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piercedbtterflyeffect · 8 months

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Everyday it gets increasingly more difficult to hide from my Classics professors that my vast knowledge of the Trojan War comes from The Song of Achilles, Hades Game (2018), and Patrochilles fanfiction.

#classics #classical studies #ao3 #the song of achilles #song of achilles #hades game #classics student

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gonuclear · 21 days

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i think one of the funniest things about learning latin is that some of the people that we frequently translate (cicero, ovid, saints augustine and thomas, catullus) have become my little buddies. my pals. i see things written by them and i read it like i’m reading something written by my close personal friend

#arsene speaks #tagamemnon #latin student #latin language #classic literature #classics #classics student #classic lit

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clarencerambles · 7 months

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just quoted boygenius in an essay about the iliad. man, i love college so much.

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literarydesire · 1 month

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Morning routine

5.45: wake up

6.00: 4th cup of coffee, 3rd cigarette

6.00-9.00: contemplate existence

9.30: leave for 10am lecture

#dark academia #light academia #chaotic academia #university life #uni life #uni student #classical studies #classics student

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ratacademia · 7 months

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so glad the sky cleared up today so that the sunset was visible <3

picture i took while reading by my window bc i had some trouble focusing on my greek studying and homework because i was fasting for yom kippur (shana tova!)

more greek tomorrow!

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transbutchbluess · 5 months

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one thing i found extremely weird this semester is how many people at uni seem to have no basic understanding of the things they want to study and refuse to question their opinions to learn. since september, i’ve heard my classmates (undergraduates in classics) say things like "myths are not true / are lies", "Zeus is so awful and there’s no reason for him to be the king", "i love reading modern romance retellings of Persephone and Hades and i don’t think they’re really historically inaccurate", "x god did this really bad thing in myth so they probably weren’t worshipped much because why would the Greeks honor them ?", "greek mythology is mythology because it’s false, modern religions don’t have myths", "but if they’re gods why can’t they have kids without having sex ?" (we had studied the beginning of the Theogony the day before and had talked about parthogenesis…), "Hera and Zeus hated each other", "greek gods weren’t really gods since they were constantly being tricked" and "Poseidon and Athena were ennemies, they were probably never worshipped together lmao". like please. are you kids who have just finished reading Percy Jackson or are you teenagers/adults who want to study Ancient Greece ?? why are you here ??

not knowing things is normal, i’ve been learning a lot of basic things on antiquity that i had no idea about, and i had never studied ancient languages before september. but some people act so weirdly i don’t know why they’re here at all ?

#vent #personal #helpol #classics #classics student

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toastiesstudies · 4 months

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The course books for one of my classes this semester (can you tell it's Roman history?) Shout out Tacitus, I've been wanting to read his Annals for a While and now I have to.

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I'm back at campus and I'm anxious to get the rest of my syllabi. I've never had to wait so long for syllabi or reading lists to come out, and classes start tomorrow, so I'm freaking out a little, feeling unprepared etc etc, but yk isn't losing it at the start of every semester just part of that uni life??

#dark academia #classics student #history major #study aesthetic #studyblr #roman history #chaotic academia #I'm excited for the Annals just because of Boudicca mentions #let's be serious

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squid-with-five-eyes · 4 months

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I, Carrion (Icarian)... IN LATIN!!!!

translated one of my favorite songs off unreal unearth into latin for a project, the full translation is under the cut! credit to @buzzkillgirls for suggesting the song. my emphasis here was on making the translated lyrics fit the original meter more or less (which it does if you pronounce w elision) over exact one to one translation. ive got some notes at the end talking abt some of the choices i made! please feel free to ask me anything abt this and maybe suggest changes to the mistakes i inevitably made!

