archaic-stranger: the classics studentssculpted white marble, cool and smooth beneath your handsthe
archaic-stranger: the classics studentssculpted white marble, cool and smooth beneath your handsthe striking ruins of ancient greek architectureseeing the ways that ancient civilizations influence the modern worlda love for stories, ancient tales that have persisted through the eonsmemorizing names from greek mythology, whispering the unfamiliar syllables using roman numerals to organize your notesheavy books stacked at your bedside statues of people long dead, but still rememberedreading lines from epic poems - the Iliad, Aeneid, Metamorphoses finding greek and latin roots in every sentencestudying the influence of the classical era on the european renaissancethe taste of grapes, warmed from the mediterranean suna fascination with ancient civilizationswanting to understand how people lived thousands of years agoseeing plays performed in the traditional greek stylereciting the greek alphabetwhispered invocations of the greek pantheon and their roman counterpartslatin texts painstakingly translated into your native tongueanalyzing the work of classical philosopherstaking classes in history, archeology, and anthropologyold maps showing the historical bounds of the roman empirespeaking the words of a dead language -- source link