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this oedipal ain't shit

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i should wake up and automatically be restored to full health, that's how sleeping should work, what is this horseshit

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Clodius thought they were ride or die only to find out Cicero wasn't really up for that sort of vibe

my favourite part of the Clodius/Cicero beef is that they were literally friends and then Clodius was on trial and called on Cicero to back him up and Cicero was all "your honour I've never seen this man in my life" and Clodius was so upset he broke the legal system getting Cicero exiled post facto for his consulship actions and then burnt his house down

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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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anyway. take my hand can we all picture this together

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best part of my late republic overview (first 16 lectures in depth overview, second 16 are themes) lecture series was the following dialogue (in lecture 15 - aka, the 5th week of lectures)

Lecturer: and then of course the 2nd triumvirate get together, etc etc... anyway, any questions before we move on

(tentative hand raised): it's been like,,, 6 years of learning about this, why did the triumvirate actually get together? - Silence -

Lecturer: uh... mutual benefit, i guess?

- sound of the entire lecture hall writing that down -

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trying to avoid explaining to my lecturer that the reason I was super invested in the topic was not because of any particularly super interest I developed overnight but because the lecture was actually on a specific port I used as a setting for an ancient rome au fanfiction and the lecture fully expanded on the context of the town that I can use to buff up my story...

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the man - taylor swift

sung it with my friend in the car yesterday and now it is stuck

it was stuck even when i woke up in the middle of the night aaa

@linuxgfsstuff

ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

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love when im researching the symptoms of a condition i am literally diagnosed with and am like "omds that's so me"

like yea no kidding, that's you in the flipping photo

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Thinking about him (the soldier in Poynter’s Faithful Until Death painting watching an apocalypse unfold around him with horror in his eyes as he tries to keep himself standing beneath a doorway, based on an actual 19th century archeological find of a man in full soldier’s garb under a doorway at Pompeii)

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I came into this video expecting bad takes (cause this woman doesn't have a track record for being smart) and what I found was even worse. Anti-intellectualism is really biting our society's ass.

Not only she cites Lore Olympus for her source of learning about Greek mythology as an adult, but she also says the reason why she can't read the original works it's because they're too difficult for her so she needs to read it in a fanfiction-ish form. At her old age.

Then she says that she learner about the personalities of the gods (she calls them “characters of this game”) thanks to Lore Olympus which means all she learnt was a bunch of mischaracterizations.

To top it all off she asks about what's the lesson of the myth (she was talking about Orpheus and Eurydice at this point) or if myths even have a lesson at all. She's asking if stories that were created out of the wishes and fears of a civilization have a meaning.

No matter if you consider these stories to be pure fiction or an allegorical way of telling true events, you should respect them as they are part of the culture of a country (or multiple countries if we have Roman syncretism in mind) that still exists and holds cultural relevance to this day. Stop treating Greek gods and legends as if they are some pop culture fandom characters.

As someone said in the comments: saying you've learnt about Greek mythology by reading Lore Olympus is like saying you've learnt about Christianity by watching Glee's Grilled Cheesus episode.

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the way fanfiction authors often dedicate works to each other for birthdays, etc, is eerily reminiscent to me of how academics write essays or books in honour of each other

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One of my favourite bits of linguistic trivia is that in Ancient Greek, the word ἰχώρ (cognate to the modern English "ichor") is attested in extant literature to mean both "the bodily fluid which gods possess instead of blood", and also "gravy", which implies several things about Ancient Greek culinary culture's attitude toward gravy.

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One Tiny Detail - Flooring at Villa Adriana 6/11

[Photo is my original photography. Please do not save and repost without credit - reblogging is fine.]

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yearning for something that i may never acquire but i want it anyway