Good morning/afternoon/evening, dear visitor!
As you probably know, I'm Francis Abernathy, a student of Classics at Hampden College.
You are more than welcome here. Feel free to interact by sending asks or messages. I may not always reply immediately, but I surely will in the end.
Si vales, bene est, ego valeo!
octavian and crassus (the grandson), some soldiers celebrating crassus' success, and the threat of the spolia opima between them because I'm always a few thoughts away from going back to the spolia opima incident
something something subtexts. threats to power. etc. power and glory are not sharable things anymore, and there's only room for one leading man in rome. can't have anyone outshine him, that's a threat, and we can't have that.
Fact and Fiction: Crassus, Augustus, and the Spolia Opima, Catherine McPherson
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don't go on tumblr kids you will be peer pressured into reading lucan and then you'll start seeing blood everywhere
Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books that I try to update regularly
**UPDATE**
I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some
Please let me know any further suggestions
….holy shit. You found the holy grail.
….. is this a DIFFERENT person keeping gigabytes worth of language books on google drive? Holy crap.
This. This here. Is why I love Tumblr.❤️❤️❤️
Update from OP:
UPDATE because apparently not everyone has seen this yet the new and improved version of this is a MEGA folder: https://mega.nz/folder/kQBXHKwA#-osWRLNCXAsd62ln8wKa8w
Imagine you have a drone that you can send back in time and show you whatever you want; That’s how I feel when I watch this video.
Emperor Hadrian’s Villa 😍
put down the chat gpt. consume too much caffeine and nicotine and write a paper that you barely understand while you approach hallucination territory from too little sleep and too much raging. engage with academia in the way god intended
you know what? fuck you *erases all traces of you from the archaeological record*
"we need to bring back x" it starts with YOU
"we need to bring back inviting people over for coffee and cake" invite people over for coffee and cake. "we need to start watching films on dvd" start watching films on dvd. don't wait for something to become a trend to start doing it.
Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!
Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.
And more added regularly, let’s look at a recent addition
I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch
The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!
I looked at some of the tutorials last night and holy shit I'm so impressed! They're SO thorough! Not only do they have written and video instructions, but there are photo and illustration options for each image AND a "flip view" button so that left handed people can see all the images in reverse!
Cassandra
Credit…Parco Archeologico di Pompei
Living my best life (pretending to live in a castle and smoking on an overgrown graveyard in the forest)
from our final vote, our senator is LACKING IN ROMAN VIRTUES and of a LESS THAN DISTINGUISHED ANCESTRY
for this he has been assigned to the GENS BURBULEIA, a minor plebeian clan of possibly oscan origin. as with many members of his clan, his praenomen is LUCIUS. in letters to atticus, cicero refers to him by the codename PURPUREIUS as a witty reference to his EXCESSIVELY WIDE SENATORIAL PURPLE STRIPE
for his HABIT OF GAMBLING and CRIMES OF ELECTORAL BRIBERY AND MISHANDLING OF A PROVINCE, he has earned the cognomen AMBITIOSUS.
he has not earned himself an agnomen, but a fragment of a treatise on electoral campaigns by an unknown author refers to a graffito written on the side of a brothel reading "VENUS AND JUNO BLESS THE CONSULSHIP OF LUCIUS BURBULEIUS AMBITIOSUS FUTUTOR" in reference to his MANY AFFAIRS with both UNMARRIED AND MARRIED WOMEN. the date of his consular bid is unknown, but he assuredly did not succeed.
the only reference to his death does not give us a date but claims that he died IN FLAGRANTE while vacationing in athens
I love the old timey phrase "you forget yourself". bro that was so impolite like do you even know who you are rn
S.P.Q.R : Senatvs PopvlvsQve Romanvs - the Senate and the Roman People) AQVA MARCIA (Aqua Marcia) :Water of Marcius (who built the aqueduct that brings the water to that fountain)
Pros of reading authors you don't agree with:
gender euphoria is looking rly hot to other queer people and offputting to everyone else
