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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. linktr.ee/Aothenmagazine https://aothenmagazine.com/

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 5

🔆 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 🧡

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 12h

"Cupid's Hunting Fields" by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1885.

Cupid in Roman mythology is the God of love, erotic desire, and affection. Sometimes he knows known as Amor ("love," in Latin) or Eros (in Greek). Cupid may be the most fickle of the Gods. He has inspired countless poems in his name.

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

Hymn 5 features stunning poetic lines about Aphrodite. Do you have a favorite Homeric Hymn?

#classics #ancienthistory #homerichymns #ancientgreece #mythology

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 3d

I think the stoics would laugh at our jokes. 🫢 Available now in our redbubble! Link in bio. 🤎

#classicsbluesky #ancienthistory
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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! In addition to the myths they share with the Greeks, they had native deities and myths. Think Janus, Bellona, Romulus/Remus.

Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 4d

This week on Columns we have an interview with Imogen Briscoe from Ekklesia, another classics magazine! Kaitlin Smith talks with Briscoe about #accessibility, #Ovid, and more.

Have a read here: aothenmagazine.com/#ekklesiainterview

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 4d

“Love that he could not resists took hold of Apollo at heart.” — Hymn 4: To Apollo, trans. Michael Crudden.

#ancientgreece #mythology #amreading #quotes #poetry #readinginspo

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 5d

We're in the mood to write! Our latest weekly #writingprompt is live. We hope the following words inspire you to write your own poem! Share it with us. 🤎

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 6d

"I will tell the secret to you, / to you, only to you. / Come closer."

From "Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood.
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Siren Song

This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beached skulls the song nobody knows…

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 7d

Our book of the week is CLASSICISM AND OTHER PHOBIAS by Dan-El Padilla Peralta. It is a scholarly monograph that explores Black classicism and its potential to revitalize classics, a field historically known to be exclusive. Peralta's monograph is excellently argued and crafted!

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 7d

Happy October! What do you plan to write this month? 🤎

#writingcommunity

Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 7d

"Diana and Endymion" by Johann Michael Rottmayr, c. 1695.

In Roman mythology, Diana is the Goddess of the hunt, wildlife, and childbirth. She is included in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Source: The Art Institute of Chicago.

#mythology #classicalstudies

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 8d

Our litmag limelight feature of the week is Florescence Magazine! Florescence publishes literature and art by teen creators (13-19). They are youth-led and often include multimedia in their issues. If you're a young creator, be sure to check them out. 🤎

Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 8d

Do you prefer Greek or Roman mythology? 🏺🏛️ 🤎

#classicsbluesky #ancienthistory

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

Aphrodite speaks to Ankhises in Hymn 5. 🤎

#mythology #aeneid #homerichymns #classicalstudies #ancienthistory #classicsbluesky

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

Read Jack Granath's fragments in Issue 9! Available now on our website. Do you have a favorite piece of writing or art from Issue 9? 🤎

#indielit #writingcommunity #classicsbluesky

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

New design just dropped in our RedBubble shop. Personally, I think they make excellent stickers. Every purchase supports us! 🏺🤎🏛️

#classicsbluesky #ancientgreece
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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

New to Aôthen? Read about us on our website.

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A literary magazine devoted to the world of classics.

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

"[He] had in the midst of his song still other desires in mind.” — Hymn 4: To Hermes, trans. Michael Crudden.

#ancientgreece #mythology #poetry #amreading

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 12d

Our weekly #writingprompt is here!! What can you create that includes the following words? 🤎 Share with us in replies or tag us in your own post!

Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 12d

Who's your favorite ancient figure? Ours might be Sappho. 🤍

#classicsbluesky #ancienthistory

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 13d

"when Icarus fell / it was spring."

From "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William Carlos Williams.
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

According to Brueghel

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Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you so much @aothenmagazine.bsky.social for having me over to talk about YOU ARE ODYSSEUS!

Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 15d

This week on Columns, we invite Laura Jenkinson-Brown (@greekmythcomix.bsky.social) to talk about her upcoming book, You Are Odysseus. It's a tour-de-force of a novel -- a choose-your-own-adventure retelling of the Odyssey with 51 (!) different endings.

🔆 Read: aothenmagazine.com/#lbjinterview

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 14d

Our book of the week is NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social. We're a sucker for anything by Haynes and this retelling of Medea is no exception. Have you read it yet? 🤍

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 14d

"The Abduction of Europa" by David Teniers the Younger, c. 1654.

Do you have a favorite work of art inspired by Greco-Roman mythology? We find it intriguing to study how artists of different cultures use their talents to transmit mythology visually!

Source: The Art Institute of Chicago.

Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 15d

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