Status Updates From How to Be Queer: An Ancient...

For isn't Hagesichora
with the beautiful ankles standing right here?
She remains by Agido
And praises our festival.
But gods, may you accept
our efforts. For the end and the outcome
belong to the gods. Choral leader,
if I may say so, I myself am
just a girl who screeches
in vain from the rafters
an owl.

idk why but this cracks me up

ACHILLES:
You did not hold as sacred my reverence for your thighs,
o you ingrate for countless kisses

help why did zeus kidnap young boys 💀💀

What this is taught me is i really need to find a affordable copy of Sappho's work it's kinda nice reading about love from a greek who feels awkward and flustered and human rather than a scholar and an academic

Also damn did the greek men like writing about thighs is this like the femboy thighs obsession of now? Is there a greek equivalent of straight men being allowed to have crushes in Ryan Reynolds?

It's nice to read direct translations of these stories, shedding tears to texts this old always makes me feel so human