Classics community, I give you: a crochet grid for how to insult people in Ancient Greek

I have reached new level of nerdiness. I have began to make stitch fiddle crochet colour work grids with Ancient Greek phrases on

Recently I have been seeing a lot of posts on TikTok saying that the Homeric texts are ‘inaccessible’ to many readers. As a Classics student, I think that dubbing these texts as such further cements the unfair reputation of Classics as being an elitist subject. Let’s talk about it.

It is almost 1am and I just got excited about Latin having a diminutive. My life is officially sad

ψυχή, ἡ: soul, life ψυχοανακάλυπτος: soul-baring, revealing ψυχοκλέπτης: soul-thief ψυχοκτόνος:soul-killing ψυχοπλανής: soul-wandering ψυχοπότης: soul drinker (drinking of life, i.e. blood) ψῦχος, τό: cold ψυχρία: cold ψυχοκρασία: growing cold ψυχολογία: frigid talking ψυχρόσαρκος: with cold flesh

Like the cheeky gorgoneion peeking out from under her armpit

Hi! My name’s Em. I’m an undergraduate studying Classics and I really want to connect with my fellow nerds. I aspire one day to be in academia, and my interests are all things Greek literature (but I love Homer and Euripides especially). Follow to see my journey!

Gladiator gravestone from Caria: "He was the strongest of all opponents. He may have been lacking in height, but there were none in the arenas comparable in strength to the utterly mighty [name]. I always feel a pang when the name is lost, but we stan a short king.