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The Colosseum, Rome (photo + edit by me)

Simultaneously referencing both The Hunger Games AND my homeboy Juvenal? COUNT ME IN.

I can’t quite believe this is a line from a Classics book and not a Monty Python sketch.

Well, this is making me take an “idiosyncratic dislike” to your book when I’ve barely started using it for my essay.

(quote is from The Religions of the Roman Empire, by John Ferguson.)

saxum-astrum:

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Mark McNairy New Amsterdam S/S 13

NOOOOOO YOU SPELLED “I SAW” WRONG

IT OUGHT TO BE

VENI
VIDI
VICI
BITCH

INCORRECT LATIN

CRYING ABOUT IT

BECAUSE I TOTALLY WOULD HAVE BOUGHT THIS TSHIRT OTHERWISE. 

SAD DEEPLY WOEFUL FACE. I would have bought a tshirt like this! (minus the b*tch, that is…)

[Archeologist Heinrich] Schliemann needed an assistant who was knowledgeable in matters pertaining to Greek culture…he advertised for a wife in a newspaper in Athens.

A friend, the Archbishop of Athens, suggested a relative of his, seventeen-year-old Sophia Engastromenos (1852–1932). Schliemann, age 47, married her in October 1869, despite the 30 year difference in age.

They later had two children, Andromache and Agamemnon Schliemann; he reluctantly allowed them to be baptized, but solemnized the ceremony in his own way by placing a copy of the Iliad on the children’s heads and reciting one hundred hexameters.

Pictured: Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann; the latter decked out in “the jewels of Helen”, discovered at a site supposed to be the Troy of Homer’s Iliad.

I don’t know much about Daumier, but I definitely dig his sense of humour. Ah, Achilles and Agamemnon. Fighting heroically one day, huffily sulking the next.

voldy92:

81310027 (by Stephen Edwards.)

(Source: zionawaits, via monkeyknifefight)