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Roman soldiers on Hadrian’s wall 1,800 years ago, and me rn:
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Reblogging from my main for reference lmao
I have studied ancient sexuality and gender (did my MA diss last year on gender nonconformity in ancient greece) and i can recommend a few books that I think look at pederasty, or at least would be able to point you in that kind of direction:
Masterson, Rabinowitz and Robson (2014) Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World - a very good collection that contains more modern views and plenty of extra jumping off points for your own research
Davidson (1997) Courtesans and Fishcakes: the Consuming Passions of Classical Athens; Davidson (2001) Dover, Foucault and Greek Homosexuality: Penetration and the Truth of Sex; Davidson (2007) The Greek and Greek Love: a Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece - pretty fundamental works but his views can be a bit contentious because he vehemental disagrees with Dover.
McClure (2002) Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources - another good collection
Halperin (1990) One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love - a good overview
Halperin, Winkler, and Zeitlin (1990) Before Sexuality: the Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World - honestly i dont remember what this collection was about, but Halperin, Winkler and Zeitlin are big names in gender and sexuality research and this book was in my MA dissertation.
Skinner (2014) Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture - might contain some things but can't guarantee on this one
I could probably find some better sources with more time, but these are the ones I can find easily (by looking at the bibliography of my diss and desperately trying to remember which had entries on pederasty)
Thanks a ton! I’m actually super interested in Ancient Greek gender nonconformity after some of the erotic portrayals of Hermaphrodites I saw in Campania.
Really appreciate you reaching out with the recommendations! Sounds like an interesting dissertation.
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[gordon ramsay inspecting a restaurant's food storage closet] "and now where the fuck does this door go to" [gordon ramsay opens the restaurant door to find the next room, an unexcavated interior of an ancient temple, undeciphered cuneiform adorned on the walls next to peculiar neolithic paintings, strange tablets and scriptures framing a shrine to a long-forgotten deity in the room's center] "oh fuck me. oh for fuck's sake"
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The Oldest Animation Created by Man
3000 B.C
(Burnt city,Iran)
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My mock book covers of the Iliad and the Odyssey ⚔🌊✨
☆Merch Here☆
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Minotaur is not a species
The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.
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i will never stop thinking about this poem my greek professor showed us
#oh the emotions again#ave atque vale#etc#I think I get most emotional with poems about siblings dying#tagamemnon#poem#poetry
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#GOOD#linguistics#no longer planning on going into academia#at least not anytime soon#but I would love to pull this off
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The streets of Pompeii seem to go on forever. This is the only picture I could take that captured that feeling. Breathtaking place; it makes you emotional about the people who lived there.
Only got worse when my friend pointed out the grooves in the fountain from people leaning on it to drink.
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Herculaneum . Suburban Baths
#bizarre happenings#was here earlier today#have a nearly identical photo in my camera roll#tagamemon#herculaneum#SUCH a cool sight#lost my mind over some wood and mosaics
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every time i remember that someone wrote a book and mentioned my blog in it i am so blown away like. i am a little weirdo on the internet but i've got my crowd of fellow weirdos who like me. makes me feel like a little woolly worm drinking a cup of warm cider in the winter
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does anyone else ever like. completely forget the commentary exists when translating something? like every time i'm reading greek i get incredibly lost and confused and i'm like "oh. there's no way out of this." as if the commentary wouldn't literally answer all my questions if i would just flip to it
#but sometimes the commentary isn’t helpful :(#or one edition of something I was translating just had#the worst takes#like yeah#you COULD translate that sentence like that#but it objectively sucks#or the pro caelio I have now#all the commentary is about the court and the relevance of the vocab#but NOTHING on the complicated grammar bits
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concept: a ciceronian speech translated in the style of a shouty “informative” tumblr post
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“I want to create and make things and I will make patterns and tapestries and works never seen before and I will do that because I choose to not because you chose it for me. I am a maker, first and last. I am the teller of my tale”
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Petition of the Androgyne
An original poem
Gyno-
Sometimes some people are born with dismay,
Of Aphrodite as chromosomes say.
Forced to live life with long hair and soft skin;
Such pretty dresses that stop at the shin.
Hera, the mother of all gods above,
Hear my soft pleas and make me not a dove!
Peacocks instead might be preferable:
Males are so bright yet the females are dull.
“Why,” you might ask, “would you want such a fate?”
Well, to be bright is not really that great:
Ev’ryone staring day-in and day-out
Shouting the moment I started to pout.
Sorry; but I am not endlessly prim!
I will not live for a stupid male whim.
I exist for my own reasons, you see—
Always so busy, a hard-working bee.
Goddess of Love has me living a lie
Without respect when I struggle and cry.
Surely my plight is not really that bad:
Boundless attention? I ought to be glad!
Maybe it’s true my life isn’t so cruel,
And to complain makes me simply a fool.
Life’s been so easy since it first began,
Oh, I should just try becoming a man.
Andro-
Now Hermes is my patron god,
That god of thieves and stolen things,
Of herdsmen, heralds, tricksters too,
Oft carried on his sandals’ wings.
Oh joy! I’m taken at my word
When I make claims of having thoughts,
And if I speak I’m taken straight,
My words won’t twist in senseless knots.
To gain respect I needn’t fret,
It’s easy won with strength, you see—
Of mind or body, either works—
And people never pester me
To dress up nice and change my face.
No: now I only need to claim
One sophomoric lunacy
(Though when I’m wrong, don’t give me blame!
Instead give fault to all the world
Which dares to disagree with men;
Oh Gaea, you beloved fool
Create the laws of life again.
For men created after them
Believe these rules not to suffice
They’d sooner die than cede their truth
To silly things that govern life).
And now I know those men were wrong
(Those ones who said their lives were hard):
It’s harder still to be a girl
Whom all will quickly disregard.
Neutro-
Now, Hermaphroditus, I relate
To your plight of cruel, sadistic fate.
I am not a woman nor a man;
Both of us defy that simple plan.
True: I like to weave ‘til sunset’s dawn,
Pulling string until the thread is drawn
Through the fabric which conveys a thought
Of those heroes and freak things they’ve fought.
Stories that are told before my time
Told again, and ev’ry time they rhyme:
Whether it’s with colors or with words
Symmetry resembles young Love’s birds.
Yarn is writ with care into a song;
Words are weaved to tapestries along.
Feminine pursuits absorb my mind;
Masculine command with ev’ry line.
Plato has a soulmate’s origin
Saying we were once these four-armed men:
Women, born from soft and fruitful Earth;
Blazing Sun to willful Men gave birth;
To the Androgynes the Moon gave breath.
Zeus, of course, grew weary, called for death
Of these strong and happy eight-limbed pests;
With his lightning bolt he split their chests.
Lovers now without half of their whole,
Seek the one who complements their soul.
I suspect that Zeus was off his mark
When he split my ancestor apart,
For he did not make one simple pair
One of sturdy man and woman fair:
No, he made a soul that lives confused
One that has a body it’s refused.
Who will be the patron god of I,
Living with a gender odd and wry?
Who can alter woman turned to man,
Turn her—him—them—into someone grand?
Woe, Hermaphroditus, what say you,
Born from lovers bound to one from two?
Take on more than those born in-between;
Be the god for us who are not keen
On these silly genders we’re assigned
Based on just our bodies, not our minds.
I am more than anyone can see:
Only I can know who I should be.
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Hey, guys, gals and nonbinary pals. It’s me, ya fave language hoe. I started a language discord server and it ims up and running. Let’s learn!!!!
https://discord.gg/9kAqMnR
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