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"Shepherds camping in the fields, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we Muses know how to say many deceptive things looking like genuine things, but we also know how, whenever we wish it, to proclaim things that are true." (Th. 26-28)
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Metaphors of Reception, Reception as a Metaphor. This coming Tuesday, 3rd Feb 2pm at the Ioannou Centre, and online. Visit our website for the zoom link. Not to be missed!!
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
#metaphor #reception #classics
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
#metaphor #reception #classics
January 26, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Metaphors of Reception, Reception as a Metaphor. This coming Tuesday, 3rd Feb 2pm at the Ioannou Centre, and online. Visit our website for the zoom link. Not to be missed!!
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
#metaphor #reception #classics
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
#metaphor #reception #classics
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Where the swallows are
January 26, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Where the swallows are
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Long shot - an incredibly talented musician friend's chamber orchestra just lost its state funding.
In case anyone's got some spare sponsorship cash floating around, it's a fantastic opportunity to help rescue a musical institution.
In case anyone's got some spare sponsorship cash floating around, it's a fantastic opportunity to help rescue a musical institution.
Das Ende einer Institution: Die Berliner Kammermusikreihe „Spectrum Concerts“ verliert ihre Förderung
Mit dem Anfang der 38. Saison kommt das Aus: Die Förderung versiegt, alternative Töpfe sind nicht zu finden. Ein Bericht vom vorerst letzten Konzert.
www.tagesspiegel.de
January 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Long shot - an incredibly talented musician friend's chamber orchestra just lost its state funding.
In case anyone's got some spare sponsorship cash floating around, it's a fantastic opportunity to help rescue a musical institution.
In case anyone's got some spare sponsorship cash floating around, it's a fantastic opportunity to help rescue a musical institution.
Has @wildobliquities.bsky.social just been doxxed?
The duck who lives here must be absolutely fucking massive.
January 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Has @wildobliquities.bsky.social just been doxxed?
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"I saw mighty Hēraklēs, but it was his phantom [eidōlon] only, for he [autos] is feasting ever with the immortal gods ... The spirits were screaming round him like scared birds flying in all directions. He looked black as night with his bare bow in his hands and his arrow on the string"
Od.11.601-8
Od.11.601-8
December 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"I saw mighty Hēraklēs, but it was his phantom [eidōlon] only, for he [autos] is feasting ever with the immortal gods ... The spirits were screaming round him like scared birds flying in all directions. He looked black as night with his bare bow in his hands and his arrow on the string"
Od.11.601-8
Od.11.601-8
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant #WeekAforAbstract #sculpture #assemblage
Installation view of "A Catalogue of Shapes" with "Kalypso ΚΡΥΠΤΩ" in the foreground and "Odysseus ΜΗΤΙΣ" and "Achilleus ΜΗΝΙΣ" in the background"
Installation view of "A Catalogue of Shapes" with "Kalypso ΚΡΥΠΤΩ" in the foreground and "Odysseus ΜΗΤΙΣ" and "Achilleus ΜΗΝΙΣ" in the background"
January 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
#BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant #WeekAforAbstract #sculpture #assemblage
Installation view of "A Catalogue of Shapes" with "Kalypso ΚΡΥΠΤΩ" in the foreground and "Odysseus ΜΗΤΙΣ" and "Achilleus ΜΗΝΙΣ" in the background"
Installation view of "A Catalogue of Shapes" with "Kalypso ΚΡΥΠΤΩ" in the foreground and "Odysseus ΜΗΤΙΣ" and "Achilleus ΜΗΝΙΣ" in the background"
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant #WeekAforAbstract #sculpture #assemblage
"Kleio Play", "Mnemosyne Genos", "Zeus Theos", "Hesiod Ergo", and "Melpomene Act",
assemblage sculptures,
Charlayn von Solms
"Kleio Play", "Mnemosyne Genos", "Zeus Theos", "Hesiod Ergo", and "Melpomene Act",
assemblage sculptures,
Charlayn von Solms
January 10, 2026 at 11:13 AM
#BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant #WeekAforAbstract #sculpture #assemblage
"Kleio Play", "Mnemosyne Genos", "Zeus Theos", "Hesiod Ergo", and "Melpomene Act",
assemblage sculptures,
Charlayn von Solms
"Kleio Play", "Mnemosyne Genos", "Zeus Theos", "Hesiod Ergo", and "Melpomene Act",
assemblage sculptures,
Charlayn von Solms
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For the poets
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_T...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_T...
