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greek plays summed up with memes
the bacchae
@ pentheus take a fucking sip babe 🍷🐸
the frogs
here come dat boi
medea
don’t talk to me or my dead sons ever again
oedipus the king
20 minutes into ruling thebes and chill and he gives you this look
lysistrata
men of athens: babes come over
women of athens: can’t, we’re on a sex strike
agamemnon
cassandra: clytemnestra is going to kill agamemnon
chorus: okay….that sounds fake but okay
alcestis
surprise, bitch! i bet you thought you’d seen the last of me
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what she says: Merry Christmas!
what she means: the Biblical account the nativity is riddled with errors about the history of the Roman Empire and this holiday is built upon the cultural spoliation of Saturnalia and Yule but I'm not going to bring that up and inject bitterness into a gentle, carefree holiday centered around family and gift-giving because I love you.
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terpsikeraunos replied to your post:
for a whole I was incapable of writing a cursive a because I’d always write alpha
there was a moment when i had to write stuff on a white board for a meeting i was at and i actually found myself incapable of writing an a. the only thing i could remember how to do was an alpha. greek fucks you up
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a mariokart named desire
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Lol.
“Ukip donor Arron Banks has taken the bold step of challenging Cambridge University classicist Mary Beard on her knowledge of Roman history, citing his schoolboy studies and Russell Crowe Hollywood epic Gladiator! as his sources.
Beard - a professor of classics and a fellow of Newnham College since 1984 who has produced multiple series on Rome for the BBC - is one of Britain’s best-known scholars. The university don clearly felt she had to intervene on Twitter when Banks - the multi-millionaire diamond mine-owning insurance tycoon who has bankrolled Ukip and played a key role in Brexit - started to link the fall of the Roman Empire with troubles affecting the European Union.”
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Dazu eines der längsten Dramen unserer Zeit ^^
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dentist: open up please
me: sometimes i get sad
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I want to be this happy someday
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Ich bin über die Figur der Diotima auf das Thema gekommen, also die Frau, die aus dem Oikos - und damit ihrer gesellschaftlichen “Sphäre” - tritt. Ich vertrete die Meinung, dass Platon durch die zwei Gespräche Agathon/Sokrates und Sokrates/Diotima zum einen die Lobrede als patriarchale Form und das Patriarchat selbst in dem Werk kritisiert - gleichzeitig ist der gesamte Dialog natürlich noch ein Angriff auf die Sophisten.
Hi, I'm a student of Philosophy from German and I'm currently working on an essai concerning gender in Plato's Symposion. Do you have any recommendations on this topic?
i don’t wanna give too much away, but you might want to look at the part where aristophanes talks about why people seek out their other half (in the literal sense). there’s some good stuff in there about greek patriarchy and love of manliness
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a handful of my favorite ancient greek words
φιλαμαρτήμων: loving sin
κυνογαμία: dog-wedding
σιτόκουρος: doing nothing but eating bread
ἀλλοτριοφαγέω: eat another’s bread
θεομαχέω: fight against the god’s
κατασκέλλομαι: become a skeleton
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ancient politicians who would still make better presidents than donald trump
clodius pulcher: mostly loved to cause a ruckus. notorious cross-dresser and prince-stealer
cicero: spent most of his political career insulting people he didn’t like (see mark antony). was so proud of saving the republic that he wrote two epic poems about how great he is
julius caesar: gained power by beating the shit out of his opponents but at least tried to help the poor. once received a sext from his girlfriend in the middle of a senate meeting which was then angrily read by said girlfriend’s half-brother who thought it was evidence that he was participating in a conspiracy
cato the elder: main political achievement that he is remembered for was screaming that carthage must be destroyed at the end of every speech
didius julianus: purchased the roman empire at an auction and was later executed for being useless
mark antony: frat boy politician well-known for wearing the ancient equivalent of booty shorts and coming to political meetings hungover
pupienus: ruled for three months before being assassinated by the praetorian guard. name is pronounced “poopy anus”
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Chapeau!
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