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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Berliner Künstler und Kulturschaffender fürchten nicht Elif Eralp, sondern Wolfram Weimer und seine Verschwörungstheorien, Angriffe auf die Meinungs- und Kulturfreiheit, und Zitate über die „Fortdauer des eigenen Blutes."

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes firefox please give me an AI summary of this log-in screen. Please summarize this poem that I wrote for me. There is no other reason the phone would ever be shaking while i'm using it; I am meaning to use "shake to summarize", an intutive & beloved feature. And please make it a chore to disable

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is there a good explainer for uninformed cis people of how bad Rowling is? My niece has apparently become a big HP fan and my sister keeps mentioning it to me like I will think it's normal even after I tried to express my dismay

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The one trait consistent to EVERYONE on the right is an inability to understand anything until they experience it personally

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

in this episode cmrn reads a letter tolkien wrote where he talks about how lore is beside the point of storytelling and he doesn't understand all the people asking him fine-grained questions about calendars and stuff and This Is The Truth They Have Hidden From You

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Speaking as someone who is very anxious to pronounce Latin according to the rules set down by ancient grammarians ... the traditional English pronunciation of Latin is so cool and good and should never have been abandoned* (*it should be taught alongside a reconstructed classical pronunciation)

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just read this short book on philosopher Louis Althusser's murder of his wife, & it's of a piece with all I've read about Nazi intellectuals who had a career after the war: all who still want to like him represent it as some great mystery, when he was simply a chauvinist pig who committed femicide.

Book cover "Killer Althusser. The Banality of Men" by Francis Dupuis-Déri, translated by Mélissa Bull, published by Provocations. There's a line drawing on the cover too, I think it's a combination of the Mars/male symbol and a deflating penis?

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thinking about writing short articles for SARTRIX about the (greco-roman) intellectual history of -heliocentrism / geocentrism -flat earth / spherical earth What other topics are there along these lines?

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Arendse @arend.se · 14/08/2026

Even the people who wrote the books, wrote in them! Here's a 14th-century manuscript where the scribe wrote at the bottom: "May the writer be healthy."

AM 286 fol., f. 7v (1310-1330). A manuscript from Denmark. On this page, one scribe stops writing and another takes up writing. The second scribe has written a Latin phrase in the bottom margin.

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.

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Without History @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I mean, we used to advocate for the policy implications - even the non abolitionists amongst the trans movement - but we got beat back. End sex as an administrative category, end birth assignment, make non gendered facilities the norm with exceptions rather than the other way round.

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 11/08/2026

$733 is amazing but Bex still needs another $344 to get an appointment to find out what’s going on with their cancer! please help if you can

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Nathanael T. Booth (he/him) @nathanaeltbooth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@kmichaelwilson.bsky.social and I are co-organizing a virtual panel at the 2027 ACLA. Proposals are now open: www.acla.org/seminar/ce2d...

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"wordy, old prose" - this is such a horrible and ubiquitous way to think of older literature. every period of (even just) English-language writing has forms of expression nobody before or since would have thought of, but people treat it as an imposition that it's not all flat dull 21st century prose

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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is a really interesting set of results. A couple of things jump out, one of which is the difficulties intersex people experience accessing public facilities (this is timely given the EHRC Code of Practice).

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've been working on and off on a list of pagan hymns, including Neo-Latin + vernacular pieces, and I noticed today (while adding Bernardo Tasso's odes) that I hadn't covered Italian at all so far! Can people point me to Italian poets who've written hymns and odes to pagan gods? There must be many.

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Hymn - SARTRIX

A hymn (gr. ὕμνος hýmnos, lat. hymnus) is a composition in praise of gods, especially in verse but also in prose.

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Any internet search trying to spell this name is just giving me Hillary Clinton as a result, if anyone can take a look! 😅✍️

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I don't know what was in Nolan's head obviously, but movie Athena behaves lot more like a deity (if not like the poem's Athena) than she does a "PTSD vision". She appears at various moments to tell Odysseus true things he doesn't (want to) know. Only in his mind? Well, that's where Athena acts.

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I saw The Odyssey and read Emily Wilson's review today, and while I disagree with a lot of what she says, the way I've seen people represent her on here is just awful. There's nothing mean-spirited or politically regressive about the review, and you can just disagree with it without pretending so.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

On this particular point: attacking, maiming and ultimately murdering queer people is, I believe, simply as a matter of describing what many Germans have done throughout the 20th and 21st century, a set of values that many Germans have adhered to and continue to adhere to

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

What is #WITmonth? #WITmonth is⤵️ Explore further here: www.womenintranslation.org

The #womenintranslation project is:
International, intersectional, and built around the notion that all women* (*and transgender and nonbinary and intersex individuals) deserve to have their voices heard. This project is committed to giving space to women* from all countries, all languages, all religions, all ethnicities, all cultures, all sexualities, all marginalized gender identities, all abilities, all bodies, all classes, and all ages. Due to the stunning gender disparity in non-English language literature, this project will focus on all literature written by women* in any language other than English, regardless of the language in which it is read or discussed. This project shall not discriminate based on literary genre or designation, seeking instead to open as many gates as possible to all readers. This project is open to all readers, from all languages, from all countries, in the hopes that together we may build a better world.

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

That's true, but the e.g. of Melos comes to mind because we have Thucydides' Melian dialogue, a critique of Athenian politics BY an Athenian. These writers often disavow the harsher critiques they (nevertheless) put in their works, but they were not simply speaking in the name of the most powerful!

