Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Io Saturnalia omnes! #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 0107
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025I love this Sisyphean take on seasonal stresses by @mindcymru.bsky.social #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #tistheseason #mentalhealth 010
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025#classicstober #classicstober25 Day 3 - The Graiai There once were mythic sisters named Graiai, Who shared one tooth and one eye between three, When Perseus came near, They shrieked in great fear 'He's taken them both! How greedy?!' 061
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025#ClassicsTober25 Day 2 Thanatos "[Apollon] gave him [the dead Sarpedon] into the charge of swift messengers to carry him, of Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), who are twin brothers, and these two presently laid him down within the rich countryside of broad Lykia." Homer, Iliad 16.681 061
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025#ClassicsTober2025 Day 1 - Hypnos, god of sleep. "Yet you love sleep and salute Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, and forget that he is death's brother" Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet. 🖼"Sleep and his Half Brother, Death", John William Waterhouse (1874, oil on canvas Private Collection 020
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025#InternationalDogDay The saddest tale, the goodest boi.... (1) Argus, the faithful hound of Odysseus, was the only one to recognize Odysseus upon his return to Ithaca after 20 years. Too weak to move, he wags his tail and offers a final gaze of recognition before passing away. 140
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025#MosaicMonday It is flaming June so remember to help the birds and wildlife survive the heat by putting fresh water out for them. Detail from mosaic depicting tame deer drinking from a fountain. C. 3/4 CE. Carthage. 📷 British Museum, London #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky 0164
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Happy Midsummer's Eve "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind." A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Cupid fresco, c. 1st BCE - 1st CE, Villa San Marco, Stabiae 📷 Sito Archeologico di Stabiae #FrescoFriday 0116
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025#FrescoFriday "Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" Ovid, Ars Amatoria Pompeii. House of the Golden Bracelet, wall painting n. 32, Gallic rose plant (detail). 📷 Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei. #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 072
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025#worldcrocday Roman parade armour made from crocodile skin. 3rd/4th century CE. Discovered Manfalut, Egypt. It may have been used for cult purposes. 📷 British Museum #ancientbluesky 050
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025#MosaicMonday Whilst out hunting, Actaeon catches sight of goddess Diana bathing. His punishment is to be turned into a stag and hunted by his own hounds. Read more here: Ovid,Metamorphoses Book 3 House of Venus, Volubilis, Morocco 2nd/3rd century CE. 📷 Jerzy Strzelecki #classicsbluesky 191
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025#FrescoFriday Detail of a Roman fresco showing scene of dressing a priestess or bride. Found in the palaestra of the Forum Baths at Herculaneum. Dated back to 1st century CE. 📷https://feminaeromanae.org #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 0112
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025A bit of Classical Reception for #MosaicMonday. Detail of a sphinx from the National Library of Ireland, part of a pair depicted with the the motto 'Sapienta' or wisdom which was one of the attributes associated with the sphinx. 📷 @Rustransdark #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 051
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Graceful gazelles this #FrescoFriday. Their delicately painted forms really give a sense of these slender, shy creatures... Antelopes Fresco, discovered at Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini). C. 1700 BCE 📷 National Archaeological Museum, Athens. #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 072
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025#ReliefWednesday For you do not share The Pierian roses, but unseen in the house of Hades You will stray, breathed out, among the ghostly dead Sappho, Fragment 65 Exaltation of the flower. Grave stele, Farsala. Thessaly, Greece. 470 - 460 BCE. Louvre Museum #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 0428
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025A #MosaicMonday peacock in honour of Juno and the month named for her. She was the goddess of marriage, childbirth and fertility. Peacocks were sacred to her and drew her chariot. Peacock, Detail of Mosaic - 4th century CE., Bardo Museum, Tunis #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 08621
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Welcome June ~ Let the wild rumpus begin! Max Ernst Pietschmann (German, 1865-1952), "Dance of satyrs and nymphs in a spring landscape" #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 050
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 26/05/2025#MosaicMonday Detail from the 'Lion Hunt' mosaic. Late 4th century BCE, from the House of Dionysos. Pebble Mosaic. Pella Archaeological Museum. Greece. #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky 2409
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I think I am ready to deal with this 'ferocious beast' #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 080
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025#worldbeeday2025 A silver tetradrachm from Ephesus depicting a honey bee. The temple of Artemis, one of the 'Seven Wonders of the Ancient World' was located there and the priestesses were known as 'Melissae' or honeybees. Dated 370-360 BCE 📷ArchaiOptix. #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky 24817
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025#InternationalDanceDay Terpsichore is one of the nine Muses in Greek mythology. She is the goddess of dance and chorus. Her name, means "delight in dancing". The Muse Terpsichore. Fresco fragment. House of Julia Felix, Pompeii. 62–79, Louvre, Paris. #classicsbluesky #ancient 📷 Louvre Museum 081
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Tiger, tiger burning bright... This lustrous 4th century CE mosaic of a tiger prowling amongst foliate designs just glows! Roman floor mosaic, Villa of Tellaro, Sicily. #MosaicMonday #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 📷 Salvatore Pirrera 0398
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025#MosaicMonday Happy 2,778th birthday Rome founded this day 753 BCE. Roman mosaic flooring showing the she-wolf feeding Romulus and Remus which is central to the founding myth of the city. From the cubicle in the Domus della Fortuna Annonaria in Ostia. 📷 Ostia Antica Park #ancientbluesky 0194
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025#MosaicMonday Roman Mosaic of the Spring from the Villa La Olmeda in Pedrosa de la Vega, Palencia, Spain. Dated to the 4th century AD. All that rich foliate and floral bursting forth! Image: Valdavia 070
