You can retrace the SASA @saveancientstudies.bsky.social Halloween Bash 2025 Masterclass: "Healing, Dreams, and Curses: Unveiling the Supernatural in Ancient Greece", led by our own Dr Manolis Pagkalos (@immanump.bsky.social).
#AncientStudies #AncientGreece #Epigraphy
Join @saveancientstudies.bsky.social for this year's Halloween Bash. Many events for a week and a good place to support not only the Ancient Studies, but the Humanities and a diversity of voices from scholars worldwide!
SALVÉTE! XAÍPETE! LŪ ŠULMUM! Interested in learning Latin or Greek or Akkadian? Our friends at Living Classical Languages have asked us to share info about their FREE weekly workshops. For details and contacts visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🎃Check out the full lineup of FREE live streamed spooktacular events during our Halloween Bash Fundraiser 2025! Make sure not to miss your favorite topics and speakers!
🗓 October 25-31, 2025
➡️ Click here to learn more: saveancientstudies.org/halloweenbash 👻
#Halloween #History
White text over a black and white photo of the spines of antiquarian books: "There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them." Bernard Malamud, "The Fixer"
Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday. I'm using mine to read.
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Background is a black and white photo of the famous headless "Nike of Samothrace" on display at the Louvre. White text over the image reads as follows: And Agamemnon the lord of men consented quickly: ‘That’s no lie, old man—a full account you give of all my acts of madness. mad, blind I was! Not even I would deny it. Why look, that man is worth an entire army, the fighter Zeus holds dear with all his heart— how he exalts him now and mauls Achaea’s forces! But since I was b, lost in my own inhuman rage, now, at last, I am bent on setting things to rights: I’ll give a priceless ransom pain for friendship.” Homer, the Iliad, Book 9, line 136, Translated by Robert Fagles
Despite the heroics of Ajax and Diomedes in earlier books, the Greeks find themselves pinned behind the wall and ditch protecting their ships. At this point in Book IX, Agamemnon realizes he made a mistake in enraging Achilles and begins to try and make amends.
#Classics #Myth
On the left is a photo of a red-figure Greek vase showing a person playing a stringed instrument. On the right is the following the text: “they found Achilles there, delighting his heart now, plucking strong and clear on the fine lyre— beautifully carved, its silver bridge set firm— he won from the spoils when he razed Eetion’s city. Achilles was lifting his spirits with it now, singing the famous deeds of fighting heroes..” Homer, The Iliad, Book IX, Line 223 Translated by Robert Fagles
In Book IX of the Iliad, when Agamemnon sends an embassy to make peace with Achilles, they find him playing his lyre, singing tales of the heroes that came before him. I like that Homer shows us this other side of his greatest warrior.
#Myth #Classics 📚💙
Our final review of the summer on Rhea. Back in September!
Thomas R. Keith reviews Boris Kayachev, "Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana" (Classical Press of Wales 2020).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
No mood for pics… only relaxation #mulan #dogs_in_claws
The @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced a historic breakthrough in the endeavour to decipher text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum.
More info ⬇️
Lost works of ancient mathematician Apollonius of Anatolia found in rare Arabic manuscript
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/lost...
Titled ‘Medusa after quarantine’, a cartoon Medusa is shown with completely disheveled snakey hair.
Medusa cartoon where she and all the snake heads in her hair are wearing PPE masks.
Medusa in the Time of Covid.
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️
www.gocomics.com/realitycheck...
www.gocomics.com/speedbump/20...
Thank you!!! Glad to join the group!! 😁😁
Save the Cardiff Ancient History petition has now over 3400 signatures. Sign, share and join @flintdibble.bsky.social at 6pm for a discussion with @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social on YouTube to hear more. www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
I do not know what the future holds
I do know we all should actively participate in how it is shaped
The only way to do that is to do it
This is not a time to be silent. This is not a time to blame others
This is a time to gather courage. This is a time to speak up and build community
The cover of 'New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese', edited by Manolis Pagkalos and Andrea Scarpato. It has a photo of column drums from Olympia, Greece.
This book is the result of long sustained effort by the editors, Manolis Pagkalos and Andrea Scarpato - both are on the Bad Place but not here yet, but big props to them. Buy your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-persp...
You can also DM me for a PDF of my chapter
