Medieval manuscript lion in place of my brain

Being an Oxford student is genuinely just thinking to yourself, Is there a string quartet nearby, or has the sleep deprivation just reached the auditory hallucination stage?

ancient greek male voice: i live under the literal female tyranny in this household. i have to be confined to my andron while you go gallivanting around the whole oikos and no one has a right to enter or see you or else there'll be a great hue and cry

don’t go to grad school in classics it’ll ruin your ability to enjoy ancient history jokes on tumblr (which is really what matters) and you’ll find a part of yourself thinking things like “actually according to livy, remus wanted to name the city remora, so this joke about remus naming it reme is inaccurate” or “actually ea-nasir and the etruscans were separated by at least 900 years and even if you consider the villanovans as already being etruscan they don’t exist in the bronze age so this bronze age tumblr dashboard meme makes no sense” or “ugh nobody on this thread about the song of achilles understands the last 200 years of the homeric question or has even read the relevant passage from the homeric hymn to apollo” and then the other part of you will go “christ what an asshole”

in a loving and fulfilling relationship with a beautiful woman named perseus.tufts.edu

goddddddd i feel so fucking stupid all the time i feel like that meme of the ogre reading joyce

"average greek myth involves a god turning someone into something else" factoid actualy just statistical error. average greek myth involves 0 gods turning someone into something else. metamorphoses ovid, who lives in exile and writes 40000 transformation myths a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

in the iliad. straight up “singing it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. My menis

funniest part of sophocles' ajax is at the beginning when athena calls to ajax while he's murdering cows like "HEY BIG GUY. YEAH YOU MURDERING EVERYONE AND TORTURING YOUR PRISONERS. CMERE" and odysseus is like "ATHENA WTF DON'T BRING HIM OVER HERE" like truly the comedy duo of the god of war strategy and her pet war criminal