emilyenrose:

The thing that gets to me about ancient literature, the reason I ended up a classicist instead of doing English like all my teachers thought I should, is that feeling, that moment, when you are reading something written by a stranger literally millennia ago (do you know how long ago 1850 BC is, it’s nearly four thousand years, that’s a lot of time) and you think:

oh, you too, huh?