#classical civilisation

Ancient Greek Pottery Part 1: common shapes!

MAX VERSTAPPEN [#MV1] x "iliad" by homer, "ilium" by dan simmons && "the silence of the girls" by pat barker -> on complex antagonists, glory days and subjective mythos

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in my sixth form classics lessons, our teacher would read it out loud or we'd do popcorn reading, since us reading it in silence would always devolve into some nonsense, so we had a whole audience of people experiencing it at once.

we used to heckle odysseus' dumbass decisions and the more ridiculous aspects of the poem, and we'd do stupid voices for certain characters and argue over who got to read what part only to find out they died that book, or we'd get into our 1939474920th debate over odysseus' loyalty, or start assigning dnd classes (odysseus is a bard fight me). people were losing their minds laughing at the scene where odysseus fights irus the beggar because it really is that much fun in a friday afternoon class.

but the more serious moments really resonated as well. people nearly shed tears over argus, the room went silent when odysseus tried to hug his mother's spirit, i remember people almost gasping at points. we'd cheer on penelope, and get mad at the suitors, and argue about the blame for odysseus' actions.