ancient rome’s number 1 horse girl

trojan king SHOCKS greek warrior by begging him for the body of his son in perfect dactylic hexameter

classicists will make the ugliest least functional website in the history of html and it will contain the entire library of fragmentary papyri of the works of aeschylus. for free

i am learning about so many beautiful websites from this. they are like horses to me

everybody tagging this with perseus: i would love to live in the beautiful world you do where perseus is the least functional classics site youve used

when priam is like hi helen you have done nothing wrong in your life ever i only blame the gods and fate. btw who is that massive hottie on the battlefield. and helen is like you have been at war with this guy for the past nine years how do you not know who agamemnon is

my knowledge of ancient rome is really shifted compared to the average modern because i dont know any romanofascists but i do encounter a lot of catullus and ovid girlies on tumblr

cant take cicero seriously ive read too many posts about people keeping him trapped in their basements and forcing him to drink strange liquids

This sucks so bad I am going to [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] introduce reforms for the Roman state

why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where's the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees

Every few minutes, someone honks. The woman behind the wheel shifts and lowers her sunglasses to glare at the circling cars in the rearview mirror. Vultures. Let them curse. She keeps her doors locked and her phone battery charged. Penelope has been waiting in the arrivals lot for far too long, and she refuses to give up her place for anyone.

aeschylus is dead sophocles is dead euripides is dead and me i feel not so good

—aristophanes, 405 bce