#classicistproblems

I’m weirdly starting to get frustrated by people not actually understand what I mean when I say I study Classical and Ancient art. I mean the stuff I focus on happened at least 1800 years ago, my current research is 2500 years before present, and my last project was nearly 5000. Every time I mention it, they are like “ooh like Michelangelo? The Pieta is ancient, right?” Even my freaking GF of three years doesn’t always get it. That’s a blink of an eye in the bigger picture. Sigh. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sometimes I get so caught up in the papers that I’m writing that I start using the present or future tense, neglecting the fact that I am writing about ANCIENT history. Part of me wonders if it because I am so vividly enraptured by the period I am studying, or because Roman politics are so deeply connected to the contemporary political state of not only America, but Europe.

Tfw you are readng Amy Richlin and you gotta take a break from her super intense analysis of boys anus'

When grading the translation section of a Latin I exam, I came across the sentence "Marcus tried to beat off the wolf."