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they/them || also @cy4zur3 on tumblr || life goals include [life goals pending]. would be nice to translate a bit of ovid though
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For #MosaicMonday
#AncientBlueSky
This white on black pebble mosaic from an andron in a private house shows Dionysos on a chariot drawn by two panthers and in a flowing chiton or chlamys led on by a naked male surrounded on all sides by a train of swirling, dancing maenads, some pulling small deer
December 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
a translation of sulpicia 1
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
my beautiful appian thank you for being here. tacitus tace challenge. florus you're unexpected but im never sad to see you
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
has anyone ever thought of cicerlina
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
when i use the word "like" in a sentence, i use it in the same way cicero used "enim" pre-punctuation to delineate new sentences. this is a conscious classicising writing choice, and it's on purpose and not because i got in the habit of stalling on my word choice
September 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
the fasti is so beatiful because ovid crafts a narrator who wholly believes what he is saying and that same narrator strongly implies that ovid is lying to you. and i love it when ovid lies to me
August 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
im always thinking about transfem aeneas. its supported by the text, even, if you're englightened enough to see it
August 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
we should start splitting infinitives in latin
June 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"my favourite part of the trojan women is hecuba’s characterisation. she tells andromache in one scene “don’t end it, submit to slavery and do what you need to survive.” in the very next scene she tells helen that a real woman would do so once separated from her husband."
June 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
my favourite part of the trojan women is hecuba’s characterisation. she tells andromache in one scene “don’t kill yourself, submit to slavery and do what you need to survive.” in the very next scene she tells helen that a real woman would kill herself once separated from her husband.
June 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
aeneid book 2:

priam: achilles would be ashamed of you

pyrrhus: well you can tell him that in hell. Die

#ancientbluesky
June 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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A #Roman mosaic underwater at Baiae. It once decorated a luxury villa in this town - a playground for Rome's elite, especially during the summer - but which is now submerged below metres of water due to geomorphic change on the coast (📷 Antonio Busiello) #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology AncientBlueSky
June 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
saw the httyd remake. it was decent but i have a gripe with the ending, which is that toothless encourages hiccup to walk on his own with the prosthesis. just as toothless cannot fly without hiccup, hiccup should not walk without toothless. otherwise they're unbalanced.
June 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
neither aeneas nor iulus are real people by the time they get to italy. iulus gets whammied literally book 1 where he's replaced with cupid and then aeneas comes out of the gate of ivory book 6. rome was founded by ghosts mirages and false desires
June 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
thinking about juno and the role of elegiac puella and the relative power which each of these have, especially juno's speech about semele in met 3, and the depictions of puellae cheating (cat 11, 58) or being violent (prop 1.3, 3.8)
June 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
thinking about carthage and the time loop
June 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
carthage is the land of the lotus eaters (lulls aeneas into wanting to stay) and the cyclopes (the idyllic perfect bay they find themselves in, the cave where a "monster" traps them) and ismarus (a city which they sack because of the time loop) etc. etc. you understand
June 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
unable as i am to translate ovid, i present instead the first of sulpicia's poems
May 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM