Bronwen MacDonald 🏺🏛️🏳️🌈
@vanth.bsky.social
She/her PhD candidate at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Resides in Japan. Artist. Etruscan and Roman funerary art. Vanth fan-girl. Mom of 2. (bronwenmacdonald.com)
Recently I asked my students to introduce a song that makes reference to a myth, and I was quite pleased that they came up with ones that I had never heard of before. So here is the 2024 edition in the comments (I'll add more as the last few coming trickling in).
January 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Recently I asked my students to introduce a song that makes reference to a myth, and I was quite pleased that they came up with ones that I had never heard of before. So here is the 2024 edition in the comments (I'll add more as the last few coming trickling in).
So, I have been gone for quite a while but that is because I got a lecturing job at my local university. While I am technically teaching English, one of my classes in particular asked me to do Greek mythology. As media students they've been having a ball essentially doing basic reception studies.
January 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
So, I have been gone for quite a while but that is because I got a lecturing job at my local university. While I am technically teaching English, one of my classes in particular asked me to do Greek mythology. As media students they've been having a ball essentially doing basic reception studies.
I made an Attic Greek joke!
Friend: So, what is your favourite word in Attic Greek?
Me: Hmm, ἐπιλανθάνομαι (epilanthanomai)
Friend: What does it mean?
Me: I forget! 🤷🏻♀
Friend: So, what is your favourite word in Attic Greek?
Me: Hmm, ἐπιλανθάνομαι (epilanthanomai)
Friend: What does it mean?
Me: I forget! 🤷🏻♀
January 25, 2024 at 2:40 PM
I made an Attic Greek joke!
Friend: So, what is your favourite word in Attic Greek?
Me: Hmm, ἐπιλανθάνομαι (epilanthanomai)
Friend: What does it mean?
Me: I forget! 🤷🏻♀
Friend: So, what is your favourite word in Attic Greek?
Me: Hmm, ἐπιλανθάνομαι (epilanthanomai)
Friend: What does it mean?
Me: I forget! 🤷🏻♀
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Orestes pursued by the Furies and protected by Apollo after killing his mother Clytemnestra
Apulian red-figure volute krater with masks from Ruvo di Puglia, now Museo Archeologico Bari (Santa Scolastica)
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Apulian red-figure volute krater with masks from Ruvo di Puglia, now Museo Archeologico Bari (Santa Scolastica)
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December 20, 2023 at 2:16 AM
Orestes pursued by the Furies and protected by Apollo after killing his mother Clytemnestra
Apulian red-figure volute krater with masks from Ruvo di Puglia, now Museo Archeologico Bari (Santa Scolastica)
🏺 AncientBlueSky
Apulian red-figure volute krater with masks from Ruvo di Puglia, now Museo Archeologico Bari (Santa Scolastica)
🏺 AncientBlueSky
Reposted by Bronwen MacDonald 🏺🏛️🏳️🌈
for a 1st-yr seminar I put together a series of "how to read" guides
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December 13, 2023 at 8:18 PM
for a 1st-yr seminar I put together a series of "how to read" guides
andrewjacobs.org/core2/how2es...
andrewjacobs.org/core2/how2th...
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Dec 13 hybrid conference - The Afterlife of the Greco-Persian Wars: From Antiquity to Modern Times - hybrid/Kyoto University, Japan forms.gle/ApSnocfETXme...
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International Workshop: The Afterlife of the Greco-Persian Wars From Antiquity to Modern Times
13th December 2023, Rakuyu Kaikan, Conference Room 1, 1F, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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December 10, 2023 at 10:48 AM
Dec 13 hybrid conference - The Afterlife of the Greco-Persian Wars: From Antiquity to Modern Times - hybrid/Kyoto University, Japan forms.gle/ApSnocfETXme...
It was a bit a rough month for one reason and then another, so #classicstober ended up a bust. I did, however, manage to get one drawing done of this Etruscan carnelian engraved gem of Ajax and Cassandra. Getty Collection No. 2019.13.10 (Original: www.getty.edu/art/collecti...)
