Akiko
@acarot.bsky.social
Cat Mum 🐱🐱 | BA (Hons) Classical Studies | Now studying MA at the Open University
It’s a hippopotamus by the River Nile 🦛 … really??🤔
January 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It’s a hippopotamus by the River Nile 🦛 … really??🤔
Trying to find out what Trajan said to Pliny 🐱 🐾
December 31, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Trying to find out what Trajan said to Pliny 🐱 🐾
I was there too loved it!
October 14, 2024 at 11:32 PM
I was there too loved it!
This is from my Metamorphoses notes. I didn’t know how a hoopoe looked like and I had to look it up. ‘he still looks armed’ indeed.
October 14, 2024 at 11:00 PM
This is from my Metamorphoses notes. I didn’t know how a hoopoe looked like and I had to look it up. ‘he still looks armed’ indeed.
I thought the Greeks liked cattle & sheep more than chickens but I didn’t realise chickens didn’t even exist in the Bronze Age (from Rome: An Empire’s Story by Greg Woolf)
August 3, 2024 at 11:54 AM
I thought the Greeks liked cattle & sheep more than chickens but I didn’t realise chickens didn’t even exist in the Bronze Age (from Rome: An Empire’s Story by Greg Woolf)
Arrived this morning it’s gorgeous 😍 #SingOMuseZine
April 12, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Arrived this morning it’s gorgeous 😍 #SingOMuseZine
Just found a controversial statement by Sappho 🤯
March 7, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Just found a controversial statement by Sappho 🤯
Comparing translations is very interesting 🤔
February 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Comparing translations is very interesting 🤔
Nice feeling when I can read the inscription 🔍
February 12, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Nice feeling when I can read the inscription 🔍
I love it when the extracts I’m reading next for my Open University module are from the books I’ve already read 📚
February 9, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I love it when the extracts I’m reading next for my Open University module are from the books I’ve already read 📚
Just finished reading A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story. It ends with a quote from Horace! 👀 I didn’t notice it when I first read it in Japanese over 30 years ago
February 4, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Just finished reading A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story. It ends with a quote from Horace! 👀 I didn’t notice it when I first read it in Japanese over 30 years ago
Happy new year 🥳 fireworks were so loud that he was not impressed 🙉
January 1, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Happy new year 🥳 fireworks were so loud that he was not impressed 🙉
Antilochus can’t die yet in Book 4 of the Iliad 🤔
December 31, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Antilochus can’t die yet in Book 4 of the Iliad 🤔
Philoctetes is here! 🐱🏹
December 29, 2023 at 8:54 PM
Philoctetes is here! 🐱🏹
Finally I counted the catalogue of ships in Book 2 of the Iliad - definitely 29 contingents 1186 ships!
December 29, 2023 at 12:07 AM
Finally I counted the catalogue of ships in Book 2 of the Iliad - definitely 29 contingents 1186 ships!
Loving Wilson’s translation of the Iliad. This insult to Agamemnon by Achilles has never sounded so brilliant 😂👍 οἰνοβαρές, κυνὸς ὄμματʼ ἔχων, κραδίην δʼ ἐλάφοιο - heavy with wine, with the eyes of a dog and the heart of a deer. (Iliad 1.225)
December 27, 2023 at 12:20 PM
Loving Wilson’s translation of the Iliad. This insult to Agamemnon by Achilles has never sounded so brilliant 😂👍 οἰνοβαρές, κυνὸς ὄμματʼ ἔχων, κραδίην δʼ ἐλάφοιο - heavy with wine, with the eyes of a dog and the heart of a deer. (Iliad 1.225)
人様の本棚に自分が持ってる本と同じのを見つけるとなんか嬉しいですねぇ☺️
December 21, 2023 at 4:38 PM
人様の本棚に自分が持ってる本と同じのを見つけるとなんか嬉しいですねぇ☺️
Ajax is preparing to kill himself 🐱
December 18, 2023 at 10:14 AM
Ajax is preparing to kill himself 🐱
Theseus was already 50 years old when he kidnapped the little Helen!? Yikes
December 11, 2023 at 10:02 AM
Theseus was already 50 years old when he kidnapped the little Helen!? Yikes
Reminded me of this from Twitter 😂
December 11, 2023 at 7:48 AM
Reminded me of this from Twitter 😂
Finally worked out how Theseus is related to Heracles 🐱
December 9, 2023 at 8:37 AM
Finally worked out how Theseus is related to Heracles 🐱
Loving my new bookmarks, shiny foil stickers & the Cerberus 😍 thank you @flaroh.bsky.social
November 22, 2023 at 10:57 AM
Loving my new bookmarks, shiny foil stickers & the Cerberus 😍 thank you @flaroh.bsky.social