#classics

[tenroses07]

Me reading The Picture of Dorian Gray:

This is how it feels to read a classic that everyone in the world has already read and loves

[silverystardustt]

my form of contraband is smuggling food and coffee into libraries. sorry book gods but a girl has to eat something besides words.

[dacenturion]

Helen of Troy/Sparta… They could never make me hate you. She’s portrayed beautifully in Paris the Musical

[venomspecs]

I havent read Wilson's Odyssey yet but this video hurts my brain. This guy starts by saying how he thought Odysseus was so cool when he was a kid, but know they're making him woke because Wilson (like any sensible human being) acknowledges in the prologue (he doesnt mention any example of change to a character in the actual translation of the text) that he lived in an undoubtedly patriarchal world with different standards and customs than those of today. Who would've guessed, it's a poem from the 8th century BCE!! How is acknowledging that he does some things wrong, both by ancient and modern standards (which is an intrinsical feature of his character) woke?

[autumnrose11]

Odysseus is an excellent leader.

He knows when to be rough and when to be gentle with his men. When they're passing through Scylla and Charybdis, he's supportive and encouraging, reminding them of everything they've been through. Like, "If we could get past Polyphemus, we can sure as hell get past this." When it's clear that inwardly, he's just as terrified as the rest of them - probably more. It's only the insolent, foolish ones, like Eurylochus, that make his hackles rise. He doesn't view the men under him as disposable; he stands by them every bit as much as they stand by him. When in great peril, he makes decisions quickly, trying to save as many lives as possible.... because he knows that there is no way that every one of them will come through this unscathed.

[tylermileslockett]

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[mauveastrum]

Study moodboard from halloween

[prokopetz]

Don't worry about it.

I know the unicursal (i.e., non-branching) labyrinth is a visual art thing and doesn't at all match the description of the mythological Labyrinth, but sometimes I picture some sort of ancient Greek SCP thing with very speedy stonemasons constantly lengthening the path in order to contain a very, very slow Minotaur.

[o1iveangel]

Agamemnon of Mycenae as ‘The Hanged Man’ tarot card

meaning:

ultimate surrender, uncertainty, contemplation, sacrifice

reverse:

hesitation, egoism, resistance to circumstance

plain line work under the cut

[mythosphere]

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

[sherdnerd]

Never before have I been so completely and accurately called out

The South Korean radical feminist 4B movement, in which women swear off marriage, childbirth, dating men, and sex with men, has sparked intense conversations among Americans on social media. Here is what you need to know about 4B.

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

[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

[willow-lark]

cast your votes!!

[andrandiriel]

READ US THE CATALOG OF SHIPS, BILL

Have you ever wondered how Father Mulcahy would sound reciting the opening lines of the Iliad in Homeric Greek? Well, apparently Bill Christopher had a copy of the Iliad on his person at all times

[source]

"I find this very uplifting," he says, before reading the bit that's like "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles..." what a darling dork

---transcript under the cut---

Interviewer: Do you have a verse for us today, Father Mulcahy?

Bill Christopher: I don't, uh, think I have a verse in, uh, in English; I could read you a little Greek, though

I: Oh yes, would you?

B: Sure, you wanna hear a little Homer's Iliad?

I: Yes

B: I just happen to have the Iliad; I'm never without it!

I: Yeah?

B: Alexander the Great never went anywhere without the Iliad

I: What translation is that?

B: This is not a translation

I: Oh you're gonna read it in the original?

B: Of course!

I: I'm impressed!

B: I, uh, I find this very uplifting. Ah, you ready for this?

I: I'm ready

B: μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος

οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε

I: [starts speaking gibberish and keeps at it for a weird amount of time]

B: Oh, I'll help you with it