pliny the elder sailing towards pompeii: oobh i got pliny of time

if you listen to cicero every single roman man was gay except for himself and atticus. who were perhaps the only two actually gay men in rome

do you think ancient authors can feel it when something funny happens to the textual transmission. when holes open up or pieces go missing or a gender gets confused or a scribe sticks their fingers into the lacunae of their corpus as it were. do you think they can feel themselves being passed around & touched by so many hands. do you think they can-

Tulliane, adv. in the Cicero way, Aug.

he was fucking julio by the damn schoolyard

“what’s the song of the summer” ?? it’s DANCING IN THE DARK by bruce springsteen for the 41st year in a row

Dame Maggie Smith as Cleopatra in a theatrical performance of Antony and Cleopatra. Ontario Stratford Festival, 1976.