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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Today I've been trying to capture the energy of this from @jneuf on the other place. 🎂 🏛 (I hope you don't mind that I kept a copy at the other place.)

Tweet from Jonathon A Neufeld, @jneuf

Who should jump out of Marcus Agrippa's birthday cake? Emperors bearing drinks for all but partying so hard they bring the house down.
23 Oct 2014

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Happy birthday* Marcus Agrippa, to those who celebrate. (I do.) * Maybe (64 BCE) ClassicsBluesky

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I hereby move A Motion To Introduce The Aorist Tense In The English Language. I look forward to receiving your vote. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientGreek 🏺

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Great to see @nataliehaynes.bsky.social standing up for Hestia. I've had a small fascination with her since I first heard about her in ancient history lectures about household rituals in ancient Athens. 🔥🏺

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My first new copy of a Loeb, appropriate that it's The Bacchae, since I'm spending the semester translating it in my Ancient Greek class. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientGreek

Two new books.
On the left a copy of a commentary on Euripides' Bacchae, edited by William Allan and Laura Swift (in the yellow and green Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series).
On the right a hardcover volume of the Loeb Classical Library edition of Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulus and Rhesus, translated by David Kovacs.

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Batten down your earholes for some mispronounced Ancient Greek, but here's a little video on why Acanthus plants are one to avoid in wildlife gardening in the UK - but have a really cool Classical backstory nonetheless!

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Acanthus is bad for UK bees - but has great Ancient History! UK Wildlife Gardening

YouTube video by Selqet's Gardener

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Back in the saddle - ancient Greek in the restaurant at Ikea. Revising grammar with a bottomless coffee, my happy place. 🤓 After six months off study, it feels like I have a lot to relearn before classes resume at the end of July. 😬 #AncientGreek #StudentLife #ClassicsBluesky

JACT Reading Greek textbook sitting on a blank writing pad with a metal pen crossed on it. There is a coffee beside the book.
In front of the table, large windows open onto the massive yellow lettering of an Ikea store mounted on a blue background. In the middle distance, there are trees with roads crossing between them. Bliss.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

New Julio-Claudians just dropped. AncientBluesky 🏺

Two classical busts of female heads in a cardboard box, in the garden decor section of the local hardware warehouse.

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Kevin Albrecht 🏺📚 @kevinalbrecht.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If you are learning the Ancient Greek language, you might find this feed I created helpful. Any time people mention Ancient Greek books or other learning material, it should show up here: bsky.app/profile/did:... #LearnAncientGreek

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

χαίρετε / salvēte new followers. A quick intro: I returned to the Uni of Queensland in 2018 to study ancient history (decades-old unfinished business). After two years each of Latin and classical Greek, I'm taking a break for six months before continuing advanced Greek in mid-2025. ClassicsBluesky

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

For the new classical languages people arriving on Bluesky, here is a feed you can follow. It's meant to pick up any classical Greek or Latin references in posts, although it's not perfect (but then, I didn't really know what I was doing when I set it up). ClassicsBluesky 🏺 bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Ana Martin @latintutor.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

salvete caeruli! I'm new to the platform and looking for the Classics, and spoken Latin and Greek scene. Where are you?

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Ana Martin @latintutor.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Brand new here, so allow me to introduce myself briefly: I am a Latin and Greek specialist, and I write about languages, history, travelling and diving - sometimes all at the same time. Catalan speaker and minoritised language advocate. Food lover. All loaves my own.

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Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I'd love to expand this list: go.bsky.app/443Rvhs

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Happy birthday to Marcus Agrippa, for those who celebrate. Men like Agrippa were essential to many of Augustus' achievements, so this is a bit of love for the wingman. Also my annual opportunity to share this gem from @jneuf.bsky.social on the other place. 🙏 🎂 🏛 ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Digital Maps of the Ancient World is expanding its website, including mapping out individual Roman legions. Something wonderful about lists of members of a legion identified through epigraphical or historical sources. digitalmapsoftheancientworld.com/digital-maps... AncientBluesky AncientRome🏺

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Roman Legions

Roman Legions Step into the boots of the Roman legions with our groundbreaking digital maps, as we unveil a unique exploration of the profound impact individual legions had on shaping the destiny o…

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

I've just come across improper prepositions in an ancient Greek grammar and now I'm scandalised.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

I'm at the "trying to write someone's name half in Greek characters" stage of learning. I suppose that's a good thing. (They would have known that -ν- was actually an -n-, wouldn't they?)

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

I'm not yet at this level in my ancient Greek, but I can see it from here. ClassicsBluesky

Balding professor-ish man in a child's bedroom. He is sitting beside the bed reading to the child from a large hardback book. The caption reads:
"Look, I could make the story more accessible, but that would mean sacrificing the elegance of the original Greek."

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

My metal band Sequence of Tenses will go off when we launch our first tour. 🤓💪🤘

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

Some good news in the JACT Reading Greek grammar textbook: "It is rare in this life for anything to come easy. The Greek subjunctive is the exception that proves the rule." ClassicsBluesky Ancient Greek

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

JACT ancient Greek reading today, from the prosecution of Neaira: "He came with her for two reasons: in order to have a beautiful hetaira for free, and for her to work and in order for her to work and maintain the household." This Στέφανος sounds like a real sweetie. ClassicsBluesky

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

I'm at the "head being done in" stage of learning (intermediate) classical Greek, but I still love writing Greek characters. Much more than I've ever enjoyed writing with the Latin alphabet. #ClassicsBlueSky

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Happy new year, and therefore it is time to remember the ancient Greek god ‘Kairos’ (καιρός), the god of the perfect moment or timing. He helps bring the perfect moment to take some decisive action, or to make something happen. #AncientBluesky #NewYear2024 1/

Image: Marble relief ‘Kairos (Personification of Good Luck)’, Italian reproduction, 17-18th century after the original by Lysippos. Hermitage Museum, inventory no. ГР-6982. https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/06.+sculpture/409863

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Interesting study of ancient DNA from 136 Balkan individuals dated to the 1st millennium CE, from Cell journal. Includes later Roman sites from the eastern reaches of the empire. AncientBluesky 🏺 Serbia Croatia www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations

Genome-wide data from 146 ancient Balkan individuals dating to the 1st millennium CE, together with detailed archaeological information, reveals internal migratory patterns during the Roman Empire and...

