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Elizabeth Saint C
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Day 3 - The Graiai

There once were mythic sisters named Graiai,
Who shared one tooth and one eye between three,
When Perseus came near,
They shrieked in great fear
'He's taken them both! How greedy?!'
#ClassicsTober25

Day 2 Thanatos

"[Apollon] gave him [the dead Sarpedon] into the charge of swift messengers to carry him, of Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), who are twin brothers, and these two presently laid him down within the rich countryside of broad Lykia."

Homer, Iliad 16.681
#ClassicsTober2025

Day 1 - Hypnos, god of sleep.

"Yet you love sleep and salute Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, and forget that he is death's brother"

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet.

🖼"Sleep and his Half Brother, Death", John William Waterhouse (1874, oil on canvas Private Collection
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This is exciting - a newly launched official Antonine Wall Trail that will help walkers to explore Britain's best Roman frontier! I will need to take a look and see how it compares to the route I took as I walked the Wall...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/45fd...
#WallsOnWednesday
The Antonine Wall Trail
Follow the Line of the Wall Across Central Scotland
storymaps.arcgis.com
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#ReliefWednesday: A #Roman terracotta money box in the shape of a beehive, decorated with an image of Mercury, holding the caduceus (the staff carried by herolds) and a money bag.
Mercury was considered the god of financial gain and commerce, and as such...🧵1/2

🏺 #Archaeology
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Fabulous 3,500 year-old Mycenaean wooden box embellished with repoussé gold plates with lions chasing deer and antelope, among palm trees, spirals and bulls heads.

From Grave V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
📷 by me

#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
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Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest.

A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.

More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

Joint course with @theRomanSoc

#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!

Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.

www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...
Wonderfully creepy ❤️
(3) Odyssey 17 (lines 300–306), translated by Robert Fagles from the original Greek
(2) So Argos lay there dirty, covered with fleas. And when he realized Odysseus was near, he wagged his tail, and both his ears dropped back. He was too weak to move toward his master. At a distance, Odysseus had noticed, and he wiped his tears away and hid them [...]
#InternationalDogDay

The saddest tale, the goodest boi....

(1) Argus, the faithful hound of Odysseus, was the only one to recognize Odysseus upon his return to Ithaca after 20 years. Too weak to move, he wags his tail and offers a final gaze of recognition before passing away.
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Simple black and white Roman mosaic from a corridor of a house in Hersonissos, Crete, 2nd C AD. The corridor led to the dining room. Look closely for a kantharos from which a vine emerges. Cretan wine was appreciated and exported during the Roman period.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky
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For #MosaicMonday, from my recent visit to the Archaeological Museum of Split, the central panel of a large floor mosaic depicting Orpheus among the animals. From the provincial governor's house at Salona. Dated to the 2nd century CE.

#Archarology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺
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#MosaicMonday

#Roman mosaic with struggle between Eros and Pan, 3rd century AD. Archaeological Museum of Cordoba, #Spain.
(See Alt for more details)

#artwork #History
#Archaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺
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#MosaicMonday 👀

Achilles is adored by princesses of Skyros, a scene from the #Iliad where #Odysseus discovers him dressed as a woman and hiding among the princesses at the royal court of Skyros.

A late
#Roman mosaic from La Olmeda, Spain, 4th-5th centuries AD.
#Classics #History #AncientBlueSky🏺
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Something fishy for #mosaicmonday
Mosaic panel featuring a fish and partridge behind it. From the House of Eustolios at Kourion in Cyprus, late 4th century CE.
The Christian iconography is matched by inscription mosaics proclaiming Eustolios' faith. #ancientbluesky 🏺
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🦁🐆 It’s lion versus leopard this #MosaicMonday! This stunning scene comes from the Casa delle Colombe a mosaico at Pompeii.

It seems the lion truly has the upper hand, standing over the prone leopard. The power of the lion’s claws are matched by its direct stare at the viewer.

#AncientBluesky🏺
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#MosaicMonday and my entry is from I Colori dei Romani at Centrale Montemartini.

Here we have Europa and the Bull from a burial chamber at the Via Ostiense necropolis, as well as the plant decoration from the threshold of the same burial chamber.

#AncientBlueSky🏺
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#MosaicMonday

Orpheus theme #mosiac, excavated from Barton Farm, Cirencester. The mosaic likely dates to the 4th century CE, a period when such imagery was popular in villa decoration across #RomanBritain.

#Archaeology
#AncientBlueSky🏛️
#History
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Got so caught up analysing this that I forgot to add:
#MosaicMonday
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
Continuing from last week's look at the mosaic in Room B at Frampton, another compartment shows this couple. Suggested identifications have included Attis and a nymph, Venus and Adonis, Paris and Oenone, or Paris and Venus. 1/4