Lily Bickers

I long for a return to 'street style' - a real focus on what people are actually wearing in the world rather than just what they photograph to put on social media. Found this contemporary Tokyo street snap blog recently and I've been totally obsessed with it! www.tumblr.com/tomoike2525

A screencap of an academic bibliography. Almost all of the entries are about the study of the poet Sappho, but one of them is about the fandom for the TV show Supernatural.

one of these just isn't like the others

Will this be hybrid/livestreamed? Would really like to attend but I'm in the UK!

A screencap of an academic bibliography. A citation for an article called 'what is it with lesbians and hozier' appears next to a citation for Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus'.

my research in particular lends well to bizarre bibliography juxtapositions

The poster for the event series. It features a painting of a silhouette of a woman walking down a black and white staircase. The events are to be held at 5-6:30 PM GMT/BST online on Thursdays throughout the year.

🏛️ 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...

A manuscript illustration of a man standing in a tent, pouring a libation over a smoking altar.

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

Artemis as undersea huntress. I found an article that spoke of an Arcadian shrine to a fish-tailed Artemis. This claim seemed dubious, but the image of Artemis as an underwater huntress took hold! She wears a fish scale alopekis and has seals as her companions as they are the dogs of the sea.

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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'

Visual for the call, with a greek vase featuring a pic from the "Rumors" video by Cardi B and Lizzo (depicted as greek godesses)

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/

that's interesting! my college at cambridge didn't have a dining hall like that but i would have really enjoyed that. sometimes i feel like people are more open to cross-disciplinary conversations when they've just met you than when they know you well

I wish more people in the Academy tm could put aside their anxieties about coming across as fully informed about everything all the time because it would really help us engage with one another. not exempting myself from this obviously

and I don't think I knowingly go into these convos assuming or expecting a person to have the same knowledge as I do - I want to talk across and between disciplines! I get why people have this anxiety about classics specifically but it's still frustrating

I've had this frustration since I was an undergrad - with peers who are happy to tell me about their work but clock out of a conversation when I compare/relate it to mine because they 'don't know enough about classics'

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

📣 Four more days to apply! Tell your students! 📣

A statue of a man standing with his back arched and a pained expression on his face. There is an arrow in his heel, which a tiny baby cherub is trying to pull out.

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

put another way sappho is not yet lesbian she may never touch lesbianism but can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality

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'

stuck on the classic 'which chapter would be most strictly relevant to my research' paralysis but with the most poetic and confusing table of contents in the history of scholarship (affectionate)

but how do i pick a plateau

An event poster with the same information given in the post. There is a photograph of a stone slab in a grove of trees and heather.

🪴 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

but at least this has lead me to realise that this (obsession with normative values of the heterosexual nuclear family) is at the bottom of my long-standing loathing of the way hector's encounter with his family in book six is popularly received

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!!