thoodleoo:

thoodleoo:

the real question for queer classicists is, are you a bucolic poetry gay or a lyric poetry gay

since people have been asking, here’s an extended list of Ancient Poetry Gays:

• bucolic poetry gay: extremely gentle gay, loves animals, just wants to relax and live their life
• lyric poetry gay: romantic gay, loves flowers, often mysterious
• elegy gay: the hoe of the group, has a new crush every day
• epic poetry gay: melodramatic, will talk to you without end about their gay crushes
• drama gay: a Disaster half of the time, always overwhelmed by their feelings, emotionally destroyed by everything their crushes do

thoodleoo:

in tibullus 1.8 (a poem about his boyfriend Marathus) has this line about “pugnantibus linguis” (literally battling tongues) which means that the idea of tongues battling for dominance in homoerotic fiction has been going on since at least the 1st century bce and i think that’s beautiful

thoodleoo:

1. reading cicero
pages and pages go on
all is one sentence

2. stiffly posed bodies
a face that fills your nightmares
the archaic smile

3. today i found shards
tomorrow i’ll find more shards
archaeology

4. here’s an ancient dick
there’s another ancient dick
why so many dicks??

5. greek class has begun
students weep and wail with grief
why, thucydides?

6. mythology class
has an unexpected theme-
ancient greek furries

coloricioso:

bemusedlybespectacled:

kakaphoe:

coloricioso:

xx-persephone-xx:

It’s canon that hades and Persephone kept chickens. Not like, for eggs or anything. They kept house chickens in the underworld. Chickens living in the underworld with little feathers in diapers and u n d e r w o r l d c h i c k e n s

y…

yeee…

YEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!

(sources 1 – 2 – 3)

@ouyangdan

can the classics major side of tumblr explain this? like, are the chickens for pets? are chickens sacred to hades? WHY CHICKENS?

Chickens were indeed sacred to Hades and Persephone and an example of this are the 

terracotta votive tablets from Locri -the ones of the pictures-. There are some books about this subject like Iconography of Religions by Bianchi or Locrian Maidens by Redfield.

The cock/chicken “became the chthonic bird, and was used on tombs, as emblematic of the hope of a reawakening to life”. (Peters) and it is also refered as “an infernal animal of passage” by Bernabe in his book Instructions for the Netherworld: the orphic gold tablets.He also says: ”Cocks allude to the world of the afterlife: as intermediaries between the soul and the Beyond, they intercede between the world of the dead and that of the living”.

Remember Persephone was the goddess of renewal, so at least in Locri, the cock was an usual attribute of her. And in other cultures cocks-chickens were seen as animals related to renewal and life (eggs have that symbolism tooo).

😀 so. chickens for Hades and Persephone all the way.