November 11, 2023 at 11:09 AM
It was a bit a rough month for one reason and then another, so #classicstober ended up a bust. I did, however, manage to get one drawing done of this Etruscan carnelian engraved gem of Ajax and Cassandra. Getty Collection No. 2019.13.10 (Original: www.getty.edu/art/collecti...)
Throwback. My version of the Amazon queen Penthesilia. Ink on paper.
November 5, 2023 at 11:44 PM
Throwback. My version of the Amazon queen Penthesilia. Ink on paper.
Throwback. After doing the initial drawing I was messing around with manga filters on Clip Studio. Marble bust of Polydeukes c. 165 CE. Referenced from a photo by @profyarrow.bsky.social.
🎨 🏺 AncientBlueSky
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October 23, 2023 at 10:45 PM
Throwback. After doing the initial drawing I was messing around with manga filters on Clip Studio. Marble bust of Polydeukes c. 165 CE. Referenced from a photo by @profyarrow.bsky.social.
🎨 🏺 AncientBlueSky
🎨 🏺 AncientBlueSky
One of my elderly ESL students that I teach in the evenings at the community center just apologized to me for using “Google-Chan” to help her work something out. I asked why the -Chan suffix and she says, because it’s her friend.
October 19, 2023 at 12:04 PM
One of my elderly ESL students that I teach in the evenings at the community center just apologized to me for using “Google-Chan” to help her work something out. I asked why the -Chan suffix and she says, because it’s her friend.
Throwback. My interpretation of Phanes, the Orphic god of Light and the Firstborn from the Cosmic Egg.
"...throughout this world you brought pure light. For this I call you Phanes..." - Hymn 6 to Protogonos. The Orphic Hymns. Trans. Athanassakis, A. 1977.
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"...throughout this world you brought pure light. For this I call you Phanes..." - Hymn 6 to Protogonos. The Orphic Hymns. Trans. Athanassakis, A. 1977.
🎨 🏺 AncientBlueSky
October 17, 2023 at 9:59 PM
Throwback. My interpretation of Phanes, the Orphic god of Light and the Firstborn from the Cosmic Egg.
"...throughout this world you brought pure light. For this I call you Phanes..." - Hymn 6 to Protogonos. The Orphic Hymns. Trans. Athanassakis, A. 1977.
🎨 🏺 AncientBlueSky
"...throughout this world you brought pure light. For this I call you Phanes..." - Hymn 6 to Protogonos. The Orphic Hymns. Trans. Athanassakis, A. 1977.
🎨 🏺 AncientBlueSky
Rural, ineffable, two-form'd, obscure,
two-horn'd, with ivy crown'd, euion, pure.
Bull-fac'd, and martial, bearer of the vine,
endu'd with counsel prudent and divine:
Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn,
of Jove and Proserpine, occultly born.
- Hymns of Orpheus (Taylor)
AncientBlueSky
two-horn'd, with ivy crown'd, euion, pure.
Bull-fac'd, and martial, bearer of the vine,
endu'd with counsel prudent and divine:
Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn,
of Jove and Proserpine, occultly born.
- Hymns of Orpheus (Taylor)
AncientBlueSky
October 16, 2023 at 11:07 PM
Rural, ineffable, two-form'd, obscure,
two-horn'd, with ivy crown'd, euion, pure.
Bull-fac'd, and martial, bearer of the vine,
endu'd with counsel prudent and divine:
Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn,
of Jove and Proserpine, occultly born.
- Hymns of Orpheus (Taylor)
AncientBlueSky
two-horn'd, with ivy crown'd, euion, pure.
Bull-fac'd, and martial, bearer of the vine,
endu'd with counsel prudent and divine:
Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn,
of Jove and Proserpine, occultly born.
- Hymns of Orpheus (Taylor)
AncientBlueSky
Last year I did a Wonder Woman as Amazon paper-doll booklet for the Wonder Woman for President 2022: 50 Years of Kick-Ass Feminism conference. You can still download the PDF here and print yourself a dress-up paper-doll to colour! wonderwomanforpresident2022.wordpress.com/wonder-woman...
