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A print+online #literarymagazine dedicated to creative works regarding Classics including ancient history, literature, anthropology, and archaeology. 🔆
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🔆 Issue 9 is out, and can be read through our Linktree 🔆
A huge thank you to all our readers and contributors, it's an honor as always to platform work about the ancient world with you!
Please consider buying a copy of the issue to support the magazine 🧡
A huge thank you to all our readers and contributors, it's an honor as always to platform work about the ancient world with you!
Please consider buying a copy of the issue to support the magazine 🧡
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Submissions close one week from today! Don't miss your chance. 🤎
We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). 🏛️🏺☀️
We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). 🏛️🏺☀️
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Submissions close one week from today! Don't miss your chance. 🤎
We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). 🏛️🏺☀️
We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). 🏛️🏺☀️
“I was crushed by the visits of wearisome women.” — Andromache, trans. John Davie.
#classics #ancienthistory #mythology #literature
#classics #ancienthistory #mythology #literature
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“I was crushed by the visits of wearisome women.” — Andromache, trans. John Davie.
#classics #ancienthistory #mythology #literature
#classics #ancienthistory #mythology #literature
"Starving somewhere as a virgin felling gods heavenside."
From "Parthenogenesis" by Irteqa Khan. Featured in Aôthen Magazine, Issue 2, 2022. Read here: aothenmagazine.com#issue2.
From "Parthenogenesis" by Irteqa Khan. Featured in Aôthen Magazine, Issue 2, 2022. Read here: aothenmagazine.com#issue2.
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A literary magazine devoted to the world of classics.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Starving somewhere as a virgin felling gods heavenside."
From "Parthenogenesis" by Irteqa Khan. Featured in Aôthen Magazine, Issue 2, 2022. Read here: aothenmagazine.com#issue2.
From "Parthenogenesis" by Irteqa Khan. Featured in Aôthen Magazine, Issue 2, 2022. Read here: aothenmagazine.com#issue2.
Have you submitted yet? Subs close December 14! ☀️
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Have you submitted yet? Subs close December 14! ☀️
Our #bookrecommendation of the week is actually a short essay! Marbles in Metamorphosis by Rachel Cusk explores the relationship between marble, tourism, and local culture in Greece, positing marble as both a metaphor and a physical representation of ancient and modern Greek life.
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our #bookrecommendation of the week is actually a short essay! Marbles in Metamorphosis by Rachel Cusk explores the relationship between marble, tourism, and local culture in Greece, positing marble as both a metaphor and a physical representation of ancient and modern Greek life.
"Venus with a Mirror" by Titian, c. 1555. Oil on canvas.
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Venus with a Mirror" by Titian, c. 1555. Oil on canvas.
Submissions close December 14! Submit your art and writing today! Link via our bio or visit our website. 🤎
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Submissions close December 14! Submit your art and writing today! Link via our bio or visit our website. 🤎
Our first weekly writing prompt of December is here! Use the following words in a poem or short prose piece and tag us. We want to read what you create. 🤎
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Our first weekly writing prompt of December is here! Use the following words in a poem or short prose piece and tag us. We want to read what you create. 🤎
Peleus intervenes as Andromache and her child find themselves in danger. Spoken by Peleus to Andromache.
#classicsbluesky
#classicsbluesky
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Peleus intervenes as Andromache and her child find themselves in danger. Spoken by Peleus to Andromache.
#classicsbluesky
#classicsbluesky
✨ SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN ✨
Submissions for Issue 10, our winter edition, are now open! We accept work about the Ancient Mediterranean in the following categories: poetry, fiction, essays, art/photography, and translation. For more info and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). 🏛️🏺🤎
Submissions for Issue 10, our winter edition, are now open! We accept work about the Ancient Mediterranean in the following categories: poetry, fiction, essays, art/photography, and translation. For more info and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). 🏛️🏺🤎
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
✨ SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN ✨
Submissions for Issue 10, our winter edition, are now open! We accept work about the Ancient Mediterranean in the following categories: poetry, fiction, essays, art/photography, and translation. For more info and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). 🏛️🏺🤎
Submissions for Issue 10, our winter edition, are now open! We accept work about the Ancient Mediterranean in the following categories: poetry, fiction, essays, art/photography, and translation. For more info and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). 🏛️🏺🤎
“Disasters are sent from the gods and, sooner or later, afflict all men.” — Andromache, trans. John Davie.
#ancientstudies #classics #mythology #literature
#ancientstudies #classics #mythology #literature
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“Disasters are sent from the gods and, sooner or later, afflict all men.” — Andromache, trans. John Davie.
#ancientstudies #classics #mythology #literature
#ancientstudies #classics #mythology #literature
✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN TOMORROW ✨
Submissions for Issue 10 open tomorrow for two weeks only! We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). Get those subs ready! 🏛️🏺🤎
Submissions for Issue 10 open tomorrow for two weeks only! We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). Get those subs ready! 🏛️🏺🤎
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN TOMORROW ✨
Submissions for Issue 10 open tomorrow for two weeks only! We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). Get those subs ready! 🏛️🏺🤎
Submissions for Issue 10 open tomorrow for two weeks only! We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). Get those subs ready! 🏛️🏺🤎
"They are giddy to be seen. The day is just beginning for them. / This year no one asks what happened to the bodies."
From "And in the Third Week We Visit the Etruscan Tombs" by Ginger Hanchey. Featured in Aôthen Magazine, Issue 1, 2022. Read here: aothenmagazine.com#issue1.
From "And in the Third Week We Visit the Etruscan Tombs" by Ginger Hanchey. Featured in Aôthen Magazine, Issue 1, 2022. Read here: aothenmagazine.com#issue1.
Aôthen Magazine
A literary magazine devoted to the world of classics.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"They are giddy to be seen. The day is just beginning for them. / This year no one asks what happened to the bodies."
From "And in the Third Week We Visit the Etruscan Tombs" by Ginger Hanchey. Featured in Aôthen Magazine, Issue 1, 2022. Read here: aothenmagazine.com#issue1.
From "And in the Third Week We Visit the Etruscan Tombs" by Ginger Hanchey. Featured in Aôthen Magazine, Issue 1, 2022. Read here: aothenmagazine.com#issue1.
ONE DAY ☀️
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
ONE DAY ☀️
Our #bookrecommendation of the week is Good Will Come From the Sea by contemporary Greek author Christos Oikonomou. First published in 2014 as Το καλό θα 'ρθει από τη θάλασσα, it was translated into English in 2019. It is a collection of four short stories.
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our #bookrecommendation of the week is Good Will Come From the Sea by contemporary Greek author Christos Oikonomou. First published in 2014 as Το καλό θα 'ρθει από τη θάλασσα, it was translated into English in 2019. It is a collection of four short stories.
2 days 🏛️
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
2 days 🏛️
"Vestiges d'un temple de la Grece" by Jean-François Janinet. It is a color aquatint and etching created in the late 1700's. Housed in the National Gallery of Art.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Vestiges d'un temple de la Grece" by Jean-François Janinet. It is a color aquatint and etching created in the late 1700's. Housed in the National Gallery of Art.
3 days! ☀️
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
3 days! ☀️
Our weekly writing prompt is here! Use the following words in a poem or short prose piece and tag us. 🤎
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our weekly writing prompt is here! Use the following words in a poem or short prose piece and tag us. 🤎
4 days 🤎
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
4 days 🤎
Melanus refuses Andromache's child's pleas for mercy. War, as demonstrated here, has hardened his heart.
#classicsbluesky
#classicsbluesky
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Melanus refuses Andromache's child's pleas for mercy. War, as demonstrated here, has hardened his heart.
#classicsbluesky
#classicsbluesky
5 days...👀
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
5 days...👀
All of our previous issues are available to purchase or read on our website! Pictured here are the first six issues, published between 2022 and 2024. The best way to support an indie magazine like ours is by reading, sharing, and talking about the work we put out. 🤎
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
All of our previous issues are available to purchase or read on our website! Pictured here are the first six issues, published between 2022 and 2024. The best way to support an indie magazine like ours is by reading, sharing, and talking about the work we put out. 🤎