Thoughts From My Stupid Little Pea Brain

You know how some people talk about timeless themes in literature and you kind of low-key think they're full of shit? Sometimes they're not.

I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

I think he could do a really good “Hello officer, how are you?” if he had to.

Athena is standing behind him whispering the bylaws into his ear.

hold on i need to look this up

it’s been 15 minutes have you finished reading the Odyssey yet?

r u guys ok i haven't heard anyone say yeet in awhile

u guys used to love yeet...

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

Ides of March 2025 is going to be a fucking blast because it will have been 2069 years since Caesar's death day

Happy 2069th anniversary of Caesars death

learning medical terms as someone who knows latin is a lot of fun because when you break down the literal meanings of the words a lot of them end up being kind of goofy and ridiculous. case in point i just encountered the word cerebellulum, a diminutive of the already-diminutive word cerebellum, which would mean something along the lines of "itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny brain"

This too shall pass but like holy fuck

I'm in my sisyphus era but I'm pretty sure I'm almost out of it

aw hell

mario odyssey was pretty good but where's mario iliad where mario has a chain chomp drag bowser's corpse three times around peach's castle

surely THIS fancy edition of my favorite ancient text will fix me