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nedlittle:sappho 191 (tr. anne carson)

romegreeceart:jeannepompadour:Ancient Roman statue of Thalia, 2nd c. A.D.Muse of Comedy and idyllic

rex-sidereus:would you like your phallic procession with a side of cake, goat, or goats ?

yea that sounds about right

Marble head of the Roman deity Jupiter.  Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE.  Now in the Spurlock Museum,

elegant-dirtbag:PIECES OF LONDON

radstudies:Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)The Bacchante 

Silenus speaks to a woman.  Fragment of an Apulian krater in the Gnathian style, artist unknown; ca.

detroitlib:My babies love to read the classics

Theseus wrestles Cercyon, King of Eleusis, who would challenge passersby to a wrestling match and th

mohtz:Women in Greek Tragedyig / twitter / shop

Today I want to pay tribute to Alan Stephens Foster (American, 1892-1969), the creator of this work

Statuette of the goddess Artemis/Diana. Unknown Anatolian artist; 1st cent. BCE. Now in the Getty Vi

life-of-a-latin-student:Quales Illic Homunculi = Quality of a little men or creaturesMerus stupor =

Achilles lies in wait for Polyxena at a fountain.  Attic white-ground lekythos, attributed to the At

Coin of the Macedonian king Perdiccas II (r. ca. 451-413 BCE).  On the obverse, a galloping horse; o

Sardonyx cameo depicting a Ptolemaic prince as Hermes.  Artist unknown; 3rd cent. BCE.  Now in the C

georginakincaid:HERMES » He is quick and cunning, and moved freely between the worlds of the mortal

earlhamclassics:Say what you will about Cards Against Humanity (and there’s plenty to say), I was re

clytemnesrta:antigone (sophocles / trans. anne carson)

we-kant-even:fellas,,

arnaeus:Achaeans and Trojans

{a bouquet for odysseus and penelope}walnut for intellect and strategem | astilbe means i’ll s

peashooter85:The Donation of Constantine Fraud,After the fall of the Western Roman Empire the Roman

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