Penelope could have blinded a cyclops but Odysseus couldn’t have held off an army of suitors with nothing more than a loom and lies
They warn you about the peer pressure to get into drugs and alcohol (something I have never experienced) but nobody warns you about your friends trying to peer pressure you into taking Old English
Love looking up reviews for a book I want to read and seeing someone be like “this book killed my love of reading. I did not read for a decade because I hated it so much” and still going ahead and reading it.
Sorry to the reviewer but it was a beautiful book
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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Is their favourite case being the accusative a red flag?
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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!
(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!
I think if you look at any one section of the Aeneid too long it remoulds your brain and you start to see every single word as an intensely powerful literary device and all the poem connects together
Virgil writing for Turnus ‘ille humilis supplex oculos dextramque precantem protendens’ in 12.930-1 and then writing ‘Aeneas volvens oculos dextramque repressit’ in 12.939 is making me go absolutely feral this Thursday morning.
At this stage Perseus knows exactly which chapters of Livy I want and is breaking only those ones on purpose
hey uhh I hate to tell you this but your boyfriend hit two snakes mating and now he's cursed by Hera. Now he's your girlfriend, sorry about that :/
If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
(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!
Love looking up reviews for a book I want to read and seeing someone be like “this book killed my love of reading. I did not read for a decade because I hated it so much” and still going ahead and reading it.
hi students good morning no I have not prepared lesson for you. yes I was too busy thinking gay thoughts aNd also thirsting over a dead spartan general. oppsie





