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darkeyedghost · 6 days ago

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Often when I see like aesthetic dark academia posts about studying classics I want to scoff and roll my eyes because I actually study ancient Greek and mostly it's trying really hard to make all your nouns and adjectives agree in prose comp and still missing one and almost crying because you can't recognise a word in a piece of verse and you can't find it listed in a dictionary anywhere. But then other times I see these aesthetic dark academia posts and I get it because truly romanticising studying classics is the only way to actually get you through studying classics

#i have such a love hate relationship with greek oh my gosh #because of course I'm going to be slightly pretentious about reading in the iliad in the original ancient Greek??#and actually studying it has given me such a deeper understanding of so much grammar #it's also affected the way I speak to an extent in that I use participles in my speech a lot #and sometimes I find it genuinely interesting #but on the other hand #oh my fucking god I'm looking forward to doing my exams and finally moving on from classics #like I actually can't wait to be done with ancient greek a level #and there's so many things that I just cannot find myself interested in #idk I'll probably revisit it in the future #without the pressure of exams and especially this one particular teacher I might find the things that interest me again #but for now it's romanticisation of classics and pure determination to get through this alevel and try to do well #yeah ok i guess I'll tag this as such #classics #ancient greek #a levels #darkeyedghost

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