Odi et Amo

what the hell, add another participle, im not driving

i mean, you know, people are entitled to their sexual proclivities. let there be a thousand blossoms bloom, as far as i'm concerned. but i ain't spending any time on it, because in the meantime, every three months, a person's torn to pieces by maenads in thebes

something i get increasingly frustrated about with historical work is the tendency to go 'most of our sources are from athens and we know most about athens therefore i will focus on athens' but then the chapter is named like. this and that phenomenon in ancient greece. way to uphold the athenian mirage!!1! fortunately there are also many scholars right now working on not just other regions and their cultural landscapes but also. the inherent bias and projection and misconceptions we have inherited from athens and everyone working from athens. and that work is hard because indeed much less is excavated and much less is there to be excavated and the textual sources are also scarce but nevertheless the results are so worth it. our ideas on ancient greece are changing every day

nooooo troy dont fall youre so sexy aha

wish everyone could perceive the Vague Concepts in my head because i just know you would looove my Vague Concepts. you would think im so smart if you saw the misty clouds of Vague Concepts floating around in my head. #MyVagueConcepts

i miss ovid he was like tbe original patron saint of the knowing and understanding perverts and sickos

Ah partaking in the hemlock because your boyfriend fucked everyone over: just greek things

we’re so lucky that gilgamesh survived and is a banger. can you imagine if we found the oldest written human story ever recorded and it sucked balls.

athena coming out of zeus’ head and diomedes being her favourite when the etymology of diomedes is διομήδης<διός+μήδεα, the one who has the mind of zeus.

the european academic experience of being on a bus in random part of a random city when your phone suddenly connects to a shitty wifi signal for roughly three minutes because you passed by a random university building