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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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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Your video also reminded me of the Corinthian columns on our local city hall. (Photo testing the zoom on my new phone.)

Three fluted Corinthian columns on the Brisbane City Hall, with an acute triangle of the neo-classical pediment visible above. The sculptures on the pediment were carved by Daphne Mayo in 1027-30, featuring images of white settlement
The plain stone column on the left side, an extension of the end wall, also features a Corinthian capital.

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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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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 🏺

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 14

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 11/10/2023

I saved this one a few years ago from a nostalgic chap on the other place.

Screenshot of Twitter post from 7 April 2013, reading:
Molon Labe... Need translation? Latin version of "Come at me bro!"

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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 · 26/09/2023

I stumbled on a copy recently at my uni's alumni association book sale. Very useful. And I too learnt more English grammar by reflection during two years of Latin, than I have in a long time.

Book English Grammar for Students of Latin, 2nd edition, by Goldman and Szymanski

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

The JACT Reading Greek text has this picture (my not-great photo of a not-great photo).

Photo of a production of Aristophanes' play Wasps, from the JACT Reading Greek textbook. There are two actors in dog costumes, surrounded by other actors in wasp costumes. They are in front of a two-story stage house, with columns and balconies.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

One for the epigraphers. (Apparently from Northshire Book Store in Manchester, Vermont, US www.flickr.com/photos/brewb...) ClassicsBluesky

Rectangular slab of stone carved with: NOTHING IS WRITTEN IN STONE

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

This always makes me angry. AU$112 for an ebook version of Cassell's Latin Dictionary. The 1968 edition of a book published in 1959, itself updating a book first published in 1854. The publisher has added precisely nothing, apart from searchability and of course DRM restrictions. ClassicsBluesky

Cassell's Latin Dictionary by Bloomsbury Publishing, on Google Play books. It is priced at $112.43 (Australian dollars, supposedly reduced from $162.00.)

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Interesting reading on Father's Day,* but I was nonetheless very happy to be given a hardcover copy of Stephanie McCarter's Ovid translation. * Australian Father's Day ClassicsBluesky

Hardcover copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Stephanie McCarter

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

The Aeneid, Book II (Jurassic edition) ClassicsBluesky LatinBluesky

Page from October 1931 Popular Science Monthly. Article headlined "Mechanical Monster "EATS" Girl on Movie Stage". Illustration shows a cross-section of a mechanical brachiosaurus-style dinosaur, controlled by two men inside, with a 1930s movie heroine in its jaws.

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

You'll get there! Last piece of advice: you might want to set this to show all replies in your notifications: Settings > Home feed preferences

Bluesky app screenshot for the settings to show all replies in your notifications:
Settings > Home feed preferences

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οὐ φροντὶς - Tim Goodwin @ouphrontis.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

The daughter has been raised well, so she sends me this (and knows what the bird should be). Happy Thursday everyone. (CW: implied mythological violence) AncientBluesky

Meme with a line drawing of man chained to a rock, and a vulture coming in to land in him, a slightly inaccurate version of the Prometheus myth.
The text under the picture reads: " Every day is a Fresh Start".

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