Join @saveancientstudies.bsky.social for this year's Halloween Bash. Many events for a week and a good place to support not only the Ancient Studies, but the Humanities and a diversity of voices from scholars worldwide!
04.10.2025 07:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Living Classical Languages Society
Try out an exciting way of learning and fully absorbing Latin or Greek or Akkadian! Living Classical Languages is all about enjoying our languages by speaking them.
SALVÉTE! XAÍPETE! LŪ ŠULMUM! Interested in learning Latin or Greek or Akkadian? Our friends at Living Classical Languages have asked us to share info about their FREE weekly workshops. For details and contacts visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
03.10.2025 10:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
White text over a black and white photo of the spines of antiquarian books:
"There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them."
Bernard Malamud, "The Fixer"
Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday. I'm using mine to read.
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20.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Background is a black and white photo of the famous headless "Nike of Samothrace" on display at the Louvre. White text over the image reads as follows:
And Agamemnon the lord of men consented quickly:
‘That’s no lie, old man—a full account you give
of all my acts of madness. mad, blind I was!
Not even I would deny it.
Why look, that man is worth an entire army,
the fighter Zeus holds dear with all his heart—
how he exalts him now and mauls Achaea’s forces!
But since I was b, lost in my own inhuman rage,
now, at last, I am bent on setting things to rights:
I’ll give a priceless ransom pain for friendship.”
Homer, the Iliad, Book 9, line 136, Translated by Robert Fagles
Despite the heroics of Ajax and Diomedes in earlier books, the Greeks find themselves pinned behind the wall and ditch protecting their ships. At this point in Book IX, Agamemnon realizes he made a mistake in enraging Achilles and begins to try and make amends.
#Classics #Myth
15.07.2025 15:19 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
On the left is a photo of a red-figure Greek vase showing a person playing a stringed instrument. On the right is the following the text:
“they found Achilles there, delighting his heart now,
plucking strong and clear on the fine lyre—
beautifully carved, its silver bridge set firm—
he won from the spoils when he razed Eetion’s city.
Achilles was lifting his spirits with it now,
singing the famous deeds of fighting heroes..”
Homer, The Iliad, Book IX, Line 223
Translated by Robert Fagles
In Book IX of the Iliad, when Agamemnon sends an embassy to make peace with Achilles, they find him playing his lyre, singing tales of the heroes that came before him. I like that Homer shows us this other side of his greatest warrior.
#Myth #Classics 📚💙
15.07.2025 21:25 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana
Kayachev, Boris. Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana. Introduction, Text, Apparatus Criticus, Translation and Commentary. Swansea, UK: Classical Press of Waales, 2020. ISBN 978-1-910589-81-6…
Our final review of the summer on Rhea. Back in September!
Thomas R. Keith reviews Boris Kayachev, "Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana" (Classical Press of Wales 2020).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
24.06.2025 06:04 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
No mood for pics… only relaxation #mulan #dogs_in_claws
13.07.2025 18:03 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Titled ‘Medusa after quarantine’, a cartoon Medusa is shown with completely disheveled snakey hair.
Medusa cartoon where she and all the snake heads in her hair are wearing PPE masks.
Medusa in the Time of Covid.
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️
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03.02.2025 14:36 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you!!! Glad to join the group!! 😁😁
03.02.2025 09:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sign the Petition
Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree
Save the Cardiff Ancient History petition has now over 3400 signatures. Sign, share and join @flintdibble.bsky.social at 6pm for a discussion with @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social on YouTube to hear more. www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
02.02.2025 08:14 — 👍 50 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 1
I do not know what the future holds
I do know we all should actively participate in how it is shaped
The only way to do that is to do it
This is not a time to be silent. This is not a time to blame others
This is a time to gather courage. This is a time to speak up and build community
02.02.2025 12:42 — 👍 172 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of 'New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese', edited by Manolis Pagkalos and Andrea Scarpato. It has a photo of column drums from Olympia, Greece.
This book is the result of long sustained effort by the editors, Manolis Pagkalos and Andrea Scarpato - both are on the Bad Place but not here yet, but big props to them. Buy your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-persp...
You can also DM me for a PDF of my chapter
06.12.2024 10:08 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
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SASA promotes interest in all fields of Ancient Studies by uniting graduate students & engaging high school & college students.
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Assistant Professor of Classics, Colby College. CHS Fellow 2025-6. Co-Chair of @ecoclassicalcaucus.bsky.social. Research focuses on deep time, geological processes and environmental change in classical texts
Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Liverpool. Formerly Early Career Research Associate at the ICS, London. Roman trees, architecture and environmental pollution, cats (not Roman), hockey. He/him.
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Mature aged student, Uni of Queensland, since 2018: ancient history, Latin, ancient Greek.
After a short break, back to advanced Greek, Sem 1, 2025.
Whatever I do in life, I want Athena on my side. 📷: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Classics. Languages. Cat. Violin.
Online lexica for Greek authors linked with 19th century print. So far Thucydides (Bétant), Plato (Ast), next: Aristophanes
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Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social
Political Thought and Intellectual History. Posting from the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Classical Studies at the Open University. Thinks a lot about making humanities education accessible.
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Marie-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Writing a commentary on the Hesiodic Catalogue. Also works on the intellectual history of ancient Rhodes, and the Herculaneum papyri.
