@wildobliquities.bsky.social is this you with eminent archaeologist, illustrator, and science communicator Jens Notroff?

Artists! BlueSky is the perfect place to socialize and shoot the breeze. I'm creating a starter pack of artists who are open to questions and chatting about art (their own and art in general) without making anyone feel stupid or guilted into buying something. Comment to be on this list #art #artists

"That goddess Atē, senior daughter of Zeus—she makes everyone veer off-course that disastrous one, the one who has delicate steps. She never makes contact with the ground of the threshold, never even going near it, but instead she hovers over the heads of men, bringing harm to mortals" Il:19.91-3

While you were sleeping www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPO7...

Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain

"humans devised strategies to experience the sacred. These strategies allowed the supernatural to be authentically presented to the human worshiper, on the one hand, and offered confirmation to humans that the things they did were noticed by the gods, on the other." www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

Anne Hathaway as Penelope: Sweet hearts, great Odysseus is indeed dead, still do not press me to marry again immediately, wait, for I would not have skill in weaving perish unrecorded, till I have completed a shroud for the hero Laertes, to be in readiness against the time when death shall take him.

I tried this once. Named them Bonnie and Clyde. They completely destroyed everything in sight. A herd of drunken elephants would have caused less damage. No break-ins for the entire time they were there though 👍

@phyllida.bsky.social a Christmas cat for you

One for the academics 🎄

For the South Africans on here: Zapiro's GNU-themed Christmas card

Zeus looked angrily at him and said, "Do not come whining here, you who lean both ways. I hate you worst of all the gods in Olympus, for you are ever fighting and making mischief ... you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans". Il.5.889-899

2025

Fueled by a yearning for revenge following repeated rejection and mocking early in life, the ugly duckling grew up to become a ruthless dictator and oppressor of ducks everywhere.

This 1974 photo shows, with startling immediacy, a group of freshly-excavated 2,000 year-old Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an, China, with their original vibrant colours. Once exposed to air & sunlight during excavation, the colours started to disappear almost immediately www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Compilation of scale studio drawings for assemblage sculptures (from left: Penelope ΑΡΕΤΗ, Kirke ΦΑΙΝΩ, Menelaos ΒΟΑΩ, and Helena ΑΕΘΛΟΝ). Ink, and marker on paper. #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse

Apollo ΝΟMΟΣ, assemblage (fishing buoy, spring calipers, hand-forged calipers, camping stove, light fixture ceiling hook cup, combination square blades, pencil sharpener, tracing wheel, saltshaker, gate valve head, toast rack parts, pepper grinder, wood, paint). #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture

Kalypso ΚΡΥΠΤΩ, Penelope ΑΡΕΤΗ, and Kirke ΦΑΙΝΩ, assemblage #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture

Nestor ΝΟΟΣ, assemblage #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #Sculpture

Asklepios ΟΙΞΕΣΘΑΙ and Herakles ΑΘΑΝΑΤΑΙ, assemblage #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse

"Eris whose fury never tires, sister and friend of manslaughtering Arēs, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she raises her head to the sky ... She it was that went about among them and flung down discord to the waxing of sorrow with even hand between them." (Iliad.4.440-445)

"Those, again, of Tricca and the stony region of Ithome, and they that held Oikhalia, the city of Oikhalian Eurytos, these were commanded by the two sons of Asklepios, skilled in the art of healing, Podaleirios and Makhaon." (Entry 25, Catalogue of Ships, Iliad)

Waking the Statues: Craig Dongoski at the Hellenic Museum, Melbourne - open until March 2026 www.hellenic.org.au/exhibitions/...

