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.