its crazy how most of what ive found written about sapphobot in academic articles is demonstrably incorrect

So happy to finally be able to announce the event I’ve been working on since January! Myth in Motion is a 2-day symposium that will welcome actors Melissanthi Mahut and Michael Antonakos to the University of Bristol on November 5-6, 2026! Info and tickets below! www.tickettailor.com/events/brist...

Select tickets – Myth in Motion: Embodying Ancient Greece in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – B.H05 Lecture Theatre (Arts Complex)

Myth in Motion: Embodying Ancient Greece in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – B.H05 Lecture Theatre (Arts Complex), Thu 5 Nov 2026 - Fri 6 Nov 2026 - This symposium will welcome actors Melissanthi Mahut and ...

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Night at the Museum 🏛️🌌🏺👻

We are excited to announce the 2026 Symonds Lecture will be delivered by Dr Robert Howes on October 3rd from 5PM. The event is free, open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception. @uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/thein... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📸

genuinely think i had a dream where it was working again but so far this has NOT proved to be portentous

Lily Bickers@cyberantiquities.bsky.social · 3w ago

anyone know which gods to supplicate to get perseus' greek word study tool to work these days

I’m pretty sure that if nothing else it will be the yellowest book of 2027 🤭💛 www.plutobooks.com/product/clas...

Classicism - Pluto Press

History is written by the victors. But what happens when the story they tell is a lie?

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees@badancient.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is the perfect book for just that topic. There is another book coming out start of new year if you later wish to dive deeper into this: How the West invented the Ancient World by @luxmea.bsky.social

anyone know which gods to supplicate to get perseus' greek word study tool to work these days

obv we have no context for the fragment and it has a lot of echoes in later lyric but i do feel like sappho 147 is actually invoking and/or reworking epic tropes/language in a similar way to fr 1 and 16

I am VERY EXCITED to see the ad come out for post-doc positions associated with my Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies: please pass on to anyone who might be interested and works across ancient regions/languages/worlds... www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

opens perseus on odyssey book 9 and then immediately googles 'mitski nobody lyrics'

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

Epic the musical filing a complaint against one of my Ancient Greek myth artworks was not on my 2026 bingo card 🙃 I’m actually really pissed off

It's only @susanstryker.bsky.social coming to Bristol!! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...

Changing Gender launch with Susan Stryker at Bookhaus

From the award-winning scholar and filmmaker, an essential, enlightening exploration of gender and the self Gender is one of the most contested topics of our age, as ideologies are weaponised by the ...

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WHOA STEPHANIE MCCARTER CATULLUS?? HELL YEAH DIDNT KNOW THIS WAS COMING

It’s nice to have these in my hands! Publication day is Tuesday.

i had a dream last night where i was playing cards against humanity with friends but all of the fill-in-the-blanks cards were either fragments of sappho or quotes from scholarship about sappho. and then i looked at the deck and it was called 'the intellectual expansion pack' or smth. damning.

I'm cited on knowyourmeme for making an extremely stupid classics-related joke on tumblr. thankfully by a handle i no longer use

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

what's your emily wilson onion accomplishment, mine is a peer-reviewed scholarly article with footnote to Dwayne The Rock

now having to resist the urge to procrastinate on conference paper by reading 1 star reviews for if not winter on amazon. have already seen one which says 'there are almost no words in this book'

fascinating, the penguin classics edition of ovid's met ranks higher (at #7) than if not winter (#17) in the amazon bestseller rankings for 'love poetry'

it has been fun but it will be nice to have more time on my hands. so i can do things like recreate this diva's whole look in drag

Bristol IGRCT@igrct.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our final #imageoftheweek from this year's intern! "Gorgone" by the French symbolist painter Pierre Marcel-Béronneau (1869–1937), a student of Gustave Moreau. #classicssky #classicalreception #classicsbluesky

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

let's all play hell maiden instead

Following a trip to the Odyssey yesterday I wanted to do a Circe Mari. So looked out the greek pottery for reference

No shit Nolan’s Odyssey fails to convey the complexity of female characters, have you ever seen a Christopher Nolan film???

question of the hour is whether i need to define 'shipping' in my thesis. in the fandom sense

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

the anime jaadugar: a witch in mongolia contains more information in the first two episodes about the transmission of ancient greek literature during the islamic golden age than i was taught in three years of my undergrad classics degree. go watch it

will be presenting on the lyric forms modern worlds panel at ccc! anyone else going?

Hey #Classics folks! A former student asked me about this red-figure cup featuring a seated Dionysus and a dancing maenad wearing "satyr breeches." I can't think of other examples of women dressed as satyrs, so it seems super interesting! Anybody know of other examples (or scholarship I should rec)?

apparently hell maiden is gonna have more ancient poet characters for the full game release... i'm hoping for sappho and euripides but unsure if they'll only stick to people who appear in the divine comedy 👀