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Researching the god Vertumnus, so here are some corrections to widespread misinformation: -he is almost certainly (like >99%) Etruscan, but we do not know his name in Etruscan (yet), anyone who says otherwise is serving you wild speculations -even less do we know his "original character"

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A review commissioned for nerds who wondered ‘what might the recent translator Emily Wilson, whose version of the text I enjoyed, think of this film?’ being summarised in the guardian as ‘this academic hates fun and also hates you personally, you massive film-enjoying pleb’

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 26/07/2026

if you get the chance to have @martiana.bsky.social run a tabletop game for you, you should definitely take it

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It is a false distinction to see the atrocious attack in Berlin as something unique or exceptional. It is wrong to claim that it is an "attack on our free societies". It is a continuation of the practices of these societies. Only if we overcome these practices can we actually be safe.

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Another example of this: Demosthenes and Cicero, some of whose most impassioned speeches are about preserving demoracy (more or less), continued to be THE models of good writing through any number of monarchies, without controversy. (And another: pagan writings being exemplary for Christians!)

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Saec. IVp." - does that mean "later 4th century" or what? Never seen this convention before

Excerpt from a critical apparatus. "Saec IVp."

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just published a new article (WIP, like everything) on the goddess Caelestis. It features Firmicus Maternus' transphobic rant about her priests, which accidentally proves that they were trans women in 100% the modern sense sartrix.miraheze.org/wiki/Caelestis

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Caelestis - SARTRIX

Caelestis (lat. caeléstis, ‘heavenly one’) is the Latin name of a goddess, principally worshipped in Roman Africa, also called Virgo Caelestis (lat. vírgo caeléstis...

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

People who are mad about The Odyssey already got their representation in a previous adaptation

Homer Stokes from O Brother Where Art Thou saying "These boys is not white! These boys is not white!"

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If you are a polytheist and by some chance have any money left over, consider throwing a little to Kynthia, who is really struggling to keep afloat and just had to renew Hellenic Faith hellenicfaith.com/2026/07/16/i...

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I Need Help. Regarding Donations

Hello, Kynthia here, the person who first began building this website nearly a decade ago. I’ve renewed the site for another year because I’d like to keep it online, but I’m in a …

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

is there anyone here who has any of these books to hand and could scan like 1-2 pages? (those with Pighi's edition/translation of Claudius' hymn to the Moon) -Pighi, La poesia lirica latina (1945) -Pighi, Lyra Romana (1946) -Poeti latini tradotti di scrittori italiani contemporanei (1993)

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Weird how none of the Odyssey discourse is about this

The Odyssey is the first major Hollywood production to shoot scenes in Western Sahara. This would have been unthinkable prior to 2020 when Donald Trump broke with decades of US foreign policy and recognized Morocco's illegally established sovereignty over the territory. The decision was part of a quid pro quo in exchange for Morocco's normalization of ties with Israel. Now Nolan and crew's four day shoot in Dakhla illustrates how quickly Hollywood have moved to exploit the opportunities created by Trump's transactional diplomacy.

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Going to mute the word "fanfiction" so I never have to read "Vergil wrote Homer fanfiction" on this website again

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Does anyone know how to read this kind of musical notation? Or where to turn to learn how to read it myself?

A few "versus de astris et signis caeli" (=Priscian, Epitome Phaenomenon) from the 9th (?) century with old-old musical notation

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Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Firmicus Maternus has a line that's literally "they aren't women but they want to be believed to be women" and that was the point where I abandoned my academic training that goes "well don't use modern labels" because he just fucking said it

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is, in fact, an imperalist logic: that English speech can encompass any word from any language, all cultural space. The post itself shows this doesn't work: English speakers don't know how to type umlauts (it's Türkiye), they also don't know how to pronounce them (they still say Turkey-eh).

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 26/06/2026

People who think this: Do you really think the rest of the world refers to other countries by their autonyms? That non-English speaking countries use the words "England" or "United Kingdom"? Or are you suggesting they're all uncivilised for it but that you expect this country to rise above the norm?

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The rest of this thread is great but depicting God as Zeus is absolutely not what poisoned the imaginary. People in the Renaissance who cared about Zeus knew that his iconography is symbolic and the deity is non-gendered. Why are we putting the ignorance of modern Christians on paganism/humanism?

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ariel @toomuchpiano.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

this is one of those poems you read and immediately become part of your personal canon. thank you @martiana.bsky.social :)

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

it’s very much worth noting that not all ancient authors did this! Philodemus of Gadara’s epigram for Trygonion consistently genders her as a woman, its only modern translators who have decided that it must be transphobic! archive.org/details/a-fu...

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A Funerary Epigram for a Trans Woman (Greek Anthology 7.222) : Ↄ. Martiana : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

An article of the SARTRIX journal.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 20/06/2026

i do find it really funny that everyone transhistoricizes cis genders ([cis] man/woman) and heterosexuality and homosexuality but it's transfemininity specifically that has this bizarre burden and discourse of being a frame that one "should not" transhistoricize

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Few joys in my life as pure and simple as making diplomatic transcriptions from Latin manuscripts. Resolving abbreviations and emending a text is often extremely frustrating. Simply taking in all the misspellings and mysteriously placed punctuation is calming. Communion with the human spirit

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Exactly as you can make a compound noun from "riot" and "goblin" in English - to wit, "riot goblin" - so you can make a compound noun from "Randale" and "Kobold". That does not make it "a German word" in the sense that anyone knows or uses it.

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