Natasha F.

Screenshot of a dictionary entry reading: γᾰλεώτης, ου, ὁ, gecko lizard, Ar. Nu. 173, Arist. Fr. 370. sword-fish, = ξιφίας, Plb. 34.2.12, Str. 1.2.15. weasel, Luc. VH 1.35; γ. γέρων (transl. by colore mustelino, Ter. Eun. 4.4.21 [689]) Men. 188.

Come on, lexicographers, just admit it when you've got no idea what a word actually means 😂

#ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Flat, arid area of desert with stones scattered across.

NEW Later Stone Age (c. 3000–2000 BP) open-air site in South Africa's arid Karoo.

Many new sites have been found in the semi-desert region, indicating it was a favoured locality, repeatedly occupied despite the harsh environment.

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🏺 #Archaeology

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Job alert! Our research focus area in Ancient Texts: Text, Context, and Reception has a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow position.

Classics, Ancient Greek, Latin, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Semitic Languages... All are welcome!

nwu.ci.hr/applicant/in...

And now you've given me another reason to respect his work! I didn't even think of the application to the arts beyond literature!

Today I learnt that Milman Parry, who changed the way we read Homeric epithets such as 'swift-footed Achilles' and 'bright-eyed Athena', died at the young age of 33. I wonder what Homeric studies would look like today if he had more time on earth.

Louis L’Amour

Louis L’Amour: “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” medium.com/go-into-the-... #writing #screenwriting

March 4-7 North-West University Potchefstroom, South Africa - Classical epic structures in non-epic literature from antiquity to the early modern period theology.nwu.ac.za/ancient-texts

Amo, Ergo Cogito: A Philosopher on Love as a Way of Seeing Love is a way of taking in the whole world as seen through the eyes of the beloved.

Love is a way of taking in the whole world as seen through the eyes of the beloved.

I'm so grateful and excited for this next journey!

"I developed a tolerance for what I did not understand, and then I gradually understood it. Once I did begin to understand, I felt an extraordinary desire to repeat the experience."

So relevant to learning to read in a new language too. Students need to persevere even when they do not understand.

"Women could even make a living from their expertise in training hawks. In the mid-13th century, a woman named Ymayna was the keeper of the Earl of Richmond’s hawks and hounds at Richmond Castle. In exchange for her expertise, she and her family were permitted to hold land nearby."

Nicole Loraux is one of my favourite academics!

Feb 5 online (4.30pm UK) JFF Project Euripides Byzantinus 'Euripides and the Middle Ages' seminar: Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol), Iphigenia in Aulis: Transmission and interpretation listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Teams email ugo.mondini@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Artistic Director Michael Walling spoke to Culture Calling on why SUPPLIANTS OF SYRIA uses ancient theatre to confront today’s #RefugeeCrisis and why shared space matters now more than ever.

You have no idea. Apparently the other purpose of this exercise is to show us what students will find about us if they "ask chat".

Ice breaker activity at the first session of our academic induction programme? Type the name of your desk partner into ChatGPT and figure out what's true and what's not. Such an awful exercise - the organic conversations we had before the session were so much more interesting!

I have a feeling it's going to be read and reread many times in the coming years!

Life goal: curate an office library with wonderfully diverse books such as these!

A copy of the Editio Maior of Aristotle's Poetics, published as a Mnemosyne Supplement

So grateful to @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social for shipping this all the way to South Africa! Still can't believe I was the lucky winner of their raffle in celebration of 200 volumes of Trends in Classics and 500 volumes of Mnemosyne Supplements.

Letter from the author Shirley Jackson. Text reads: "Dear Mrs. White, If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree"

An ode to those who have expressed their profound disappointment following an encounter with a thing crafted by another:

I'm still not sure which browser to use as an alternative. Any suggestions??

Aeschylus, Me, a Mario
the father of Greek Kart player
tragedy
🤝
Getting smoked by a turtle shell

"The Minotaur" by Remedios Varo presents a surreal creature adorned with ethereal garments, standing on a checkered floor, embodying Varo's unique blend of fantasy and scientific intrigue. The figure's alien-like form reflects the artist's fascination with transformation and mysticism, common themes in her imaginative and dreamlike works.

The Minotaur
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19644

A hand holding a hardcopy of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece in front of a bookcase

Shelving one of the books that started it all in my new office. Officially appointed as an ancient Greek lecturer at the NWU.

I'm grateful to have had the postdoc experience, but what a privilege and a blessing to have something more permanent!

Cate Blanchett to star in new production 'Electra / Persona' | London Theatre This new play is based on Sophocles’ story of *Electra* from Greek mythology and Ingmar Bergman’s celebrated 1966 film *Persona*. Read more on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

Cate Blanchett to star in new production 'Electra / Persona' | London Theatre
www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news...

ψυχή, ἡ: soul, life
ψυχοανακάλυπτος: soul-baring, revealing
ψυχοκλέπτης: soul-thief
ψυχοκτόνος:soul-killing
ψυχοπλανής: soul-wandering
ψυχοπότης: soul drinker (drinking of life, i.e. blood)

ψῦχος, τό: cold
ψυχρία: cold
ψυχοκρασία: growing cold
ψυχολογία: frigid talking
ψυχρόσαρκος: with cold flesh

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer https://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt/aristotle-with-a-bust-of-homer-1653-0

La Medusa

Lorenzo Lorenzetti, Anzabarago alabaster, 2025

www.lorenzolorenzetti.com

#art #sculpture

Not nearly as bad as the time I used Odysseus instead of Oedipus not once, but TWICE in a submitted paper!