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arlee 24, never learned how to read asoiaf. a game of thrones side blog. I am not spoiler free. (I follow as martiiiimakes) icon by me, header by highv hialyrian
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gameofthronesdaily
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notalicent
“It is our fate, I think, to crave always what is given to another. If one possesses a thing, the other will take it away.”

House of the Dragon 1.09 | "The Green Council" — dir. Clare Kilner

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connorswhisk
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melrosing

So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.

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modern-austen

GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING

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rockboci

Add the author’s reply, cowards!

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thewhiskeykitteh

I scrolled through the notes on this post and my favorite has to be one mockingly accusing Madeline Miller (a Latin and Greek teacher with a Masters in Classics) of needing to do research and she wasn’t a real writer like them.

Anyway when I read that line I immediately understood what she was trying to say.

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rises-vagrant

Articles mentioned (I think, anyway…)

https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/2018/05/11/scholars-respond-to-racist-backlash-against-black-achilles-part-1-ancient-greek-attitudes-toward-africans/

https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-greeks-saw-their-world

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-colors-17888/

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True Colors
Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target
Smithsonian Magazine
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Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world? | Aeon Essays
The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea?
Aeon
Scholars Respond to Racist Backlash against Black Achilles, Part 1: Ancient Greek Attitudes toward Africans
In February of 2018, the BBC broadcast an eight-part miniseries, Troy: Fall of a City, that told the story of the Trojan War. Netflix later
pharos.vassarspaces.net
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augustdementhe

Honestly, the first time I saw this tweet, I laughed my tits straight into the ocean.

I know what ‘olive skinned’ (and thus variations on it) means, but the author taking the time to have a little laugh, acknowledge that it’s at least a bit funny, and drop some knowledge is appreciated.

And a double thanks to the person I reblogged from for linking the articles.

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rosebleue

The thread is perfect as it is, but just in case

Left: traditional extraction using a capacho basket, right modern extraction using a cold press. One is greenish brown and the other is green.

In case you want to see what the author meant about that not beeing what she saw.

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polytropic-liar

listen I’m so glad you all are having fun with the dragon incest show, but I need you to understand that from the outside all I see is approximately 14 posts per day of people in truly horrific wigs with captions like “baegael did nothing wrong except all the murders”

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