#study literature

[cocrante]

I can confirm that Nico di Angelo would have been part of the Italian nobility ~☆

For those following my streams of consciousness, they know I am planning to write a fanfiction about Maria di Angelo and Hades, a retelling of their story in an entirely Italian context.

Currently, I am researching, or rather reviewing, the history of my country and the poets who have been part of it. If I manage to write everything I have in mind, it would make me immensely happy

However ~~ the reason I say Nico would have been a noble is very simple. In canon, it's said that Maria's father was a diplomat.

Now, diplomats in Italy in the 1900s were cultured, educated individuals, commonly noble people. Nico's grandfather is a nineteenth-century man; in 1800s Italy, nobility was at its peak, only later did the bourgeois classes emerge, the classes of wealthy merchants commonly called "new money" and these people, during wars, such as the First World War, financed the armies, but noble men, like Nico's grandfather, engaged in diplomacy and worked behind the scenes of the war.

So Nico is not only the Ghost King but also a Marquess in Italy [even though titles in Italy have been defunct for decades but still]

[wedarkacademia]

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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[i-dont-trust-butterflies]

Please, don't stress about it so much

One day we'll all forget about it, remember?

[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

[ozgurkedi]

[unholyhymns]

still one of my favorite bits i ever got to commit was pretending not to know who jesus is when a street preacher was evangelizing to me. he was like "do you know who jesus is?" and i had so much time before my next bus and i wanted to know what would happen so i said no. and you know what. he had clearly never been told no to that question before because if i hadn't actually known who jesus was, his baffled and fumbling attempt sure wouldn't have told me. literally reversed the roles. now you get to stand here feeling very uncomfortable and wishing you could be somewhere else because guess what buddy, this is my bus stop, im early (and can catch like five other buses from this exact stop), and im now thoroughly invested in hearing about this mysterious jesus figure. you're locked in here with me. im eating the key as we speak. i will kill us both before i let you out of here.

very highly recommend this bit if you can pull it off and if you have time to kill

[literarydesire]

Life of a Classics student

Edit

Since I see a lot of people reblogging this with “it’s not like this” I would just like to remind you that this is based on my own experience as a classics student, so idk if y’all just don’t have lectures, drink coffee or go to the stacks at the library for assignment research? Like, I’m not trying to make a big deal out of it but I’m genuinely baffled as to how so many people have such a strong reaction to a moodboard, which is quite accurate to my own experience??

[thedeadpoets-blog]

late night studying in october 🍂☕️🎃📚

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[soft-lovely]

a hidden bookshelf door would heal me

[wedarkacademia]

[dearlyjess]

hello 2025 🪻

[polturn]

Weird thing enjoyer found another weird thing to enjoy

Various Frankenstein doodlings. Abt half were from reference half from imagination.

Most of these are related to the Royal Ballet version which I watched a video of the other day. So good and such a wild combination. The elegant medium and the grotesque subject matter.

I also had to draw that amazing puppet version that was made for the Hamburg state opera. lil cutie he is

[australet789]

Some assholes on Instagram saying that Epic fans are "gaslighting" themselves about Odysseus being faithful to Penelope because of the Circe part and being pretentious about it and how we are stupid for considering The Odyssey romantic

Motherfucker

1. The Odyssey is an epic poem we all fucking know that? That it's a tragedy, technically comedy (comedy in ancient literature used to mean "happy ending", not funny stuff)

2. The Circe bit can be interpreted in different ways, as if it was fully consensual or not or just a transaction. There was still a difference in power dynamics, which was 100% mentioned by Calypso in the beginning, but if you choose to ignore that part if the same as saying some of Zeus' kids were ok to be conceived because the women agreeded to what A GOD wanted.

3. Obviously Epic!Odysseus is differente from Homer!Odysseus, but trying to say Homer! Odysseus is a horrible person that fully wanted to cheat on Penelope just because you want to defend ALEXANDER HAMILTON, i have bad news about you.

4. "The crew had to beg to go back!" I read the Odyssey too. As a child and a few days ago. They stayed on Circe's island to rest so Odysseus job as a captain was literally wait until his crew told him they were ready to leave, specially after what they have lived. Odysseus didnt force anyone to stay in that island, when the crew went "oh, sir, we miss our families, please lets go back now, yes?" Odysseus immediately said "ok". It literally felt like a father waiting for the kids to stop playing in the playground.

5. Homer!Odysseus is not perfect, at all (man killed his disloyal maids because he didnt want to deal with shit anymore, even if they also were coerced/raped by the suitors), but come with a better gotcha than Circe. You are just fixiated on the Telegony and it shows.

6. Idk what to tell you, but if you think renouncing a life with two inmortal godesses (one of whom offered you immortality), traveling for 10 years defying a God's rage, killing 108 men who wanted to marry your wife (and ruined your house), almost killed yourself when said wife rejected you only for her to go "haha i was just testing you, silly :)", have your literally marriage have a word created for you two specifically is not romantic... Idk go read Bridgerton

[ozgurkedi]