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Mar. 8th, 2024 08:47 pmUpdate: real tired of writing about Stoicism
Tagged: #i don't have real gripes with it i'm just ... tired
Tagged: #i don't have real gripes with it i'm just ... tired
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Mar. 6th, 2024 08:10 amI’m still Done™ with classical stuff, but it’s amazing how much more comprehensible things are when I’m not tired.
Tagged: #i'm taking notes on the sections i read before and it's so much easier to follow rn
Tagged: #i'm taking notes on the sections i read before and it's so much easier to follow rn
Tumblr crosspost (9 November 2020)
Mar. 6th, 2024 07:58 amwhining:
I understand that classical lit/thought was deeply important to the early modern world, but I don’t want to read about it any more
Tagged: #i can barely follow wtf this guy is talking about #just #maybe pull back on the latin and get to the point????
I understand that classical lit/thought was deeply important to the early modern world, but I don’t want to read about it any more
Tagged: #i can barely follow wtf this guy is talking about #just #maybe pull back on the latin and get to the point????
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Mar. 6th, 2024 07:54 amThe book I’m reading is difficult (it discusses a lot of Greek and Roman texts I have never read and know only through Ovid), but shout-out to the author (Gordon Braden) for one of my favorite endnotes ever:
“I am sympathetic, but unconvinced.”
Tagged: #also it was about a psychoanalytic take so doubly delicious
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Mar. 4th, 2024 12:51 pmMore seriously, all of Ovid’s maidens devoted to Diana are making me think of The Canterbury Tales and Emily’s prayer to Diana:
Chaste goddesse, wel wostow that I
Desire to ben a mayden al my lyf,
Ne nevere wol I be no love ne wyf.
I am, thow woost, yet of thy compaignye,
A mayde, and love huntynge and venerye,
And for to walken in the wodes wilde,
And noght to ben a wyf and be with childe.
Noght wol I knowe compaignye of man.
(Chaste goddess, well you know that I
Desire to be a maiden all my life,
Never would I wish to be beloved or wife.
I am, thou knowest, yet of thy company,
A maid, and love hunting and venery,
And walking in the wild woods,
And not to be a wife and be with child.
I would not wish to know company of man.)
It usually ends badly, though :(
Tagged: #honestly i am not persuaded by the happy ending of the knight's tale either #in a weird way camilla in the aeneid comes out the best #in that at least she gets to live her best life and then get avenged by diana #hmmm #kind of wondering if there's any significance to wostow -> thow woost
Chaste goddesse, wel wostow that I
Desire to ben a mayden al my lyf,
Ne nevere wol I be no love ne wyf.
I am, thow woost, yet of thy compaignye,
A mayde, and love huntynge and venerye,
And for to walken in the wodes wilde,
And noght to ben a wyf and be with childe.
Noght wol I knowe compaignye of man.
(Chaste goddess, well you know that I
Desire to be a maiden all my life,
Never would I wish to be beloved or wife.
I am, thou knowest, yet of thy company,
A maid, and love hunting and venery,
And walking in the wild woods,
And not to be a wife and be with child.
I would not wish to know company of man.)
It usually ends badly, though :(
Tagged: #honestly i am not persuaded by the happy ending of the knight's tale either #in a weird way camilla in the aeneid comes out the best #in that at least she gets to live her best life and then get avenged by diana #hmmm #kind of wondering if there's any significance to wostow -> thow woost
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Feb. 29th, 2024 05:24 pmYou all are probably tired of hearing about the Aeneid, but I just have to share this bit of an incredibly cool speech that Juno gets:
“But if my powers
Are not great enough, why should I hesitate
To seek help from any source whatever?
If I cannot sway Heaven, I will awaken Hell!”
Tagged: #not at all favorably portrayed but unmistakably badass #also i like venus here but juno's call-out of her re: paris was very satisfying
“But if my powers
Are not great enough, why should I hesitate
To seek help from any source whatever?
If I cannot sway Heaven, I will awaken Hell!”
Tagged: #not at all favorably portrayed but unmistakably badass #also i like venus here but juno's call-out of her re: paris was very satisfying
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Feb. 14th, 2022 04:19 pmAs the forests shed their leaves, as the year declines,
And the oldest fall, so perish those former generations
Of words, while the latest, like infants, are born and thrive.
…Many words that are now unused will be rekindled,
Many fade now well-regarded, if Usage wills it so,
To whom the laws, rules, and control of language belong.
And the oldest fall, so perish those former generations
Of words, while the latest, like infants, are born and thrive.
…Many words that are now unused will be rekindled,
Many fade now well-regarded, if Usage wills it so,
To whom the laws, rules, and control of language belong.
Horace on … linguistic descriptivism? (Ars Poetica, c. 19 BCE)
