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go my spider or whatever

fun animal fact from aelian! sea sponges are in a ratatouille-like symbiotic relationship with some sort of creature resembling a spider that lives inside them and pilots them around by biting them to remind them that they're actually alive and need to fucking act like it

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fun animal fact from aelian! sea sponges are in a ratatouille-like symbiotic relationship with some sort of creature resembling a spider that lives inside them and pilots them around by biting them to remind them that they're actually alive and need to fucking act like it

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Ancient Roman mosaic depicting a rabbit driving a chariot pulled by two geese.

Roman Imperial (31 BC - AD 476)

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Roman epitaph of a father to his son: 'To the spirits of the departed (Dis Manibus), to Mogulnius Iustus, the most devoted son, who lived 15 years, 2 months, and 22 days. Mogulnius Iustus, the father, made (this monument) for him and for himself.'

D M - Dis Manibus, to the souls of the dead

Mogulnio Iusto - Name of the deceased

filio pi(iss)imo - most faithful son

Then the age of the deceased:

VIX - vixit, lived

ANN XV -15 years

MENSII D XXII - 2 months and 22 days

Mogulnius Iustus pater - The father's name

et sibi fecit - commissioned the monument both for his deceased son and for himself.

Pic and info found on Learn Latin 

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love reading plutarch's roman questions especially when the answers he gives for why the romans had certain rituals are tonally complete and utter opposites of each other. he'll literally be like question: why are holy men not allowed to eat legumes? answer: 1. the names of certain legumes call to mind the underworld 2. too much farting

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every year the romans would elect one wire consul and one cloth consul

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the historia augusta is maybe the funniest piece of writing from antiquity ever. literally invented a guy because it needed a source to cite its fake material from. you could just do that back then

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restful peaceful chickpea

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people are always slandering historians for saying reasonable things like "some things that seem romantic to us were platonic in the context of the times", when there's so many evil historians you actually have to look out for. number 1 : the closet royalist

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the newest gaggle of children have spotted sam from overwatch. should i purchase something from deltarune to keep him company

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in ancient greek so you can say it cultured style

i'm always saying this. thanks aristophanes

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i'm always saying this. thanks aristophanes

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Duck shaped cosmetic vessel made from a single piece of rock crystal (quartz), Mycenaean Greece, circa 1500 BC

from The National Archaeological Museum, Athens

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Medievalists know that if they claim to have found 'homosexuals' in the Middle Ages they will provoke cries of outrage, and nothing else they say will be heard. So they avoid the term. Thus Allen Frantzen, on the very first page of Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America, declares categorically: “I call this a book about ‘same-sex love’ because the obvious choice, ‘homosexuality,’ is, for periods before the modern era, inaccurate. ‘Homosexuality’ and ‘homosexuals’ were not recognized concepts in the Middle Ages.” Apparently, the same is not true of 'heterosexuality' and 'heterosexuals.' Frantzen does not hesitate, throughout his volume, to oppose 'same-sex relations' to 'heterosexual relations.' The result is a Middle Ages that would make Pat Buchanan jump for joy, one from which all the homosexuals have been banished and only heterosexuals remain. This should give one pause. If homosexuality was not a 'recognized concept' in the Middle Ages, then heterosexuality wasn’t either.

Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies, James A. Schultz

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lion rhyton | c. 100 - 1 BCE | eastern parthian empire (modern day afghanistan, pakistan, or iran)

in the j. paul getty museum collection

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thank you for asking my pronounce is ʃiː/ðeɪ