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025This #FrescoFriday we have a magnificent duo courtesy of of the excellent @followinghadrian.bsky.social Cautes and Cautopates, torchbearers for the god Mithras. Tauroctony fresco in the mithraeum of Capua. 2nd century CE, Ancient Capua. #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #AncientRome 0193
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025#MosaicMonday The abduction of Europa. Zeus carries the Phoenician princess Europa across the sea in the guise of a bull. Roman. 3rd -4th century CE. House of Europa, Sparta, Greece. #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky #archaeology #AncientGreece #Mythology #AncientRome 140
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025#FrescoFriday Io, Argive princess + lover of Zeus wearing bovine horns watched over by Argos on jealous Hera's orders. Ancestress of Perseus, Heracles, Minos, Cadmus... One of the moons of Jupiter 1st C CE, Casa di Meleagro, Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum 000
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Spring has sprung and mad March hares are bounding about in the countryside! For #MosaicMonday, a delightful 4th century CE Roman hare floor mosaic found at Beeches Road, Cirencester. Image: coriniummuseum.org/object/lix01... 0263
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025#FrescoFriday For #worldpoetryday2025 Calliope, muse of epic poetry, from the Villa Moregine, western triclinium A. 1st century CE. On display at Pompeii Archaeological Park. She is the oldest of the Muses and often depicted with a writing tablet and stylus. #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky 0103
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025For #WorldPoetryDay2025 I was going to choose something classically themed but decided on the timeless themes expressed by the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in 'Think of Others' 000
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Felicem diem natalem to #Ovid born OTD 43 BCE. "I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth." Metamorphoses, XIV #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky #ovid 1154
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Loving this on Tom Holland's X feed (the historian not the actor!) 😂😂😂 #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky 030
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025#FrescoFriday From the recent Pompeii excavations, one of the newly discovered allegorical goddess figures representing agriculture/seasons in the The Shrine in Regio IX, Insula 10 of Pompeii. #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky 0173
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Can't think of a better gift for oneself or a loved one than this exciting new book from the @workingclassicists.bsky.social with 117 writers and illustrations from the fab @corabeth.bsky.social. Preorder from @contubernales.bsky.social. So excited to receive mine! #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky 062
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025#MosaicMonday On the Feast of the Epiphany, today's mosaic is a 5th century CE beauty depicting the Adoration of the Magi with their Phrygian caps and 'fancy pants' leggings denoting their Eastern exoticism and opulence. Triumphal arch, Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome #AncientBlueSky 072
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 03/01/2025#FrescoFriday The stunning frescoes at the House of the Orchard, Pompeii. Dating back to the 3rd century BCE, the house saw various renovations throughout its history, reflecting its enduring significance to its owners. #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky 090
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025January - named after Janus - the god of beginnings and endings. “He had two faces: one looked backward at the old year, and the other looked forward to the coming year.” LadyBird books 🐞 From ‘Stories of our Christmas Customs’) Artist: Frank Hampson #AncientBlueSky #ClassucsBlueSky 040
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Happy New Year to all. Really looking forward to all the new books, lectures, discoveries, photos, travels and all the other things the Classics community shares (including the classically-minded cats!) Hope the next year is a great one! #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky 160
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 30/12/2024#MosaicMonday an homage to the past by Avon Archaeology who painstakingly recreated and completed the mosaic floor of a Roman dining room earlier this year. It looks wonderful! #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky 05810
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 27/12/2024What a fabulous idea for a classically-inspired festive pie crust! 4th C Latin commentator Servius noted that the Egyptians used it to represent the cyclical nature of the year so perhaps an ouroboros could could encircle your favourite NYE food! #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky 0489
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Hope that none of your Christmas parcel deliveries went astray.. A cartoon by Christopher Weyant, from 2020. #NewYorkerCartoons #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky 042
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024From The New Yorker Magazine 16/12/2024 edition 🍇🍺😂 #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #mythbluesky 0327
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024#PhallusThursday Attic red-figure lid depicting three vulvae and a winged phallus. Origin unknown, c. 460–425 BC. National Archaeological Museum in Athens. #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 0122
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024#ReliefWednesday The monumental sarcophagus of Helena in ancient red porphyry from the Mausoleum of Helena, where Flavia Julia Helena (248–329), mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I, was buried. (Vatican Museums) #AncientBlueSky 1546
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Absolutely frocking fabulous! This marvellous creation by Madeleine Vionnet (1931) - Niké of Samothrace (190 BC) 000
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024#ReliefWednesday Just look at the movement in this sculpture! That lion! The expression on its victim's face! Gruesome but so realistic! Detail from the Gigantomachy, Treasury of the Siphians, Delphi Circa 530 - 525 BCE 030
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Discover A History of Rome in 5 Roman Inscriptions! Dec 1, 2024 | 9 PM Rome Time Explore the stories behind Rome’s evolution through iconic inscriptions—from the mysterious Lapis Niger to the proclamations of the Pantheon! ancientromelive.org/live-streams... #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 083
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Bloomsbury Christmas sale is here! Until Sunday 8th December you can get up to 30% off their classical studies and archaeology books. 🛒 Shop classical studies: bit.ly/3AvMIXz 🛒 Shop archaeology: bit.ly/40LhQg8 #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #archaeologybluesky #historybluesky 031
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024All tickets can be booked here: ticketsource.co.uk/theoretical-... 000
Elizabeth Saint C @esaintc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024How fabulous are these Loeb style Christmas cards?! Available from Visit CSMFHT's shop, for cool artwork on awesome products! www.redbubble.com/people/CSMFH... #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky 1316
