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 On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future. Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.

-Jo Walton

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it only took them 6 editions but clc has finally made a drawing for the story about melissa that is less racist and less demeaning of slave women

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Retiarius ! Britannica from Elodie Harper’s “The Wolf Den” trilogy

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@catoswound

Spaghetti

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this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

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growing up as an imaginative single child, I loved to play with Barbies. I loved creating elaborate drama-filled storylines for them and I could keep at it for hours. there was one problem. I had like 15 thrift store Barbies and no Kens. I only had one Barbie-sized male doll and it was a collectible Elvis Presley doll and he was my favorite doll. I always did the Elvis voice when I was playing him but he had no relation to Elvis Presley otherwise. anyway, he had some crazy days. trapped on a scary planet where he is the only man in the world and half of the women there hate him. in a massive car accident and stranded in the woods with a girlfriend who had broken her foot and a crazy ex girlfriend who had stalked them there. kidnapped by Athena (one of my Barbie sized dolls was Athena, like, the goddess) and held captive by her while trying to go home to his 7 situationships. all of this happening to a guy who looks and sounds exactly like Elvis but is otherwise the quintessential everyman.

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I think, in general, the Italian peplum films deserve more discussion when it comes to adaptations of Ancient Mediterranean material, since they tend to cover periods of time that aren't usually covered by adaptations that originate in the Anglosphere (and overall, the mood is similar, but subtly different, from what you get in a lot of Anglo depictions of Rome and Greece).

They are also often fun rides that are *also* often dubbed into English...often poorly, which makes them even better.

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2/2 new stickers for the summer! This time it’s Fulvia, wife of Mark Antony and political mastermind in her own right. While her most iconic thing is of course stabbing Cicero’s decapitated head with a hairpin, I was impressed by all that she had achieved in honor of her first husband Clodius and the fact that both she and Antony continued to push for his policies which made them popular among the plebs. Gotta love a woman of the people!

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being very strong and not blocking the iliad and odyssey tags but we are getting dangerously close to miku binder odysseus territory

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those tags @marcusagrippa left on the ancient greece mullet post have gripped me

what if clodius had a mullet..... not actually even sure if this is what a mullet looks like my research was inconclusive. alas.

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It's a lovely day in Rome, and you are a horrible politician.

An amazing, massive set of text generators based on classic video games just dropped!

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how many people on this webbed site have i personally convinced to read the pharsalia actually. like we did book club. it must be a non-zero number

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*school

group of votive fish, roman, 2nd c. AD. Getty museum.

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thinking about the time this summer when elon musk recommended everyone read the iliad (specifically the penguin classics edition as an audiobook at 1.25x speed) and really can't stop laughing about it because 1. there are few people on this earth who could miss the point of the iliad quite as hard as this guy 2. the edition he linked to is a shitass translation from 1946 3. the book he linked was actually an audiobook of the odyssey