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Cassie

@classics-cassandra

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I’m unnecessarily bitter about the classics, and also medieval stuff
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I’ve attacked the Secret History people for killing people, but tbh if I was having to write entire essays in Greek as well, I would kill someone

Actually you know what they can grow up and write the damn essays. And I bet they don’t even have to add Harvard or MLA format citations.

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I have made the ridiculous decision to teach myself a Latin GCSE without a teacher. I have the Cambridge Latin course and the Latin to GCSE books but I was wondering if you had any other resources that would be useful. Specifically on the set text. Thanks for any help you could give. Absolutely adore your blog.

sorry, i don't actually know what a gcse entails, so i cant really comment on this!

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(From a uk classicist)

The Cambridge schools classics project has some useful resources, including prose and verse literature anthologies and support for independent learners:

There’s also Terry Bird, who makes running vocabularies for the GCSE and A Level set texts:

The current gcse texts cost £26, but provide you with a glossary for vocabulary beyond GCSE level, making it easier to translate. Otherwise you can go through and mark up the official exam board texts yourself to achieve the same thing.

(For language, John Taylor’s Essential GCSE Latin is worth a shout for its comprehensive grammar explanations, especially if you’re doing the OCR Latin, but won’t be needed straight away if you’ve got Latin to GCSE.)

Good luck!

(Galaxy brain format)

‘Athena wasn’t a feminist because she turned Arachne into a spider’

‘Athena was a feminist because she allowed Arachne to continue to weave despite losing’

‘Athena was a goddess for an ancient patriarchal society so to describe her as a feminist lacks nuance and understanding of her historical context in an anachronistic way’

It’s all wrong. The truth is Athena wasn’t a feminist because she invented spiders, meaning that in the year of our lord 2023 there’s a spider in my bathroom and I know no peace!