Recently I asked my students to introduce a song that makes reference to a myth, and I was quite pleased that they came up with ones that I had never heard of before. So here is the 2024 edition in the comments (I'll add more as the last few coming trickling in).

So, I have been gone for quite a while but that is because I got a lecturing job at my local university. While I am technically teaching English, one of my classes in particular asked me to do Greek mythology. As media students they've been having a ball essentially doing basic reception studies.

I made an Attic Greek joke! Friend: So, what is your favourite word in Attic Greek? Me: Hmm, ἐπιλανθάνομαι (epilanthanomai) Friend: What does it mean? Me: I forget! 🤷🏻‍♀

Orestes pursued by the Furies and protected by Apollo after killing his mother Clytemnestra Apulian red-figure volute krater with masks from Ruvo di Puglia, now Museo Archeologico Bari (Santa Scolastica) 🏺 AncientBlueSky

for a 1st-yr seminar I put together a series of "how to read" guides andrewjacobs.org/core2/how2es... andrewjacobs.org/core2/how2th... andrewjacobs.org/core2/how2bo... andrewjacobs.org/core2/how2do... andrewjacobs.org/core2/how2de... andrewjacobs.org/core2/how2pr... andrewjacobs.org/core2/how2pr...

Dec 13 hybrid conference - The Afterlife of the Greco-Persian Wars: From Antiquity to Modern Times - hybrid/Kyoto University, Japan  forms.gle/ApSnocfETXme...

It was a bit a rough month for one reason and then another, so #classicstober ended up a bust. I did, however, manage to get one drawing done of this Etruscan carnelian engraved gem of Ajax and Cassandra. Getty Collection No. 2019.13.10 (Original: www.getty.edu/art/collecti...)

Throwback. My version of the Amazon queen Penthesilia. Ink on paper.

Throwback. After doing the initial drawing I was messing around with manga filters on Clip Studio. Marble bust of Polydeukes c. 165 CE. Referenced from a photo by @profyarrow.bsky.social. 🎨 🏺 AncientBlueSky

One of my elderly ESL students that I teach in the evenings at the community center just apologized to me for using “Google-Chan” to help her work something out. I asked why the -Chan suffix and she says, because it’s her friend.

Throwback. My interpretation of Phanes, the Orphic god of Light and the Firstborn from the Cosmic Egg. "...throughout this world you brought pure light. For this I call you Phanes..." - Hymn 6 to Protogonos. The Orphic Hymns. Trans. Athanassakis, A. 1977. 🎨 🏺 AncientBlueSky

Rural, ineffable, two-form'd, obscure, two-horn'd, with ivy crown'd, euion, pure. Bull-fac'd, and martial, bearer of the vine, endu'd with counsel prudent and divine: Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn, of Jove and Proserpine, occultly born. - Hymns of Orpheus (Taylor) AncientBlueSky

Last year I did a Wonder Woman as Amazon paper-doll booklet for the Wonder Woman for President 2022: 50 Years of Kick-Ass Feminism conference. You can still download the PDF here and print yourself a dress-up paper-doll to colour! wonderwomanforpresident2022.wordpress.com/wonder-woman...

Throwback. This is still one of my favourite pieces of art. An Etruscan bronze cista lid done on scratch-board. (And let me say that just scratching the ink almost wrecked my wrist, I cannot imagine engraving it into metal!) 🏺🎨 AncientBlueSky www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Throwback. My patrons can (regardless of their tier) earn a commission. In this case one asked for my take on the "Triple Goddess". I feel that the crone aspect is neglected in the modern world so she's the focus. And being African, she just has to be the Mama. 🎨https://www.patreon.com/bronwen

I have to confess that despite being a drama / classics double major, I never liked the ancient plays; not reading them, nor performing them. And I just don't /get/ comedy, modern or ancient. But gosh... has this turned me around completely. It's brilliant! AncientBlueSky youtu.be/Cr9bHa3xrV8?...

Sometimes I like to play word games when I do Latin translation. Wherever I look, there is nothing, save sea and sky; this swollen with surf, that suppressing with storm. quocumque aspicio, nihil est, nisi pontus et aer, fluctibus hic tumidus, nubibus ille minax. (Ovid, Tristia 1.2.24-25)

I more imaginative drawing. This is Arke (twin sister to Iris) who is feeling for the wings that Zeus tore off her back as punishment for siding with the Titans. I wrote a piece reflecting on the violence and her potential erasure on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/59352310 🏺🎨 AncientBlueSky

Throwback art. Roman cavalry mask/helmet. I'm sorry, but I didn't save the details of the artefact I referenced. 🙇🏻‍♀️ 🏺🎨 AncientBlueSky

Throwback art. Not /everything/ I do is classical artefact based. Here's a piece called 'Dreaming Awake'. 🎨

Throwback drawing. The "Winged Horses of Tarquinia". 4th c. BCE. Terracotta. National Museum of Tarquinia. 🏺AncientBlueSky 🎨 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged-...

Throwback drawing. Toddler Apollo and Artemis slaying Python. 5th c. BCE Etruscan bronze mirror from Cerveteri. Villa Giulia 51109. 🏺🎨 AncientBlueSky Original on Wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...

Throwback drawing. Stele Kallidemos, son of Kalliades. ca. 350–325 B.C. Greek, Attic. Now in the MET Museum (www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...) AncientBlueSky 🏺

Another throwback. This was a painful piece but I love it! I might try and colour it some time. I'm not certain on the details but it is an Etruscan shield that apparently came from the Tomba Castellani in Palestrina and is now held in the Museo nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia. 🏺AncientBlueSky

- Student librarian (architecture library) - Beginner class kung fu instructor - Research assistant to classics professor (aka, 'please get my manuscript off this floppy disk, my new computer only has a CD drive') 🤣 - Digital literacy teacher (aka 'no... you need to double click. Yes, click click!')

More throwback art while I clean out my account on the other site. Applique for a funeral couch. Etruscan/Italic. 150-50 BCE. www.getty.edu/art/collecti... 🏺 AncientBlueSky

Throwback. Etruscan pendant with granulation (omg, I'm never trying to draw granulation again!). 🏺 AncientBlueSky art.thewalters.org/detail/27121...

Just a reminder of @sportula.bsky.social book donation sheet. I've received a textbook, as well as a PDF scan of an obscure book I need to finish my Masters through this list. I also sent off two extra copies I had around the world. Plz help support! a🏺AncientBlueSky docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Throw-back. Ink drawing of an Etruscan gorgon antefix drawing in the MET. (Inv. No. 1991.171.44)

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How many years of Latin (or Greek!) did it take until you felt confident enough in translating that you didn't need someone to double check for you? 🏺

Heads up - it’s the ClassicsTober ‘23 prompts list! A theme this year: ✨Ancient Greek Myth Characters✨ Join me and @corabeth.bsky.social to make/post art, texts, artefacts, videos, stories, translations, anything you’re interested in from the Ancient Med World that fits with the prompt!

I am looking forward to being PhDone and having time to draw again.

Does anyone have access to this book? Napolitano, S 2005, L'antiquaria settecentesca tra Napoli e Firenze: Felice Maria Mastrilli e Gianstefano Remondini, Edifir, Florence. I need pages 26-28, which reproduce a letter by Capaccio (or written by Adriano Spatafora and quoted by Capaccio).

I'm sure this has done the rounds before but I haven't posted it here. This is currently one of my fav classical reception songs. When I finally get to teach, we're starting day 1 with this. How many references can you pick out? youtu.be/ZlTcH1CJT88?...

Enjoy the poem my friend wrote based on lines from Sappho and my accompanying illustration! AncientBluesky art www.patreon.com/posts/sapphi...

If you'd like to know more about who we are, what we do, how we fund it, and how to get involved, check out our #FAQ: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I woke up to find this in the fridge. My SO made a pan of fudge last night while we were all sleeping. If they think this will stop puella and me from having fudge for breakfast, they are very sadly mistaken. 🤣

Five Perfect Albums: (Warning: I have weird taste in music.) 1. Mediaeval Baebes, *Salva Nos* (1997) 2. Florence + the Machine, *Ceremonials* (2011) 3. Dead Can Dance, *Within the Realm of a Dying Sun* (1987) 4. K.D. Lang, "Recollection" (2010) 5. Marina, *Electric Heart* (2012)

Maybe my new Latin friends here can help me solve this. Sneks in the Aeneid. II.204 - "gemini ... angues" - twin snakes VI.281 - "vipereum crinem" - [Discord's] snaky locks VI.419 - "colla colubris" - [Cerberus'] snaky neck/collar What are the differences in nuance here? ClassicsBluesky

Enjoy the poem my friend wrote based on lines from Sappho 26 and 130, and my accompanying illustration! AncientBluesky art www.patreon.com/posts/sapphi...

13 movies to get to know me: 1. The Man Who Knew Infinity 2. Alexander 3. Dune 4. Tolkien 5. The Most Reluctant Convert 6. The Kingdom of Heaven 7. Inception 8. 火垂るの墓 (Grave of the Fireflies) 9. The Neverending Story 10. Agora 11. Life of Pi 12. Ammonite 13. Sarafina

Trying to translate more and get more comfortable with my Latin. See the translation and comments on my blog. Feedback is most welcome! libelli.substack.com/p/catullus-c... AncientBluesky

Pondering big thoughts about what I'm doing wrong on Patreon. I've been on Patreon for eight years, almost since the platform started. I refuse to paywall my art, and I've experimented with paywalling WIP stuff but don't like it. (cont....)

Being a remote PhD student, I can't tutor at my university officially. However, I offered to do one-on-ones with the Latin undergrads if they were struggling (I get it - I barely passed my undergrad Latin). I got a response and taught Catullus 13. Such fun and a good feeling to be able to help out.

I'm working in collaboration with a poet friend of mine who decided to write using the fragments of Sappho that I previously used for my Illustrated Sappho book. You can read here poem and see the accompanying art here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sapphic-pining-87609981

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Throwback. "Penthesileia" (2019, ink on paper). Ancientbluesky 🏺#art