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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social
@ancienthistgeek.bsky.social
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Ancient history PhD at large. Accidental digital classicist / copyeditor. Expect random posts about dinosaurs. Formerly @ClassicHistGeek in the bad place.
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Oh, I’m in trouble. Look at these special editions for the Indian Lake Trilogy.
Front covers of the Illumicrate special editions of the Indian Lake Trilogy by @sgj.bsky.social. The first cover features the protagonist, Jade, in profile with a bloody machete on her shoulder. The second shows her three quarters front wielding a bloody hammer. The final cover has her staring directly forward, a bloody axe raised behind her head. The back covers of Illumicrate’s special editions of the Indian Lake Trilogy by @sjg.bsky.social featuring a swan boat on the lake at the end of summer on the first cover. The second shows three deer approaching the edge of the lake through snow. The final cover is centered on a bare limbed tree on the lake with houses in the background. The sprayed fore edges of Illumicrate’s special editions of the Indian Lake Trilogy by @sgj.bsky.social. They have been painted to look like old school VHS tapes with hand-lettered labels.
July 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
ancienthistgeek.bsky.social
Just a reminder:

Light the lamp, not the rat!
Opening title card of The Muppet Christmas Carol, with the title in red script above the skyline of Victorian London.
December 25, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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Kathleen Sheppard’s _Women in the Valley of the Kings_ ebook currently on sale (today only?) for $2.99 US on Kindle, Kobo, and Nook.
Cover of Kathleen Sheppard’s book _Women in the Valley of the Kings_. Sepia photo of three women standing in front of their dig house in Egypt.
December 21, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, a kylix (c.550-525 BCE) depicting a scene from the Odyssey in which Circe turns one of Odysseus’ companions into a pig. Accession no. 99.518.

collections.mfa.org/objects/1534...
Circe stands in the center, nude, stirring and offering a cup to one of Odysseus’ crew. The crewman has gone half hog, his head that of a boar, but the rest of him still human. Other partially transformed men mill about, with heads and forelimbs of lion, wolves, and boars. At the far right Eurylochos, who refused Circe's potion, runs for his ship, while Odysseus enters far left with his sword drawn.
November 27, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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No, but the dwarves apparently do 🐗
Dáin Ironfoot arrives at the Lonely Mountain on the back of his armored war boar prepared to throw down. He is himself helmed and armored, holding his war hammer in his right hand. Behind him the dwarven lines form up carrying shields and pikes. Art from the movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
November 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM