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A Fossil Fish Plaque, Green River, Wyoming.

Source: christie’s.com

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{Snow Angels} by {Michael}

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the story of orpheus and eurydice fucks me up bc the instinct a lot of people have is to call orpheus an idiot or an asshole but the thing is he was in LOVE and love makes you do stupid shit

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sharpied seashells by  Barbara Moloney Callen

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mutuals

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Artemis-y

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Roe deers/rådjur. Värmland, Sweden (January 15, 2022).

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While I do think the Hellenist/Romanist binary is highly problematic (Greek and Latin weren’t the only languages of the ancient Mediterranean!!), I’m laughing at the idea I just had of a Kinsey scale for classicists where 0 is ‘exclusively Hellenist,’ 3 is ‘equally Hellenist and Romanist,’ and 6 is ‘exclusively Romanist’. I’m at like a 4 (‘predominantly Romanist but more than incidentally Hellenist’), feel free to reblog and tag yourselves

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Yellowstone by Sam Brockway

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Classics-tober Day 8: Caesar

it’s the late roman republic and life’s a fucking NIGHTMAAAARRREEE

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CFP: Blorban and Tumblrensian Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Dear all,

We are now accepting abstracts for the conference "Blorban and Tumblrinian Studies in the Twenty-First Century", to be hosted by the Tumblr University Faculty of Classics and held remotely on January 23, 2022.

The current decade has seen a surge of interest in Titus Blorbus Plinkonensis and his late Republican milieu. This was driven both by archaeological discoveries (the Blorgus inscription and the alleged Villa of the Blorbi at Spectaculi Mei) and by the application of queer theory to the Blorbiad and the epigrams of Aemilia Tumblrinilla. We welcome both historical and literary papers relating to Blorbus, other members of the gens Blorba, Quintus Aemilius Tumblrinus, and Aemilia Tumblrinilla, as well as the texts attributed to them.

Please send abstracts of no more than 100 words to tumblr user nathanielthecurious.

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We bully Voltaire for simping for a king. But honestly, making a king fall in love with you, then destroying his friends and stealing his money and fucking off to Switzerland is iconic direct action. Dismantle the monarchy like a girlboss

Maybe the french revolutionaries should have simply?? Seduced Louis XVI?? Robbed him blind and broken his heart??

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Mountain lions resting in the safety of a tree

National Geographic | November 1969

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No offense but the internet gives you the most wrong and fucked up idea of helping people because people get mad if you don't care about disasters happening in 72 countries, meanwhile the people in real life that are doing the most good picked one VERY SPECIFIC thing to care about and care about it REALLY HARD

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I’ll always post David Bowie in 18th century fashion in this blog each year for his birthday and death anniversary (two days apart).

David Bowie in “The Hunger”, 1983, Costume design by Milena Canonero.

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Gold diadem uncovered in Canosa, Italy, 3rd-2nd century BC

Currently on display at the Archaeological Museum of Taranto