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if julius caesar was one of them HOT-CHIP eatin' WOKE bisexual lying LIBERALS he would be julius xe/xir
#been thinking about this all day#tagamemnon#classics#shitposting#classics memes#classical studies#ancient rome#queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra#julius caesar#julius caesar memes#roman history#roman history meme
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if i were writing a feminist myth retelling centered around a female character mostly overlooked and denied interiority in the ancient texts that mention her, i would simply not throw helen under the bus to do so
rip to margaret atwood and madeline miller but i’m different
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Anne Carson | An Oresteia | Elektra by Sophokles
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Guys.
Y’all.
I…
I just. I just… i have discovered something. And I have laughed too much. I have laughed every time I have tried to explain it to someone. I cannot get through this.
Look. Okay.
There are two things you need to know, here.
First: There’s a style of Greek pottery that was popular during the Hellenic period, for which most of the surviving examples are from southern Italy. We call them ‘fish plates’ because, well, they’re plates, and they’re decorated with fish (and other marine life).
Like this one, currently in the Met:
Or this one, currently in the Cleveland Museum of Art:
They’re very cool. We’re not 100% sure what they were for, because most of the surviving ones were found as grave goods, but that’s a different post.
The second thing you need to know is that when we (Classics/archaeology/whatever as a discipline) have a collection of artefacts, like vases, sculptures, paintings, etc. and we do not know the name of the artist, but we’re pretty sure one artist made X, Y and Z artefacts, we come up with a name for that artist. There are a whole bunch of things that could be the source for the name, e.g. where we found most of their work (The Dipylon Master) or the potter with whom they worked (the Amasis Painter), a favourite theme (The Athena Painter), the Museum that ended up with the most famous thing they did (The Berlin Painter) or a notable aspect of their style. Like, say, The Eyebrow Painter.
Guess what kind of pottery the Eyebrow Painter made?
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Thank you Elektra daughter of Agamemnon for being both an inspiration and icon to sad lesbians with mediocre haircuts worldwide. Everybody say thank you Elektra.
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no i didn't call you a cunt i called you κύντατος (most dog-like)
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from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad
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pov odysseus
#this is so stupid#shitposting#tagamemnon#classics#classics memes#classical studies#ancient greece#greek mythology#odyssey memes#the odyssey#odysseus#homer's odyssey#homer#queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra#epic the musical
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i will never stop thinking about this poem my greek professor showed us
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i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’
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dionysus you have to stop. your robe too purple. your curls too divine, your manic swag too different. they will kidnap you.
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you actually don't have to go on dating apps to find girlfriends. many beautiful women are waiting for you on rocks out at sea
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afterlife hack: come to know the mysteries of demeter at eleusis
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maybe you aren't evolved enough to appreciate female characters who are terrible people but I am. Let women be annoying, self obsessed, entitled, and as much of an asshole as their male counterparts.
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Jason, having seen Medea kill and dismember her brother and also kill Pelias for him: Probably I can just divorce her
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