everytime there is discourse regarding the "faitfullness" of greek myth retellings I chuckle bc the side of "they must remain faithful to the original themes from antiquity!!" always miss the nature of classical reception

Lost works of ancient mathematician Apollonius of Anatolia found in rare Arabic manuscript

🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/lost...

🎉 Congratulations to Katerina Gottardo, who passed her PhD viva last week!

👩‍🏫 Katerina's thesis was on water displays in Roman theatres & related water supply + drainage, with focus on Ostia and Pompeii.

🤝 Thanks to the supervisory team, incl. Dr Edmund Thomas and Dr Erica Bexley.

Visited a late colonial fortress here in the state of Amapá

here we go again

sempre que lembro do surto dos americanos eua achando louro na comida achando que são folhas regulares de árvores eu dou uma risada gostosa

a falta de contato com TEMPERO é triste

Como a Revolução Haitiana semeou o medo nos corações da classe escravocrata de Cuba.

Saw this article on X (which I confess I occasionally read but don’t post) but I don’t think the authors are On Here, and some of y’all might be interested. Timely, going on my reading list for the term academic.oup.com/past/advance...

my favorite type of character names are [rarely-used polysyllabic word] [normal last name]. Give me a Thurifer Jones. an Ansible Hart. a Columbarium Smythe

was reading a short essay about a theme that EXACTLY matches the one from my graduation thesis, saw a lot of writing problems in it and went to worryingly check out the author

it's from a teenager from a prep school that submitted it to a Oxford competition

Publication day!

Check out my piece "'Fanfiction' and the Canon in Elodie Harper's The Wolf Den Trilogy" over at Thersites!

Link to the whole "Fantastic Antiquities and Where to Find Them" special edition: thersites-journal.de/index.php/th...

This stunning portrait of the god Oceanus is from the Villa Maternus in Carranque, Spain. Fittingly, Oceanus is surrounded by sea creatures and appears to even have some horns in the form of crab-claws as is keeping with his iconography.

#MosaicMonday #AncientRome #AncientBluesky🏺

🚨 PEC DA PRIVATIZAÇÃO DAS PRAIAS

A Comissão de Constituição e Justiça do Senado marcou pra essa semana a votação da PEC da Privatização das Praias, do Senador Flávio Bolsonaro.

É isso mesmo: a proposta de emenda à Constituição para vender nossas praias pode ser aprovada na CCJ na quarta-feira. +👇🏽

Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time.

"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

Achilles: Please, Mother, let the leopards eat the faces of all the Greeks!

[Patroclus, Achilles' BFF, gets his face eaten]

Achilles, full of grief and fury: Mother! I never thought the leopards would eat HIS face.

its very tiring to have 583 things to deal with at the end of the course but by god I am loving it

hadn't come across this theory about why so many myths about the pleiades mention there being seven sisters when only six are visible: because the root story may be 100,000 years old

theconversation.com/the-worlds-o...

getting professional here