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catilinas · 1 year

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why do classics courses in uni make you read like. ‘canonical’ classical texts for one thousand years and not even mention the wild shit in e.g. pausanias this is so fun why did i have to read the res gestae so many times

#/J I KNOW WHY ALSO I KNOW I COULD HAVE JUST READ PAUSANIAS MYSELF BACK THEN! but i didn’t! because of lucan #howeverrrrrrr every time i’ve just read a bit of like. pliny or pausanias or ATHENAEUS? the deipnosophistae is fun you guys i promise #it has been fun! would have loved to do a module on this stuff! absolutely do not have the time to sit down and read all of any of them #though!!!#also rip i read the entire res gestae ever night for like a month before my augustan history exam #because the lecturer said it was a fun way to revise it. as a Joke but i did do it.#it did not help! i had weird res gestae dreams and barely remember any of it and then did the essay question on the aeneid.#anyway. pausanias fun. i’m enjoying it #beeps

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