Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

the anime jaadugar: a witch in mongolia contains more information in the first two episodes about the transmission of ancient greek literature during the islamic golden age than i was taught in three years of my undergrad classics degree. go watch it

will be presenting on the lyric forms modern worlds panel at ccc! anyone else going?

Hey #Classics folks! A former student asked me about this red-figure cup featuring a seated Dionysus and a dancing maenad wearing "satyr breeches." I can't think of other examples of women dressed as satyrs, so it seems super interesting! Anybody know of other examples (or scholarship I should rec)?

apparently hell maiden is gonna have more ancient poet characters for the full game release... i'm hoping for sappho and euripides but unsure if they'll only stick to people who appear in the divine comedy 👀

should it be sapphect. or sapffect or saffect

damn pinterest is sooo undertheorised < normal statement

really grinds my gears when scholars claim that certain social media or fandom spaces are inherently progressive just because of their demographics like. tumblr and its fan cultures are often deeply misogynistic despite being largely full of women and queer people. have you ever used this platform??

desperately searching for this painting that i've been shown in various art history lectures over the years - it's probably 18th/19th century and depicts art from different ancient cultures all lined up in the order of value that european collectors supposed it to have. does anyone know the title?

Next up in our director's reception series! A lecture from Sean Gurd (University of Texas) titled "Tangents and Parabolas: Varèse and the Brussels World Fair." The lecture is free to attend and open to all. 🎟️ buytickets.at/theinstitute... ⏰March 11th, 5-6:30PM 📍Online, Zoom

Lunar New Year Romans using in 2026 consuls to date their years during the reign of Caligula 🤝 Year of the Horse

i wish there was an app or some kind of wider network where academics specifically could trade and give away their old or unwanted books. all the best stuff in my library has come from book giveaways when scholars have retired or moved offices

working on a piece of web-based interactive classics media and stymied by the fact that my two websites are both related to personal art projects (game dev, drag) which i hesitate to hitch up to my Real Life Name And Profession at this moment in time. feels absurd to have to build a third website

my research in particular lends well to bizarre bibliography juxtapositions

🏛️ NEW EVENT SERIES 🏛️ The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity. The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th. www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...

This morning's #imageoftheweek is this illuminated illustration of Iliad 16, in which Achilles sacrifices to Zeus for Patroclus' safe return from battle. This image is from the 5th century CE Ambrosian Iliad, a unique and beautiful manuscript. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #achilles

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finished my initial tiktok data collection horrifying: the number of people claiming that sappho is the only known female poet from ancient greece or rome delightful: this one girl with a horse called sappho

mary barnard titles sappho's leto and niobe fragment 'before they were mothers'; willis barnstone titles it 'before the murder'

Call for papers | “Gender and Deities of Greco-Roman Myth in Music Videos” (International Journal of the Classical Tradition) 👥 Guest Editors: @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social & Sílvia Catarina Pereira Diogo 🗓️ Deadline: June 20th, 2025 🏺 antiquipop.hypotheses.org/ijct-gender-...

The Classical Association is offering (paid, remote) internships this summer. There are 4/6/8 week placements available. Closing date: 8 June, applicants must be UK based and aged 18 or older at the time of the internship. Further details are all here: https://classicalassociation.org/internships/

I think one of the most important steps you can take towards real interdisciplinarity is being brave enough to engage in real conversations with people who study things you don't know anything about

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Today's #imageoftheweek is this statue of the dying Achilles by Christophe Veyrier, from 1683. Note: the cherub trying valiantly to remove the arrow from his heel. Statue is in the V&A, photo by our intern.

no one more woeful than the scholar of ancient monsters forced to read 1000000 student exam papers responding to a question about monsters by talking about uhhhhhhh circe, odysseus, the gods in general, calypso

what do you mean bristol library doesnt have an ebook of redeeming the text

all philological attempts to make sappho less queer have not merely revealed her as queer, but have actively made her even more so

internet archive should have a cute little mascot they can make into a plushie

i would rank this painting as up there with the great god pan (1894) in the category of 'classics and deep time horror'

but how do i pick a plateau

🪴 EVENT REMINDER 🪴 Join us for our 9th annual Morse lecture! Professor Stephen Bann will talk about #classicalreception in Ian Hamilton Finlay's sculpture garden, Little Sparta. #ClassicsSky 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein... ⏰5PM, March 27th 📍University of Bristol, Arts Complex, Room G.H01

woe betide the scholar my students keep citing who said that hector is the only hero whose relationship to his family is portrayed in the iliad... what about achilles and thetis? menelaus and agamemnon? I really think this reading projects the modern primacy of the nuclear family onto the poem!!

#ReliefWednesay: a shot of the front of the #Etruscan bronze Monteleone chariot. It depicts the nereid Thetis giving her son Achilles new armor, fashioned by Hephaestus. The shield - with its apotropaic head of Medusa and a feline face - is remarkable. The provenance is disputed. 🏺 #MetMuseum 📸 me

Our #imageoftheweek today is this beautiful sculpture head from Gandhara (3rd-4th c. CE), representing either Hercules or the bodhisattva Vajrapani. Iconography of Vajrapani in Gandhara was heavily influenced by Greek imagery of Hercules, leading him to be depicted as a muscular man with a club.

I'm at the typing the word 'destiel' into google scholar stage of phd research

alcinous really looks odysseus dead in the eyes and says 'you don't seem like a liar to me'.

Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

idk, is sharing any debunking of misinformation about antiquity tampering with my field of research?

I saw a lot of people reposting this image, which looks like a poorly thought through advert for the new film version of the Odyssey. But, as has since become apparent, it was not an authentic film poster, so let's do a quick thread on how to check. 1/5

it's hard to read the pharsalia when your prevailing visual image of julius caesar still comes from asterix

Getting PhD work done over half term is a bit of a write-off, but I am having a lot of fun introducing myself to Linear B with @annapjudson.bsky.social 's incredibly useful app! apps.apple.com/us/app/learn...

Today's #imageoftheweek comes from the scrapbooks of the modernist poet, H.D. These photomontages collage together images of ancient art with scenes from the poet's life and pictures of people she knew. #ClassicsSky #AncientBluesky #ClassicalReception Image from the Beinecke Library on Flickr.

pharsalia nostra pharsalia illa illa pharsalia. is this anything

i hate it when perseus breaks. Don't Make Me Go To The Loeb Site

Our friends at OutStories Bristol are holding an LGBT+ history day at M-Shed on February 22nd! #LGBTHistoryMonth #LGBTHistoryMonth2025 More information here: outstoriesbristol.org.uk/2024/12/22-f...

Some Roman British art for our #imageoftheweek! This striking mosaic comes from a villa near Rudston in Yorkshire, and depicts an image of Venus in what is thought to be a local style. #ClassicsSky #AncientBluesky

anyone have an article/book chapter recommendation for ovid's heroides 17? either on its own or as a pair with 16, although what's going on with helen is of the most interest. reading it with a student and getting that distinct ovid spidey sense (arachne sense???) that there are layers to be peeled

classical reception in unpopular culture