October 15, 2023 at 9:27 PM
Last year I did a Wonder Woman as Amazon paper-doll booklet for the Wonder Woman for President 2022: 50 Years of Kick-Ass Feminism conference. You can still download the PDF here and print yourself a dress-up paper-doll to colour! wonderwomanforpresident2022.wordpress.com/wonder-woman...
Throwback. This is still one of my favourite pieces of art. An Etruscan bronze cista lid done on scratch-board. (And let me say that just scratching the ink almost wrecked my wrist, I cannot imagine engraving it into metal!) 🏺🎨 AncientBlueSky
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October 14, 2023 at 10:21 PM
Throwback. This is still one of my favourite pieces of art. An Etruscan bronze cista lid done on scratch-board. (And let me say that just scratching the ink almost wrecked my wrist, I cannot imagine engraving it into metal!) 🏺🎨 AncientBlueSky
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Throwback. My patrons can (regardless of their tier) earn a commission. In this case one asked for my take on the "Triple Goddess". I feel that the crone aspect is neglected in the modern world so she's the focus. And being African, she just has to be the Mama. 🎨https://www.patreon.com/bronwen
October 13, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Throwback. My patrons can (regardless of their tier) earn a commission. In this case one asked for my take on the "Triple Goddess". I feel that the crone aspect is neglected in the modern world so she's the focus. And being African, she just has to be the Mama. 🎨https://www.patreon.com/bronwen
I have to confess that despite being a drama / classics double major, I never liked the ancient plays; not reading them, nor performing them. And I just don't /get/ comedy, modern or ancient. But gosh... has this turned me around completely. It's brilliant! AncientBlueSky
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Frogs (2023) | World's First Film in Ancient Greek (Full Movie)
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October 10, 2023 at 11:27 PM
I have to confess that despite being a drama / classics double major, I never liked the ancient plays; not reading them, nor performing them. And I just don't /get/ comedy, modern or ancient. But gosh... has this turned me around completely. It's brilliant! AncientBlueSky
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Sometimes I like to play word games when I do Latin translation.
Wherever I look, there is nothing, save sea and sky;
this swollen with surf, that suppressing with storm.
quocumque aspicio, nihil est, nisi pontus et aer,
fluctibus hic tumidus, nubibus ille minax.
(Ovid, Tristia 1.2.24-25)
Wherever I look, there is nothing, save sea and sky;
this swollen with surf, that suppressing with storm.
quocumque aspicio, nihil est, nisi pontus et aer,
fluctibus hic tumidus, nubibus ille minax.
(Ovid, Tristia 1.2.24-25)
October 10, 2023 at 4:26 AM
Sometimes I like to play word games when I do Latin translation.
Wherever I look, there is nothing, save sea and sky;
this swollen with surf, that suppressing with storm.
quocumque aspicio, nihil est, nisi pontus et aer,
fluctibus hic tumidus, nubibus ille minax.
(Ovid, Tristia 1.2.24-25)
Wherever I look, there is nothing, save sea and sky;
this swollen with surf, that suppressing with storm.
quocumque aspicio, nihil est, nisi pontus et aer,
fluctibus hic tumidus, nubibus ille minax.
(Ovid, Tristia 1.2.24-25)
I more imaginative drawing. This is Arke (twin sister to Iris) who is feeling for the wings that Zeus tore off her back as punishment for siding with the Titans. I wrote a piece reflecting on the violence and her potential erasure on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/59352310
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October 7, 2023 at 11:36 PM
I more imaginative drawing. This is Arke (twin sister to Iris) who is feeling for the wings that Zeus tore off her back as punishment for siding with the Titans. I wrote a piece reflecting on the violence and her potential erasure on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/59352310
🏺🎨 AncientBlueSky
🏺🎨 AncientBlueSky
Throwback art. Roman cavalry mask/helmet. I'm sorry, but I didn't save the details of the artefact I referenced. 🙇🏻♀️
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October 6, 2023 at 11:35 AM
Throwback art. Roman cavalry mask/helmet. I'm sorry, but I didn't save the details of the artefact I referenced. 🙇🏻♀️
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Throwback art. Not /everything/ I do is classical artefact based. Here's a piece called 'Dreaming Awake'. 🎨
October 4, 2023 at 9:20 PM
Throwback art. Not /everything/ I do is classical artefact based. Here's a piece called 'Dreaming Awake'. 🎨
Throwback drawing. The "Winged Horses of Tarquinia". 4th c. BCE. Terracotta. National Museum of Tarquinia. 🏺AncientBlueSky 🎨 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged-...
