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The Classics Library @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Alexander the Great's Palace at Pella Opens to the Public greekcitytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

When you're serving holiday canapés, only the best serving tray will do. May I suggest the Corbridge Lanx? A beautiful 4th c. CE Roman silver platter depicting a shrine of Apollo and a garden of gods standing beneath the branches of a tree. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Decorated silver platter or lanx. The scene shows, left to right: the goddess Artemis, holding a bow; the helmeted goddess Athena, her hand raised to indicate conversation; a standing female figure; a seated female figure; the god Apollo at the entrance to a shrine, holding a bow, his lyre at his feet. In the foreground stands an altar flanked by Artemis's hound and fallen stag and a griffin, a mythical beast associated with Apollo.

The two female figures in the centre are less easily identified than the principles. The entire scene is clearly a shrine of Apollo. The Greek island of Delos was the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, and Athena was also worshipped there. If the Delian shrine is depicted then the older woman sitting spinning may be Leto, the mother of the twins, and the standing woman her sister Ortygia, who was transformed into the island of Delos. In the foreground stands an altar flanked by Artemis's hound and fallen stag and a griffin, a mythical beast associated with Apollo.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

New issue of Phoenix Vol. 79, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55982 @phoenixjournal.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @cacscec.bsky.social

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Tomorrow (Nov 17) at 6:00 pm CST, the University of Illinois welcomes Emily Hauser for a discussion and signing of her book, How Women Became Poets, which redefines the classical literature canon as a struggle to be heard through and despite gender. This is a free, in-person event: buff.ly/hjRkrcA

How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature by Emily Hauser

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Hey Jude! @jksinto.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The Roman emperor Titus only reigned for two years, starting in 79 CE, the year of the Vesuvian disaster. But he had good news the following year: the opening of the Colosseum in Rome. To commemorate it, he released this gold aureus with an African elephant on the reverse. 🏺 1/ 📸 me (see ALT)

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Phoenix, a journal of the Classical Association of Canada @phoenixjournal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Our managing editor Judith is retiring this month and would like everyone to know that she is hanging out her shingle as a freelance editor. In her time with us, she sent 39 of our 78 volumes to press, and typeset and edited 35 of them. She can be found on Bluesky at academic-editor.bsky.social.

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Cat the Brat from Kap @brothercfromkap.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Just watched the leadership debate (Canadian federal election). Carney clearly has Singh’s respect, and I think the Liberals, Block and NDP will make a great team working together for our country.

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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I see one calm and collected intelligent wartime leader on the stage and three volatile overly emotional clods. You figure out which is which. #cdnpoli #debate

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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The ONLY crisis leader on that stage is Carney. Full stop. Period. I don’t need sound bites. I don’t need fluffy. I don’t need slogans. I want calm and focus and brains in my crisis leader. #cdnpoli #debate

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Imaginings of Greek Antiquity and the Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Cinema: International Conference, 27-28/9/2025 – School of Drama – Faculty of Fine Arts – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki www.thea.auth.gr/website/wp-c...

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This is one of the earliest depictions of the Colosseum, a bronze sestertius issued by the emperor Titus to commemorate the amphitheater's completion. Only ten are known to exist. You can see the spectators, the statues in the arches, even the quadriga over the entrance. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/ 📸 me

A dark bronze sestertius from the reign of the Roman emperor Titus (79-81 CE), aka Titus Caesar Vespasianus, son of the emperor Vespasian. The coin depicts the Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre) in great detail - you can see the four arched stories, statues within the arches, and a two story portico (perhaps a connection between the Colosseum and Titus' baths) on the right side. It even depicts the alternating clypea, the huge circular bronze shields once placed on the cornice of the fourth floor, and in the center - facing us - the gilded quadriga sculpture over the north-east entry. On the left is the large conical monumental fountain - the Meta Sudans - which stood outside the Colosseum until 1936, when Mussolini had it destroyed to create a traffic circle for his fascist parades.

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Jennifer Greene 💙🍀🧶📚 @jengreene23.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Went to check on my new rose bush.. it got hot the past few days and I was blessed with 4 new blooms! #roses #photography

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Hey Jude! @jksinto.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

For the #IdesofMarch, here's one of the most famous coins to ever be minted: the silver denarius of M. Junius Brutus commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar. It depicts two daggers, a slave's cap of freedom (pileus), and the inscription EID MAR. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 43-42 CE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

The Ides of March denarius, issued by Marcus Junius Brutus, is one of the most famous and historic coins ever minted. It commemorates the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BCE, an event that later inspired many works of art, literature, opera, and film. Caesar had declared himself "perpetual dictator" at the beginning of that year, thereby directly prompting the assassination plot by Brutus and a group of other senators who feared for the survival of the Republic under his tyrannical rule. The reverse of the coin shown here not only bears the inscription naming the day of the murder but also depicts two daggers representing the weapons used to stab Caesar to death, as well as a cap usually worn by slaves who had earned their freedom, symbolizing here the liberation of Rome.

Inscription: BRVT IMP L PLAET CEST (Brutus, Imperator, Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus), head of Brutus, EID MAR (Ides of March), pilleus (felt cap), and two daggers.

Rome, 43-42 BCE.

