#classics tag

hey girl sorry um. we stabbed your boyfriend in the senate house. yeah a seer told him to beware the ides of march but he didn't listen. brutus and cassius got him. i'm so sorry

every day you look and they’ve invented a new use of the ablative

"average roman poem contains 3 individually named trees" factoid actualy statistical error. average roman poem contains 0 individually named trees. Virgil Georg(ics), who lives in the didactic-pastoral idyll and names over 10,000 trees in each poem, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

you’d think that the “every drafted soldier in the world is inherently a literally murderable inhuman monster” webbed site would take greater umbrage at the “what if one of the most famously morally ambiguous war stories of all time became a ya romance and/or action hero musical in a way that significantly dehumanizes the victims and washes the canonical realities of war crime under the rug” thing but you would be wrong