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Opera Australia production of Aida last night. Spectacular costumes and all the modern tools of staging, digital projections on huge mobile LED screens (sometimes too much), etc. But also quite the reminder of 19th C European reception and orientalism in one package. ClassicsBluesky Egyptology

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

New phallus just dropped, this one with bells on. Recent 2nd-3rd C CE discovery - bronze tintinnabulum from Viminacium, ancient Roman town in eastern Serbia. The main phallus has its own phalluses, and bells and pendants were all present. AncientBluesky PhallusThursday 🏺

2nd-3rd C CE bronze tintinnabulum, with main bronze phallus pendant and three bells suspended on chains below it.

Photo of excavation of bronze tintinnabulum in Viminacium, ancient Roman town in eastern Serbia.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Wonderful photos of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, Egypt, as well as reflections on both the significance and physicality of the space. Thread from @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social. 👇

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Pessimus Prime @pessimusprime.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Good to be reminded that I now have Greek and English handwriting that will quickly decline when I've been away from a pen for too long. My handwriting has never been good, but I was thinking for a while there that my Greek was looking better than English. Now I seem to be making a mess of both.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Halloween seems the right time to remember the story of the death and afterlife of Cleonicé, from Plutarch. Cw sexual violence, murder 🧵 1/

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

In an historic country cemetery yesterday (by white Australian standards - dedicated 1892). Anglo Australians don't do Greco-Roman names like they used to: Euphemia, Septimus and Augustus notable among them. AncientBluesky

View of geaves in the Coffs Harbour Historic Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Today I've been trying to capture the energy of this from @jneuf on the other place. 🎂 🏛 (I hope you don't mind that I kept a copy at the other place.)

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Happy birthday* Marcus Agrippa, to those who celebrate. (I do.) * Maybe (64 BCE) ClassicsBluesky

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Others are commenting on the mix of bad ideas and unfettered billionaire class ubermensch fantasies in Marc Andreessen's "manifesto". I'll just note that - of course - being a Very Serious Person, he drops in a few references to "the Greeks" to show how clever his manifesto is. ClassicsBluesky

Quote from fascist-adjacent manifesto typed by billionaire Marc Andreessen:
"We believe in what the Greeks called eudaimonia through arete – flourishing through excellence."

Quote from fascist-adjacent manifesto typed by billionaire Marc Andreessen:
"In fact, technology – new knowledge, new tools, what the Greeks called techne – has always been the main source of growth, and perhaps the only cause of growth, as technology made both population growth and natural resource utilization possible."

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

@christie-lover.bsky.social Happy birthday. Or at least Hope you're feeling better birthday. From 30, birthdays can be a festival, if you want them to be, so celebrate over whatever number of days / weeks feels right.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

I've reached the next stage of learning ancient Greek: "Brands bending my head when they write the letter A as Λ". That's progress, I suppose.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

"Learn the conjugations of δίδωμι and you're set up for life." - Inspiring words from yesterday's Greek class.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

"Are you the "Tim Goodwin" cited in... ?" Let me save you some time Academia dot edu: No, it's not me. Apart from that one monograph I helped edit for publication, it most certainly is not a mature-aged undergrad student. I'm a perfectionist about my essays, but they are not being cited in journals.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

For #TombTuesday, the funerary stele to Theophile (c. 400-350 BCE). Originally from the Piraeus, now in the RD Milns Antiquities Museum at the Uni of Queensland. (I've been fortunate to see it there a few times, in the course of my ancient history studies at UQ.) Translation 👇 AncientBluesky 🏺 1/

Grave stone broken off across the top right corner, with a carved image of a seated woman and the legs of a standing man. Below that is an inscription in Greek lettering.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

From a recommendation on Mastodon: Why Do Ancient Greek Statues Have Such Small Penises? Features the intriguing drawer of phalluses in the BM, removed by delicate 19th C curators. (There's an unsubtle metaphor in there somewhere.) www.iflscience.com/why-do-ancie... ClassicsBluesky

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Why Do Ancient Greek Statues Have Such Small Penises?

No they weren't just smaller back then.

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Alejandra González-Jiménez 🫒🌿 @heliconide.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

It's beautiful that everything here is about the ancient world🏺🫒🌿.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

It's great when ClassicsBluesky people I follow say hello to their newly arriving friends and colleagues here. Helps the less-well-connected of us to find new and interesting people to follow. (Also hello and welcome to the new people. 🚣‍♀️ 🚣‍♂️)

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

After thinking about Roman cheese all morning, now I'm pondering Cato's opus "Of Cakes and Salad". I suspect the work is quite different to how the title appears in my mind. 🥮 🥗 (Thanks to @sjgochenour.bsky.social via @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social for the cheese.)

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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

If you haven’t read this piece by Sarah Bond and Stephanie Wong, you should. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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