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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

its crazy how most of what ive found written about sapphobot in academic articles is demonstrably incorrect

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Lexie Henning @lexie-henning.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So happy to finally be able to announce the event I’ve been working on since January! Myth in Motion is a 2-day symposium that will welcome actors Melissanthi Mahut and Michael Antonakos to the University of Bristol on November 5-6, 2026! Info and tickets below! www.tickettailor.com/events/brist...

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Select tickets – Myth in Motion: Embodying Ancient Greece in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – B.H05 Lecture Theatre (Arts Complex)

Myth in Motion: Embodying Ancient Greece in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – B.H05 Lecture Theatre (Arts Complex), Thu 5 Nov 2026 - Fri 6 Nov 2026 - This symposium will welcome actors Melissanthi Mahut and ...

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Night at the Museum 🏛️🌌🏺👻

Art by flaroh illustration. Septembers illustration is a nighttime scene in the House of the Faun room at the National Archaeology Museum in Naples. The eponymous faun/satyr figurine is in the foreground, and is observed by a ghostly Roman lady with an impressive Flavian hairpiece. She looks mournful as she passes through the room of her former possessions, her gaze lingering on the bronze statuette. Behind her, the mosaics displayed on the wall are visible through her translucent body.

The palette is a vibrant mix of blues contrasted with bright orange line art

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Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are excited to announce the 2026 Symonds Lecture will be delivered by Dr Robert Howes on October 3rd from 5PM. The event is free, open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception. @uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/thein... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📸

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

genuinely think i had a dream where it was working again but so far this has NOT proved to be portentous

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m pretty sure that if nothing else it will be the yellowest book of 2027 🤭💛 www.plutobooks.com/product/clas...

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Classicism - Pluto Press

History is written by the victors. But what happens when the story they tell is a lie?

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

anyone know which gods to supplicate to get perseus' greek word study tool to work these days

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

obv we have no context for the fragment and it has a lot of echoes in later lyric but i do feel like sappho 147 is actually invoking and/or reworking epic tropes/language in a similar way to fr 1 and 16

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am VERY EXCITED to see the ad come out for post-doc positions associated with my Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies: please pass on to anyone who might be interested and works across ancient regions/languages/worlds... www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Applications are sought for three Research Associates to join the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS), directed by Professor Josephine Quinn. Starting no later than 1 October 2027, you wil...

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

opens perseus on odyssey book 9 and then immediately googles 'mitski nobody lyrics'

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Epic the musical filing a complaint against one of my Ancient Greek myth artworks was not on my 2026 bingo card 🙃 I’m actually really pissed off

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

WHOA STEPHANIE MCCARTER CATULLUS?? HELL YEAH DIDNT KNOW THIS WAS COMING

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Stephanie McCarter @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It’s nice to have these in my hands! Publication day is Tuesday.

A book photo: the Poems of Catullus, A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text, edited by Stephanie McCarter.

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

i had a dream last night where i was playing cards against humanity with friends but all of the fill-in-the-blanks cards were either fragments of sappho or quotes from scholarship about sappho. and then i looked at the deck and it was called 'the intellectual expansion pack' or smth. damning.

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm cited on knowyourmeme for making an extremely stupid classics-related joke on tumblr. thankfully by a handle i no longer use

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

now having to resist the urge to procrastinate on conference paper by reading 1 star reviews for if not winter on amazon. have already seen one which says 'there are almost no words in this book'

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

fascinating, the penguin classics edition of ovid's met ranks higher (at #7) than if not winter (#17) in the amazon bestseller rankings for 'love poetry'

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

it has been fun but it will be nice to have more time on my hands. so i can do things like recreate this diva's whole look in drag

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

let's all play hell maiden instead

A screencap from the game Hell Maiden. An anime girl version of the poet Horace says "Most importantly, Virgil - you've got to save Homer" to an anime girl version of the poet Virgil.

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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Following a trip to the Odyssey yesterday I wanted to do a Circe Mari. So looked out the greek pottery for reference

An orange mari in a pose similar to one circe is depicted having

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 22/07/2026

No shit Nolan’s Odyssey fails to convey the complexity of female characters, have you ever seen a Christopher Nolan film???

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

question of the hour is whether i need to define 'shipping' in my thesis. in the fandom sense

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

the anime jaadugar: a witch in mongolia contains more information in the first two episodes about the transmission of ancient greek literature during the islamic golden age than i was taught in three years of my undergrad classics degree. go watch it

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

will be presenting on the lyric forms modern worlds panel at ccc! anyone else going?

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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hey #Classics folks! A former student asked me about this red-figure cup featuring a seated Dionysus and a dancing maenad wearing "satyr breeches." I can't think of other examples of women dressed as satyrs, so it seems super interesting! Anybody know of other examples (or scholarship I should rec)?

Attic red-figure stemless kylix cup, with interior depicting a seated Dionysus and (quoting the database description) "before him a dancing maenad, satyr (?). Maenad wears satyr breeches. Dionysos seated on klismos, himation loosely draped about legs. Garlanded with laurel, holds thyrsos in right hand. Surrounding border of stopped maeanders interspersed with dotted checker."

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

apparently hell maiden is gonna have more ancient poet characters for the full game release... i'm hoping for sappho and euripides but unsure if they'll only stick to people who appear in the divine comedy 👀

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

should it be sapphect. or sapffect or saffect

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

damn pinterest is sooo undertheorised < normal statement

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

really grinds my gears when scholars claim that certain social media or fandom spaces are inherently progressive just because of their demographics like. tumblr and its fan cultures are often deeply misogynistic despite being largely full of women and queer people. have you ever used this platform??

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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?

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Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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

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.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Lunar New Year Romans using in 2026 consuls to date their years during the reign of Caligula 🤝 Year of the Horse

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

my research in particular lends well to bizarre bibliography juxtapositions

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'.

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Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🏛️ 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...

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.

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Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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

A manuscript illustration of a man standing in a tent, pouring a libation over a smoking altar.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 06/06/2025

Archive.org is temporarily offline. We are working to restore access. Apologies for the disruption!

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

mary barnard titles sappho's leto and niobe fragment 'before they were mothers'; willis barnstone titles it 'before the murder'

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Antiquipop @antiquipop.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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-...

Visual for the call, with a greek vase featuring a pic from the "Rumors" video by Cardi B and Lizzo (depicted as greek godesses)

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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: classicalassociation.org/internships

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Lily Bickers @cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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

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Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

📣 Four more days to apply! Tell your students! 📣

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Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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.

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.

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