historicalemily

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the aeneid has officially obtained the "permanently on my desk for easy access during random thought spiralling" status. i'm proud of you virgil <3

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Everyone liked the color charts I test printed for Basilisk so much, I felt compelled made a nice version! Great for anyone that has an interest in Risograph printing, historical pigments, or weird medieval marginalia.

(buy it here)

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this is the funniest possible answer ryoko kui could have given to this question

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i think the world would be a happier place if we were all permanently stoned

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deeply embarrassing being god born in ancient greece i think, everyone knows the exact place and detailed story of your conception, “yeah that’s aeneas his mom and dad fucked at the foot of mount ida” i would die. i would die every time someone addressed me by my full name “aeneas son of anchises who everyone knows aphrodite fucked at the foot of mount ida” god

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Jane Austen, from Emma originally published c. 1815

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this summer we will be devouring good literature, stay hydrated and most importantly be unbothered

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creds: swtzkiiz on pinterest

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“Lying Odysseus replied, ‘I will tell you the truth completely.’”

— Odyssey 24.303-4, trans. Emily Wilson

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how do you become so well read?

by reading

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when people say it's stupid to learn latin because it "isn't useful" i literally go crazy wild like i get violent and aggressive and start gnashing my teeth looking like a dog with rabies or something

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the pope’s silence on lesbianism among nuns is deafening

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citationless behavior

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The scene where Dante arrives in heaven, sees Beatrice and then he turns back and doesn't see Virgil anymore honestly breaks my heart every time I read it🥲💔 (in Purgatorio, canto XXX)

oh my desire to create a perfect comic adaptation of the comedy because existing ones suck

my boosty

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Dante writing his Comedy

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there's something so devastating about the way that vergil has aeneas remind us that he was an eyewitness to the slaughter at troy in book two of the aeneid...like, as he's describing the way that neoptolemus and the greeks burst into priam's palace, he throws in vidi- "i saw."

it's just one word, but it reminds us that we aren't watching the epic recount of a battle from some vague third person perspective. we are seeing it through the eyes of a man watching the city and people he loved be torn apart right in front of him

an aristeia hits different from the perspective of its victim.

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genuinely cannot emphasize enough that the damsel in distress archetype really does not exist in medieval literature the way people think it does. these ladies are really only in distress because they can’t find a knight willing to enact bloodshed for them. if anything these damsels are causing distress