Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
- Classical Mythology
- History of the English Language
- Golden Age Love Poetry (Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus)
- History of the Roman Empire
- Medieval German Literature
- Classical Mythology
- History of the English Language
- Golden Age Love Poetry (Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus)
- History of the Roman Empire
- Medieval German Literature
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
(oh god can I remember the actual names of five classes I took in college????)
organic chemistry
japan in ww2
east asian representation in western media
east asian philosophy
evolutionary biology
(oh god can I remember the actual names of five classes I took in college????)
organic chemistry
japan in ww2
east asian representation in western media
east asian philosophy
evolutionary biology
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
1) Comedy of Manners
2) Costume Design
3) Writing for Teachers
4) Creative Fiction
5) Major Authors - Charles Dickens
1) Comedy of Manners
2) Costume Design
3) Writing for Teachers
4) Creative Fiction
5) Major Authors - Charles Dickens
January 31, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
- Classical Mythology
- History of the English Language
- Golden Age Love Poetry (Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus)
- History of the Roman Empire
- Medieval German Literature
- Classical Mythology
- History of the English Language
- Golden Age Love Poetry (Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus)
- History of the Roman Empire
- Medieval German Literature
i am going to try to learn Propertius 1.1 (Cynthia prima suis...)
what poetry will you memorize in 2026?
and/or what language will you focus on learning?
and/or what language will you focus on learning?
January 10, 2026 at 3:31 PM
i am going to try to learn Propertius 1.1 (Cynthia prima suis...)
2025 year in books. yay
January 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
2025 year in books. yay
Collective Christmas book haul
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Collective Christmas book haul
I’m gonna tell you about love…
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I’m gonna tell you about love…
If this format (mass-market paperbacks) is dead… why do I own so many of them?
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If this format (mass-market paperbacks) is dead… why do I own so many of them?
Reasons to read Propertius: he’s funny
“I for my part wage wars within the narrow confines of a bed: let everyone spend his lite in the trade he practises best.”
“I for my part wage wars within the narrow confines of a bed: let everyone spend his lite in the trade he practises best.”
![BOOK II.1
But neither would the slender utterance of Callimachus suffice to thunder forth the battle waged on Phlegra's plain between Jove and Enceladus, nor are my powers fitted to enshrine in martial strains the name of Caesar among his Phrygian ancestors. The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of oxen; the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep; I for my part wage wars within the narrow confines of a bed: let everyone spend his lite in the trade he practises best.
To die in love is glory: and glory yet again to enjoy a single love: O may I alone enjoy the love that is mine, [as I recall, she likes to blame fickle girls and on Helen's account censures the whole Iliad] though I be doomed to taste the potion of stepmother Phaedra, a potion not destined to corrupt her stepson, though I have to die of Circe's herbs, or the Colchian witch heat for me her cauldron upon the hearths of lolcos. Since one woman has stolen away my feelings, from her house only will my funeral train set](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mquyp4sqztevxllbdsgztzj/bafkreibx53rqxuw253v74lvl7o6mwrmo2wsn7zhirpgvcca3cutw4k5sge@jpeg)
December 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Reasons to read Propertius: he’s funny
“I for my part wage wars within the narrow confines of a bed: let everyone spend his lite in the trade he practises best.”
“I for my part wage wars within the narrow confines of a bed: let everyone spend his lite in the trade he practises best.”
- Sextus Propertius The Love Elegies I.2:1-32 Love goes naked
- Roman poets gonna be Roman poets...
- Roman poets gonna be Roman poets...
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
- Sextus Propertius The Love Elegies I.2:1-32 Love goes naked
- Roman poets gonna be Roman poets...
- Roman poets gonna be Roman poets...
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#TinyJoys for today: beautiful clouds at sunrise; unexpected lunch with a colleague; two hours teaching Propertius. What has made you smile today?
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#TinyJoys for today: beautiful clouds at sunrise; unexpected lunch with a colleague; two hours teaching Propertius. What has made you smile today?
Really looking forward to translating Propertius with this later in the week if it doesn't restore itself to its natural balance. What could possibly go wrong.
October 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Really looking forward to translating Propertius with this later in the week if it doesn't restore itself to its natural balance. What could possibly go wrong.
I will ?redeem myself in week 5, when we get to Propertius describing risque interior design. It'll be fine.
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I will ?redeem myself in week 5, when we get to Propertius describing risque interior design. It'll be fine.
maybe without Vergil more people would read Propertius? I’ll show myself out
October 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
maybe without Vergil more people would read Propertius? I’ll show myself out
To my critics I merely say, "Cat-piss and porcupines!!"
![The March 1919 issue of Poetry published Pound's Poems from the Propertius Series,[180] which appeared to be a translation of the Latin poet Sextus Propertius.[m] Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry, published a letter in April 1919 from a professor of Latin, W. G. Hale, who found "about three-score errors" in the text; he said Pound was "incredibly ignorant of Latin", that "much of what he makes his author say is unintelligible", and that "If Mr. Pound were a professor of Latin, there would be nothing left for him but suicide" (adding "I do not counsel this").[181] Pound replied to Monroe: "Cat-piss and porcupines!! The thing is no more a translation than my 'Altaforte' is a translation, or than Fitzgerald's Omar is a translation." His letter ended "In final commiseration". Monroe interpreted his silence after that as his resignation from Poetry magazine.[182]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r3jhbncpebnyeposo7cmqczc/bafkreifj32bjsftxxv7wdd7epg4sd7yl5ruaex6hxhuyco3bxuqp6r3qrm@jpeg)
September 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
To my critics I merely say, "Cat-piss and porcupines!!"
