homer's minor characters being canon fodder and their introductions being their obituaries and their kleos being preserved purely by their obituary being included in the epic rendering them immortal if only for one narrative moment

if i had a cicero i would treat him so well i would take him on walks in the park feed him sugar cubes from my hand take him to court everyday and brush his beautiful beautiful balding head like a baby doll

The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.

rereading the second philippic and it fucks

Clodius? Clodius.

Clodius has been dead for 2075 slutty slutty years 🎉

maybe if cato HAD showed more tit he wouldve saved the republic

keep trying king maybe you won't be brutally murdered this time

lydia davis

Sally sells #catullus by the sea shore.

there Is a level of transgender enlightenment to catullus understanding btw that if you can get to Will infinitely improve your takes on him

actually did i ever post googly eyes cicero on here. tfw consul videt, hic tamen vivit :/

cupid and psyche most divorced classic couple

so true

"at least antigone's parents were there when she was born" is maybe the objectively funniest argument you can have for why antigone isn't tragic. like. oh antigone's parents? you mean her mom who killed herself and her dad who blinded himself and got exiled from the city? and was also technically her brother? those parents?

"at least antigone's parents were there when she was born" is maybe the objectively funniest argument you can have for why antigone isn't tragic. like. oh antigone's parents? you mean her mom who killed herself and her dad who blinded himself and got exiled from the city? and was also technically her brother? those parents?

you know what? fuck you *confuses the count of our kisses* *diverts your evil eye* *you can no longer curse us by knowing their total*

Achilles sacrificing to Zeus for Patroclus’ safe return, from the Ambrosian Iliad, a 5th-century illuminated manuscript