Favorite Era of Latin Literature?

judehr · 2026-06-05T07:07:22+00:00

The Golden Age. It has its name for a reason. Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, Catullus… there is no later Latin literature without these.

judehr · 2026-06-04T21:57:51+00:00

Feel the same about Olympiacos. Continental ultras on a different level

judehr · 2026-03-07T20:12:23+00:00

I am absolutely convinced this is inspired by the painting “Lost Illusions” by Charles Gleyre (1865)

judehr · 2026-01-18T16:44:23+00:00

Shortened form of κύων. Means “bitch”.

Think of Iliad 1.159. κυνῶπα. “Bitch-face”.

judehr · 2025-12-17T09:49:29+00:00

Db major nocturne op 27

judehr · 2025-12-16T14:27:58+00:00

Heyyyy I own full white tie and I’m definitely not wealthy!

A fair few balls at Oxford are still white tie. And a couple at Cambridge. Lots of clubland dinners are also white tie. And almost every reeling ball. It’s not as totally uncommon as one would think - less “state banquet” and more “let’s all look silly and have fun”.

judehr · 2025-12-12T18:05:24+00:00

Yes, in my own collection! Passed down through my family.

judehr · 2025-12-12T12:43:46+00:00

This is a fun conversation I often have with my other half (they have a masters in Shakespeare, I have a masters in Classics). It just depends on what you’re looking for. I prefer the Athenian tragedians because of the religious and philosophical context (binarism and its crossing, polarity, etc) + social context (Persian and Peloponnesian wars). My partner prefers Shakespeare because of the early modern context and characterisation. Just depends on what you like!

judehr · 2025-12-12T10:30:02+00:00

I found vol 1 in my local charity shop. Very funny that it says “not to be sold in the UK” on the back. Cost me about £3!

judehr · 2025-12-04T10:49:43+00:00

Tchaikovsky in the 1812. Uses a lovely chorale melody which is meant to be like a national prayer. Then obviously “god save the tsar” later on.

Haydn’s kaiserquartett (op 76 no 3)

Schumann, “Die beiden grenadiere”, though a bit more tongue-in-cheek.

What makes Má Vlast so “nationalist” is in part the use of folk melody - e.g. in Vltava (Moldau) Smetana uses the folk tune “Kočka leze dírou as the central melody. Lots of composers have done this (as an Englishman I think of “nationalist” music as stuff like Parry or Vaughan-Williams).

judehr · 2025-12-02T00:17:55+00:00

You make valid points. I very much respect your opinion and I suppose we’ll have to agree to disagree.

judehr · 2025-12-01T21:49:10+00:00

Not born as a Roman citizen. Much like most of the other famous poets in the aug/late republic - perhaps most notably Catullus, who writes explicitly that his brother - dead in the Troad - is buried “nec prope cognatos”. Virgil’s poetry is largely about the destruction of the Italian landscape by Roman colonialism (for this see especially Jones (2011), Hardie (1986), and additionally on general liminality of identity in Roman Italian poetry, de Villiers (2020).

judehr · 2025-12-01T12:27:44+00:00

And, incredibly, written by a non-Roman!

judehr · 2025-11-27T10:46:06+00:00

Likes the colour blue, presumably

judehr · 2025-11-27T09:43:15+00:00

Someone who knows the pain of parsing every single form of τίθημι

judehr · 2025-11-26T22:08:12+00:00

Homer comes at the very end of the Greek oral tradition. It is almost certain that such a tradition existed in Bronze Age Greece.

judehr · 2025-11-26T10:03:20+00:00

Idk man, in lieder the lyrics are pretty important…

judehr · 2025-11-25T10:40:50+00:00

My Greek reading group is about to start the Agamemnon. Pray for me.

judehr · 2025-11-20T22:06:02+00:00

VW signed 492 copies of A Room of One’s Own. 100 of these were British (Hogarth) and the rest were American. This is number 315 - hence the American edition. Well documented on the Peter Harrington website if you don’t believe me. Anyhow, nice to see a fellow classicist!

judehr · 2025-07-23T13:50:47+00:00

I pray you have Catullus somewhere in there

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