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Song of Ilion 【イリオンの唄】
“The Iliad has always been an oral tradition, and it’s your dream to write a fully composed version of it. Travel around Greece and collect fragments of the tale to create a story that will be told for thousands of years to come.”
My Famicase entry for this year! The Iliad is my all time favorite book so I wanted to finally make a tribute to it. It was really fun to work on and I really enjoyed adding little bits of easter eggs into it. Thank you always, Satoshi-san and Meteor Club for your hardwork in putting together Famicase! I sourced this post to the 2021 entries, please check them out ^.^/
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laying in bed with my diary kicking my legs in the air and writing with a pink glitter gel pen “I <3 readings of orestes and electra as twins”
Ch. 5, Page 37.
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Apollo’s clearly not paid quite enough to cope with all this DRAMAH, of which he’s absolutely out of, it’s just Theban blood making Dionysos all that extra, the Olympic counterpart has nothing to do with it.
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*clown music starts playing*
Mars Bar, a Latin poem by Herbert H Huxley (please read this out loud):
Est praedulcis esu Mars-Bar.
Nil est cibo tuo, Mars, par.
Tune vis beatum larem?
Habe promptum Martem-Barem.
Captus dono Martis-Baris
Helenam liquisset Paris.
Dum natabunt ponto scari,
Dentur laudes Marti-Bari!
*scarus is a type of fish (the parrotfish)
My (loose) English translation:
Outstandingly sweet is the Mars Bar,
To your food, Mars, there is no par.
Do you need some holy favour?
Offer up the Mar Bars’ flavour.
Paris would never have been a felon,
if offered a bar in place of Helen.
As long as fish swim in the sea,
praises to the Mars Bar be!
(I found this poem on the Wikipedia page for The Motor Bus, which is also an incredibly funny poem for anyone who knows anything at all about the Latin language.)
In addition to Latin, I see quite a bit of myth being used in the world. So I’m going to start including some of those examples on here as well. I’ll be using the tag mythinglinks.
As always, submissions are welcome!!
I LEARNED RECENTLY THAT PLATO WON THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE OLYMPICS FOR WRESTLING THREE TIMES. THIS PUTS A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THINGS. I ALWAYS IMAGINED PLATO TO BE FRAIL AND MISSHAPEN BUT HE MUST HAVE BEEN FRICKEN RIPPED. I WONDER IF ARISTOTLE EVER FELT ANXIETY ABOUT GETTING PHYSICALLY (I.E. NOT JUST METAPHYSICALLY) DISMANTLED BY PLATO. PLATO WAS PROBABLY PISSED OFF BY AT LEAST A HANDFUL OF QUESTIONS ARISTOTLE ASKED HIM. ARISTOTLE WAS A LITERAL GENIUS TOO. IMAGINE PLATO LECTURING AND WRITING ON A BLACKBOARD AND ARISTOTLE THROWING A COMMENT OUT THERE ABOUT SOME COMPLEX MISSTEP IN PLATO’S LOGIC AND PLATO’S CHALK JUST SNAPS AND ARISTOTLE’S TESTICLES SUCK WAY BACK UP TO WHERE THEY DROPPED FROM, THEN PLATO IN A BLUR APPEARS BESIDE ARISTOTLE SITTING AT HIS DESK AND HE PICKS HIM UP AND SUPLEXES HIS MACEDONIAN ASS.
given the content of a lot of Plato’s conclusions I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Plato responded to a lot of reasonable criticisms with “Fight me” and that was the end of it.
We’re not actually sure whether Plato is his real name! Some people speculate that, because Platon means “broad” in Greek, this was actually his wrestling nick name. Basically, it’s like Dwayne Johnson became a famous philosopher and everyone still called him “The Rock”.
More and more I wish we kind of had time traveling capabilities.
Now I can’t stop thinking about Plato looking like The Rock
Inktober 2 and 3, Médée
The magician who dismembered her brother to slow down her pursuers and has a chariot drawn by two dragons. Things were more simple back in -150.
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libitinarius, ~(i)i, m. [prec.+-ARIVS]
A (funeral) undertaker.
dissignatores et ~ios SEN.Ben.6.38.4; quam honestam negotiationem exercuit..~ius fuit PETR.38.15; 78.6; si ~ius seruum pollinctorem habuerit ULP.dig.14.3.5.8.
clauiger1 ~era ~erum, a. [CLAVA+-GER]
Carrying, or armed with, a club (esp. as epithet of Hercules)
~eram..Vulcani..prolem(i.e. Periphetes) OV.Met.7.437; ~eri..Herculis 15.284; heros..~er Fast.1.544; 4.68; ~eri..numinis SIL.3.14; (as sb.) hunc super incumbens..~er adloquitur OV.Met.15.22.
clauiger2 ~era ~erum, a. [next+-GER]
Carrying a key, key-bearing.
placidis..~erum uerbis adloquor ipse deum (i.e. Janus) OV.Fast.1.228.
adv. compar. ~ius [ARCANVS+-O]
In confidence, secretly.b in one’s inner thoughts, privately.
hunc (librum) .. lege ~o conuiuis tuis CIC.Att.16.3.1; ipse ~o cum paucis familiaribus suis colloquitur CAES.Civ.1.19.2.b quid.. ~ius iudicem COL.3.2.32.
![stickfiguregods:Wait, arbor might mean squid???arbor ~oris, f. [dub.] FORMS: arbos VERG.G.2.66, 4.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/edb769359d7cd70f274b51965d87c84c/tumblr_ojhebgjzzg1svme7ro1_1280.jpg "stickfiguregods:Wait, arbor might mean squid???arbor ~oris, f. [dub.] FORMS: arbos VERG.G.2.66, 4.")
Wait, arbor might mean squid???
arbor ~oris, f. [dub.] FORMS: arbosVERG.G.2.66, 4.24, A.12.210, v.l. in OV.Fast.1.153, etc., cf. QUINT.Inst.1.4.13;arbosem(=~orem) in PAUL.Fest.p.15M.
1 A tree b (w. species indicated). c (in judicial formula, of gallows). d (as the source of timber). e (applied to marine plants).
(skipping sources for those^)
2 (sg) Trees. (skipping source for this one, too)
3 The trunk of a tree (source skip)
4a A wooden beam or post in an olive press. bthe mast (of a ship). can oar. d a spear-shaft (source skip again)
5 A marine animal, perh. a kind of squid.
in Gaditano oceano ~or..uastis dispansa ramis PLIN.Nat.9.8; 32.144.
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adv. [FASTIDIVM+-ILIS+TER]
In the manner of one who is hard to please.
auet habere et non habere ~VAR.Men.78.
[MODEROR+-TRIX]
1 A (female) controller or manager.
eius (materiae) . . uniuersae fictricem et ~icem diuinam esse prouidentiam CIC.N.D.3.92; aracanae ~ix Cynthia noctis STAT.Theb.10.365; centeni ~ix iudicis hasta Silv.4.4.43; GEL.17.11.6
2 One who restrains.
ut illaec hodie quot modis ~ix <linguae> fuit atque inmemorabilis! PL.Cist.538; temperantia . . quae sit ~ix omnium..commotionum CIC.Tusc.5.42; nisi illa ~ix ratio compescuit SEN.Ep.74.19.
3 One who regulates or determines.
si ~ix omnium rerum praesto est sapientia CIC.Inv.1.5; ~ix offici curia Flac.57; hanc (sc. rem publicam) sibi iudicem constituit; hanc ~icem omnium..factorum Phil.5.50.
