I’m feeling down for missing #ClassicsTober24, something I’d looked forward to all year. October 25 was my favorite day since it focused on Sappho—I even planned to update my profile with an edited image of myself as her companion in Godward’s 1904 painting "In the Days of Sappho", or "Reverie".
November 12, 2024 at 5:18 AM
I’m feeling down for missing #ClassicsTober24, something I’d looked forward to all year. October 25 was my favorite day since it focused on Sappho—I even planned to update my profile with an edited image of myself as her companion in Godward’s 1904 painting "In the Days of Sappho", or "Reverie".
This is a thank you to all us who participated in #ClassicsTober24
Thanks for joining us for #ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24 this year!
With the world being what it is right now, everyone is just tired. We thought this would be the best way to run things this year, with some real-people-in-history, known and unknown, and take the pressure off.
With the world being what it is right now, everyone is just tired. We thought this would be the best way to run things this year, with some real-people-in-history, known and unknown, and take the pressure off.
November 1, 2024 at 3:31 PM
This is a thank you to all us who participated in #ClassicsTober24
Basically, if you learned something or saw something interesting, you’ve won!
We hope it was fun. See you next year x
#classicstober24 #classicstober
We hope it was fun. See you next year x
#classicstober24 #classicstober
November 1, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Basically, if you learned something or saw something interesting, you’ve won!
We hope it was fun. See you next year x
#classicstober24 #classicstober
We hope it was fun. See you next year x
#classicstober24 #classicstober
Thanks for joining us for #ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24 this year!
With the world being what it is right now, everyone is just tired. We thought this would be the best way to run things this year, with some real-people-in-history, known and unknown, and take the pressure off.
With the world being what it is right now, everyone is just tired. We thought this would be the best way to run things this year, with some real-people-in-history, known and unknown, and take the pressure off.
November 1, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Thanks for joining us for #ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24 this year!
With the world being what it is right now, everyone is just tired. We thought this would be the best way to run things this year, with some real-people-in-history, known and unknown, and take the pressure off.
With the world being what it is right now, everyone is just tired. We thought this would be the best way to run things this year, with some real-people-in-history, known and unknown, and take the pressure off.
The #ClassicsTober24 is now over. In the end, I put together 31 posts in Twitter and copied them to Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon and Facebook.
My most popular post in Bluesky was Day 9: Eritha with 14 likes. The runner up was Day 8: Boudicca with 11 likes.
Thank you @greekmythcomix.bsky.social
My most popular post in Bluesky was Day 9: Eritha with 14 likes. The runner up was Day 8: Boudicca with 11 likes.
Thank you @greekmythcomix.bsky.social
November 1, 2024 at 12:07 AM
The #ClassicsTober24 is now over. In the end, I put together 31 posts in Twitter and copied them to Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon and Facebook.
My most popular post in Bluesky was Day 9: Eritha with 14 likes. The runner up was Day 8: Boudicca with 11 likes.
Thank you @greekmythcomix.bsky.social
My most popular post in Bluesky was Day 9: Eritha with 14 likes. The runner up was Day 8: Boudicca with 11 likes.
Thank you @greekmythcomix.bsky.social
Bless him, Patrick Stewart #ClassicsTober24 😁🤩
#ClassicsTober24 Day 31: Sejanus. A still from an unseen holodeck episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
October 31, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Bless him, Patrick Stewart #ClassicsTober24 😁🤩
#ClassicsTober24 Day 31: Sejanus. A still from an unseen holodeck episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
October 31, 2024 at 11:11 AM
#ClassicsTober24 Day 31: Sejanus. A still from an unseen holodeck episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
#ClassicsTober24 Day 31. Sejanus
Picked by Dr Emma Southon, Roman Historian, Author and Podcaster @emmasouthon.bsky.social
As it’s the last one, let’s have a lil🧵!
Picked by Dr Emma Southon, Roman Historian, Author and Podcaster @emmasouthon.bsky.social
As it’s the last one, let’s have a lil🧵!
October 31, 2024 at 8:59 AM
#ClassicsTober24 Day 31. Sejanus
Picked by Dr Emma Southon, Roman Historian, Author and Podcaster @emmasouthon.bsky.social
As it’s the last one, let’s have a lil🧵!
Picked by Dr Emma Southon, Roman Historian, Author and Podcaster @emmasouthon.bsky.social
As it’s the last one, let’s have a lil🧵!
#ClassicsTober24 Day 31: Sejanus. The last figure of #ClassicsTober: Lucius Aelius Sejanus (c. 20 BC-AD 31), a soldier who remodelled the Pretorian Guard, went to govern Rome when Tiberius withdrew to Capri. He became a consul in AD 31, but was accused of conspiracy & executed.
