BTS - Dionysus (방탄소년단 - Dionysus) [Color Coded Lyrics/Han/Rom/Eng/가사] YouTube video by Lemoring

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【高音質・最新】IKAROS - King Gnu 【日本語字幕/歌詞動画】 YouTube video by とー

君の瞳に近付き過ぎたの I came too close to your eyes,
大気圏通過350°C Passing through the atmosphere at 350°C.
翼が溶けてゆく My wings are melting bit by bit,
どこまでも墜ちてゆく Continuing to fall to anywhere

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NewJeans (뉴진스) 'Cool With You' Official MV (side A) YouTube video by HYBE LABELS

A student offered an interesting argument that this music video depicts a gender-flipped version of the Cupid and Psyche myth.
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Timebelle - Apollo (Lyrics) YouTube video by Equilanora

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Recently I asked my students to introduce a song that makes reference to a myth, and I was quite pleased that they came up with ones that I had never heard of before. So here is the 2024 edition in the comments (I'll add more as the last few coming trickling in).

So, I have been gone for quite a while but that is because I got a lecturing job at my local university. While I am technically teaching English, one of my classes in particular asked me to do Greek mythology. As media students they've been having a ball essentially doing basic reception studies.

I made an Attic Greek joke!

Friend: So, what is your favourite word in Attic Greek?
Me: Hmm, ἐπιλανθάνομαι (epilanthanomai)
Friend: What does it mean?
Me: I forget! 🤷🏻‍♀

Orestes brandishes a sword. To the right, two winged Furies with snakes in their hair point weapons at him; one reaches towards his leg with a snake in her outstretched hand. In the upper left, Apollo, seated on a white swan, holds a bow and aims an arrow at the Fury in the lower right. This is an overview of the scene; the other pictures are details of these principal characters.

Orestes pursued by the Furies and protected by Apollo after killing his mother Clytemnestra
Apulian red-figure volute krater with masks from Ruvo di Puglia, now Museo Archeologico Bari (Santa Scolastica)
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A difference so big that I went from regular 50-60% in undergrad to entering a Latin translation contest this year.

My problem with Latin was frustration. If I got stuck and I couldn’t find a solution? just forget the rest of the homework getting done. Also stupid weekly vocabulary tests. Coming back later, with no tests, and having digital access to multiple translations to check? That made all the difference.

for a 1st-yr seminar I put together a series of "how to read" guides
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Workshop Registration Form International Workshop: The Afterlife of the Greco-Persian Wars From Antiquity to Modern Times 13th December 2023, Rakuyu Kaikan, Conference Room 1, 1F, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Time Zone: GMT+...

Dec 13 hybrid conference - The Afterlife of the Greco-Persian Wars: From Antiquity to Modern Times - hybrid/Kyoto University, Japan  forms.gle/ApSnocfETXme...

Etruscan carnelian engraved gem of Ajax and Cassandra. Drawing in sanguine coloured pencils on tan paper.

It was a bit a rough month for one reason and then another, so #classicstober ended up a bust. I did, however, manage to get one drawing done of this Etruscan carnelian engraved gem of Ajax and Cassandra. Getty Collection No. 2019.13.10 (Original: www.getty.edu/art/collecti...)

Throwback. My version of the Amazon queen Penthesilia. Ink on paper.

Throwback. After doing the initial drawing I was messing around with manga filters on Clip Studio. Marble bust of Polydeukes c. 165 CE. Referenced from a photo by @profyarrow.bsky.social.

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One of my elderly ESL students that I teach in the evenings at the community center just apologized to me for using “Google-Chan” to help her work something out. I asked why the -Chan suffix and she says, because it’s her friend.

Yes, he did turn out looking rather similar to Dream, which was not intentional!

Throwback. My interpretation of Phanes, the Orphic god of Light and the Firstborn from the Cosmic Egg.

"...throughout this world you brought pure light. For this I call you Phanes..." - Hymn 6 to Protogonos. The Orphic Hymns. Trans. Athanassakis, A. 1977.

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Rural, ineffable, two-form'd, obscure,
two-horn'd, with ivy crown'd, euion, pure.
Bull-fac'd, and martial, bearer of the vine,
endu'd with counsel prudent and divine:
Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn,
of Jove and Proserpine, occultly born.
- Hymns of Orpheus (Taylor)

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Hopefully we get to see the results of her artistic talent!

An ink drawing of the costume of an Amazon basked off a 5th century BCE alabastron.

An ink drawing of an Amazon costume based off a 5th centrury lekythos.

An ink drawing of an Amazon costume based of a 6th c. BCE amphora by the Exekias Painter.

Last year I did a Wonder Woman as Amazon paper-doll booklet for the Wonder Woman for President 2022: 50 Years of Kick-Ass Feminism conference. You can still download the PDF here and print yourself a dress-up paper-doll to colour! wonderwomanforpresident2022.wordpress.com/wonder-woman...

Thanks. It's totally on my bucket list (it's just a super long bucket list at the moment).

A black and white drawing on scratchboard of an Etruscan cista lid depicting four nereids riding on hippocampi.

Throwback. This is still one of my favourite pieces of art. An Etruscan bronze cista lid done on scratch-board. (And let me say that just scratching the ink almost wrecked my wrist, I cannot imagine engraving it into metal!) 🏺🎨 AncientBlueSky

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Throwback. My patrons can (regardless of their tier) earn a commission. In this case one asked for my take on the "Triple Goddess". I feel that the crone aspect is neglected in the modern world so she's the focus. And being African, she just has to be the Mama. 🎨https://www.patreon.com/bronwen

Frogs (2023) | World's First Film in Ancient Greek (Full Movie) Frogs – The first feature-length film entirely spoken in Ancient GreekTo enable subtitles, click on the gear icon (settings) at the bottom of the video and s...

I have to confess that despite being a drama / classics double major, I never liked the ancient plays; not reading them, nor performing them. And I just don't /get/ comedy, modern or ancient. But gosh... has this turned me around completely. It's brilliant! AncientBlueSky

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That's a good idea actually. I tend towards pretty literal translations for classwork but I'm also learning how to be a bit more free.

Sometimes I like to play word games when I do Latin translation.

Wherever I look, there is nothing, save sea and sky;
this swollen with surf, that suppressing with storm.

quocumque aspicio, nihil est, nisi pontus et aer,
fluctibus hic tumidus, nubibus ille minax.
(Ovid, Tristia 1.2.24-25)

I more imaginative drawing. This is Arke (twin sister to Iris) who is feeling for the wings that Zeus tore off her back as punishment for siding with the Titans. I wrote a piece reflecting on the violence and her potential erasure on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/59352310
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Monochromatic ink drawing of a full face Roman cavalry mask and helmet.

Throwback art. Roman cavalry mask/helmet. I'm sorry, but I didn't save the details of the artefact I referenced. 🙇🏻‍♀️

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An ink drawing of a stark black and white portrait of a man.

Throwback art. Not /everything/ I do is classical artefact based. Here's a piece called 'Dreaming Awake'. 🎨