A relatively short video on the Lion Hunt Mosaic from Pella, its (probable) original sculpture group at Delphi, and Krateros.

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Also there’s a gift link if anyone needs it

www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/MSR6X...

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Homerists - humour me for a moment. Is there an explicit sex-scene between Hektor and Andromache in the Iliad?

I don't think there is, but my familiarity with every detail in the poem is clearly lacking. #ClassicsBluesky

#latinquotes #classicsbluesky #seneca

The image of titus riding an eagle on the underside of the arch of titus

Soooooo given all I know about Trump I can only think he’ll borrow from the very worst of Roman art to decorate his triumph arch. Nominations? I nominate tiny Titus riding an eagle. #classicsbluesky

Thalassocracy and the Power of the Sea – Friday, April 24, 2026 Friday, April 24, 2026

Registration is now open for the 2026 CUNY Classics Graduate Student Conference, Thalassocracy and the Power of the Sea.

thalassocracy.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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CLAS work-in-progress #seminars #NextWeek:

📆 15 April at 3pm.
📍 room s11 Swallowgate, St Andrews.
ℹ️ Enquiries? email ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk and ack20@st-andrews.ac.uk.

View details: bit.ly/4sqZf38
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For #FindsFriday - the bronze cover of a wonderful compact/folding mirror!
Incredible to imagine this in the hands (or handbag 😆) of an Ancient Greek person 2000 years ago!

325-275 B.C.E.

📸 Us, Allard Pierson Museum. Amsterdam.

#Archaeology #AncientBluesky #history #Classicsbluesky #AncientGreece

consuesse enim deos immortales, quo gravius homines ex commutatione rerum doleant quos pro scelere eorum ulcisci velint, his secundiores interdum res et diuturniorem impunitatem concedere
(Caes. BG 1.14.5)

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Summary of a chapter I wrote that I'd promised to discuss. Why did Alexander annihilate an entire people who'd surrendered to him? What might he have thought he was doing? Looks at religious motivations in ancient warfare. #blueskyancient #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky #alexanderthegreat

Any Cicero and/or text crit #ClassicsBluesky folks who can help out more specifically than I can?

You probably want the Oxford Classical Texts, or (depending on the text) there may be other recent editions/commentaries with MSS info and textual apparatus. I'm not a Cicero person but if you specify the text(s) you're interested in then the #ClassicsBluesky bat signal can get to work!

Theseus: the Final Volume A graphic novel of Greek mythology, adventure and comedy gets its final volume, and you can get the full collection right here.

If you are looking for an absolutely delightful, ancient source informed comic that all of my students have been universally in love with, today is the final day to kickstart vol 3!

#classicsbluesky 🏺 #classicalreception

"Plato on forgetting and re-understanding"
Gábor Betegh (Cambridge)

Sarah Broadie Memorial #Lecture:
🗓️ 14 April 5:30pm
📍School III, St Salvator's Quad, #StAndrews
❔️Email enquiries to classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk

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A selection of comics: Ody-C, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade #4, 13th Labor, Lore Olympus vol 1, Three, Artemis Requiem 4, Eternals 9, Age of Bronze Betrayal 1, Marvel's Iliad

Today was the last day of the comics module in my Antiquity in Modern Media class so I brought in a selection for them to compare styles and approaches.
🏺 #classicalreception #classicsbluesky

Poster showing a volcano erupting with digital modelling for part of the slopes. Text reads: APRIL 7-10 UNLOCKING ANCIENT TEXTS WITH AI THE BURIED LIBRARY HERCULANEUM PAPYRI AND AI CONFERENCE QR code on image contains link to programme and here https://www.uvu.edu/philhum/herculaneum/ engage.uvu. edu/scrolls

Heading to Salt Lake City to speak at ‘The Buried Library: Herculaneum Papyri and AI’ conference. Programme in the QR code below. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Help! My link to the Oxford Classical Dictionary abbreviations page no longer works! Can someone share a working link or point me to another online resource?

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dedique cor meum ut scirem prudentiam atque doctrinam erroresque et stultitiam et agnovi quod in his quoque esset labor et adflictio spiritus eo quod in multa sapientia multa sit indignatio et qui addit scientiam addat et laborem.
(Vulg. Eccl. 1:17f)
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Next week we’re gathering with some some members of #DEGRIAC to discuss about #emotions and #ancientgreeklaw at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires. #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics #AncientBlueSky

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

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The god of war has no favorites and is wont to slay the man minded to kill.

ξυνὸς Ἐνυάλιος, καί τε κτανέοντα κατέκτα.
(Hom Il. 18.309)

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Celebrating Women in Classics: Ten Years of the Women’s Classical Committee UK - WCC-UK As part of the Women’s Classical Committee’s tenth anniversary celebrations, we invite you to join us for a lively round table discussion and Q&A on the theme of ‘Celebrating Women in Classics’ on 22n...

Reminder: March 31st deadline for applications to travel bursaries for @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social 10th anniversary celebration! Up to 7 available for grad students and un(der)employed Classicists. Info & to apply:

wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c...

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Are you a Woman in Classics (both terms broadly defined!)? If you’re not on this list, let me know and I’ll put you on!

Are you a person interested in Classics? You should follow this list for all the amazing women on it!!!

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A general discussion of Macedonia's court society (to use Elias's term). What was the locus of power at the Macedonian court, and how did Philip II and Alexander the Great change it? (Insofar as we call tell.)
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si enim pecunias aequari non placet, si ingenia omnium paria esse non possunt, iura certe paria debent esse eorum inter se, qui sunt cives in eadem re publica. quid est enim civitas nisi iuris societas?
(Cic. Rep. 1.32)

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tam enim esse clemens tyrannus quam inportunus potest; ut hoc populorum intersit, utrum comi domino an aspero serviant; quin serviant quidem, fieri non potest.
(Cic. Rep. 1.33)

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Seminar poster. FICLIT - CONVEGNI E SEMINARI UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA FLCCB 2025/2026 Cido di conforenzo a sominuri VENERDÌ 27 MARZO ORE 11, AULA TRAINA (VIA ZAMBONI 32) E SU MICROSOFT TEAMS THOMAS COWARD (UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL) The ending of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women

Via Zamboni 32 building sign. ALMA MATER STUDIORUM UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA DIPARTIMENTO DI FILOLOGIA CLASSICA E ITALIANISTICA 32

Front of the incomplete Basilico di San Petronio. Because a pope would not allow a basilica to be bigger than St Peter’s

The Two Towers of Bologna. One leaning more perilously than the other.

A pleasure and an honour to give a paper on the Hesiodic Catalogue at the University of Bologna @unibo.it where i was an Erasmus exchange student many years ago and where I was first trained to handle papyri. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky