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Saturday, April 23, 2022

You Are Not Your Body: Cicero's Dream of Scipio

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*** NOTE: The world is a frightening place right now. Whether you are battling transphobia, homophobia, sexism, racism, war, domestic violen...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Androgynous Beauty: Codex Vass. 4.430

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O godlike face, worthy of Bacchus or Apollo Which no man or woman can see without succumbing to your charms! O fingers, the sort that you’d ...

Porphyrio on Sappho, In Hor. Ep. 1.19.28

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Sappho is called “manly” because either a) she’s famous for her poetry, something that men are more likely to do, or b) because she is known...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

M/M: For the Love of Admetus, Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo, 47-54

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  Name : Callimachus Date :    305 – 240 BCE Region :   Cyrene [modern Libya] Citation :    Hymn to Apollo , 47 – 54    ...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Friends Til the End: Damon & Pythias, Val. Max. 4.7.ext.1

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Damon and Pythias, The Ultimate Friends Name : Valerius Maximus Date :  1st century CE Region :  Unknown Citation :  Memora...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Horace's New Crush, Epodes 11.1-10, 22-27

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Name :  Horace Date :  65 – 8 BCE Region : Venosa / Rome [modern Italy] Citation :  Songs 1.1-10,22-27  In this poem,...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

M/M: Apollo's Love for Admetus, Tibullus Carm.2.3.11-15

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A common theme in Roman lyric poetry is servitium amoris , ["enslavement to love"], where the narrator of the poem is willing to u...