October 30, 2024 at 11:40 PM
#ClassicsTober24 Day 31: Sejanus. The last figure of #ClassicsTober: Lucius Aelius Sejanus (c. 20 BC-AD 31), a soldier who remodelled the Pretorian Guard, went to govern Rome when Tiberius withdrew to Capri. He became a consul in AD 31, but was accused of conspiracy & executed.
#ClassicsTober24 Day 30 by Dr Helen Forte who suggested Flavius Cerealis to #ClassicsTober
ClassicsTober 30
Flavius Cerealis, prefect of the 9th cohort of Batavians, lived with his wife Lepidina and their three children in the praetorium at Vindolanda in about 100 AD. He's one of the main characters in the Minimus books, seen here with Rufus, Vibrissa the cat and Minimus.
#ClassicsTober24
Flavius Cerealis, prefect of the 9th cohort of Batavians, lived with his wife Lepidina and their three children in the praetorium at Vindolanda in about 100 AD. He's one of the main characters in the Minimus books, seen here with Rufus, Vibrissa the cat and Minimus.
#ClassicsTober24
October 30, 2024 at 12:15 PM
#ClassicsTober24 Day 30 by Dr Helen Forte who suggested Flavius Cerealis to #ClassicsTober
ClassicsTober 30
Flavius Cerealis, prefect of the 9th cohort of Batavians, lived with his wife Lepidina and their three children in the praetorium at Vindolanda in about 100 AD. He's one of the main characters in the Minimus books, seen here with Rufus, Vibrissa the cat and Minimus.
#ClassicsTober24
Flavius Cerealis, prefect of the 9th cohort of Batavians, lived with his wife Lepidina and their three children in the praetorium at Vindolanda in about 100 AD. He's one of the main characters in the Minimus books, seen here with Rufus, Vibrissa the cat and Minimus.
#ClassicsTober24
October 30, 2024 at 11:06 AM
ClassicsTober 30
Flavius Cerealis, prefect of the 9th cohort of Batavians, lived with his wife Lepidina and their three children in the praetorium at Vindolanda in about 100 AD. He's one of the main characters in the Minimus books, seen here with Rufus, Vibrissa the cat and Minimus.
#ClassicsTober24
Flavius Cerealis, prefect of the 9th cohort of Batavians, lived with his wife Lepidina and their three children in the praetorium at Vindolanda in about 100 AD. He's one of the main characters in the Minimus books, seen here with Rufus, Vibrissa the cat and Minimus.
#ClassicsTober24
#ClassicsTober24 Day 30: Flavius Cerialis. Just one of many commanders of Vindolanda fort, but by chance, much of the correspondence from his time in charge has survived, showing a life spent mainly hunting and replying to requests for leave. One wonders if he got the promotion he so craved.
October 30, 2024 at 10:19 AM
#ClassicsTober24 Day 30: Flavius Cerialis. Just one of many commanders of Vindolanda fort, but by chance, much of the correspondence from his time in charge has survived, showing a life spent mainly hunting and replying to requests for leave. One wonders if he got the promotion he so craved.
#ClassicsTober24 Day 30. Flavius Cerialis from Vindolanda
Picked by Dr Helen Forte @minimuslatin.bsky.social @drhelenforte.bsky.social , Illustrator and Latin teacher
Picked by Dr Helen Forte @minimuslatin.bsky.social @drhelenforte.bsky.social , Illustrator and Latin teacher
October 30, 2024 at 10:07 AM
#ClassicsTober24 Day 30. Flavius Cerialis from Vindolanda
Picked by Dr Helen Forte @minimuslatin.bsky.social @drhelenforte.bsky.social , Illustrator and Latin teacher
Picked by Dr Helen Forte @minimuslatin.bsky.social @drhelenforte.bsky.social , Illustrator and Latin teacher
A final #Phryne for #Classicstober24: Gustave Boulanger's exoticizing and challenging version of everyone's favorite hetaira
October 30, 2024 at 2:14 AM
A final #Phryne for #Classicstober24: Gustave Boulanger's exoticizing and challenging version of everyone's favorite hetaira
#ClassicsTober24 Day 30: Flavius Cerealis. This soldier is the best known person from Vindolanda. He was the prefect of the ninth cohort of Batavians who lived in the praetorium of the fort with his family around AD 100. His correspondence covers 80 letters. #ClassicsTober
October 29, 2024 at 11:41 PM
#ClassicsTober24 Day 30: Flavius Cerealis. This soldier is the best known person from Vindolanda. He was the prefect of the ninth cohort of Batavians who lived in the praetorium of the fort with his family around AD 100. His correspondence covers 80 letters. #ClassicsTober
For our 4th Phryne of the day, Karla Kelsey's verse novel, On Certainty, which features a narrator who takes on the qualities of #Phryne from various works of art: poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...
