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Stonewall National Monument Streets Are Like a Maze. Help a protestor find their way from the Stonewall Inn through the maze of streets and barricades back to the Stonewall Inn.

This word search page has the only actual reference to "LGBTQ" in the entire guide (nor does it define that or lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or queer.

My Queer History students were already extremely horrified by their homework of analyzing the amazingly vague #Stonewall National Park Junior Ranger Guide. I'm kinda looking forward to seeing their faces when I tell them that pamphlet has since been deleted by the Trump admin for being too diverse.

Two hardback books sitting on a wooden table. Both are titled 'Studies in Greek literature', with white lettering on a black background in Cambridge University Press style. The cover image of the first volume is a red-figure vase painting showing a group of women - one is sitting and reading a scroll while the others look on.

Two important volumes - the collected papers of Prof Pat Easterling, the first (and so far only) woman to hold the Regius Chair of Greek at Cambridge, an alumna & honorary fellow of @newnhamcollege.bsky.social, & a hugely important scholar on Greek tragedy. All online via Cambridge core...

Book of Hours - historiated initial in gold and blue and red of Mary holding Christ child. Margins filled with a stringed musical instrument, flowers, foliage, etc. Athenaeum Library, Deventer

Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

The Journals of The Classical Association. Explore new, free-access research.

Mark #CA2026 with a collection of recent #openaccess research from the journals of the Classical Association!

📚 https://cup.org/4czHM3M

@ca2026.bsky.social @classicalassociation.org

The second post in our Earth Month series is now live! And this round is a graduate student feature with Emily Lime 👇

Spotted at the CA 2026 today! @sentantiq.bsky.social

In stunning delicacy, Venus sits on a throne while wearing a crown. Before her stands the diminutive Cupid holding her staff. Behind her is one of her attendants (one of the Graces) who is busy securing Venus’ veil.

✨Venus✨

In stunning delicacy, Venus sits on a throne while wearing a crown. Before her stands the diminutive Cupid holding her staff. Behind her is one of her attendants (one of the Graces) who is busy securing Venus’ veil.

Do please come to the launch of The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature in Edinburgh on 20 April. A colloquium runs from 13.30 to 18.00 in Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building (programme on next slide); also online -- just write to one of the editors (1/3)

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Thought to be part of a series of the four season, this mosaic depicts a figure with wings wearing a wreath of grapes and holding more grapes in a hold of their gown. The mosaic is a square panel with a wavy border in undulating reds and grays.

✨Belated #MosaicMonday with a mosaic thought to personify Autumn✨

We must confess to enjoying the long weekend and entirely missing Monday, but we’re back now! In our corner of the globe, autumn is upon us - though it might very well be the warmest autumn in quite some time.

Visiting the Oracle at Dodona Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Visiting the Oracle at Dodona

There is a new, open access volume on visiting the oracle of Zeus at Dodona in northwest Greece. What a cool concept, to focus on the sensory experience. www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...

Super nice!

The Byzantine fleet burns the ships of Thomas the Rebel in Constantinople using the famous "Greek fire." Byzantine illuminator (A1) (f. 34v).

Teaching Byzantium, Constantinople, and the Arab Conquests in the 7th century CE today in my history of the Ancient and Medieval Middle East class today, which means it is Greek Fire day. And I can introduce everyone to the Madrid Skylitzes by Ἰωάννης Σκυλίτζης. www.bne.es/sites/defaul...

Race, Rhetoric, and Infidelity in Calpurnius Flaccus’s Natus Aethiops Abstract: In Calpurnius Flaccus’s Declamation 2, a Roman wife is accused of infidelity on the grounds that she has given birth to an “Aethiopian” (Aethiops). The present article seeks to contextualize this relatively understudied declamation within the recent efflorescence of scholarship on ancient race, highlighting its connections to conventional discourses of race in Latin literature. In what follows, I identify a system of racial categorization as a component of Rome’s imperializing vision of the world and demonstrate how discourses of race regulate domestic concerns at Rome, such as marriage, extramarital desire, and reproduction. The article also seeks to show how anxieties of racial contact, exemplified by blackness as index of symbolic exteriority, collide with anxieties regarding the presence of enslaved people within the Roman household. Keywords: Aethiops, blackness, Calpurnius Flaccus, declamation, race

the world is on fire and I'm feeling some kind of way about it. nonetheless, I just received proofs of an article on race and blackness in Latin literature which I had to fight tooth and nail to get into print

Book cover, with an ancient stone relief of 2 pairs of fighting gladiators. The text is crimson.

🥳Cover reveal for 'Gladiators in the Greek World: How a Roman Bloodsport Took Ancient Greece by Storm'🥳

Now officially available to pre-order with an early bird discount (though I'm not sure the release date on the website is 100% set in stone yet)

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Gladiators-i...

Daughter: What do you call a female Viking?

Me: skjaldmær?

Daughter: No, mommy (*rolls eyes*). A Viqueen.

