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Aôthen Magazine (SUB TO ISSUE 10!)
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A print+online #literarymagazine dedicated to creative works regarding Classics including ancient history, literature, anthropology, and archaeology. 🔆

Posts by Samantha & Kaitlin.

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Wake up, babe, a new #Aôthen writing prompt just dropped. Use the following words in a poem or short prose piece and tag us. We hope you feel inspired. 🤎
December 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Spoken by the Chorus in Euripides' play Andromache. 🏛️

#classicsbluesky
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#Plato and writer's block - is there a combo more relatable to Aôthen readers out there? Read Greta Savage's short essay on being a #creative and grappling with Plato's Forms through our profile 🔆
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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). 🏛️🏺☀️
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Have you submitted yet? Subs close December 14! ☀️
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 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.
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Venus with a Mirror" by Titian, c. 1555. Oil on canvas.
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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
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
Peleus intervenes as Andromache and her child find themselves in danger. Spoken by Peleus to Andromache.

#classicsbluesky
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
✨ 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). 🏛️🏺🤎
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
✨ 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! 🏛️🏺🤎
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
ONE DAY ☀️
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 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.
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
2 days 🏛️
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 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.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
3 days! ☀️
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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
4 days 🤎
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Melanus refuses Andromache's child's pleas for mercy. War, as demonstrated here, has hardened his heart.

#classicsbluesky
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
5 days...👀
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 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. 🤎
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Huh? What's that? We're announcing something this Saturday? Maybe! Stay tuned and find out. 🤎
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Our #bookoftheweek is THOSE FATAL FLOWERS by Shannon Ives! This memorable tale reimagines the story of one of Persephone's handmaids: Thelia. It is a story of survival, redemption, and identity. Uniquely, it combines Greco-Roman mythology with Colonial American history.
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike, Athens," James Robertson, 1857.
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM