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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

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Stunning mosaic from the floor of the triclinium (dining room) of Hadrian's Villa, residence of Emperor Hadrian outside Rome

Altes Museum, Berlin

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People will be like I love Greek mythology but I hate everything that involves incest, infidelity, violence, slavery, misogyny, undeserved suffering, questionable relationships, ethically dubious heroes and gods,and morality that is foreign to me.

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Just about everything, Jeff Brouws

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Cerberus...?

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feeling called out today

credit: _ADWills

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augustus and marcus agrippa

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do you guys know about lio gangeri's statue of fulvia with the head of cicero.

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Aeneas’ perpetual and noticeable absence of active participation in what are arguably his most important relationships (Creusa, Ascanius, Dido, Pallas, Lavinia). The conspicuous places where he goes to speak to one or more of these people and a sign of divinity cuts him off. I am going to gnaw my leg off.

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01/11/19

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memento yuri

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I have to add my cousin’s print of this rhino. I’ve had it on my wall for 10 years.

halloween cat shiiiirt :-) + dubious rhinoceros for scale

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Night in Pompeii. Photos taken last week by Marco Macri

Night in Pompeii. October 2024

© Marco Macri

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Vestal Virgins OC’s.

I recently studied the little that is known about these priestesses, and they really interested me. In particular, the fact that in most paintings they are usually depicted as a group of young women, although logically this cannot be so. The service life of a Vestal is 30 years, during the first 10 she studies, then 10 years serves and the next 10 teaches the younger ones. That is, if they were all the same age, then after finishing the service, it would be necessary to hire six children)

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have to say that it's extremely funny to imagine diogenes of sinope saying I've Had Enough and just. holding his breath until he died. truly the epitome of if it sucks hit da bricks