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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 7h

@classicstober.bsky.social #ClassicsTober25 Day 10: Hecate. She was often shown holding torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, and later depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied. She is associated with crossroads, night, light, magic, witchcraft, drugs, and the Moon. #ClassicsTober

A red-figured amphora with Hecate with two torches

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 1d

My review of Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities is up at BMCR:

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · Nov 1

hey i made a starter pack of cutting edge humanists (broadly defined) doing cool stuff inside and outside academia.

check out these folks and repost to signal boost! let's see if we can't "network" better than conferences!

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Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social · 10d

A reminder that #ClassicsTober starts tomorrow on @classicstober.bsky.social and the overall theme is KATABASIS.

ClassicsTober25: Katabasis

1. Hypnos
2. Thanatos
3. Graeae
4. Shroud
5. Hermes Psychopompos
6. Moirai
7. φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress
8. Erebos
9. Lampades
10. Hekate
11. Torch
12. Styx
13. Empousa
14. Cocytus
15. Τέρατα (Térata) - monsters
16. Typhon
17. Echidna
18. Kharon
19. Shade
20. Acheron
21. Kerberos
22. Judge
23. Lamia
24. Phlegethon
25. Tartarus
26. Punishment
27. Erinyes
28. Phobos & Deimos
29. Mysteries
30. Lethe
31. Elysian Fields

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 6d

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 4 of #ClassicsTober25: shroud. Greek women weaving a cloth. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), black-figured pottery, Amasis Painter, c. 550–530 BC. #ClassicsTober

The vase with two women standing and weaving

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 5d

Day 5 of #ClassicsTober25: Hermes Psychopompos. This stunning pottery painting is from an Anatolian grave. It is a white-ground cup from the eastern cemetery of Daskyleion in a Persian satrapal center. It dates to the late fifth century BC. #ClassicsTober

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Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social · 5d

Don't jump on the couch!

Sign at the site of ancient Thorikos, Greece. Yellow attention triangle above a round red/white/black sign that looks like a human standing on a crossed out couch.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 10d

30th September is the feast of St Jerome who is here depicted as translator of the Psalms
#StJerome
BnF MS Latin 1152; Psalter of Charles the Bald; 9th century (between 842 CE & 869 CE); School of the Palace of Charles the Bald; f.4r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 10d

On the feast of St. Jerome #otd, 30 Sept, here he is having a quietly tender moment extracting a thorn from his lion's paw.

Lucas Cranach, 1515. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10d

The week just started, and we already need a timeline cleanse....

A #Roman pot with ears and a funny little face (it looks like Shaun the Sheep). Found in a burial in the necropolis of Giubiasco, Switzerland 2nd century AD.

📷 Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum #archaeology 🏺

A light-brown pottery vessel decorated with a stylized face that resembles Shaun the Sheep, with a braided pattern around the rim.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 10d

Jeg har skrevet om Husmorhæren og sammenblandingen av politikk og profitt - som også henger sammen med hvordan sosiale medieplattformer fremmer hustlers som Solheim fordi også plattformene tjener på det. Og det henger sammen med KI-slopp som det Solheim bruker. www.nrk.no/ytring/provo...

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Miriam Håland @miriamhaaland.bsky.social · 11d

Oi, se på biblioteket i Vennesla, da!

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Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social · 16d

I am teaching New Age spirituality this week, so I went through some old photos on my camera and found this perfect conversation starter.

Photo from "Alternativmessen" 2024. Tondo depicting female angel holding a light, set in a dream catcher like frame decorated with white, light brown and pastel purple feathers. Lighted from behind by a Christmas tree light chain.

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 16d

Question for Bible scholars: who is 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 interpreted as being about? I don't study this at all so I'm interested in the whole range of interpretations. Is it the devil? Have there been historical figures connected to this passage?

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 17d

September 23, 63 BCE: A child named Octavian is born into the sign of Libra; however, he later decides, what the hell: I want to be a Capricorn (Suet. Aug. 94.12) b/c that is when I was conceived (it doesn't work like that & as a true Scorpio, I am offended). Today, we call this guy Augustus.

Title
Sardonyx cameo of a double capricorn with a portrait of the emperor Augustus
Description
Roman; Cameo, portrait of Augustus; Gems
Date ca. 27 B.C.–A.D. 14
Medium Sardonyx, gold
Dimensions H. 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm)
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art wikidata:Q160236
Current location
Greek and Roman Art
Accession number
29.175.4
Credit line Gift of Milton Weil, 1929
Source/Photographer
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253042

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 20d

The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836.
Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3

📷 me

#archaeology 🏺

Two elongated wooden figurines with white stone eyes stand upright on a boat carved with a serpent-shaped head, displayed against a dark background.

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Asbjørn Dyrendal @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social · 20d

I finally got around to do the same today. Again for these reasons and more.

Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social · 20d

I deleted yesterday, too, for many of the same reasons described here.

Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 20d

Ihave not made up my mind yet but this is def worth reading. Thank you @petertarras.bsky.social medisi.hypotheses.org/7839

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Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social · 20d

what can i say? i’m good at what i do

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 21d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 21d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social · 20d

I deleted yesterday, too, for many of the same reasons described here.

Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 20d

Ihave not made up my mind yet but this is def worth reading. Thank you @petertarras.bsky.social medisi.hypotheses.org/7839

Leaving Academia.edu: ‘AI’ and Information Loss

1. Yesterday I deleted my Academia.edu account. This has a direct impact on my work here. I would like to reflect on this in this post. But first things first: What happened? Already back in May, I no...

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 20d

Dutch late night TV has its take

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 21d

Democracy is something you have to work hard at, not just sit back and enjoy. One thing we discuss here on
Free Speech - An Ancient History. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...