My short story 'The Cave' was published a few days ago in a Croatian magazine for speculative fiction. 🥳 If you're into historical settings, queer characters, Greek mythology and dark themes, you might even like it - and I'd love to hear from you if you do! Free download here: morinakutija.com/mag/

Here’s a mid-2nd millennium BCE Mycenaean krater from Rhodes with an octopus design. It’s also nice to see this long tradition of cephalopodine decoration continued to this day in the barber shops of Byron Bay, Australia….. 🏛️BM 📷 me 🏺 AncientBlueSky

Palace of Aigai: Greece reopens huge Alexander the Great monument 🏺ClassicsBluesky BlueskyClassics AncientBluesky 🏛️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...

First read of 2023 ✨📖 This is my first time reading Alcestis and I loved the character of the Nurse, but it's been great to re-read Iphigenia in Tauris with its macabre setting, (not so) subtle disrespect for the gods and Orestes/Pylades at their shenanigans again.

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best part of this is that in context Data is talking about how terrorism can sometimes be pretty useful actually

Alcaeus, walking in on Sappho and Anactoria making out: "get a loom you two."

Hey, freelancers: it's time to raise your rates for 2024. You've gained another year of experience and you deserve to be paid for it.

One of the many things I adore about writing is research. I can spend weeks in this stage and never get close to a wrap up, but the time is never wasted.

it's been YEARS since @narratricenessa.bsky.social tried to get me into P. Djeli Clark... after picking up "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" today, I regret it took me so long 🥲

I do have a plan for this, and yes it includes comic books, novellas and short stories. 😅

The cathedral of Syracuse, Sicily, is a typically wild, ornate baroque extravaganza but inside, & built into its very fabric, are the remains of the vast Doric Temple of Athena built by Gelon after defeating the Carthaginians at Himera in 480BCE. Magnificent 📷mine 🏺 AncientBlueSky ClassicsBlueSky

not an original thought but bears repeating: half of writing is just being allowed time to sit on your ass uninterrupted and think about things really hard until you puzzle them out, which doesn't look or feel like work at all. but it is!

As short and sweet as the sound of a lyre

An Ancient (Archaic) Greek aqueduct from the 6th century BCE that runs for 11.5km on the island of Naxos 🏺 One of many casual reminders that aqueducts weren’t a strictly Roman invention! AncientSky

#PathToMirage #ACVPSisterhood #ACSisterhood #Throwback to Spring 2021 #kassandra #assassinscreed #acodyssey #misthios #playstation4 #ps4 #virtualphotography #myphotography #myphotos #myedit #Picashot picashot.co/shot/bec9622...

"Dark Woods, Deep Water" is out in the world today. If you like dark, Gothic fantasy fuelled by sorrow and rage, if you want vengeful Slavic gods, tired, disillusioned heroes and clever rogues, give it a try. books2read.com/u/mVD7Mr

My boy (finally) looks good 🥹💕 youtu.be/LbpQ8940EZI?... (screenshots by @accesstheanimus.bsky.social ) #BAEsim #AssassinsCreedMirage

The poet Ovid was banished from Rome in 8AD to Tomis (modern Constanța in Romania) by the Emperor Augustus. The council of the city of Rome revoked his exile in December 2017, over 2000 years after his banishment. "My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope." Ovid ancientbluesky

I wanted to order a signed copy of Wilson's Iliad, but Barnes&Noble doesn't ship to Croatia 😭😭😭

mental health walk done ✔️ now to pour a glass of wine and write ❤️ call it a perfect evening! (or more likely edit, since I've foolishly finished a chapter yesterday night 😭)

Cover letters are just self-insert fan fiction.

Ancient Greek Word of Uncertain Provenance of the Day: ἄνθρωπος 'person, human being', first attested in a dative-instrumental form a-to-ro-qo (*ἀνθρώκʷωι) 'with (a figure of) a person' describing an inlaid decoration on a ta-ra-nu *θρᾶνυς 'footstool' in a Linear B inventory list (PY Ta 722.1).

my grand plan yesterday night: I'll start writing at 7 PM so that I finish everything by 11 and head to bed by midnight what really happened: stayed up writing until 2 AM 🫠 I have one week to fix my sleeping schedule before I start working again 😭

The 2 October deadline for HEAVY METAL & GLOBAL PREMODERNITY II is now a month away! Submissions welcome from scholars, musicians, journalists, artists, & fans of metal. The conference will be ALL ONLINE from 15 to 17 March 2024, free & open to all. More info below. AncientBluesky Medievalsky

Beowulf taps into the primal human of fear of defeating someone in combat and then being forced to fight their mom

Learning shouldn’t require loads of cash and permission of an institution via competing hunger games style to match upto some arbitrary criteria. It should be free so that anyone can learn anything, anytime (at any age), anywhere (at any place), anyhow with whoever they want

Khajiit has wares, if you have coin. 😼

Hello! We just launched a Discord channel for refugees from #ClassicsTwitter and anyone interested in saying hello! We've got a bunch of channels including free resources, teacher and student forums, textbook requests, memes, giveaways, career advice, and more. discord.gg/VWBpVgEM

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preordered Mirage! 😍 #AssassinsCreed

a month ago I found Myke Cole's Bronze Lie in my local bookstore and I couldn't believe it (I'd just finished reading it on my Kindle but I bought the physical copy too), and yesterday I found this gem omg 😭

Are you a Hellenic polytheist who worships Persephone and/or Hades? If so, I’d like to invite you to participate in a research project that will look at how Hellenic Polytheists engage with ancient evidence.

I got a much better job offer today 🫠 I'll have to take the afternoon off for some serious decision-making!

Hermes and Dionysus: Then and Now

I ended up in a Greek learning discord - it's all in Greek. this will be an interesting experience 😅

after almost two months of job hunting, I got my first offer. not the thing I was hoping for, but at this point I'm not in a position to choose anymore and I'll have to go with it until I find something that's more in my niche.

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University student here: Please *do* tell us about your new work. I follow many people whose work interests me, and sometimes is relevant to my studies, and I like hearing their latest. Also I love seeing people being proud of their work.

White Lotus Season 3 Murder at Risa

@benrimeshortall.bsky.social sounds like something you'd be interested in!

Hozier: drops new music my chapter notes: new Hozier lyrics embedded in the scenes breakdown the chapter as it exists in the folder: Unearth.docx thank you Hozier 😭

the Cypriot Greek dialect is wild

waiting for the rain announced for this afternoon so I can start writing

last time I was in Greece I had a brainfart one time and forgot how to say "slower" while asking for directions so I just kept nodding and prayed for the best🥲

I hate TW: Rome II because it's so addictive, I can play 10 hrs straight 🫠 uninstalled and ready to spend my time more productively (and probably less fun)