Me: Ah, I shall add this to my lecture notes. I stand corrected.

#RomanSiteSaturday - The partially restored Temple of Apollo in Side (Turkey) was constructed in the latter half of the 2nd century AD and was designed in the Corinthian order. Originally, the temple featured 6 white marble columns across its front. Currently, 5 of these columns have been restored.

This #FindsFriday I’ll mainly be channelling this wonderful Medusa antefix (roof adornment).
Thought to ward off evil forces and protect the building💥

Terracotta, Taranto 550-500 B.C.E.

📸 Us, Allard Pierson Museum. Amsterdam.

#Archaeology #AncientBluesky #Roman #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome

This angry fellow is Charon, ferryman of the dead, shown here driving a chariot accompanied by a sinister, shadowy demonic figure which is the stuff of nightmares.

It’s from the Etruscan Tomb of the Infernal Chariot near Siena.

🕰️C4th BC
🏛️📷 Museo Civico Archeologico di Sarteano
🏺 #AncientBlueSky

Calendar Mosaic from Thysdrus (El Jem) showing Aprilis. Two women celebrate an April rite of Venus. Dated to the 1st half of the 3rd century AD. Sousse Archaeological Museum, Tunisia.

Mosaic of the Seasons and the Months. The month of April with Venus, the divinity of the month, riding on a bull that represents the zodiac sign of Taurus, 3rd century AD, found in Hellin (Albacete). National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid.

The bronze statuette depicts Venus emerging from a bath, with her right hand holding a strand of hair and her left hand holding a mirror (only the handle remains). From Ovilava/Municipium Aelium Ovilava in Noricum. Dated to the 1st or 2nd century AD. Stadtmuseum Wels, Austria.

Welcome Aprilis!
April was sacred to Venus. On the Kalends of Aprilis, the Romans celebrated the Veneralia, a festival honouring Venus Verticordia. According to Ovid, the cult image of Venus was bathed in the ritual act of lavatio. The celebrants bathed communally, crowned in wreaths of myrtle.

This fantastic Roman silver denarius
celebrates Octavian’s acquisition of Egypt, symbolised by a crocodile, not long after his defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

Got to love that toothy grin.

🕰️ 28BC
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Just your daily reminder of the intensely colorful beauty of #Egyptian faience. ❤️ 🏺 #ancientbluesky

Watching 'Through Theopompus's Eyes: Investigating Representations of Sexuality, Nudity, and the Body in Ancient Etruscan Art' presented by Bridget Sandhoff for Ancient Art Council Lecture. #AncientBluesky

Watching 'Through Theopompus's Eyes: Investigating Representations of Sexuality, Nudity, and the Body in Ancient Etruscan Art' presented by Bridget Sandhoff for Ancient Art Council Lecture. #AncientBluesky

Also for #forestFriday and #scape. The forest surrounding the training grounds in Olympia, Greece. Home of the ancient Olympic games (2013). #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #ruins #AncientBlueSky #travelphotography #archaeology #Olympics #Greece #EastCoastKin #ECK

Wow 😳, I want this.

#findsfriday #archaeology #ancientbluesky #Rome

Funerary inscription of a comic actor.

N[VMERIVS] QVINCTIVS · ↃↃ · L[IBERTVS] · COMICVS ·
SIBI · ET · QVINCTIAE · PRIMILLAE
COLLIBERTAE · ET · CONIVGI · SVAE ·
VIXI · CVM · EA · ANN[OS] · XXX ·

Source: RIG II 1, E-2. Musée Camillo Leone (Vercelli)

A bilingual inscription from the 2nd c. BC, written on a schist stone, discovered in 1960 in Piedmont. This boundary stone delimitated the land of Acisius "Argantomaterecus". One text in Latin with the Latin alphabet and the second in Gaulish with Gallo-Etruscan alphabet. #EpigraphyTuesday

A bit of medieval manuscript in lovely, clear gothic script. In between one of the lines of text is something that looks a lot like an eel, except it is somewhat furry looking. By medieval marginalia standards, though, it's pretty clearly an eel. It's brown, and slithery, and knows that it's cool as fuck. Three lines below it is some sort of interlinear beast that looks like a sea cucumber with the head of a stork or heron. It's head it's pointed up towards the eel, with it's long beak reaching, but not quite grabbing, the fish. The eel, for it's part, is shying away from the cucumber-bird's hunger. Which shows good sense, really. The slug-stork, btw, is one of the ways you know that the eel is an eel. The connection between storks/herons/demiherons/etc. & eels is very well established in medieval English artwork. If you wonder if the thing you're looking at is a snake or an eel, look for a stork. Also, if the artwork was made in England, it's probably an eel. They LOVED their eels The minims in the text are lovely, and the whole thing is extremely readable. A beautiful bit of handwriting to accompany a wonderful eel and his bird-friend.

It's Friday! You made it through the week. Go ahead...take an interlinear eel. You deserve it.
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Library's day 📚

Library's day 📚