Lily Bickers
@cyberantiquities.bsky.social
PhD student working on Sappho and online quotation culture. Interested in fragments, ancient literature and/in digital media, queer historiographies, and gorgons. Also an artist/translator/performer.
https://cyberantiquities.wordpress.com
https://cyberantiquities.wordpress.com
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cyberantiquities.wordpress.com
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my research in particular lends well to bizarre bibliography juxtapositions
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
my research in particular lends well to bizarre bibliography juxtapositions
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🏛️ NEW EVENT SERIES 🏛️
The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity.
The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th.
www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity.
The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th.
www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
August 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🏛️ NEW EVENT SERIES 🏛️
The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity.
The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th.
www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity.
The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th.
www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
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This morning's #imageoftheweek is this illuminated illustration of Iliad 16, in which Achilles sacrifices to Zeus for Patroclus' safe return from battle. This image is from the 5th century CE Ambrosian Iliad, a unique and beautiful manuscript. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #achilles
June 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This morning's #imageoftheweek is this illuminated illustration of Iliad 16, in which Achilles sacrifices to Zeus for Patroclus' safe return from battle. This image is from the 5th century CE Ambrosian Iliad, a unique and beautiful manuscript. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #achilles
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Artemis as undersea huntress. I found an article that spoke of an Arcadian shrine to a fish-tailed Artemis. This claim seemed dubious, but the image of Artemis as an underwater huntress took hold! She wears a fish scale alopekis and has seals as her companions as they are the dogs of the sea.
May 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Artemis as undersea huntress. I found an article that spoke of an Arcadian shrine to a fish-tailed Artemis. This claim seemed dubious, but the image of Artemis as an underwater huntress took hold! She wears a fish scale alopekis and has seals as her companions as they are the dogs of the sea.
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Archive.org is temporarily offline. We are working to restore access. Apologies for the disruption!
June 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Archive.org is temporarily offline. We are working to restore access. Apologies for the disruption!
finished my initial tiktok data collection
horrifying: the number of people claiming that sappho is the only known female poet from ancient greece or rome
delightful: this one girl with a horse called sappho
horrifying: the number of people claiming that sappho is the only known female poet from ancient greece or rome
delightful: this one girl with a horse called sappho
May 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
finished my initial tiktok data collection
horrifying: the number of people claiming that sappho is the only known female poet from ancient greece or rome
delightful: this one girl with a horse called sappho
horrifying: the number of people claiming that sappho is the only known female poet from ancient greece or rome
delightful: this one girl with a horse called sappho
mary barnard titles sappho's leto and niobe fragment 'before they were mothers'; willis barnstone titles it 'before the murder'
May 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
mary barnard titles sappho's leto and niobe fragment 'before they were mothers'; willis barnstone titles it 'before the murder'
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Call for papers | “Gender and Deities of Greco-Roman Myth in Music Videos” (International Journal of the Classical Tradition)
👥 Guest Editors: @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social & Sílvia Catarina Pereira Diogo
🗓️ Deadline: June 20th, 2025
🏺 antiquipop.hypotheses.org/ijct-gender-...
👥 Guest Editors: @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social & Sílvia Catarina Pereira Diogo
🗓️ Deadline: June 20th, 2025
🏺 antiquipop.hypotheses.org/ijct-gender-...
May 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Call for papers | “Gender and Deities of Greco-Roman Myth in Music Videos” (International Journal of the Classical Tradition)
👥 Guest Editors: @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social & Sílvia Catarina Pereira Diogo
🗓️ Deadline: June 20th, 2025
🏺 antiquipop.hypotheses.org/ijct-gender-...
👥 Guest Editors: @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social & Sílvia Catarina Pereira Diogo
🗓️ Deadline: June 20th, 2025
🏺 antiquipop.hypotheses.org/ijct-gender-...
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The Classical Association is offering (paid, remote) internships this summer. There are 4/6/8 week placements available. Closing date: 8 June, applicants must be UK based and aged 18 or older at the time of the internship.
Further details are all here: https://classicalassociation.org/internships/
Further details are all here: https://classicalassociation.org/internships/
May 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Classical Association is offering (paid, remote) internships this summer. There are 4/6/8 week placements available. Closing date: 8 June, applicants must be UK based and aged 18 or older at the time of the internship.
Further details are all here: https://classicalassociation.org/internships/
Further details are all here: https://classicalassociation.org/internships/
I think one of the most important steps you can take towards real interdisciplinarity is being brave enough to engage in real conversations with people who study things you don't know anything about
May 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I think one of the most important steps you can take towards real interdisciplinarity is being brave enough to engage in real conversations with people who study things you don't know anything about
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📣 Four more days to apply! Tell your students! 📣
CALLING ALL FACULTY OF ARTS STUDENTS AT BRISTOL
Applications for the IGRCT's travel bursaries are open again for students wishing to undertake trips related to classics or classical reception. The deadline is May 19th!
More information here: uob.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/grp-ig...
Applications for the IGRCT's travel bursaries are open again for students wishing to undertake trips related to classics or classical reception. The deadline is May 19th!
More information here: uob.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/grp-ig...
