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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🎉 SOLIDARITY SATURNALIA! 🎉 IO SATURNALIA! Our annual festive giveaway is here! 12 bundles of gifts, and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is: 🎄Follow us, 🎄Repost this thread, 🎄And fill out this form: forms.gle/zMcHKZqGNC... Read on for prizes and T&Cs (UK&I only)...🧵

Solidarity Saturnalia 2025 poster showing a handful of the gifts listed below

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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

New publication! Just out from Oxford University Press, "Voiceless, Invisible, Countless" w/ chapters from me, David Lewis, Deb Kamen, Lucia Cecchet, Sarah Murray, Sarah Forsdyke, Sara Wijma, Tony Edwards, and Julien Zurbach -- edited by Sam Gartland and David Tandy global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

A John Reinhard Weguelin study as a break from exam revision :)

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Hecate - the last Classicstober prompt! A study of John William Waterhouse's The Magic Circle. Thank you @greekmythcomix.bsky.social for organising this challenge 🫶 Classicstober🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Tiresias Classicstober🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

A study of Gheorge Tattarescu's Nemesis. Classicstober🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Nyx I'm in denial that October is over 🤭 Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Pygmalion Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Thetis' supplication of Zeus. Partial study of Anton Losenko's painting.

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

I'm sleepy so here's a rushed and belated Talos for Classicstober </3 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

A quick busride sketch :) Classicstober🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

iamque iterum moriens non est de coniuge quicquam questa suo: quid enim nisi se queretur amatam? Now dying again, she did not complain of anything of her husband: for what had she to complain about except his love? Metamorphoses, 10.60-61 (Please don't judge my hasty late night translation 🤧)

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

A study of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's "Orpheus leading Eurydice from the Underworld". I'm partial to Ovid's version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, as elegant as Vergil's is. Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Inspired by the Walter Crane illustration of Midas. Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

"Psyche Entering Cupid's Garden" (John William Waterhouse) Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Day 20: Odysseus - a somewhat belated return :p Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

I love Burne-Jones, but especially because when he learned that mummy brown--a well-used pigment at the time--was made from actual, pulverized mummies, he was so horrified that he immediately ran to his studio and gathered his stock of the stuff, which he then insisted on giving a Christian burial

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

I got a bit stranded with some flooding (all safe now!) but very ironically will not be able to complete the Odysseus prompt for Classicstober until I make my way properly home (or buy some pencils while I'm here) :p

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Reference: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones' Sisyphus Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Detail study of Cabanel's Phaedra. Classicstober🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Atalanta Classicstober🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Inspired by Beatrice Offor's Circe. Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

the fact that i wrote a book about medieval art while mostly insanely sleep deprived and the editors at PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE were like "yeah, looks great, send it to print" is absolutely mind boggling lmaooo

A page from the weird medieval guys book with a medieval illustration of a snake and the following text:

LATIN NAME: SERPENS
WHERE IT ABIDES: SNAKES,
UNFORTUNATELY, ARE ALL OVER
THE PLACE
STRENGTHS: FEMININE WILES,
EXCELLENT SALESMANSHIP
WEAKNESSES: NO ARMS IS PRETTY
EMBARRASSING
VIRTUE: 1 * BEAUTY: 2 * DANGER: 3

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Study of Rubens' Prometheus. Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Day 14: Helen Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Day 13: Arachne Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Day 12: Theseus Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

A study of Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Pandora. Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Classicstober Day 9: Achilles Classicstober23 🏺

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Another ink and watercolour study, this time of the engraving "The Fall of Icarus" by Bernard Picart. Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

But he on his part secretly gave her sweet pomegranate seed to eat, taking care for himself that she might not remain continually with grave, dark-robed Demeter. Homeric Hymn to Demeter ~ Hugh Evelyn-White Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

an ink and watercolour study of Rossetti's Proserpina

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Seneca's Medea is easily one of my favourite classical plays <3 Classicstober 🏺 Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Some fun Chiron lineart before bed :) Classicstober Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Experimenting with a different brush for a quick study of Hendrik Goltzius' engraving depicting the moment at which Zeus turns Lycaon into a wolf. Classicstober Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

A rough sketch for today's prompt, inspired by the short story "The House of Asterion". Classicstober Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

I was ridiculously excited for today's prompt - Medusa. This was very heavily inspired by Caravaggio's painting of the same subject. Classicstober Classicstober23

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Starting off Classicstober with some lineart inspired by a garden statue of Cassandra. Classicstober Classicstober23

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Peter Tedone @ptfilm.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

So close to ENTING IN NICE - a rom-com about an Ent visiting Paris in search of love after the fall of Sauron.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Why should we care about eels? Well...in addition to being great fodder for memes, eels are also a super-important part of stream ecologies! How important? Historically, eels have made up as much as 50% of the total fish biomass in downstream reaches of US & European rivers. 🗃️🧪

Meme. Picture of an eel underwater. The picture is taken from the side, so you can only see one of the eel's blue-tinged eyes. But that eye is fixed on you like Sauron's eye on the One Ring (but in a more benevolent way). The eel has a kindly smile on its face, and you feel comfortable in its presence. It's the sort of look that makes you want to spill out your whole life story, including that one time in middle school. The eel won't judge you. It's seen worse, and it will take your secrets to its Sargasso grave. You couldn't ask for more.

Meme text reads:
"Half your streams
are belong to us."

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

A cartoon / diagram.
(left to right)
1. Three bowls of porridge labelled: Too Hot, Too Cold and Just Right
2. Three Beds labelled: Too Hard, Too Soft and Just Right
3. Goldilocks is sitting on the third bed, she is surrounded by piles of books and is trying to choose between them. The books are labelled: Too Long, Too Short, Too Grown-up, Too Childish, Too Scary, Too Gentle, Too Simple, Too Complex, Too Depressing, Too Jolly, Too Many characters, Too Similar to the Last Book I Read... etc.

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ, βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ.

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Hillary @hillaryyip.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

I was joking with @sentientnostrils.bsky.social about the Greek playwrights being somewhat like the major pop culture sensations of today, so I cooked up some posters!

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

The product of joking with @occido.te.bsky.social about Greek playwrights and concert tours~ AncientBluesky

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

An ink and marker sketch of the two-faced Herm statue at the Panathenaic Stadium. AncientBluesky

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Marie @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Here's a mini study of an illustration in the Vergilius Vaticanus, depicting Aeneas landing at Drepanum :) AncientBluesky

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