desperately searching for this painting that i've been shown in various art history lectures over the years - it's probably 18th/19th century and depicts art from different ancient cultures all lined up in the order of value that european collectors supposed it to have. does anyone know the title?
The poster for the event advertised, with a photograph of an avant-garde building being constructed. The building is pointy and looks a bit like a tent.
Next up in our director's reception series! A lecture from Sean Gurd (University of Texas) titled "Tangents and Parabolas: Varèse and the Brussels World Fair." The lecture is free to attend and open to all.
🎟️ buytickets.at/theinstitute...
⏰March 11th, 5-6:30PM
📍Online, Zoom
Lunar New Year Romans using
in 2026 consuls to
date their years
during the reign
of Caligula
🤝
Year of the Horse
by which i mean i wish i could find a copy of lesbian peoples: material for a dictionary that wasn't 40 pounds and i bet you anything theres a feminist scholar somewhere in this country who has one in her office which she hasnt read in decades
i wish there was an app or some kind of wider network where academics specifically could trade and give away their old or unwanted books. all the best stuff in my library has come from book giveaways when scholars have retired or moved offices
working on a piece of web-based interactive classics media and stymied by the fact that my two websites are both related to personal art projects (game dev, drag) which i hesitate to hitch up to my Real Life Name And Profession at this moment in time. feels absurd to have to build a third website
I long for a return to 'street style' - a real focus on what people are actually wearing in the world rather than just what they photograph to put on social media. Found this contemporary Tokyo street snap blog recently and I've been totally obsessed with it! www.tumblr.com/tomoike2525
A screencap of an academic bibliography. Almost all of the entries are about the study of the poet Sappho, but one of them is about the fandom for the TV show Supernatural.
one of these just isn't like the others
Will this be hybrid/livestreamed? Would really like to attend but I'm in the UK!
A screencap of an academic bibliography. A citation for an article called 'what is it with lesbians and hozier' appears next to a citation for Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus'.
my research in particular lends well to bizarre bibliography juxtapositions
The poster for the event series. It features a painting of a silhouette of a woman walking down a black and white staircase. The events are to be held at 5-6:30 PM GMT/BST online on Thursdays throughout the year.
🏛️ NEW EVENT SERIES 🏛️
The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity.
The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th.
www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
A manuscript illustration of a man standing in a tent, pouring a libation over a smoking altar.
This morning's #imageoftheweek is this illuminated illustration of Iliad 16, in which Achilles sacrifices to Zeus for Patroclus' safe return from battle. This image is from the 5th century CE Ambrosian Iliad, a unique and beautiful manuscript. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #achilles
Artemis as undersea huntress. I found an article that spoke of an Arcadian shrine to a fish-tailed Artemis. This claim seemed dubious, but the image of Artemis as an underwater huntress took hold! She wears a fish scale alopekis and has seals as her companions as they are the dogs of the sea.
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finished my initial tiktok data collection
horrifying: the number of people claiming that sappho is the only known female poet from ancient greece or rome
delightful: this one girl with a horse called sappho
mary barnard titles sappho's leto and niobe fragment 'before they were mothers'; willis barnstone titles it 'before the murder'
Visual for the call, with a greek vase featuring a pic from the "Rumors" video by Cardi B and Lizzo (depicted as greek godesses)
Call for papers | “Gender and Deities of Greco-Roman Myth in Music Videos” (International Journal of the Classical Tradition)
👥 Guest Editors: @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social & Sílvia Catarina Pereira Diogo
🗓️ Deadline: June 20th, 2025
🏺 antiquipop.hypotheses.org/ijct-gender-...
The Classical Association is offering (paid, remote) internships this summer. There are 4/6/8 week placements available. Closing date: 8 June, applicants must be UK based and aged 18 or older at the time of the internship.
Further details are all here: https://classicalassociation.org/internships/
that's interesting! my college at cambridge didn't have a dining hall like that but i would have really enjoyed that. sometimes i feel like people are more open to cross-disciplinary conversations when they've just met you than when they know you well
I wish more people in the Academy tm could put aside their anxieties about coming across as fully informed about everything all the time because it would really help us engage with one another. not exempting myself from this obviously
and I don't think I knowingly go into these convos assuming or expecting a person to have the same knowledge as I do - I want to talk across and between disciplines! I get why people have this anxiety about classics specifically but it's still frustrating
I've had this frustration since I was an undergrad - with peers who are happy to tell me about their work but clock out of a conversation when I compare/relate it to mine because they 'don't know enough about classics'
I think one of the most important steps you can take towards real interdisciplinarity is being brave enough to engage in real conversations with people who study things you don't know anything about
📣 Four more days to apply! Tell your students! 📣
A statue of a man standing with his back arched and a pained expression on his face. There is an arrow in his heel, which a tiny baby cherub is trying to pull out.
Today's #imageoftheweek is this statue of the dying Achilles by Christophe Veyrier, from 1683. Note: the cherub trying valiantly to remove the arrow from his heel.
Statue is in the V&A, photo by our intern.
no one more woeful than the scholar of ancient monsters forced to read 1000000 student exam papers responding to a question about monsters by talking about uhhhhhhh circe, odysseus, the gods in general, calypso
what do you mean bristol library doesnt have an ebook of redeeming the text
put another way sappho is not yet lesbian she may never touch lesbianism but can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality
all philological attempts to make sappho less queer have not merely revealed her as queer, but have actively made her even more so
internet archive should have a cute little mascot they can make into a plushie