May 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
📣 Four more days to apply! Tell your students! 📣
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Today's #imageoftheweek is this statue of the dying Achilles by Christophe Veyrier, from 1683. Note: the cherub trying valiantly to remove the arrow from his heel.
Statue is in the V&A, photo by our intern.
Statue is in the V&A, photo by our intern.
May 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Today's #imageoftheweek is this statue of the dying Achilles by Christophe Veyrier, from 1683. Note: the cherub trying valiantly to remove the arrow from his heel.
Statue is in the V&A, photo by our intern.
Statue is in the V&A, photo by our intern.
no one more woeful than the scholar of ancient monsters forced to read 1000000 student exam papers responding to a question about monsters by talking about uhhhhhhh circe, odysseus, the gods in general, calypso
May 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
no one more woeful than the scholar of ancient monsters forced to read 1000000 student exam papers responding to a question about monsters by talking about uhhhhhhh circe, odysseus, the gods in general, calypso
what do you mean bristol library doesnt have an ebook of redeeming the text
April 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
what do you mean bristol library doesnt have an ebook of redeeming the text
all philological attempts to make sappho less queer have not merely revealed her as queer, but have actively made her even more so
April 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
all philological attempts to make sappho less queer have not merely revealed her as queer, but have actively made her even more so
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internet archive should have a cute little mascot they can make into a plushie
April 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
internet archive should have a cute little mascot they can make into a plushie
i would rank this painting as up there with the great god pan (1894) in the category of 'classics and deep time horror'
This morning's #imageoftheweek is 'Terror Antiquus' (1908), by Russian artist and designer Léon Baskt. This striking painting depicts various real archaeological sites, such as Mycenae, but is also thought to show the fictional destruction of Atlantis. #ancientbluesky #classicssky #classicsbluesky
April 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
i would rank this painting as up there with the great god pan (1894) in the category of 'classics and deep time horror'
but how do i pick a plateau
April 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
but how do i pick a plateau
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🪴 EVENT REMINDER 🪴
Join us for our 9th annual Morse lecture! Professor Stephen Bann will talk about #classicalreception in Ian Hamilton Finlay's sculpture garden, Little Sparta. #ClassicsSky
🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰5PM, March 27th
📍University of Bristol, Arts Complex, Room G.H01
Join us for our 9th annual Morse lecture! Professor Stephen Bann will talk about #classicalreception in Ian Hamilton Finlay's sculpture garden, Little Sparta. #ClassicsSky
🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰5PM, March 27th
📍University of Bristol, Arts Complex, Room G.H01
March 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🪴 EVENT REMINDER 🪴
Join us for our 9th annual Morse lecture! Professor Stephen Bann will talk about #classicalreception in Ian Hamilton Finlay's sculpture garden, Little Sparta. #ClassicsSky
🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰5PM, March 27th
📍University of Bristol, Arts Complex, Room G.H01
Join us for our 9th annual Morse lecture! Professor Stephen Bann will talk about #classicalreception in Ian Hamilton Finlay's sculpture garden, Little Sparta. #ClassicsSky
🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰5PM, March 27th
📍University of Bristol, Arts Complex, Room G.H01
woe betide the scholar my students keep citing who said that hector is the only hero whose relationship to his family is portrayed in the iliad... what about achilles and thetis? menelaus and agamemnon? I really think this reading projects the modern primacy of the nuclear family onto the poem!!
March 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
woe betide the scholar my students keep citing who said that hector is the only hero whose relationship to his family is portrayed in the iliad... what about achilles and thetis? menelaus and agamemnon? I really think this reading projects the modern primacy of the nuclear family onto the poem!!
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#ReliefWednesay: a shot of the front of the #Etruscan bronze Monteleone chariot. It depicts the nereid Thetis giving her son Achilles new armor, fashioned by Hephaestus. The shield - with its apotropaic head of Medusa and a feline face - is remarkable. The provenance is disputed. 🏺
#MetMuseum 📸 me
#MetMuseum 📸 me
March 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#ReliefWednesay: a shot of the front of the #Etruscan bronze Monteleone chariot. It depicts the nereid Thetis giving her son Achilles new armor, fashioned by Hephaestus. The shield - with its apotropaic head of Medusa and a feline face - is remarkable. The provenance is disputed. 🏺
#MetMuseum 📸 me
#MetMuseum 📸 me
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Our #imageoftheweek today is this beautiful sculpture head from Gandhara (3rd-4th c. CE), representing either Hercules or the bodhisattva Vajrapani. Iconography of Vajrapani in Gandhara was heavily influenced by Greek imagery of Hercules, leading him to be depicted as a muscular man with a club.
March 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Our #imageoftheweek today is this beautiful sculpture head from Gandhara (3rd-4th c. CE), representing either Hercules or the bodhisattva Vajrapani. Iconography of Vajrapani in Gandhara was heavily influenced by Greek imagery of Hercules, leading him to be depicted as a muscular man with a club.
I'm at the typing the word 'destiel' into google scholar stage of phd research
March 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I'm at the typing the word 'destiel' into google scholar stage of phd research
alcinous really looks odysseus dead in the eyes and says 'you don't seem like a liar to me'.
February 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
alcinous really looks odysseus dead in the eyes and says 'you don't seem like a liar to me'.
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Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:
February 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵: