Me Before Making Yet Another Unintelligible Post About My Current Hyperfixations

i think about this roman statue of odysseus escaping polyphemus' cave beneath a ram often

Big day for the EoG fandom

classical reception is anything that adapts, borrows from, capitalises on, draws upon, bastardises, etc. the ancient world. there is no requirement that it be "good" to "count". gladiator is classical reception. 300 is classical reception. there are classicists who have written whole articles about soap ads. as a dear friend once put it, it's all reception innit.

Dudes be like "Et tu Brute"

My brother in Jupiter you were the one about to destroy the Republic

This was my art school’s water fountain. Drink from them wolf tiddies

Fulvia With the Head of Cicero by Pavel Svedomsky

Call back your courage, send off your fearful sorrow- Perhaps someday you'll recall even this with fondness.

Vergil, Aeneid I.203-204

Oedipus on the Bodies of his Sons. 1912. Gabriel Jules Charles Girodon. French 1844-1941. oil/canvas. winner Prix de Rome 1912.     http://hadrian6.tumblr.com