#classics

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[leahgardner-art]

summer reading material

[mythosphere]

"Blorbo from my shows" no. Blorbo from my BA. Blorbo from my major. Blorbo from my primary source document.

[annamariehamilton-unofficial]

And this, my friend, is why the alphabet was invented, because after 2000-odd years, people tend to forget things.

can you fucking imagine

[shitacademicswrite]

[papenathys]

Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

[smokefalls]

We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

[healerqueen]

I barely know Beowulf, but yes... Beowulf fights a dragon near the end of the book, later in his life. (A very powerful move for an old man.) The saga with Grendel and Grendel's mother is only the first section.

It’s easy to forget JRR Tolkien was a fairly prolific academic translator with an interest in early medieval literature and philology. It’s so inspiring that he found time to write The Hobbit while fighting for his life over Beowulf.

[lionofchaeronea]

Hermes, in his role as psychopomp and holding his caduceus, leads a woman to Charon, ferryman of the Styx. All that survives of the woman is her hand. Fragmentary white-ground lekythos (perfume jar) by an unknown artist, made in Attica ca. 450 BCE (Classical period). Now in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

[allovertheplaceficrecs]

in aeternam te amabo by thesongistheriver

Arthur thinks the new lecturer in modern Romance languages is disrespectful, infuriating, and gorgeous. Merlin thinks the department head is a posh, arrogant Classicist, who has no right being so stunning. But workplace relationships never last, and they don't have a single thing in common, including what languages they speak. Then again, some things don't get lost in translation.

Words: 17,000

I have such a soft spot for classics AU's and this makes me so happy. The love for languages (and each other) is so evident in the writing of Merlin & Arthur's relationship. It's so beautiful to read. Banter is top tear, as is the small miscommunication that leads to them getting even closer as a result.

I do have to say that Arthur's opinions on the Aenied had me arguing with my phone a tad (re: a lot) I enjoyed this so much it's crazy. 10000/10

[finisconoratopus]

my results for this year btw!

I'm very proud of these marks because I had a difficult year. I never thought I would be able to go to university, let alone one of the top universities in the country, and here I am having just completed my first year. although I hope to get an A in everything and certainly will continue to strive for that result, I refuse to discredit how much effort went into this and therefore what a great job I've done.

[whiskey-bumblebee]

hey does anyone wanna do the funniest thing ever

[amorphousbl0b]

The tribes of Tumblr appeared to worship Apollo as their primary patron deity, most often under the epithet Apollo Sphairahemon ("Apollo the Ball-Thrower") as a god of prophecy and sport. His name was typically invoked to celebrate a user blessed with uncommon prescience. Moments of prophecy were considered highly sacred and were often recorded, and such texts are sometimes accompanied by an artistic depiction of the god — either his traditional masculine image or, unusually, in the form of a young woman, which appears to have been an earlier style before a conservative shift toward more conventional iconography — preparing to cast a round rubber ball that our scholars believe was used in the sport known as "dodge ball". Much as other cults regarded his arrows as bringers of disease and health, this community believed that being struck by this ball would bestow prophetic visions.

Some icons are reproduced below:

An earlier depiction (c. 2020) of Apollo as a girl clad in a simple tunic and playing with other children. Figures are smiling and the image is brightly colored, indicating a celebratory outlook toward knowledge of the future.

A later piece (c. 2022) that resembles the traditional appearance of Apollo. References to childhood and play are omitted, and the god carries a more frightening aspect; perhaps this icon represented grim omens rather than good tidings.

[two-bees-poetry]

twenty years across the sea

[vickydean]

this looks like a post i would make

lmaio???????