YAAAAY, Classics!

Earlier this week Gallucci announced he would be going and willing to take a few people in his car, to the Spring meeting of the California Classical Association at Loyola Marymount. He said Dutsch would be presenting a paper, they'd have Roman reenactors, and Bruno Heller, the creator, writer, and executive producer of HBO's ( Read more... )

Someone needs to hook me up with some of these little dudes

LITTLE ROMANS!!

I first saw them in a toy store on Crete and bought the Roman and the Warrior with Horse. I love them so, but they are so lonely, and I am so poor. Well, not SO poor, but I either eat or buy little playmobil Romans. hmm...

iloveamphora: i want the centurion
iloveamphora: ( Read more... )

( OMG PROJECT RUNWAY!! )

This weekend is going to be insane ( Read more... )

I love when you can tell people are trying to bullshit their way out of learning. Or at least, BS enough that time runs out and, in the case of language classes, their turn never comes. Matt tried his best to pull a stunt like that today in Latin, trying to sidetrack our prof with questions about balls of snakes she saw growing up in Canada, or ( Read more... )

Holy shit.

I'm watching The Odyssey (anyone who took a Gallucci class with me HAS to remember seeing parts of it at some point. Remember gay Hermes and annoying Aeoleus?) and Telemachus is in Sparta with Menelaus right now.

I just noticed the columns in Menelaus' palace are RIGHT out of Evans' reconstructions of Minoan Knossos ( Read more... )

OMG ( Read more... )

...a tale. A tale of a lad so stupid, you really have to wonder how he even managed to remember to apply to this school, nevermind actually get in.

This is anther chapter in the continuing saga of That Douche No One Knows, the same one who is apparently a Classics major and an idiot incapable of keeping track of his shit.

This is Aeneid week in ( Read more... )

m00nys missus: my mind is in middle school today, I swear
m00nys missus: one of my poems has the line, "here in the shade you will drink cups/ of harmless Lesbian wine." and I read that and went, "heehee, lesbian!"
m00nys missus: WTF is wrong with meeee??

CODEMIKEKENOBI: hahaha
CODEMIKEKENOBI: there's nothing wrong with laughing at a juvenile ( Read more... )

I am ( Read more... )