"who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans? But their number I could not tell nor name (not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths and a voice that was unbreaking, and if a heart of bronze were within me) if the Muses of Olympus, of Zeus the aegis-bearer the daughters, did not remind me"

"the narrator (who calls himself Hesiod) reflects also on the medium that allows him to present his teaching, i.e. language. His use of etymology as an instrument ... implies a certain understanding of the way in which language works, or as we might call it, a 'philosophy of language'." A. Vergados

"What’s missing now is the imagination to reject art that trades in well-worn formulas, stock emotions, and immediate comprehensibility and pursue work that expands the possibilities of human perception. Doing so requires creators to strive for complexity, ambiguity, and formal experimentation"

@edrybicki.bsky.social a special treat

Presenting The Magnificent Sophia as a Reclining Odalisque for #caturday

Absolutely essential information:

#classicalreception #ancientbluesky

"There they are, poised to descend from the topmost peak of snowy Olympus. That is where they have their bright dancing-places and their beautiful abodes. Near them the Kharites [Graces] and Himeros [Desire] have their abodes, amidst festivities." Hesiod, Theogony 62-65

Artist William Kentridge discussing Philip Guston's "The Studio" (1969): "it's a double self-portrait. You've got the artist painting the artist, painting the artist. So it's a painting about what happens in the studio." www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_0a...

"Kleio Play" In Hesiod's catalogue of Muses in the "Theogony", the first Muse he names is Kleio. Her name derives from 'kleos' a term that denotes an account of significant events that a singer receives from the Muses (who witnessed it) and transmits to an audience (who imagines it).

"When a year was up, and the seasons came round as the months were waning and the many days were coming to fulfillment, she [Mnemosyne] gave birth to nine daughters, all like-minded, who have song on their minds, in their breast. They have a thūmos without worries." (Hesiod Theogony 58-61).

"They [the Muses] were born to be the forgetting of misfortunes and the cessation of worries. For nine nights did Zeus the Planner lie coupled with their mother [Mnemosyne/Memory], entering her holy bed, remote from the immortals." www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_My...

As threatened, here is a very non-slick video of Melpomene in action.

"They are the Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Zeus. They were born in Pieria. The father was Zeus, son of Kronos. Their mother, who mated with him, was Mnemosyne [Memory], who rules over the heights of Eleuther." (Hesiod, Theogony. 50-55)

About bloody time.

"The 2024 Oxford Ancient Languages Society performance of Euripides' Orestes. In the original Ancient Greek, with a freshly edited text and a complete new musical score, written in accordance with all that is known of Euripidean music." www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...

Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom

They sing how much he is the most important of the gods and the greatest in power. Then again, they sing of the genos of men and of the strong Giants, thus pleasing the noos of Zeus, who abides in Olympus. Hesiod, Th. 49-50 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9dd...

a matter of reverence, starting from the beginning, telling about who were generated from Earth [Gaia] and the vast Sky [Ouranos], and what gods, givers of good things, were born from them. Next, they sing of Zeus, father of gods and men, both when they begin and when they end their song. (Th.44-48)

Glad is the palace of father Zeus the loud-thunderer over the delicate voice of the Muses which reaches far and wide. It echoes against the peaks of snowy Olympus and the abodes of the immortals. And they send forth an immortal voice as they give kleos first to the genos of the gods Hes., Th.40-44

They tell of things that are, that will be, and that were before, having their words fitted together as they sound forth. And their voice pours forth without ever being worn down, coming sweetly from their mouths. (Hesiod, Th.36-39)

But why should I care about those things that keep going around an oak or a rock? Listen! Let me begin with the Muses, who please Zeus the father with their song, pleasing his great nóos as he abides in Olympus. (Hesiod, Th. 35-36)

Foil Arms and Hog take the Roman citizenship test:

Then they breathed into me a voice, a godlike one, so that I may make glory [kleos] for things that will be and things that have been, and then they told me to sing how the blessed ones were generated, the ones that are forever, and that I should sing them [the Muses] first and last. (Th. 31-34)

Aristophanes has come to BlueSky

That is how they spoke, those daughters of great Zeus, who have words that fit perfectly together, and they gave me a scepter, a branch of flourishing laurel, having plucked it. And it was a wonder to behold. (Hesiod, Th. 29-31)