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Say hello to my little friend, the infant Bacchus. Bronze, with silvered eyes (he once had irises of stone/glass) and copper, he wears an ivy leaf wreath tied with a ribbon, which falls onto his shoulders. He once held a wine cup in his outstretched hand. 🏺 Roman, 1st c. CE. #GettyVilla 📸 me

The wreath of ivy leaves and berries encircling this chubby toddler’s head identify him as the wine god Bacchus (previously identified as Cupid). The son of Jupiter and the mortal woman Semele, Bacchus was raised by nymphs in a mountain cave in the mythical land of Nysa. The objects he may have been carrying in his outstretched hands are now missing, but he probably once held a drinking cup. The young god wears a leafy wreath entwined with a fillet, or ribbon, the copper ends of which fall over his shoulders. The hollowed-out irises of his eyes would have been inlaid with colored stone or glass and the whites covered in silver. In the Hellenistic period, the creation of genre scenes led to an interest in depicting children, which in turn inspired images of the gods and heroes as infants. Roman artists continued this practice, with Bacchus a favorite among these representations. Bronze statues like this one were popular decorative additions to the gardens and courtyards of Roman houses.

Roman, bronze with silver and copper, 1st century CE. His patina is kind of wild, very mottled, with brown, orange, yellow, pale green, and very vibrant darker green; he looks like he's wearing a camo outfit!

Getty Villa Museum, Pacific Palisades, California (96.AB.53)

*Note that this was formerly in the possession of the notorious looted antiquities trafficker Robin Symes, who sold it to Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman in 1987. The Fleischmans then sold it to the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1996. No provenance exists before Symes sold the statuette, and no findspot is known.

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The Classics Library @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The Skene and the Mind of Oedipus. 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN8Y...

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This bronze head of a griffin - once an attachment for a cauldron - was discovered to have been stolen from the museum at Olympia in the 1930s. It's been in the #MetMuseum since the 70s, and it's back in Greece for now, but part of a long-term loan to the Met. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 7th c. BCE. 📸 me

Bronze cauldrons set on tripods or conical stands were among the most spectacular votive gifts dedicated in Greek sanctuaries from the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. Cast-bronze griffins' heads often decorated the cauldron rims; they projected outward from the shoulder of the vessel on long necks made of hammered or cast bronze. Some of the dedicated cauldrons were colossal. The Greek historian Herodotus describes one made for King Kroisos of Lydia that could hold 2,700 gallons and another dedicated on the island of Samos that was supported by huge kneeling figures. Over six hundred bronze griffins' heads from cauldrons are known today; most have been found at the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia or at that of Hera on Samos. This enormous head is one of the finest.

The griffin has its eagle beak open, calling out, and its thin sharp tongue is curled upwards in its mouth. It also has a knob-like finial atop a stalk on top of its head and is missing one of its long upright ears. A very nice patina, part green, part orange, but mostly dark. You can see little feather patterns in the bronze if you zoom in.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 20/02/2025

New Pharaoh's tomb just dropped. The tomb of King Thutmose II has been uncovered, Egyptian officials announced on Tuesday, marking the first discovery of a royal resting place since King Tutankhamun’s was unearthed in 1922.

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The Classics Library @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Matthew Rawcliffe, Dancer & Choreographer: Classics and Careers 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Join Armand D'Angour at @blackwelloxford.bsky.social this Saturday (22 February) at 11 am GMT and hear him discuss How to Talk about Love, his new translation of selections from Plato's great dramatic work, The Symposium. Learn more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/armand-dan...

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Explore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato's great dramatic work, 'the Symposium'

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This Greek rhyton in the form of a polychrome Amazon on horseback was excavated from one of the pyramids of Meroe, ancient Nubia, the tomb of a royal child. Similar in style to the contemporaneous riders on the Parthenon frieze. 🏺 #polychromy #ancientbluesky 440 BCE. #MFABoston

The Amazons were a legendary tribe of female warriors whose homeland was at the edge of the known Greek world in northern Asia Minor. Ancient literature preserves many tales of battles fought much earlier between the Greeks and the Amazons, who sided with the Trojans in the Trojan War. Considered barbaric and uncivilized, the Amazons became typecast as enemies of the Greeks and were often substituted, particularly in art, for the Greeks' more immediate adversaries to the east, the Persians.

This ceramic horse and rider is similar in style to figures carved in relief on the roughly contemporary sculpted frieze encircling the Parthenon, sections of which featured Amazons battling Greeks. As was also common on stone sculpture, details, such as the eyes and garment of the Amazon, were added here in colored pigments; much of the original painted surface remains visible. The figures make up the body of a drinking vessel called a rhyton, a rare form inspired by Near Eastern vessels, usually in the shape of animal heads. Wine poured into the top would come out of a small hole at the front of the base. The vessel was probably made in Athens for export, eventually finding its way to the Nubian capital of Meroë in present-day Sudan, where it was deposited in the fourth century B.C. as a treasured heirloom in the tomb of a royal child and excavated by archaeologists in 1921.

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Traces of paint are still visible on the seated figure, the horse, and the base. The mounted figure wears a helmet with a large, crested plume and a large ear-like appendages on the sides. The redware rhyton depicts four figures (Persians and Greeks) in combat. It is signed on the base by Sotades the potter.

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From Meroe, South Cemetery, Pyramid 24. 1921: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Sudan.

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Hey Jude! @jksinto.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New issue of Phoenix Vol. 78, Nos. 1-2 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54238 @projectmuse.bsky.social @cacscec.bsky.social @phoenixjournal.bsky.social @tomgavin.bsky.social

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The Classics Library @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Classics Summer Schools and other events are being added to the Classics Library Calendar. Check it out or contact me to add your own! #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics www.theclassicslibrary.com/events/month...

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The Roman Society @theromansoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

New five-week online course! Greek Tragedy in Performance with Professor Judith Mossman. 📆Starts 26 February, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available. 🎫 www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Eve… Joint course with the Hellenic Society

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