April 2012
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Xairete!
I wanted to welcome all the new followers we’ve amassed over the last few weeks! If you have any post you would like to see on here, please just send us a message or the url to your post/link.
Pax out, all!
TCL
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Classics
wickitywack:
I know Classicists don’t cure cancer or build bridges or do anything comparatively useful, but reading Greek and Latin is good for your soul and makes you a better drinking buddy. So fuck you science majors. Enjoy your government funded, lifeless labs. I’ll have my face in a book silently judging you.
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WHENEVER PEOPLE SAY THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE ORESTEIA
whatshouldcolumbiacallme:
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21 Aprilis
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROME!!
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“I’ll be back—with my shield or on it.”
– My roommate (via unshared)
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“All women think they’re worth loving, the plain
and the pretty being, in that...”
– Ovid, The Art of Love
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Help save the Classics Grad Program at UPitt →
Why This Is Important
On April 5th, admission to the University of Pittsburgh’s graduate program in Classics was “suspended.” This represents a significant step back from one of the university’s oldest and most lasting commitments, from a subject to which so many others owe an immense debt. It was when speaking of the Greek and Latin classics that Thomas Jefferson said, “I thank on my knees him...
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Latin Tumblr Article
Thanks for all your help!! I will post the link to the final version when it’s up. ^_^
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Hey all!
I am currently writing an article for Latin wikipedia on “Tumblr” (yes, this is why you go to grad school). I’m posting a draft and would love any feedback you may have. It can only be less than 250 words and I’ve used this site for all the neologisms. The words in...
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Defending the Humanities →
thesmallanomaly:
She vehemently advocated math and science, even to the point of eliminating humanities.
Her main premise was that if we taught our next generation math and science over the humanities we would be living longer, with cures for cancer and other diseases.
At this point I was shaking with anger and…
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anagignosko:
Stephen Fry: Funnily enough, television is a word that offends a lot of classicists because it’s both Latin and Greek. It’s a hybrid.
Sean Lock: Oh, they’re so touchy, aren’t they?
- Series B Episode 1
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Et tu, Brutu? →
anagignosko:
Getting ready to go toga up and reenact the death of Caesar with some awesome people from the Classics Department.
Glad to see that instead of the Et tu, Brute? that has become famous through my favorite Shakespeare play, we’re using “Tu quoque, mi fili?” (You too, my son?) Although some sources…
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A Latin joke for you:
rayguntheater:
Caesar walks into a bar. The bar tender asks him what he’ll have, and Caesar says, “I’ll have a martinus.”
“A martinus?” says the bar tender. “Don’t you mean a martini?”
“If I wanted two I would have ordered two!”
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s...”
– Heraclitus
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Latin Names for Countries
geofknowsbest:
Most of these names are still recognized and are synonyms for the countries.
Helvetia - Switzerland
Gallia - France
Hispania - Spain (the Iberian Peninsula)
Lusitania - Portugal
Britannia - Britain
Cambria - Wales
Caledonia (then Scotia in Medieval Latin) - Scotland
Hibernia - Ireland
Achaea - Greece
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“vaco, et omnes vacant qui volunt.”
– I have free time, and all people have free time who choose to have it.
- Seneca
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“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until,...”
– Robert F. Kennedy on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Quoting Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. (via poeticulture)
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“Latin starts in first grade. Second-graders learn Greek history. Everyone...”
– The Washington Post: Embracing a classical education (h/t Hilker) 