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Has anyone noticed that translating poetry is not easy

It's kind of like if you were in unrequited love with the crossword puzzle

ancient peoples loooved a flood narrative it was kinda like their beatles

ok i’ll bite who’s percy jackson?

#perseus.tufts.edu jackson you were named after the most useful website i ever knew (x)

fully sober in the club googling iliad full text

Trashed off my ass in the library with a hardback copy of the iliad

The tumblrest sentence I have ever seen

*grabs tumblr by the face* hey, hey look at me. whatever you do, we are NOT pivoting to "well Hatshepsut COULD be trans because she never said she WASN’T" after we spent years undoing the whole thing where people shoehorn modern gender frameworks into the perception of ancient historical figures whose culture didn't have this framework. we are NOT going to use "don't put words in the ancients' mouths" as an excuse to say "it could still be true because she never said it was false". Hatshepsut - and before her several other female kings like Sobekneferu and Tawosret - only referred to herself with masculine pronouns when she grammatically had to, while she used feminine pronouns everywhere else she could, indicating that she likely didn’t consider herself as anything other than a woman per the ancient Egyptian constructs of such.

good afternoon. death to private education