#Classicstober24
#Classicstober24
Karla Kelsey on “On Certainty”
Poets and translators on their work.
poetrysociety.org
October 29, 2024 at 5:18 PM
For our 4th Phryne of the day, Karla Kelsey's verse novel, On Certainty, which features a narrator who takes on the qualities of #Phryne from various works of art: poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...
#Classicstober24
#Classicstober24
Next up is Jeff Koons' #Phryne, a VR ballerina who guides viewers through a garden #Classicstober24
October 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Next up is Jeff Koons' #Phryne, a VR ballerina who guides viewers through a garden #Classicstober24
Following up with a less scandalous image (the last one was labelled "adult content"!), let's add in Gina Lollobrigida playing #Phryne in the 1952 film Altri Tempi ("Olden Days") and starting the trend toward buxom Italian screen stars (the "maggiorata physica"). #classicstober24
October 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Following up with a less scandalous image (the last one was labelled "adult content"!), let's add in Gina Lollobrigida playing #Phryne in the 1952 film Altri Tempi ("Olden Days") and starting the trend toward buxom Italian screen stars (the "maggiorata physica"). #classicstober24
October 29, 2024 at 8:44 AM
#ClassicsTober24 Day 29: Phryne. This Greek prostitute (heteira) became one of the richest women in Greece. Her real name was Mnesarete & she was from Thespiae in Boetia. She was prosecuted for impiety & is said to have been the model for the Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles. #ClassicsTober
October 28, 2024 at 11:38 PM
#ClassicsTober24 Day 29: Phryne. This Greek prostitute (heteira) became one of the richest women in Greece. Her real name was Mnesarete & she was from Thespiae in Boetia. She was prosecuted for impiety & is said to have been the model for the Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles. #ClassicsTober
My contribution to #ClassicsTober24, because I can only draw stick men, but I love to feel included.
www.badancient.com/claims/crass...
www.badancient.com/claims/crass...
Did Crassus have Gold Poured Down his Throat?
It is often claimed that Crassus was killed by the Parthians in a gruesome manner: by having molten gold poured down his throat. But do our sources support this?
www.badancient.com
October 28, 2024 at 7:45 PM
My contribution to #ClassicsTober24, because I can only draw stick men, but I love to feel included.
www.badancient.com/claims/crass...
www.badancient.com/claims/crass...
Now, I can't draw for toffee, but I love #ClassicsTober24 - so here I am mythbusting Crassus' death, along with a little 🧵 https://www.badancient.com/claims/crassus-gold-poured-down-throat/
Did Crassus have Gold Poured Down his Throat?
It is often claimed that Crassus was killed by the Parthi...
www.badancient.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Now, I can't draw for toffee, but I love #ClassicsTober24 - so here I am mythbusting Crassus' death, along with a little 🧵 https://www.badancient.com/claims/crassus-gold-poured-down-throat/
#ClassicsTober24 Day 28: Marcus Licinius Crassus. Memorably played by Laurence Olivier, the richest man in Rome, the man who beat Spartacus, and thean who got himself killed fighting the Parthians, because he was an idiot.
October 28, 2024 at 6:47 PM
#ClassicsTober24 Day 28: Marcus Licinius Crassus. Memorably played by Laurence Olivier, the richest man in Rome, the man who beat Spartacus, and thean who got himself killed fighting the Parthians, because he was an idiot.
It is #ClassicsTober24 and one of our editorial team @belovedofoizys.bsky.social gave today's suggestion of Crassus.
She has also written a new #BadAncient article all about his death!
www.badancient.com/claims/crass...
She has also written a new #BadAncient article all about his death!
www.badancient.com/claims/crass...
Did Crassus have Gold Poured Down his Throat?
It is often claimed that Crassus was killed by the Parthians in a gruesome manner: by having molten gold poured down his throat. But do our sources support this?
www.badancient.com
October 28, 2024 at 1:06 PM
It is #ClassicsTober24 and one of our editorial team @belovedofoizys.bsky.social gave today's suggestion of Crassus.
She has also written a new #BadAncient article all about his death!
www.badancient.com/claims/crass...
She has also written a new #BadAncient article all about his death!
www.badancient.com/claims/crass...