So the other day I was reading an excerpt of a biography of Alexander the Great, and it included a delightful quotation about drunkenness, spoken by Dionysus as a character in an Athenian play:

For sensible men I prepare only three craters: one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep. After ( Read more... )

Yesterday Lysimache told me that during the Middle Ages there was apparently a very popular folktale of Aristotle engaging in pony play with Alexander the Great's wife. (Latin/English text at link.)

Like, super popular. Artistic depictions everywhere.

I just... what. What. I mean, I know, humans are gonna human, but I guess I'd never really thought ( Read more... )

[So someone on Tumblr just asked me if I had any recommendations for resources about Roman arms and armor because they wanted to write Eagle fic, and then I remembered I had this post mostly written and I dug it up from the depths of my hard drive. Comments in [BRACKETS] like this one are things I am adding in now, several years later, when I no ( Read more... )

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