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Anonymous asked:
what grade levels do you teach!
mostly middle school (6-8th grade) but i also teach a high school class!
Anonymous asked:
i'm actually reading trojan women by euripides for the first time and hey quick question will i ever get over andromache mourning astyanax?
no <3 hope that helps!
btw the dionysus epithet is especially good bc dionysus is both taurophagos AND tauros. divine autocannibalism got me acting unwise
Sorry I applied a modern lens of analysis to your boyfriend. Yeah I've completely stripped him of historical and semantic context so that I could fit his story and tropes into my own moralistic view of the world. Yeah he's practically flavourless now. In fact this was the original boyfriend and you're a problematic historian for thinking otherwise.
Genius tags from @romanceyourdemons
2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): this artifact was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact
This stuffed bird was sealed in the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that sits just beneath the barrows provides an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produce a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in preservation.
This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.
waiting in line at delphi to ask the pythia if the god is mad at me
Brb installing a mod on jstor that replaces every mention of intertextuality with haunting
A Priestess Of Bacchus (1890) by John William Godward.
Some lovely colors from Pompeii.
my dumb ass not knowing anything: this is JUST like socrates
Odysseus after the mass murder glow up when he returned to Ithaca.
I am thinking of his hat as a narrative thing, like once his travels are over the hat goes as well. And if he ever puts it back on, well...
Mosaic of a tragic playwright and a comic actor, ca. AD 250. From House of the Masks, Hadrunetum /Sousse Tunisia.
Sousse Archaeological Museum, Tunisia.
Photos: Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Hadrumetum, modern Sūsah, also spelled Sousa or Sousse, ancient Phoenician colony some 100 miles (160 km) south of Carthage, on the east coast of the Al-Hammāmāt Gulf in what is now Tunisia. Hadrumetum was one of the most important communities within the Carthaginian territory in northern Africa because of its location on the sea at the edge of the fertile Sahel region. In the Third Punic War (149–146 BC) Hadrumetum sided with Rome, and its citizens were rewarded with partial Roman citizenship. It supported Pompey in the civil war and was heavily fined by Caesar after his victory in the Battle of Thapsus (46 BC). It later received colonial rank under Trajan. The city was a centre for the administration of imperial estates in what is now the eastern part of Tunisia and became the capital of the province of Byzacenia, formed by Diocletian about AD 300. It was again important after the reconquest of Africa by Justinian I in 533, receiving the name Justinianopolis. Before the Arab conquest, the modern town of Sūsah arose on the site.
Written and fact-checked by: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gold necklace with ibex heads, Roman, 2n-3rd century BC
from Phoenix Ancient Art
Source: phoenixancientart.com
the real sisyphean task of being a teacher is that no matter how many copies of oh, the places you'll go i sign, there will always be another
me stumbling out of the bacchanialia, covered in gore: you know how it is with spaghetti
why do people on the internet know so much about the epic of gilgamesh
people have started throwing shade at other ancient works of literature in the tags how long do you think before I have a college educated cage match on my hands
Emm speak your divinely-inspired thoughts with your whole chest like a man