Si vertit ventus et ventum accedo

Tellus iter inveniat bruteum mihi

Gravitas mea est factus humiliter

Permeavi finem volatus

Pneuma una a caelo

Perveneram altam perrariorem

Pondus omnum onus oblatus nobis mundo est

Etsi adolesco, qui possum cado

Cum ego tollor verbis omnis tui

Si aliquis possum cadere umquam

Mundus mecum cadit

Causas me fluitare quam penna in mare

Cum sis gravis quam mundus

Quem tu manibus substas

Meditavi quodam die de fundamento

Video diu, amor o, caelum totum tenebas

Relinque, eo soli

Si necesse est, cara, innite mihi

Fluitabimus, sin cademus

Oro sole, non cade mecum

Habeo non pinnas, non habebo

Volans insuper mundum quem portas

Si alta cassum causant

Tum sim tui

Occidendus Icarus

Si vertit ventus et ventum accedo

Tellus iter inveniat bruteum mihi

Si cado illo die

Oro sole, non cade mecum

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“Si vertit ventus et ventum accedo” bit of chiasmus here

“Tellus iter inveniate bruteum mihi” hyperbaton; no specific poetic reasoning other than i liked the flow of the line this way

“Gravitas mea est factus humiliter” "my weight has been made low" the specific word choice here ties into the song's theme of his love allowing him to let go of societal pressures, as gravitas means both weight and grandeur/importance, while humiliter is low, small, humble, obscure

“Meditavi quodam die de fundamento/Video diu, amor o, caelum totum tenebas” glosses as “one day i pondered about the foundation/i see, love, you were holding the entire sky for a long time” i really wanted to find an equivalent to “you all the way down” in roman cosmology i could use but nothing was super snappy

“Relinque, eo soli” instead of sky-bound, im saying “i go to the sun” as a more direct reference to icarus

“Habeo non pinnas, non habebo” so so proud of the parallel chiasmus structure here! when i wrote this i was mentally high fiving myself

“Si alta cassum causant” cassum is glossed as fall, but also plight, fate, calamity, disaster

“Occidendus Icarus” THERE IS NO WAY TO TRANSLATE THIS LYRIC SATISFACTORILY OH MY GOD YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW IMPOSSIBLE IT IS TO GET EVEN CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL ENGLISH LYRIC'S WORDPLAY AND IMPACT AND MEANING. COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE. ultimately decided to go in the direction of using the unique features of Latin to create a new artistic choice instead of trying to translate the untranslatable. used a gerundive to express a sense of helplessness and fate; “Icarus who must be brought down/killed”

#hozier #unreal unearth #i carrion (icarian)#latin #latin language #latin langblr #classics #classical languages #classics student #classics major

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m1ssnovember · 26 days

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She loved me for the dangers I had passed,

And I loved her that she did pity them.

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cfoley · 5 months

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Productivity Check-In: 11/15/23

Classes:

• Latin 1

• Greek Prose

Extracurriculars:

• Lecture on “Making Fit: Parody and Decorum in Greco-Roman Literature” by Niek Janssen

Work:

• Latin exercises and reading

• Group work on project for History of Communism

Thoughts:

• Many things occurred so not as much homework done and I’m tired but tomorrow is reserved for studying.

#productivity challenge #studyblr #history major #study motivation #study blog #studyspo #classics major #classics student #ancient history student #study inspo

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cannon-writes · 7 months

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I’m done being normal about Plato. I am now going to treat him how insane k-pop stans treat BTS. yeah.. he’s getting babygirlified. bark bark BARKBAKRBARK !!

#studyblr #classics #plato #yeah the greek guy #classic academia #classical studies #ancient greek #ancient greek history #classics student #classics studyblr #archaeology

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pawswithprose · 1 year

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February 23rd

I’m learning about cultures, travel and writing and for the classics part of it we are reading The Odyssey. I’m still getting used to Ancient Greek stories but I’m hoping this will be enjoyable.

#books #book #reading #classics #the odyssey #Homer #Ancient Greece #classic literature #english literature student #english student #English lit #classics studyblr #classics student #studyspo #study blog #student life #pawswithprose

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talleryn · 1 year

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Lol I’m revising Latin but I’m also immature

#I need to be stopped #shitpost #brainrot #latin #latin student #meme #funny #text shitpost #text post #classics #classics student #roman empire #latin language

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moralityandcinicism · 7 months

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I just saw requirements and all the exams I have to take to pass my last year of classics and suddenly I understand the dark academia books. I too am one annoying thing from killing everyone and going crazy every time I look at my schedule.

#dark academia #classics student #the secret history

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classics-cassandra · 1 year

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#tagamemnon #Latin #Ancient Greek #classics memes #classics student #grammar

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ratacademia · 7 months

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greek homework + light rain

not even gonna lie: i kinda need to work on my photo taking skills (and also pick a mf aesthetic)

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