#Greek class

[ancientimes]

Personally if I had the chance to be a member of a prestigious, gay, snobby, a little bit insane, classical clique i wouldn’t fuck it up.

Rip Bunny but I’d still be alive and thriving, get on my level.

[girlintodust]

The secret history by Donna Tartt

TSH Spoilers

This scene is my roman empire. I've thought about this a lot, what did Henry said to Camilla. For me, the very nature of their relationship was revealed in this moment. Henry Winter -the guy who lived for the control, who relished on being the center of everything- having the power to determine the whole outcome of their situation in his hands, surrounded by the terrified looks of everyone, decides to say one last thing, and he does so only to her. It could've just been a goodbye, it would've been a way to show her he genuinely cared for her and knew that his actions would actually affect her (Camilla was never seen as a person by the rest of the guys from the Greek class, rather an object, a fantasy), yet it feels so intimate and urgent it's uncharacteristic of him. I think there was something he wanted to say before he died, but it was something he would've never said out loud for just anybody to hear. He trusted Camilla to be the one to say it to. And he confirms this by telling her he loves her seconds later. I imagine him whispering "To live. To live forever."

I'm physically unwell.

[that-one-girls-blog-posts]

The fact that their plan for the perfect murder almost failed because these pretentious nerrrds (love them) didn't know about the social event that literally everyone else knows about, which happens every single year is so on brand, it takes me out again and again DONNA TARTT I LOVE YOU

[literarydesire]

Arrived early today, so I thought I’d show y’all my Greek Archaeology “lecture hall” which is really just the back corner of the on-campus ancient art museum.

[mvlewife]

imo the best thing about Henry as a character is how the way he's written makes you the part of the group; he makes you listen, he makes you Richard, he makes you blindly admire him and not everyone snaps out of it do we. you WILL ignore him being much much worse than bunny because he can speak fluently in greek and writes his diary in latin, you will idolize him for being a genius while completely forgetting how he actually doesn't care about that brain of his, he would absolutely give it up for the sake of the obsessive idea of living without thinking. you won't even think about him making his friends follow him in such thing as Bacchanal which included drugs and all sorts of crazy things. you won't think about it because you will be as obsessed with Henry as Richard and as Henry is with some ideas that do not even make sense for a modern person. but you will believe him. you will follow him. you will listen to him. you will be in that damn greek class.

[helmut-katya]

I don’t remember the exact reason why I started learning Greek. It was earlier this year (2024), and I just started taking lessons in Duolingo. Like two months ago I was navigating Telegram and saw an image of the book The Secret History. I’d never heard of it, but it caught my attention and I just felt like I had to read it. There were no physical copies in my local libraries, so I had to order it online. Meanwhile, I downloaded the epub and started reading it. It really caught me by surprise that Greek is part of the plot of this book. It made me more enthusiastic about learning it and now I’m taking an online class and set my phone to Greek. I’ll probably start watching films and listening to Greek music soon, just for immersion.

I just can’t shake the feeling that it was fate that brought me to this book and this language, though I still don’t know for what purpose. I also recently learned that Yukio Mishima (an author I enjoy and have read since 5 years ago or so) was obsessed with Greek statues and its aesthetics, so that’s another connection. I also just experienced something similar to when Richard sees Charles and Camilla kissing lmao

I’m obsessed, I guess

[shoulda-been-a-redhead]

[rcsherriff]

rest in peace greek class you would have loved katie morag

[ganseysmagiciansz]

the domicia sessa as richard papen agenda is real !!

[poeticabomination]

I planned to rizz him up but he buried me in devotion instead, wtf is happening...

[wolfythewitch]

But never let me die without a struggle and without acclaim

[finelythreadedsky]

it's so great that in greek tragedy there are only three paradigms for a woman leaving her house (her wedding, her funeral, and maenadic rites) and they're all kind of the same thing also

[girlintodust]

i need help, am I the only one who randomly thinks about that moment in tsh when henry -and I'm paraphrasing- "solemnly winks" at camilla after she recites a passage from the Oresteia, and then starts giggling and smiling like an idiot? anyone? i swear it's a daily occurrence at this point, i need henry winter winking at me approvingly after I read something.

[jeyneofpoole]

my torment, my calamity, this life!

[meirimerens]

thus they found multiple of you and everytime you were buried, and everytime you were reborn, and everytime there was a new altar or a new tomb.

jewelry based on "helen's jewels" from "priam's treasure", discovered in 1873 in Hissarlık (historically Troy) by Heinrich Schliemann. he proceeded to steal the findings and ship them out of the country. this treasure has actually no link to Priam, as it predates him (and the historical date for the Troyan War) by centuries, which i'd argue is even cooler. many more things were part of this treasure, including rings, shields, blades, vases, diadems, buttons...

first picture shows schliemann's wife Sofia wearing some of these "jewels of helen"(!)

[alatismeni-theitsa]

"Women only started working very recently so a woman's place is the house-" shut up and feast your eyes at old photos of women from around the world doing physical labor only for them to return home and solely care for 5-10 children and the elderly parents of their husband.

Greek women represent:

These photos show Greek women doing the type of physical labor they would perform more often than not. At the luckiest working conditions for rural women (aka most of the country) they would start working the fields as children and when they got older they would work the same fields with their own babies on their backs.

On the way home from the fields, sometimes the women would carry the wood and the mule would carry the man so he could rest.

Of course, we can talk about the manual labor that is rubbing cloth and metal for hours on end, chopping and carrying wood to light a fire for a large cauldron your size, and stirring it for hours.

But we can also talk about how it wasn't for them to break and carry rocks in baskets for the making of new roads. They would gather salt, olives, and grapes and carry them on large baskets filled to the brim. For salt they carried thirty kilos each trip, doing fifty trips each, stepping shoeless on the grains of salt.

Carrying water was also their job, often moving large barrels with all the water a house of 10 needed upon hills that horses and mules had trouble ascending.

(more photos for salt mining and carrying here)

It's no hyperbole to say these women carried their incomes and households on their backs. "The good she-housekeeper is a slave and a lady" the old Greek saying goes. A "good woman" was a woman who could be strong and work at home and in the field, often described with the qualities of a mule. Men took their wives out in the fields so much that some who were a bit more educated had to make their husbands sign that they wouldn't ask them to work alongside them in the fields! (source in Greek)

Some of these photos are also from 1970. I'm missing a photo from Leukada showing women carrying baskets of the stones they broke, and I'll add it here when I find it.

Basically, women were out of the house forever. A woman who got to stay home and never perform any labor had some type of privilege (wealth, status etc). Same as the many privileged men around the world who didn't perform any labor at all.

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