soldierpallaton:

your-villainous-neighbour:

heartachemotel:

eratomusings:

eratomusings:

Yall think the gods take classics classes for fun

Professor: whys your drawing look like that lol artemis would be paler

Apollo, twin sister to Artemis, has seen her at least once a week for 4,000 years:

professor: ares is the god of war and is evil.

ares:

Professor: Hades is the god of the underworld and is therefore evil and cold and heartless

Persephone, who has seen her husband cry secret tears of Manly Anguish every time she has to go live with her mother for six months:

Professor: Not even the crack of dawn was safe from Zeus.

Zeus:

speciesbarocus:

Photo by Alessandro Romanelli (2017). Detail.

l0vegl0wsinthedark:

dracogotgame:

ufo-the-truth-is-out-there:

NASA: we used to have 9 planets but we now only have 8
Pluto: Stop telling everyone I’m not a planet!
NASA: Sometimes we can still hear its voice

Look, I’m not saying that demoting a planet named after the Roman god of Death stoked his rage and brought down on us his vengeful fury and retribution but…

*gestures at everything*

Finally, an explanation.

thoodleoo:

what you’d think blogging about classics is like: sharing neat information about the ancient world with other people

what blogging about classics is like: i have received so many asks from people telling me that they want to eat hadrian’s ass that i had to add it to my faq not to send me more asks about it

wetwareproblem:

fozmeadows:

16ruedelaverrerie:

Hit him where it hurts, Cassandra! (Apollo is the WORST.)

THIS IS THE BEST MYTHOLOGY COMIC I’VE EVER SEEN HOLY SHIT

@thievesguilding

thoodleoo:

the worst thing i ever learned about roman dress code is that roman men probably didn’t wear underwear underneath their togas

so all of those really beautiful, regal statues of romans in togas? no undies on them. all those stately images of politicians? they are freeballin my pals. a gathering of the roman senate? a bunch of dudes in thick, sweaty fabric folds with their fasces swinging loose

readerofmanyworlds:

terpsikeraunos:

hellenecstatic:

FYI the name Dennis is derived from Dionysus. That is all.

this means…denny’s….

Denny’s is absolutely the domain of a god of chaos and revelry

incorrectgreekquotes:

Hades : Before I do anything, I ask myself: would Zeus do that? And if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing.

What do satyrs smell like?

bavarii:

It’s a mixed bag, I’d say.

Athena: This just goes to show that you should always listen to me and never listen to Dionysus.
Dionysus: [shrugs] That’s fair.