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If I won the lottery I wouldn’t say anything but there would be signs

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Moon over the Temple of Poseidon. 1 - 2

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dra ate every other translation up

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Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas - Jean Cornu, 1704

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complaints about millennials from ancient greece and rome

ungrateful, wait with eagerness for the day of their fathers’ deaths (seneca’s de beneficiis)

travel everywhere, take up agriculture instead of letting nature provide (tibullus 1.3)

carp at their parents, praise evil-doers and their violent deeds (hesiod, works and days)

spend too much time talking about philosophy and pretending to be greek to fight wars (plutarch, life of cato the elder)

bad at riding horses (horace, odes 3.24)

can’t lift boulders (homer, iliad 20)

still can’t lift boulders (vergil, aeneid 12)

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roman theatre in orange, france

three stories tall & considered the best-preserved roman theatre in all of europe

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Forgive me.

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byzantine mosaic

Museo Nacional de Beirut

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haunted house uquiz by streetlighthalo

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have been losing my shit over the fact that 1. there's a passage in polybius's history where he tells us that the tyrant demetrius of phalerum once made a giant mechanical snail to parade through athens and trail slime everywhere 2. people have been trying to figure out how this massive snail worked since at least 1937

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Apulian rhytons in the shape of animal heads (340ish, BCE)

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"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

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daphne's blessing 🌿

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every day i read things

[pliny the elder, naturalis historia 27.2]

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Lucan in Averno

Inspired by Sonya Taaffe’s poem (text under the cut)

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i love ancient roman seal rings so much. imagine asking me for my signature and i pull out a little crab-shaped stamp and press it onto your paper and you're like yeah, that works. because that's pretty much what would happen with this seal ring from the 1st-3rd century ce