American Pie
YouTube video by Don McLean - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:22 AM
For the poets
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_T...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_T...
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@wildobliquities.bsky.social is this you with eminent archaeologist, illustrator, and science communicator Jens Notroff?
January 4, 2026 at 4:26 PM
@wildobliquities.bsky.social is this you with eminent archaeologist, illustrator, and science communicator Jens Notroff?
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Artists! BlueSky is the perfect place to socialize and shoot the breeze. I'm creating a starter pack of artists who are open to questions and chatting about art (their own and art in general) without making anyone feel stupid or guilted into buying something.
Comment to be on this list
#art #artists
Comment to be on this list
#art #artists
January 4, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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"That goddess Atē, senior daughter of Zeus—she makes everyone veer off-course that disastrous one, the one who has delicate steps. She never makes contact with the ground of the threshold, never even going near it, but instead she hovers over the heads of men, bringing harm to mortals"
Il:19.91-3
Il:19.91-3
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
"That goddess Atē, senior daughter of Zeus—she makes everyone veer off-course that disastrous one, the one who has delicate steps. She never makes contact with the ground of the threshold, never even going near it, but instead she hovers over the heads of men, bringing harm to mortals"
Il:19.91-3
Il:19.91-3
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Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
publicdomainreview.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain
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"humans devised strategies to experience the sacred. These strategies allowed the supernatural to be authentically presented to the human worshiper, on the one hand, and offered confirmation to humans that the things they did were noticed by the gods, on the other."
www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...
Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
www.cambridge.org
December 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"humans devised strategies to experience the sacred. These strategies allowed the supernatural to be authentically presented to the human worshiper, on the one hand, and offered confirmation to humans that the things they did were noticed by the gods, on the other."
www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...
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Anne Hathaway as Penelope: Sweet hearts, great Odysseus is indeed dead, still do not press me to marry again immediately, wait, for I would not have skill in weaving perish unrecorded, till I have completed a shroud for the hero Laertes, to be in readiness against the time when death shall take him.
December 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Anne Hathaway as Penelope: Sweet hearts, great Odysseus is indeed dead, still do not press me to marry again immediately, wait, for I would not have skill in weaving perish unrecorded, till I have completed a shroud for the hero Laertes, to be in readiness against the time when death shall take him.
I tried this once. Named them Bonnie and Clyde. They completely destroyed everything in sight. A herd of drunken elephants would have caused less damage.
No break-ins for the entire time they were there though 👍
No break-ins for the entire time they were there though 👍
December 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I tried this once. Named them Bonnie and Clyde. They completely destroyed everything in sight. A herd of drunken elephants would have caused less damage.
No break-ins for the entire time they were there though 👍
No break-ins for the entire time they were there though 👍
@phyllida.bsky.social a Christmas cat for you
December 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
@phyllida.bsky.social a Christmas cat for you
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One for the academics 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One for the academics 🎄
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For the South Africans on here: Zapiro's GNU-themed Christmas card
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
For the South Africans on here: Zapiro's GNU-themed Christmas card
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Zeus looked angrily at him and said, "Do not come whining here, you who lean both ways. I hate you worst of all the gods in Olympus, for you are ever fighting and making mischief ... you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans".
Il.5.889-899
Il.5.889-899
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Zeus looked angrily at him and said, "Do not come whining here, you who lean both ways. I hate you worst of all the gods in Olympus, for you are ever fighting and making mischief ... you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans".
Il.5.889-899
Il.5.889-899
2025
prolonged and exhausting
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
2025
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Fueled by a yearning for revenge following repeated rejection and mocking early in life, the ugly duckling grew up to become a ruthless dictator and oppressor of ducks everywhere.
December 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Fueled by a yearning for revenge following repeated rejection and mocking early in life, the ugly duckling grew up to become a ruthless dictator and oppressor of ducks everywhere.