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The biggest red flag for your mental state thing that can happen to a personal post is not that people start mentioning disco elysium characters on it it's that it finds its way to classics tumblr and people start tagging it #cato

Being identified with harry du bois is probably like only the fourth or fifth biggest sign that you need professional attention under being identified with cicero and being identified with catullus and being identified with lucan and b

WAKE UP BITCHES THEY FOUND NEW EURIPIDES FRAGMENTS

98 LINES, 80% COMPLETELY NEW MATERIAL

in today's letter (sob): cicero gets distracted by hyping up messalla! cicero needs to defend himself against brutus' criticism that he is too willing to decree random honours for people, and also loves executing people too much! cicero does NOT go off on a tangent about virtue ethics! he DOES mention wishing brutus had killed antony though! again! cicero starts recounting how he once again defended the republic but then gains self awareness:

cicero did nothing wrong in giving all those honours to octavian and should maybe even have given him more! maybe the point is actually less about octavian (and decimus but who cares) than about posterity remembering how much everyone hates antony! cicero calls brutus' friends in rome clumsy politicians! cicero is a liarrrrrr:

cicero won't apologise for the lepidus' cringe statue incident and also he thinks brutus should kill peopleeeeee! cicero proclaims that there won't be a republic left no matter which side wins! one final fuck you to the children of public enemies! cicero promises to defend brutus' nephews, the children of a public enemy. but also they can get fucked! and cicero puts brutus' wishes above his own political reasoning! wauuhghhghhh i miss him already

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Am being normal about that long dead Roman statesman

would love to show ancient romans the sheer number of them that are portrayed by british people in shows about rome today. this would do psychic damage to cicero i think

help

guy who refers to the rest of senate as 'chat' when orating

Shame on this server and its principles! The chat is aware of the drama; the moderator sees it; and yet this problematic catboy is suffered to remain! Remain! Aye, he has not been kicked from the chat, he's sitting there posting reaction gifs!

if you were wondering how long the old man has left.

Classicstober Day 6: Medea 🩸

Based on Euripides Medea.

kind of obsessed with the goodreads reviews for the pro caelio

all new men born after 110bc know is to pater they patriae, write propaganda, slander political opponents in 14 speeches, delay using verbs in a sentence, and lie.

(orig)

they diagnosed me with i love you and it’s incurable

nevermind full of hate again

who is catullus

sometimes i will stumble upon greek mythology bloggers and i will be mesmerized by how some people will really take some of the most compelling narratives ever and they will turn them into mediocre vanilla readings out of an impulse i will genuinely never comprehend. and sometimes the result is somehow more offensive than whatever the ancient texts are doing with the story. then i turn my eyes back on my own dash and there's several people who want to impregnate cato the younger