Hi there—suffering classicist wishing to share general out of context nonsense that pops into my head. A blog home to memes, random thoughts, and the occasional thing of note. @astyanacc on BlueSky
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that fucking loser bleeding out at the foot of my statue lol. lmao
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love when you can tell an ancient artist is really struggling to figure out what an animal is supposed to look like. this is a hare btw
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I found this new Alcibiades play in book form in the same exact second hand store i had found the first one where the owner was like "someone was thinking about Alcibiades at 3am" because he saw when I placed the order.
Do you think he will remember me.
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Devastating! Art museum gift shop doesn’t sell prints of specific and unpopular painting that struck a cord with you!
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give me 10 years and maybe I'll finish a thing or two
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i was printing a stencil for a screen print of achilles and troilus, and the printer spat out some newsprint, separating achilles’ face and body from the paper! something about how the media rejects the subject matter and lets troilus keep running for a little while longer. something about how his father is the god of the arts
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Me: sniffling & struggling to put together a coherent Latin poetry translation
Also me: *contented sigh* I wish I could do nothing but this for the rest of my life ✨😌🥰🌅
#the duality of translating Latin#same goes for Greek tho#kicking my feet but also wondering wtf Lucretius is trying to say#Latin#DRN
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found a really neat community about herodotus called the herodotus helpline that dedicates itself in part to answering people's questions about herodotus (you can submit a question to the helpline if you'd like) and it's legitimately a fascinating resource but i cannot help but fucking lose it at this one particular question the helpline answered
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I love that lemon meme asdsdhg
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cassandra of troy design 🌚 specifically for paris the musical
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Aeneas and Achates Meeting Venus, from The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Warwick Goble (1912)
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"The whole film is a jigsaw puzzle of locations in Rome and studio builds. We built the elements of the Sistine Chapel with the amazing craftsmen at Cinecittà and the rooms and corridors of the Casa Santa Marta. This film is about juxtapositions between what we think we know and what we don’t. We discussed playing with those elements to create a more dramatic visual story. Rome is beautiful with amazing ornate architecture, but it also has contemporary architecture that we decided to play with. The feminine shapes and gold, softer side were juxtaposed against hard black lines, and the whites, blues, and blacks against the gold and rich reds." — Suzie Davies, Production Designer for CONCLAVE (2024).
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Forget unrequited love, you know what's really tragic? requited love but they're doomed by the narrative. It doesn't matter that they love each other, it doesn't matter how hard they love, they were doomed from the start.
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incredibly funny sophocles fragment from an unknown play where odysseus goes "diomedes why would i insult you and say things like 'you're not even from argos' or 'your father's a murderer' or 'your father's a cannibal' that would be so mean of me" i would give the world to hear diomedes' response to this
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