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Here's the long-promised Latin resources masterpost! Resource recs are always appreciated and I'll try to update this post from time to time. :)
Study and fluency tips, plus my review of a few different Latin textbooks here
Free online resources here
Suggestions for if you've studied Latin in the past and want to brush up/re-learn here
Tips for expanding vocabulary here
Links for Latin literature and suggestions on which works to start with here
Salvete!
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finally someone asks the questions that matter
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The Holdovers (2023) by Alexander Payne
Book title: Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν in Ancient Greek; 180 A.D.) by Marcus Aurelius
#books in movies#latin literature#the holdovers#paul giamatti#dominic sessa#alexander payne#da'vine joy randolph#meditations#marcus aurelius
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once i start posting in latin it’s over for y’all
#i feel like we as a society must stop recognizing english as a universal tongue and go back to latin#tagamemnon#classics#classical literature#the aeneid#greek mythology#latin literature#roman mythology#latin#latin language#lingua latina
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As late as the fourth century CE in a satire attributed to the emperor Julian, Octavian (the later Augustus) is described as “changing many colors, like a chameleon: becoming now pale and now red”. In the satire, the god Silenus reacts to seeing Octavian by saying, “Bless me, what changeable beast is this! What terrible thing will he do to us!”
For comparison we have Pliny the Elder's comment on chameleons from his Natural History 8.120: "And [the chameleon] is more miraculous for the nature of its color, for it constantly changes its eyes and tail and entire body, and always resembles whatsoever it touches last, except red and white”
Pliny’s mention of the chameleon’s inability to turn “red and white” (rubrum candidumque) makes Julian’s description of Octavian turning pale (ὠχριῶν) and red (ἐρυθρὸς) take on a greater significance because it shows that Octavian is then more skilled than a chameleon at changing color by possessing the capability to turn both red and white.
Although Silenus' comment makes it clear that Octavian's color-changing should be seen as a reflection of his instability and danger, the change in color could also be an allusion to Octavian's constant change in health as ὠχριῶν refers to becoming pallid. Pliny further strengthens this reading by writing that when dead, chameleons are pale (defuncto pallor est). Thus Octavian is constantly changing between a state of near-death and great vitality as implied by Julian's ἐρυθρὸς and Pliny's rubrum, both of which can mean having a ruddy complexion.
#tagamemnon#Octavian#Augustus#pliny the elder#Julian the Apostate#Roman history#Latin literature#Ancient Greek
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I stg if I see one more "Justice for medusa's TRUE story!" post I'm gonna kill someone.
(TW: Assault mention)
The medusa is assaulted by posidon then cursed by athena for being assaulted in her temple only appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses, which is written as a purposeful subversion of Greco-roman myths. most are reframed or rewritten from just kinda a thing that exists or a black and white moral tale of why you shouldn't be hubristic to full on tragedies on the part of the person often getting their comeuppance or the monster. Heck in book 13 we get a love story starring Polyphemus, the cyclops from the Odyssey.
In general mythology, Medusa is just another monster. Ovid revises the myth to turn it into a tragedy. I absolutely love ovid's work, he does so many clever things with the myths, but for the love of the gods its the furthest from the real version you can get
#And yeah obviously its greek mythology so theres no set canon and you can kind of pick and choose tellings#but Ovid's one isn't a tradition of belief its just literature#its damn good literature but in terms of religion its like claiming good omens is part of the christian canon#classics#ancient history#tagamemnon#ancient rome#greek mythology#medusa#ovid#latin literature#ancient greece#mythology
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Latin Literature Tournament - Round 2
Propaganda under the cut!
Vergil Propaganda:
The vates himself, everyone. The poet so good that the Church was like "okay yeah this one magical pagan can stay"
The Fourth Eclogue is such a weird little delight. Is it about the children of Antony? Augustus? Is it a prediction of the birth of Christ? Is it somehow, as I heard one professor suggest for some reason, about Gallus? The possibilities are endless
Are you going to vote against the world-shattering masterpiece that is the Aeneid?
Side note, if you spell it "Virgil" you are my enemy
Catullus Propaganda:
When I was teaching Latin, one of my 8th grad students said of Catullus "He's the worst man who ever lived. I love him."
The only Roman writer to talk about clit envy
Fucking loved Sappho, so you know he has good taste
#tagamemnon#latin literature tournament#bracket#classics#latin#tournament polls#tumblr polls#latin literature#ancient rome#epic#bucolic#elegy#vergil#catullus
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If the Aeneid has a million fans, I'm one of them
If the Aeneid has one fan, I'm that one
If the Aeneid has no fans, my soul, indignant, has fled down to the underworld with a sigh
#tagamemnon#classics memes#ancient rome#latin literature#the aeneid#virgil#latin#ancient literature memes#vergil#publius vergilius maro#Aeneid posting specifically for mx thoodleoo
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Grim Cerberus wagg'd his tail to see Thy golden horn, nor dreamd of wrong. But gently fawning, follow'd thee, And lick'd thy feet with triple tongue. (Horace, Odes, 2.19)
#underworld prince with his hell hound😭#Horace basically wrote a Wikipedia poem for Dionysus#love the hymn#Dionysus#dionysos#bacchus#greek gods#greek mythology#roman myths#roman god#roman#rome#ancient rome#horace#latin literature#poem#hymn#daily life of the chthonic#my sources📜#cerberus
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“The descent into Hell is easy” ― Virgil, The Aeneid
Painting: "Dante and Virgile in Hell" by Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois
#poetry#albert camus#sylvia plath#classical quotes#literature#franz kafka#quotes#classics#booklr#classical literature#homeric epics#virgil#the aeneid#the odyssey#the iliad#dante#the divine comedy#classic literature#lit#literary quotes#ancient greece#ancient rome#madeline miller#the song of achilles#roman poetry#poem#poetic#classical mythology#latin literature#ovid
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Meditations, Marcus Aurelius.
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It is not a disease to be in love, but not to be. Because if love comes from the eyes, blind are those who are not in love. Philostratus 170s – 240s AD
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Camila Sosa / Las Malas
#camila sosa villada#las malas#latin american literature#latin american art#latin literature#book quotes#poetry#literature#quotes#literary quotes#dark academia#light academia#web weaving#prose#love quotes#words#fragments#typography#queer lit#queer literature#trans writers
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Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.
If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio
#if we were villains#ml rio#iwwv#iwwvedit#iwwv spoilers#iwwv quotes#oliver marks#james farrow#jamesoliver#shakespeare#Murder mystery#dark academia quotes#dark academia#academia aesthetic#theatre#latin literature#latin#latin language
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My number one classics ick is when a scholar will just insert untranslated passages of Greek and Latin into their paper. good job on the artificial inaccessibility you guys, glad you were able to gatekeep the field so none of those dirty peasants may learn stuff. its just for us cool guys who speak Greek or Latin
#This is my speaking as a classical archaeologist who can read very rudimentary Latin and pretty much no Greek#I just never got offered the classes and they weren't a requirement#I'd love if I could and I've been trying to learn latin on my own for a while but self teaching a language isn't exactly easy#I know just enough that if I find a translation that feels off I can get a dictionary and the original and see how it might be phrased#I do need a second translation too to help me find my way#classics#ancient history#tagamemnon#ancient rome#ancient greece#latin#latin literature#greek#greek literature#academics#ick
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