So my favourite story about Alexander the Great (or, as I fondly think of him, Big Al) is the story of the Gordian Knot. So basically, there was this prophecy, which was all 'The one who unties this big-ass knot will rule over Asia'. So Big Al's hanging out in Gordium and he decides he can totally undo the knot ( Read more... )

This is your nice present.

empiresof

Empire - the town where everyone knows your name, your tragic personal history, your significant other and what you did last summer.

Set predominately at the two rival schools, Greek High School and Roman College, empiresof will take you on a rollicking soap opera of a journey through Greek and Roman mythology, literature and ( Read more... )

Yeah, you know what I mean ( Read more... )

Last night, while I sat in my room writing about zombies, Emily started laughing hysterically. Then, she burst into my room and relayed the following conversation to me ( Read more... )

Right, the Greeks were weird. We all know that. I'm sure I don't have to spell it out. Like, Demeter eats Pelops's shoulder and Athene is born out of Zeus's head (which is hilarious when seen on vases because, oh my god, she comes out fully grown and with full body armour - fuck, Zeus, you didn't notice that tumour the size of a female protruding ( Read more... )

So, crossing all fingers and toes, we may have internet at last. At least, I do. I don't know. I possibly cried at my father over the phone last night, while trying to pretend I wasn't because I know from experience that it makes him intensely uncomfortable. Not just about the internet, but a build up of things just going wrong and the fact that I ( Read more... )

So, as you may know, I am kind of an extreme nerd about Classics. I love Greek History, I love their crazy laws, I love the fact that they invented democracy, I love that they fought it out for supremacy almost constantly, I love Big Al, I love the gods who are infinitely more insane than the humans. Hell, I even like the vases ( Read more... )

...and I have a phobia of mess and kitchen scum. I just spent the past three hours, on and off, doing all the dishes, cleaning all available surfaces and attempting not to vomit with disgust and fear. Only three weeks more of living like this, think about that. (I also have a phobia of food that has been bitten into, especially fruit, which is why ( Read more... )