#classicsposting

[copycatvagabond]

Odyssey concept cover, trying to teach myself book design

[youngmanwithaskull]

btw u would look back . i don't care if you think you wouldn't or if you know the story of orpheus and eurydice like the back of your hand you WOULD look back . and that is okay

[autistic-ophelia]

Every day my theory that if you have a silly enough name you are morally obligated to study Classics grows stronger and stronger. You will never in a million years guess the name of the fucking French guy whose paper I’m reading because his name sounds like someone pulled a gun on you and forced you to come up with the name for a French caricature in half a second.

[david-lanndlord]

*translating an Ancient Greek text*

damn I've never seen this word before. can't be bothered to research if it appears anywhere else, though. call that a half-ass legomenon

[riveracheron]

doing research on sia (the Egyptian god) in my free time. This is all your fault/silly

YESSSSS. YESSSYESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

my pulp musicals fandom chat is actually a thinly veiled scheme to get more people into classics

[ftmshepard]

not every instance of a thing you don't like in classical literature is because of textual corruption, guys!!

[acerbaa]

listening to hozier’s why would you be loved to get into a headspace where i can read iliad 16

[copycatvagabond]

having so many thoughts about weaving as a manifestation of female agency.

Penelope weaves and unravels and weaves and unravels, desperately needing time, waiting.

Helen sits locked in a foreign land and weaves in an attempt to see, to know anything about what goes on outside.

Clytemnestra rolls a woven tapestry out in front of her husband. he cannot enter the house on any terms but hers, she has tied a net for him too.

[youngmanwithaskull]

this is actually the thesis of every greek tragedy to me like . the chorus in agamemnon saying 'it had the name wedding / it had the name funeral' in reference to helen's marriage...antigone in jean anouilh's antigone describing her final resting place as her bridal bed... eurydice dying the day after her wedding... both iphigenia and polyxena believing they were to he married and then ending up being sacrificed

[bolkonskaya]

many such cases!

[baronetcoins]

this is the energy i'm bringing into my writing for the forseeable future. "why not?" baronet noluit.

[ftmshepard]

"Like Lucretius’s bitter wormwood rimmed with honey, Plato has, through his Symposium, both demonstrated his skills as a poet and given his reader sufficient philosophical groundings to begin their own intellectual journey. Whether he succeeds depends on the reader and her interpretation of the dialogue, but it is clear to everyone who is not a 16th century French translator that he has given the honey his all, and that he does not want even his medicine to taste bitter." We have reached that time of evening (morning?) where I voluntarily refer to Lucretius's de rerum naturae.

[lucillewalterblack]

if I start classicsposting I’m gonna start talking about transfem Achilles and I’m not really sure if I want to open that Pandora’s box of completely insane anons, but also, here I am vagueblogging about it because it is one of my most personally cherished reads on the Iliad

[carmeloffie]

⭐️ u have my fave classicsposting and I enjoy seeing ur lil updates on ur life… it’s like oh ur so back or it’s over when means I manifest happy times ^_^

this is soo nice… i am glad you like my life updates 🥺…… and thank you SO much to be your favorite classics poster is an honor..

[tetrafelino]

Oh this is about a musical. I thought we were just classicsposting.

Odysseus: 600 men making our way back home to Ithaca!

*Polyphemus swings his club around*

Odysseus: 593 men making our way back home to Ithaca.

*Poseidon wipes out the other 11 ships in the fleet*

Odysseus: ...43 men making our way back home to Ithaca.

*Elpenor's drunk ass falls off Circe's roof*

Odysseus: 42 men making our way back home to Ithaca, I guess.

*Scylla targets the torch holders*

Odysseus: 36 men making our way back home to Ithaca. Put that sword away, Eurylochus.

*Zeus strikes the ship with lightning*

Odysseus: 1 man making his way back home to Penelope and Telemachus. And by the gods, I will somehow make it.

[copycatvagabond]

rip Aeschylus you would've loved understage lifts and onstage rotating sections