Your Friendly Neighborhood Augur

I hate it when I talk wistfully about the ancient world and then people are like “you wouldn’t survive back then” yeah obviously I would die immediately but do you think achilles would be able to survive in the modern world if he had to send one polite email? no

reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess

(to me) aeneas' personality doesn't have the driving force of odysseus' in the odyssey, and the battles in the aeneid don't have the emotional depth of the iliad's, but what the aeneid generally has going for it, and i mean this sincerely, is what i like to call aeneas' dead animal swag

Hollow Man of all time dissociating his way through his own epic. Watching in dim horror from far away as the parasite of destiny pupates within him, puppets him, consumes the body and idea of "Aeneas" from the inside before finally hatching from his corpse.

Do NOT tumble dry the Trojan spawn of Aphrodite he must be a wet cat at ALL times lest he lose suicidal tendencies

Do NOT tumble dry the Trojan spawn of Aphrodite he must be a wet cat at ALL times lest he lose suicidal tendencies

Apollo telling Aeneas to fight Achilles and then just ditching him is so funny to me like did he just forget? Did he bank on the fact that Poseidon would come collect him? Did he fully plan to throw him at Achilles as canon fodder? Did he think Aeneas would WIN?? It’s giving your mom leaving you in line at the grocery store except the cashier is a bloodthirsty twink and also your mom has abandoned you to die.

and i do sincerely truly believe that in some horrible fucked up world out there augustus/ovid evil yaoi could flourish