“White-out” has been necessary for scribes for a long time, it seems. A page from the Book of the Dead penned by royal scribe, Ramose (1290-1278BCE) had a huntite and calcite mix to correct illustrations, say Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.
Calypso, by George Hitchcock (about 1906)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calypso...
Mixed media painting of a white and black spotted cat, happily napping in a crate full of clementines
Every spot is a perfect nap spot 🍊
commission for @cattuccino.bsky.social !
#art #caturday #traditionalart
This is brutal and dispiriting but also more of the same as humanities programs close under sustained attack.
Of course I think we need to work harder to bring our field to the public, to build the kind of support which sustains public funding of our fields as research fields.
This fresco shows Omphale seated on a ledge above Hercules with her attendants while the inebriated Hercules lays on the floor below. Erotes make their own fun around the group including three playing with Hercules’ club. This fresco is held by the MAN Napoli (inv. no. 9000) and was found in the so-called House of the Prince of Montenegro, Pompeii.
✨Hercules and Omphale✨
To atone for the murder of the Argonaut Iphitus, Hercules is required to spend a year in servitude under the Lydian princess Omphale.
Job alert! Our research focus area in Ancient Texts: Text, Context, and Reception has a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow position.
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This looks like fun. FYI @aspencerhall.bsky.social
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Me: They torment me. They consume me.
#Classics #loeb #books #ClassicsBluesky
I want this.
True love, baby.
Feminism and Translation: How gender politics unfurl in translation studies
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Spotify, Apple, Amazon, etc!! 😃
Calypso, Immortal: Odyssey 5.203-209. Bettina Joy de Guzman
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Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: we are starting the new semester next week. Take a look at the programme.
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Calypso, Immortal: Odyssey 5.293-209. Ancient Greek with lyre. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman
This is out on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, etc tomorrow!! 😃
Nights like this with insomnia practicing my skills at TexStudio make me feel better.
❤️
#ReliefWednesday this week comes from Pozzuoli Amphitheatre!
Up by the ticket office you can find this piece, showing what appears to be togate figures processing towards an altar depicting two Victories and a shield with a laurel wreath.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
A gift years in the making. 🎁♥️
Blues, blues, blues 💙
Stave Church In Snow, 1907
by Theodor Kittelsen.
a colour illustration of a dark haired woman in sumptuous attire reclining with bowls of wine and a small dog beside her
Woman drinking wine with her dog, Persia, 17th century
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It’s so pretty walking through the snow.
No snow for Christmas 🥺🎄
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Our background on zoom this year 🏺.
Our background on zoom (2024).
Desviar la mirada: las mujeres en la antigüedad clásica.
Our background on zoom this year 🏺.
Our background on zoom (2024).
Desviar la mirada: las mujeres en la antigüedad clásica.
An Classics!
Image to promote post on substack.
🏺 Tomorrow we’ll release our in-depth conversation w/ classicist Richard Janko about his research on the Derveni Papyrus, Europe’s oldest surviving manuscript from the 4th c. BC.
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