Apollo: Hyacinthus, it's cold outside. Let's hold hands. Hyacinthus: Oh okay! Zephyrus: it's fucking summer-
Odysseus, pretending to be insane to avoid going to war:
Helen, all through the whole damned Iliad:
Agamemnon (I don't think we need an explanation for this):
Iphigenia:
Ajax the great, after failing to get the armor of Achilles:
Achilles:
Patroclus:
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Something was in that Spartan water 💀
Aeneas please 🥹
pretty boy
Cupid and Psyche, Paolo Andrea Triscornia, late 18th century, marble, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.
Norse mythology from A to Z:
[S] - Sjörå a mythical creature of the lake in Swedish folklore. It was a water spirit, comparable to the nymphs of Greek mythology.
Greek mythology from A to Z:
[K] - Keto (Κητώ) or Ceto was a primordial deity of the sea, the daughter of the Titans Pontus and Gaea, and personification of all the dangers that the sea posed.
out of the 500 myrmidon warriors who follow me into battle i only want to marry about 2 of you. do better
Greek mythology from A to Z:
[A] - Aphrodite (Αφροδίτη) is the goddess of romantic love, sexual passion and beauty
If you want to be as erudite and elite as the Classics Clique, you’d better add these books to your reading pile…
Specific prose/poetry/plays mentioned:
Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche, Epigraph Republic, Book II by Plato, Epigraph Tom Swift by Victor Appleton, 6 Paradise Lost by John Milton, 8, 91 Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth, 33 The New Testament, 36 Agamemnon by Aeschylus, 40 Oresteia by Aeschylus, 40 Inferno by Dante, 41, 115 Poetics by Aristotle, 41 The Iliad by Homer, 41, 627 The Bacchae by Euripides, 42, 204 Parmenides by Plato, 67 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, 85 Rover Boys by Edward Stratemeyer, 85 Journey from Chester to London by Thomas Pennant, 85 The Club History of London by ?, 85 The Pirates of Penzance by W.S. Gilbert, 85 Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope, 85 Marino Faliero by Lord Byron, 85 The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, 89 Sherlock Homes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 92, 622 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 94 Mémoires by Duc de Saint-Simon, 103 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 110 Othello by Shakespeare, 115 The World Book Encyclopedia, 117 Men of Thought and Deed by E. Tipton Chatsford Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up by J. M. Barrie, 180 The Divine Comedy by Dante, 184 Superman Comics, 417 The Upanishads, 441, 466 Perry Mason Novels by Erle Stanley Gardner, 442 With Rue my Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman, 466 Lycidas by John Milton, 466 The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 466 In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, 466 Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, 481 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 554 The Malcontent by John Marston, 615 The White Devil by John Webster, 615 The Broken Heart by John Ford, epilogue epigraph, 615 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, 616 The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur, 616 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, 619
Authors mentioned:
J.R.R. Tolkien, 6 Ezra Pound, 16 T.S. Eliot, 16 Alfred Douglas, 18 Robert de Montesquiou, 18 Plato, 22, 36 Homer, 23, 36, 49, 509 Dante, 33 Virgil, 33 Plotinus, 37 Marie Corelli, 85 Shakespeare, 91, 615 Alexander Pope, 103 John Donne, 117 Rupert Brooke, 120 Edgar Allen Poe, 132, 200 Hegel, 139 Raymond Chandler, 153 Gregory of Tours, 481 Thomas Aquinas, 509 P.G. Wodehouse, 538 George Orwell, 576-7 Harold Acton, 577 Salman Rushdie, 582 Agatha Christie, 587 Proust, 612 John Webster, 615 Thomas Middleton, 615 Cyril Tourneur, 615 John Ford, 615 Christopher Marlowe, 615 Walter Raleigh, 615 Thomas Nashe, 615
NB: page numbers correspond to the Popular Penguin Edition.
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phobos, greek god of fear, & his twin brother deimos, god of terror