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A gorgeously pagan aquamanilia, ewer, used to wash hands before dining or celebrating the mass(!?), c. 1220-1230, Hildesheim, now in Rijksmuseum. Recalling depictions of Rhea or Cybele. #ClassicsBluesky
A copper alloy ewer in the shape of a lion with well defined mane. On his back there’s a crescent shape on which a female figure sits. She is tiny compared to the lion.
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
elliemackinroberts.net
Adaptations of ancient literature I’d like more than another Odyssey:
- Euripides’s Helen
- Euripides’s Iphigenia Among the Taureans

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December 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
gnomai.com
Io: “By whose hand will he be stripped of his despotic scepter?”

Prometheus: “By his own hand, thanks to his mindless contrivances.”

ΙΩ
πρὸς τοῦ τύραννα σκῆπτρα συληθήσεται;

ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΥΣ
πρὸς αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ κενοφρόνων βουλευμάτων.
(Aesch. PV 761f)

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December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
elliemackinroberts.net
Hey if you don’t already follow me on TikTok, and you like Ancient Greek art, history, and archaeology, then you should maybe. No worries if not. #ClassicsBluesky

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December 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Catch up on week one of my Ancient Greek Art Advent here! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
elliemackinroberts.net Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 8d
Ancient Greek Art Advent: Day 1!

Watch it here: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRdEs6mc/
Beaten gold Mycenaean death mask showing the idealised face - with a thin nose, closed eyes, and slightly pursed lips.
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
elliemackinroberts.net
Day 6 of the Greek Art Advent! A fan favourite. #ClassicsBluesky

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White marble statue of a nude youth.
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ideasroadshow.bsky.social
🏺 Tomorrow we’ll release our in-depth conversation w/ classicist Richard Janko about his research on the Derveni Papyrus, Europe’s oldest surviving manuscript from the 4th c. BC.

📝 Make to sign up here: ideasroadshow.substack.com

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Image to promote post on substack.
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
ideasroadshow.bsky.social
🦒 Modern art? Nope, these are charred scroll fragments that were part of a gift of several scrolls that King Ferdinand of Naples had sent to George IV in England in exchange for a royal giraffe for his private zoo.

🏺 #archaeology 🗃️ #skystorians #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBluesky #arthistory
A frame with charred scroll fragments were part of a gift containing a number of scrolls that King Ferdinand of Naples had sent to George IV in England in exchange for a royal giraffe for his private zoo.
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
magistracohen.bsky.social
No disrespect meant to Allen or Greenough, btw. Love them too.

Anyone want to shout out a favorite 19th c. professor?

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magistracohen.bsky.social Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 4d
Really appreciated the opportunity to discuss linear reading, explicit reading strategies, & my favorite 19th c. professor William Gardner Hale at the #LatinPedagogyWorkshop

Go read Hale's The Art of Reading Latin: How to Teach It
at drive.google.com/file/d/1ghPA...
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
sistoryhistory.bsky.social
Riding into December like an Eros drives his wild-cat chariot.

📸 Us, #Roman villa, Desenzano del Garda.

#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Skystorians
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December 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Found only last year in #Eretria on the island of Evia in an andron where symposia would have taken place. With two satyrs, cronies of Dionysos, one of whom is playing the aulos and the other presumably dancing
Dated mid 4th cent, composed in tetrachromy and located near its more famous House of Mosaics
November 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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@philharland.bsky.social has a book coming out in Spring -already available for pre-order: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean
A fresh perspective revealing how ethnographic thinking shaped the sociocultural landscape of the ancient Mediterranean.   With this book, Philip A. Harland presents a large-scale rereading of social ...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
gnomai.com
33 And if a foreigner comes to dwell among you in your land, do not oppress him: 34 the foreigner who has come to you shall be as one who has been born from your land among you, and you shall love him as yourself, since you were foreigners in Egypt

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gnomai.com Logopoios @gnomai.com · May 14
33 ᾿Εὰν δέ τις προσέλθῃ ὑμῖν προσήλυτος ἐν τῇ γῇ ὑμῶν, οὐ θλίψετε αὐτόν· 34 ὡς ὁ αὐτόχθων ἐν ὑμῖν ἔσται ὁ προσήλυτος ὁ προσπορευόμενος πρὸς ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἀγαπήσεις αὐτὸν ὡς σεαυτόν, ὅτι προσήλυτοι ἐγενήθητε ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ· ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὑμῶν. (LXX Lev. 19:33-34)
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
sistoryhistory.bsky.social
Here to brighten up your #FrescoFriday with some summery tones and alpine flowers.

