terpsikeraunos:

thoodleoo:

#classicistproblems:

• how many copies of homer is too many
• p or ρ? (alternatively, v or ν)
• ‘oh, classics! what’s your favorite book? i love jane austen’
• ok i know what this passage says but what’s the hidden dick joke
• what the fuck does res mean this time
• ‘haha it’s all greek to me!!’
• this poem would totally be great if i had more than 4 lines of it
• ‘so like…you’re never gonna get a job, are you?’
• ‘can you translate something into greek/latin for me? i want to get it tattooed/use it in a book!’
• ‘did you hear that they found alexander the great’s tomb?’

• ‘how many languages do you speak?’
• the dual
• this author existed sometime between the 1st and 3rd century. maybe. 

• † we just don’t know

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