I love assassins creed odyssey but I will never forgive it for teaching me the modern greek pronounciation of ancient greek locations…no anglophone scholar takes me seriously when I say “vee-o-tía” instead of beotia… the modern greek just sounds so much better
“I call upon Helios + Thoth + Christ + Jewish God + Hekate and Ten Thousand Angels + Ten Thousand Demons + Hermes + John + Paul + George + Ringo + L + Ratio to make the other team’s racehorse shit itself and die”
I will be acting as a student ambassador at the Oxbridge Classics open day next Monday! If you have any questions about studying at Oxford or applications, etc, or you just want to attend some free Oxbridge lectures (from my own tutors), there are still online tickets available! Or, if anybody’s going in person, I look forward to seeing you in Cambridge
I was going to write a little something about Charles Dickens and I started reading up on him and I couldn’t think how I could summarise Dickens in just a couple of sentences. Plus everyone knows who Dickens is. So, I’m just going to leave you with a few of my favourite quotes.
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
The bridge opened to traffic in December 1909. In 1910, the firm Carrère and Hastings began drawing up plans for a grand entry to the bridge on the Manhattan side. Construction began that year, the plans were finalized in 1912, and the arch and colonnade were completed in 1915.
The entry was inspired by the Porte Saint-Denis in Paris (which in turn was inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome). Carl Augustus Heber sculpted the pylons, and Charles Rumsey sculpted the “Buffalo Hunt” frieze.
A wall fresco of Paris abducting Helen by force, in a villa in Venice (Italy, mid-1700s).
Paris was asked to judge a beauty contest between Hera, Aphrodite and Athena. Each tried to bribe him, and he chose Aphrodite, because she promised him the most beautiful woman in the world – Helen of Sparta.
Helen was married to King Menelaus of Sparta, which Aphrodite hadn’t actually told Paris. He broke into Menelaus’ house to steal her from him. In some accounts, she fell in love with him and went willingly; in others, she was taken by force.
Helen was famous for her beauty, and Odysseus advised her father Tyndareus to make all her suitors promise to defend her marriage to the man he chose for her. Therefore, when Paris abducted Helen, Menelaus was able to call them to help him get her back. This started the Trojan War.
