Io Saturnalia omnes! #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

I love this Sisyphean take on seasonal stresses by @mindcymru.bsky.social #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #tistheseason #mentalhealth

#classicstober #classicstober25 Day 3 - The Graiai There once were mythic sisters named Graiai, Who shared one tooth and one eye between three, When Perseus came near, They shrieked in great fear 'He's taken them both! How greedy?!'

#ClassicsTober25 Day 2 Thanatos "[Apollon] gave him [the dead Sarpedon] into the charge of swift messengers to carry him, of Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), who are twin brothers, and these two presently laid him down within the rich countryside of broad Lykia." Homer, Iliad 16.681

#ClassicsTober2025 Day 1 - Hypnos, god of sleep. "Yet you love sleep and salute Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, and forget that he is death's brother" Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet. 🖼"Sleep and his Half Brother, Death", John William Waterhouse (1874, oil on canvas Private Collection

This is exciting - a newly launched official Antonine Wall Trail that will help walkers to explore Britain's best Roman frontier! I will need to take a look and see how it compares to the route I took as I walked the Wall... storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/45fd... #WallsOnWednesday

The Antonine Wall Trail

Follow the Line of the Wall Across Central Scotland

storymaps.arcgis.com

#ReliefWednesday: A #Roman terracotta money box in the shape of a beehive, decorated with an image of Mercury, holding the caduceus (the staff carried by herolds) and a money bag. Mercury was considered the god of financial gain and commerce, and as such...🧵1/2 🏺 #Archaeology

Shout out for our pop-up exhibition 'Women of Romano-British Archaeology' on display in the Hellenic and Roman Library at Senate House in London curated by Dr Tatiana Ivleva. the-past.com/feature/expa... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Expanding frontiers: Celebrating the Mothers of Romano-British studies | The Past

The early days of Romano-British research are often thought to have been dominated by male excavators, but many female archaeologists also made vital contri ...

the-past.com

Fabulous 3,500 year-old Mycenaean wooden box embellished with repoussé gold plates with lions chasing deer and antelope, among palm trees, spirals and bulls heads. From Grave V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

In London and fancy seeing/ handling objects lost by Roman citizens of Londinium? Head to the Roman Amphitheatre at Guildhall for an exhibition of things discovered by Mudlarks. #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky FREE ADMISSION 6 and 7th September 10 - 4pm www.thecityofldn.com/event/mudlar...

Mudlarking Exhibition and talks - City of London

In this exhibition within the ancient Roman amphitheatre, mudlarks will display their private collections of Roman artefacts recovered from the River Thames.

thecityofldn.com

Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest. A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available. More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Joint course with @theRomanSoc #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Even better! Prof. Ron Hutton is due to lecture about magical, mystical Hecate on 26 November 2025 at 18:00hrs GMT. Not to be missed! Register for the online talk at the link below #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky Hecate: Mistress of Magic | Gresham College share.google/2jGrCDZwRD37...

The fabulous Prof. Ron Hutton is to give a free online lecture on the ancient Greek god Pan as part of the Gresham College Lecture series. September 17th at 18:00hrs GMT. Sign up at link below. #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky The Great God Pan: Lord of the Wild share.google/fx9Xv8CnfS7v...

SEPTEMBER SPECIAL! Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes. www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...

#InternationalDogDay The saddest tale, the goodest boi.... (1) Argus, the faithful hound of Odysseus, was the only one to recognize Odysseus upon his return to Ithaca after 20 years. Too weak to move, he wags his tail and offers a final gaze of recognition before passing away.

Simple black and white Roman mosaic from a corridor of a house in Hersonissos, Crete, 2nd C AD. The corridor led to the dining room. Look closely for a kantharos from which a vine emerges. Cretan wine was appreciated and exported during the Roman period. #MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

For #MosaicMonday, from my recent visit to the Archaeological Museum of Split, the central panel of a large floor mosaic depicting Orpheus among the animals. From the provincial governor's house at Salona. Dated to the 2nd century CE. #Archarology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#MosaicMonday #Roman mosaic with struggle between Eros and Pan, 3rd century AD. Archaeological Museum of Cordoba, #Spain. (See Alt for more details) #artwork #History #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

#MosaicMonday 👀 Achilles is adored by princesses of Skyros, a scene from the #Iliad where #Odysseus discovers him dressed as a woman and hiding among the princesses at the royal court of Skyros. A late #Roman mosaic from La Olmeda, Spain, 4th-5th centuries AD. #Classics #History #AncientBlueSky🏺

Something fishy for #mosaicmonday Mosaic panel featuring a fish and partridge behind it. From the House of Eustolios at Kourion in Cyprus, late 4th century CE. The Christian iconography is matched by inscription mosaics proclaiming Eustolios' faith. #ancientbluesky 🏺

🦁🐆 It’s lion versus leopard this #MosaicMonday! This stunning scene comes from the Casa delle Colombe a mosaico at Pompeii. It seems the lion truly has the upper hand, standing over the prone leopard. The power of the lion’s claws are matched by its direct stare at the viewer. #AncientBluesky🏺

#MosaicMonday and my entry is from I Colori dei Romani at Centrale Montemartini. Here we have Europa and the Bull from a burial chamber at the Via Ostiense necropolis, as well as the plant decoration from the threshold of the same burial chamber. #AncientBlueSky🏺

#MosaicMonday Orpheus theme #mosiac, excavated from Barton Farm, Cirencester. The mosaic likely dates to the 4th century CE, a period when such imagery was popular in villa decoration across #RomanBritain. #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky🏛️ #History

Got so caught up analysing this that I forgot to add: #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Dr Pat Witts@wittspat.bsky.social · last yr.

Continuing from last week's look at the mosaic in Room B at Frampton, another compartment shows this couple. Suggested identifications have included Attis and a nymph, Venus and Adonis, Paris and Oenone, or Paris and Venus. 1/4

A #Roman mosaic portrait of a young woman, found in #Pompeii in the Casa della Matrona Ignota, & made about 2000 years ago. It is a beautifully-crafted image of an unknown woman; we can guess from her jewellery that she was wealthy, but not much else 🏺AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #MosaicMonday

#MosaicMonday It is flaming June so remember to help the birds and wildlife survive the heat by putting fresh water out for them. Detail from mosaic depicting tame deer drinking from a fountain. C. 3/4 CE. Carthage. 📷 British Museum, London #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky

#FrescoFriday - "Here's looking at you..." The central painting from the east wall of the triclinium of the House of the Doves, Pompeii (VII.14.9). A mask of a Maenad peeps out through a wall of grapevine foliage. #Pompeii #Art 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9798)

Happy Midsummer's Eve "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind." A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Cupid fresco, c. 1st BCE - 1st CE, Villa San Marco, Stabiae 📷 Sito Archeologico di Stabiae #FrescoFriday

#FrescoFriday Reconstructed panel of ceiling plaster From the bath-house frigidarium. The painted panels were intended to make it look like a coffered ceiling for a vault. Later second century AD - Wroxeter 📷 My own. #Archaeology #History #art #artwork #AncientBlueSky🏺

This #FrescoFriday we’re in awe of the deep blue of this fresco from Pompeii. It depicts Mars, the god of war. He stands on a plinth adding a sculptural feel and is surrounded by bushes, trees, birds, and a rich blue sky that might be about to turn from twilight to night. #AncientBluesky🏺