Did a double take and thought my used edition of Propertius once belonged to J. C. McKeown
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Did a double take and thought my used edition of Propertius once belonged to J. C. McKeown
“Take care your pride does not disparage my songs when love comes late his tax is often high!”-propertius
September 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
“Take care your pride does not disparage my songs when love comes late his tax is often high!”-propertius
The Image at the head of this thread is 'Calliope' by Joseph Fagnani, 1869 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 74.43).
Link - metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#LatinForTheDay #Propertius 🧵🏺
Link - metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#LatinForTheDay #Propertius 🧵🏺
Joseph Fagnani - Calliope - American - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
metmuseum.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The Image at the head of this thread is 'Calliope' by Joseph Fagnani, 1869 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 74.43).
Link - metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#LatinForTheDay #Propertius 🧵🏺
Link - metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#LatinForTheDay #Propertius 🧵🏺
The conclusion of Propertius 3.3, where - in the culmination of the poet's dream vision - he is told that his verse will ever be concerned with the ins-and-outs of love and loving.
September 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The conclusion of Propertius 3.3, where - in the culmination of the poet's dream vision - he is told that his verse will ever be concerned with the ins-and-outs of love and loving.
"ut per te clausas sciat excantare puellas,
qui volet austeros arte ferire viros.’
talia Calliope, lymphisque a fonte petitis
ora Philitea nostra rigavit aqua.”
Propertius, Elegies 3.3.39-52
qui volet austeros arte ferire viros.’
talia Calliope, lymphisque a fonte petitis
ora Philitea nostra rigavit aqua.”
Propertius, Elegies 3.3.39-52
September 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
"ut per te clausas sciat excantare puellas,
qui volet austeros arte ferire viros.’
talia Calliope, lymphisque a fonte petitis
ora Philitea nostra rigavit aqua.”
Propertius, Elegies 3.3.39-52
qui volet austeros arte ferire viros.’
talia Calliope, lymphisque a fonte petitis
ora Philitea nostra rigavit aqua.”
Propertius, Elegies 3.3.39-52
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 2 September #Propertius
“‘contentus niveis semper vectabere cycnis,
nec te fortis equi ducet ad arma sonus.
nil tibi sit rauco praeconia classica cornu
flare, nec Aonium tingere Marte nemus;
aut quibus in campis Mariano proelia signo...
#LatinForTheDay – 2 September #Propertius
“‘contentus niveis semper vectabere cycnis,
nec te fortis equi ducet ad arma sonus.
nil tibi sit rauco praeconia classica cornu
flare, nec Aonium tingere Marte nemus;
aut quibus in campis Mariano proelia signo...
September 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 2 September #Propertius
“‘contentus niveis semper vectabere cycnis,
nec te fortis equi ducet ad arma sonus.
nil tibi sit rauco praeconia classica cornu
flare, nec Aonium tingere Marte nemus;
aut quibus in campis Mariano proelia signo...
#LatinForTheDay – 2 September #Propertius
“‘contentus niveis semper vectabere cycnis,
nec te fortis equi ducet ad arma sonus.
nil tibi sit rauco praeconia classica cornu
flare, nec Aonium tingere Marte nemus;
aut quibus in campis Mariano proelia signo...
I just looked them both up...both phrases can be attributed to Roman sayings (Sextus Propertius and Cicero, in particular)
So, for 2,000 years, people have just been nodding along to that claptrap
It's such a a juvenile* way to look at the world
*All due respect to kids
So, for 2,000 years, people have just been nodding along to that claptrap
It's such a a juvenile* way to look at the world
*All due respect to kids
August 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I just looked them both up...both phrases can be attributed to Roman sayings (Sextus Propertius and Cicero, in particular)
So, for 2,000 years, people have just been nodding along to that claptrap
It's such a a juvenile* way to look at the world
*All due respect to kids
So, for 2,000 years, people have just been nodding along to that claptrap
It's such a a juvenile* way to look at the world
*All due respect to kids
And anyway I ended up going through Ovid, Catullus, Propertius, and Juvenal but in Latin lol. The marble bust profile pic guys don’t have those chops. They can’t read the poems.
August 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
And anyway I ended up going through Ovid, Catullus, Propertius, and Juvenal but in Latin lol. The marble bust profile pic guys don’t have those chops. They can’t read the poems.
Propertius diktar om hur den aktiske Apollon vinner striden mot Kleopatras österländska myskogudar och lagern är Apollons träd (Dafne = lager på grekiska). Plus att monumentet avbildar Augustus triumf och lagern bärs av segrare. Så här ryms lager på lager.
July 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Propertius diktar om hur den aktiske Apollon vinner striden mot Kleopatras österländska myskogudar och lagern är Apollons träd (Dafne = lager på grekiska). Plus att monumentet avbildar Augustus triumf och lagern bärs av segrare. Så här ryms lager på lager.
The Image at the head of this thread is, of course, 'The Kiss' by Gustav Klimt, 1909 (Belvedere Collection, Vienna: 912).
Link - sammlung.belvedere.at/objects/6678
#LatinForTheDay #Propertius 🧵 🏺
Link - sammlung.belvedere.at/objects/6678
#LatinForTheDay #Propertius 🧵 🏺
Der Kuss (Liebespaar)
Ohne konkreten Auftrag malt Gustav Klimt auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Goldenen Periode sein wohl berühmtestes Werk: Es zeigt ein Paar, wie zu einer Einheit verschmolzen, …
sammlung.belvedere.at
July 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The Image at the head of this thread is, of course, 'The Kiss' by Gustav Klimt, 1909 (Belvedere Collection, Vienna: 912).
Link - sammlung.belvedere.at/objects/6678
#LatinForTheDay #Propertius 🧵 🏺
Link - sammlung.belvedere.at/objects/6678
#LatinForTheDay #Propertius 🧵 🏺