Earlham College Classics

whoever made this deserves an award

I came across this stylized, time-trend estimate of the population of Roman Egypt [here] and felt the need to share it because it was honestly jaw-dropping to see the effects of the Antonine Plague, the Plague of Cyprian, and the Plague of Justinian visualized like this.

Pygmalion and Galatea! Inspired by this really beautiful photography [x]

The myth of Achilles, but instead of holding him by the heel, Thetis sumberges him fully so that Achilles is completely invulnerable and Thetis has one invulnerable hand.

She only needs one oven mitt when taking cookies out of the oven.

But there would still be two small parts of him that are vulnerable because they were covered by her fingertips at the time, stopping the water from touching them. Which means those fingertips are also vulnerable on her hand 

Achilles *putting those little round band-aids on two parts of his ankle before battle*

Thetis *knitting fingertip oven mitts for her thumb and forefinger*

This is a Greek comedy I could get behind 

What if she put him in a sack and dunked him in? The water would saturate the sack and soak him and so long as she pulled him out quick, he wouldn't drown. Then they'd have a sack that's invulnerable too and can be used as the most unexpected shield ever.

Imagine Achilles storming Troy with one (1) invulnerable sack for a shield

thetis just sticks him in one of these bad boys

and swirls him around like a batch of chicken nuggets until he’s invulnerable all over. 

what

Welcome to Judaism. Our most sacred of documents doesn’t ever really bring up the concept of an afterlife, but while you’re here, please enjoy this excerpt of the text which mentions pomegranates no less than six (6) times.

“we don’t really know what happens when we die, but we know for a fact that pomegranates are delicious so let’s expand on that”

me whenever a woman in greek myth gets fed up and destroys the men who've caused her trauma

I have no faith in a proper investigation.

#SayHerName  #SadieRobertsJoseph

What the actual fuck?

ancient roman things we should bring back

This episode is 17 years old and we’ve made zero progress. We’ve actually gone backwards….

Contact Your Representative and Tell Them To Fight Against Trump’s Camps

Additionally, if you can see if you can donate money to these organizations

everyone look at this website highlighting marginalized voices in classics

FOLKS

throwback to the time my classics professor asked “does anyone know who sappho is?” and i immediately replied “she’s the OG lesbian” and my professor yelled “EXACTLY” and wrote the OG lesbian on the whiteboard

the real question is how the fuck did persephone only manage to eat 6 pomegranate seeds. theyre like the fucking cocaine of fruit you cant eat just 6 singular seeds you have to pop handfuls upon handfuls into ur mouth at rapid speeds and then get sad cause you spent half an hour getting them out of the pomegranate and ate all of them in 5 minutes

are you ok

pomy granite

Martin West’s book on Greek Metre helpfully supplies a list of emojis taking you through the various stages of metrical bewilderment.

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