MEAN GIRLS 2004 — dir. Mark Waters
IDES IDES IDES
Guys, I buckled - here’s a quiz to find out what you’d be up to on the Ides of March
I made a quiz. Which flavour of Tumblr Classics are you?
8 years of #tagamemnon went into this. It’s more coherent than my dissertation ever was
The trial of Phryne: ‘When it seemed as if the verdict would be unfavourable, Hypereides removed Phryne’s robe and bared her breasts before the judges to arouse their pity. Her beauty instilled the judges with a superstitious fear, who could not bring themselves to condemn “a prophetess and priestess of Aphrodite” to death.’
Bring Phryne back to show staff the error of their ways
The embassy scene
‘And I don’t wanna fit wherever I just wanna keep calling your name Until you come back home.‘
- Achilles after the death of Patroclus
19th/20th century reception of Sappho:
Catullan reception of Sappho:
Kind of hate myself for understanding most of these references😂but cool blog!!
Dude my bloody classics TEaCHER steals memes from you and breaks UP OUR SLIDESHOWS WITH MEMES IT'S KILLING ME BUT IT'S ALSO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED LIKE I'VE BEEN LET INTO THIS BIG WORLD OF SHITTY NERDY PRIVATE JOKES
WHOSE JOKES ARE YOU CALLING SHITTY AND NERDY?
(mine, because they are)
Also that is A++++ Classics teaching, I wish my teachers did that