felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

I swear the pics are not even close to what it's like to be inside, it's marvellous

Lucan in Averno

Inspired by Sonya Taaffe’s poem (text under the cut)

And he’s also always asking to me to talk about Cicero and listens to me ranting about classics BUT

forgive my confession: i let the reins of my studies go / and less and less letters are traced by my hand. / that sacred passion that nurtures poet hearts, / the one that used to be within me, is no more. / the muse barely does her part, barely she lifts her / sluggish hand, almost forced, to the tablet she took; / i find little pleasure, not to say none, in writing / and weaving words in verse does not bring me joy. / either the reason is that it did not benefit me at all, / so much that this act is the source of my disgrace, / or that writing a poem no one will read is the same / as dancing in the dark. (ovid, epistulae ex ponto, 4.2.23-34)

a runaway slave • a terminally elegiac matrona • an alexandrian poet

ELEGIA-CON: the greatest fraud of the augustan age

The Dead Romans Society - Vates

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