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“I mean, admittedly, I do wonder sometimes what queer girls think of me. But it’s just the occasional fleeting thought. Definitely not a you-love-me kind of thing.

Not that I’d mind if a queer girl was into me. I’d honestly find it super flattering.”

oh imogen. oh girl

imogen's best friend having virgil on her shelf but also madeline miller... you win some you lose some

"I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing."

The Nut.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! READ THE AENEID WITH ME! https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/ae...

i love you publius but i need a slightly different ratio of farming to political commentary here

i know it's for whitsun but picking the dauphin's speech calling h5 a "vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth" for the first day of june does feel like a #happypride moment

man and then the next sentence describes Julius Caesar as having “the pitiless insight of genius”

“That his career ended in ruins…was not due to lack of talent but to a surplus of principle… Cicero’s weakness as a politician was that his principles rested on a mistaken analysis […of] the reasons for the crisis that tore apart the Roman Republic.”

i fear this book may be endless

OUGH.

MARCE TULLI THAT TEENAGER IS NOT YOUR BESTIE!

"You ain't gotta pick me. But you're gonna respect that walkin' through that door, purely by virtue of being born Black in America, I know more about who this dude is than any graduate program could ever teach you."

hello goodreads friends. read the aeneid with me this summer https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/about

cannot believe there are people in the reviews of this book complaining that it paints all christians as homophobes when kenneth is right there. maybe i need to not read reviews

the "you have to have a very high IQ to understand rick and morty" copypasta except it's "you have to have max's exact middle school backstory to understand saving montgomery sole" and i mean it

i understand the reviews that are like "monty sounds more 12 than 16" but she's so whimsical i have to love her. she hates society's obsession with getting rid of body hair. she likes gay people and ESP

“Interpretation [of the period after Caesar’s death] has also been hindered by the fact that the eventual winner in the struggles that lay ahead imposed his own interpretation on the past. The losers lost more than their lives, they lost their stories.” okay well. i guess i’m insane about narratives on a sunday afternoon

see i remember next to nothing about this one except the end so i'm scared

CAN YOU BELIEVE MY BOYFRIEND INVENTED THE PHRASE LABOR OMNIA VINCIT <3 <3 <3

"And if [Octavian's] adventure succeeds?"

"It won't. Philippus is right. He's a nice boy, and I hope he survives, but he's no Caesar--you only have to look at him."

NOOOOOO MARCE TULLI OH NOOOOO. WINCING AND CRINGING AND AVERTING MY EYES

OCTAVIAN ON PAGE!!! DESCRIBED AS “PRETTY-FACED” AND WITH A BOWL CUT NO LESS!!! LET’S GET THE FUCK STARTED

“Lepidus was never a man for principles”

the caesar assassination is never not funny if only because they literally did not have a plan for the aftermath. no plan. if we kill caesar then the republic is fixed :)

"Their business done, the assassins drew back from what a moment before had been the beating heart of the empire and was now a punctured skein of flesh." CAESAR DOWN!!!

MENTION OF THE MUSHROOM LETTER LETS GOOOOO… for those unaware this is one of the letters we still have from 2000 years ago (unsanitary) https://www.loebclassics.com/view/mar...

this book is fucking insane