starting posts with invocations to the muses.

"To the goddess I call, of memes she sings

Make light of the epics, those ancient things

Give cause to jeer Atreus' son

Within the tags, of his name make a pun"

[ourpholia]

... sorry, i had to

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

I had a triggering week so I got silly and it’s everyone’s problem.

[earlgrey24]

See the reason why I find Dante immensely relatable is because I too would cope with the pain of exile by writing a long self-indulgent self-insert fan fiction starring me and my favourite classical poet

[bussyplease]

I made this a while ago on paint at midnight in a fever like state and needed to post it here

[scherzokinn]

[thoughtportal]

[maryoliverdotcom]

i have reached a very insightful conclusion after re-reading antigone and medea

[capn-o-my-soul]

[anonymous-alien2-0]

We don't own cats, cats own US

[beckmessering]

wake up babe, explicit version of o mio babbino caro just dropped

[diocletion-aint-shit]

You know what, I want the translation where Agamemnon gets called a slut

(Emily Wilson, discussing the differing translations of "kunops" for Agamemnon and Helen)

Source - https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/09/20/emily-wilson-iliad-translation-terms/#NSWGIGV4DVGZVGY2EDVSAYSJYM-1

[mattsmemes]

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

[earlgrey24]

Today on Rejected Academic Paper Names:

Achilles and Patroclus: Two Bros Chillin' in the Same Urn Five Feet Apart 'Cause They're Not Gay

[ibiseremita]

Ok hear me out: A sitcom centered around some classicists weirdos called "The Homer Theory"