Augustus Be Damned

Edith Hall on Sappho’s fragments [x] (via sons-of-ilios)

In 1878, the German engineer Carl Humann began official excavations on the acropolis of Pergamon. Upon negotiating with the Turkish government (a participant in the excavation), it was agreed that all frieze fragments found at the time would become the property of the Berlin museums, where they still remain today.

ancient greek has a word, lesbarches, which is supposed to refer to the president of the lesbian council, and i’d just like to propose that lesbarch be the new term to refer to someone in charge of a group of wlw

Valletta, Malta 🇲🇹

Mediterranean Food

Section of the Roman theater in Bet She'an (ancient Scythopolis), Israel

Hercules (1997)

Segesta, Sicily by James Appleton

Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe, 1849

Verona, Italy.

“Although the Egyptian sources equate the deceased king with several deities, there is a clear and constant emphasis throughout most of Egyptian history on the association with the king of the netherworld god Osiris. This was doubtless because the role of kingship fitted the Osiride mythology particularly well. Every pharaoh ceased to function as the earthly Horus -and son of Osiris- upon death and was identified by virtue of death with the deceased Osiris. He thus stood as predecessor in relation to the next living king as the mythical Osiris did to Horus. According to this symbolic metaphor, by becoming one with Osiris the dead king also became ruler of the afterlife region switching realms, as it were, from rule over the living to rule over the dead.” ― The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, by Richard Wilkinson

me, reading the golden ass, in which a man is turned into a donkey when he’s fucking with magic, talks about how big his new donkey dick is, and worries that he won’t be able to sleep with somebody because his donkey dick is too big for her: oh well i just think the literature is just so beautiful and inspiring