October 2, 2023 at 10:34 PM
Throwback drawing. The "Winged Horses of Tarquinia". 4th c. BCE. Terracotta. National Museum of Tarquinia. 🏺AncientBlueSky 🎨 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged-...
Throwback drawing. Toddler Apollo and Artemis slaying Python. 5th c. BCE Etruscan bronze mirror from Cerveteri. Villa Giulia 51109.
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Original on Wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...
September 29, 2023 at 11:25 PM
Throwback drawing. Toddler Apollo and Artemis slaying Python. 5th c. BCE Etruscan bronze mirror from Cerveteri. Villa Giulia 51109.
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Original on Wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...
🏺🎨 AncientBlueSky
Original on Wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...
Throwback drawing.
Stele Kallidemos, son of Kalliades. ca. 350–325 B.C. Greek, Attic. Now in the MET Museum (www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
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Stele Kallidemos, son of Kalliades. ca. 350–325 B.C. Greek, Attic. Now in the MET Museum (www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
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September 29, 2023 at 4:24 AM
Throwback drawing.
Stele Kallidemos, son of Kalliades. ca. 350–325 B.C. Greek, Attic. Now in the MET Museum (www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
AncientBlueSky 🏺
Stele Kallidemos, son of Kalliades. ca. 350–325 B.C. Greek, Attic. Now in the MET Museum (www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
AncientBlueSky 🏺
Another throwback. This was a painful piece but I love it! I might try and colour it some time. I'm not certain on the details but it is an Etruscan shield that apparently came from the Tomba Castellani in Palestrina and is now held in the Museo nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia.
🏺AncientBlueSky
🏺AncientBlueSky
September 26, 2023 at 10:23 PM
Another throwback. This was a painful piece but I love it! I might try and colour it some time. I'm not certain on the details but it is an Etruscan shield that apparently came from the Tomba Castellani in Palestrina and is now held in the Museo nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia.
🏺AncientBlueSky
🏺AncientBlueSky
- Student librarian (architecture library)
- Beginner class kung fu instructor
- Research assistant to classics professor (aka, 'please get my manuscript off this floppy disk, my new computer only has a CD drive') 🤣
- Digital literacy teacher (aka 'no... you need to double click. Yes, click click!')
- Beginner class kung fu instructor
- Research assistant to classics professor (aka, 'please get my manuscript off this floppy disk, my new computer only has a CD drive') 🤣
- Digital literacy teacher (aka 'no... you need to double click. Yes, click click!')
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now:
- Beer Sommelier
- Paper Counter*
- Stable Assistant
- Beer Sommelier
- Paper Counter*
- Stable Assistant
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
- Checkout operator at Tesco
- Checked the adding up of exam marks at an exam board
- One-to-one support assistant for a student with Sickle Cell
- Learning Support Assistant at a Sixth-Form college
- Public Library Assistant
- Checkout operator at Tesco
- Checked the adding up of exam marks at an exam board
- One-to-one support assistant for a student with Sickle Cell
- Learning Support Assistant at a Sixth-Form college
- Public Library Assistant
September 26, 2023 at 12:03 PM
- Student librarian (architecture library)
- Beginner class kung fu instructor
- Research assistant to classics professor (aka, 'please get my manuscript off this floppy disk, my new computer only has a CD drive') 🤣
- Digital literacy teacher (aka 'no... you need to double click. Yes, click click!')
- Beginner class kung fu instructor
- Research assistant to classics professor (aka, 'please get my manuscript off this floppy disk, my new computer only has a CD drive') 🤣
- Digital literacy teacher (aka 'no... you need to double click. Yes, click click!')