📸 Us, #Roman Villa in Desenzano del Garda.

#Archaeology #Skystorians
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November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
elliemackinroberts.net
Just by the way if you have a friend or family member who is interested in learning about Ancient Greece you could give them my little book this Christmas. It’s good (I hope!). #ClassicsBluesky
Brief Histories: Ancient Greece: Everything you wanted to know but forgot to ask
Everything you wanted to know but forgot to ask
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November 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
gnomai.com
That is, I suppose, a particular sickness of despotism, not trusting one's friends.

ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυραννίδι
νόσημα, τοῖς φίλοισι μὴ πεποιθέναι.
(Aesch. PV 224f)

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November 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
gnomai.com
He [i.e. Brutus] was the first in this country to show that no one is a private citizen when it comes to defending the liberty of citizens.

primusque in hac civitate docuit in conservanda civium libertate esse privatum neminem.
(Cic. Rep. 2.46.2)

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November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
sistoryhistory.bsky.social
Simple but effective - monochrome mosaic (with bonus hypocaust wall flume). Perfect for a chilly Monday morning 🔥

At the wonderful #Roman villa on Lake Garda.

📸 Us, Desenzano del Garda

#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Skystorians
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November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
tomcoward.bsky.social
A week spent in a chilly Oxford with the papyri. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
View from Magdalen bridge. Frost on the bridge. Below various punts stationed in rows on the river. Bare trees line the banks with the morning sun peering through the trees on the left bank. Blue sky A papyrus in a glass plate underneath a microscope on a table. To the right two books open. View of the Radcliffe Camera on a winter morning. Azure blue sky without clouds. Two cyclists going by on the cobbles. A Greek epigram from July 1964 memorialising Paul Maas. Found in the scrapbook of Maurice Platnauer.
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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This review by Ruth Scodel! She cautiously recommends the new accessible history on Homer's world, but minces no words in warning about certain inaccuracies.

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Highlighted text excerpt that reads simplification is inevitable when we address non-specialists, but inaccuracy is not. The rest of this review will be grumpy, because I care a great deal about what the Homeric poems actually say, and even about other facts—for example, that Brooklyn is not a suburb of New York (p. 55) but has been a borough since 1898.
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
classicsgc.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Thalassocracy and the Power of the Sea
Graduate Student Conference
Classics Department at the CUNY Graduate Center
Due Monday, 12/8

#ClassicsGC #HumanitiesGC #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky /BlueskyClassics%09@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#BlueskyClassics @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Flyer titled “Thalassocracy and the Power of the Sea,” announcing a call for papers for a Classics conference at the CUNY Graduate Center with a target date of April 17, 2026. The text defines “thalassocracy,” describes the theme, and lists possible paper topics including sea deities, maritime monsters, Oceanus, insularity, trade and warfare, Mediterranean material culture, and shipbuilding. Submission guidelines specify 15-minute presentations, abstracts up to 300 words, and a submission deadline of December 8 via email. Contact information for the two organizers is listed at the end.
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
kevinsolez.bsky.social
I want to read current events narrated by Tacitus
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November 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
classicsgc.bsky.social
"The Culture Ministry released a statement late Wednesday with drawings of the six missing statues representing the Roman goddess of Venus."

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Theft of Roman statues from Syria’s main museum believed to be the work of an individual
Investigators believe the theft of ancient Roman-era statues from Syria's national museum was likely the work of an individual and not an organized gang.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
gnomai.com
We have lost, my dear Pomponius, not only the spirit and life-blood, but the very appearance and form of our old constitution. There is no republic to bring joy and alleviate my anxieties.

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November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
mathetria.bsky.social
Here I look at Alexander's approach to religion (+ myth) as a "polycentral strategy." Post-Granikos, Alexander increasingly began to center his religious actions on & references to WHERE he was, rather than send back "home" to Macedonia and Greece.
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How Alexander Used Myth: Love the One You're With
YouTube video by Let's Talk Alexander the Great & Ancient Macedonia
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November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM