vivamus

very same

A Google Opinion Rewards survey asking about my interests that includes the option "Servius Tullius," which is checked.

Bring back whatever Google algorithm gave me this survey in 2018.

augustus: "maecenas, this vergilius fellow isn't writing a veiled criticism of me and roman imperialism, is he?"

maecenas, reading comprehender: "no, julius, it's all very pro-rome, i assure you!"

augustus: "don't call me that! my name is augustus!!!"

agrippa *doodles buildings*

imagine going from brown-nosing uncle caesar to your nerdy friend group running a whole empire

im postin here

wow very new yorker coded

I just took a test on fake stuff in a video game and it took nearly half an hour and my brain feels like I just took the SAT.

Mt. Holly: Your New Home

the latest in a string of good blue prince runs

ya "grace"

thinking again about how john is functionally the same name as hannibal

Pope Francis arrives home to the Vatican after five-week hospital stay The Pope appeared on a public balcony at Rome's Gemelli hospital to bless the crowd shortly before being discharged, in his first public outing in five weeks.

He’s literally travelling by Papal Fiat.

less simper, more sic

y'know I think the entire field of classics could be classified as a fandom

imagine if catullus had mustard on the beat

remember when catullus not like us'ed julius caesar so hard that the most powerful politician in the world had to tell a poet to stop being mean to him

i think my most boring unpopular opinion is that the second half of the aeneid is better than the first

scene from the nicolas cage movie wicker man where he is screaming about how killing him won't bring back your goddamn honey

killing me won't bring back your goddamn cheap eggs

sure, no one is denying that ursula's practices are exploitative, but she does great work

is ariel the only disney princess to have had a vaginoplasty?

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I can see why Emilia Pérez got all those Oscar nominations. I mean, how were they able to write such believable cis dialogue? "Hello, very nice to meet you. I'd like to know about sex change operation," sounds just like something a cis would say!

is it a pun that aeneas's ships were made from the offspring of rhea's silva?

o kybebe, mountain mama, dindymon's dame, agdistis' mistress, idaean inanna, goddess on the mountain top

procul a mea tuus sit furor omnis, era, domo

one of the worst parts of the state of hopelessness right now is that maintaining the friendships and community that are important to my mental health requires work that i find increasingly difficult to put in due to my mental health

is gorgeous by taylor swift supposed to be a translation of sappho 31

it's a very fun connection, especially given the greater freedom women seemed to have enjoyed and more respect they were given among the etruscans, relative to the greeks and romans

"The Amazons roared out the names of their gods as they shot their arrows. AITA! KALU! APLU! ARTUMI!" (page 392)

sing to me the etruscan amazons

i wonder if my latin club's shirt for this year is the first gesta romanorum t-shirt to have ever been made

catullus is the only roman author allowed to write about gender.

give me $300 and I'll make sure it gets to the right place