Libros y tinta

i love it so much when greek drama uses the metaphor of a bird lamenting her lost young in situations where it's manifestly inappropriate, like when the chorus of the agamemnon compares the menelaus' loss of helen to the anger of eagles whose chicks have been killed (ignoring the person who has actually lost her child and to whose grief the image might be more fitting). and then when the chorus compares cassandra's lament to the nightingale's mourning for her child itys, when cassandra's sorrows in fact stem from the fact that she did not "come to the point of having children" with apollo, and when the guard in antigone calls her screams over polynices "the sharp cry of an embittered bird when she sees the cradle of her empty nest bereft of her chicks" and then antigone herself later delivers a long lament that makes a point of having never had the opportunity to even have children, let alone lose them...

i can’t take these bucolic thotties seriously. ‘ohhh i want a handsome muscly sheperd boy to top me’ ‘ohhhh i want my mistress to tie me to a yoke and plough my field’ well then good luck getting ticks where the sun doesn’t shine and seducing goat herders armed with nothing but hexameters, i’ll be here savoring that sweet sweet lepos and enjoying lavish acts of urbisexual delight

You know the problem with reading a book? You get hooked and then it ends and you feel sad

This post is cancelled, I have found a new book and everything is all right again

By Talos this cannot be happening

you might think it's hard to relate to ancient roman poets but martial has a poem where someone tells him his poetry sucks and he's like "well OBVIOUSLY it does but i'd like to see you do better" and if that isn't a mood i don't know what is

a divine comedy where everything is the same except vergil isn’t the vergil of the poem he’s just a very much roman vergil. he is 100% culturally roman with not an ounce of divinely inspired anachronism in his ghostly body. he doesn’t even know what christianity is he just pretends he does out of politeness. the whole poem is just a long series of funny misunderstandings because of this