cypris
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of all the stars, the loveliest • greek mythology, gender, trans*lation, performance studies, reception theory • summer archaeologist • ucsb phd • jhu ma 🏺🌻👽
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I was planning a Circe joke but didn't use it because the audience were just pigs.
I can't decide between my Scylla joke and my Charybdis joke.
The last time I did my joke about Medusa, the audience gave nothing but a stony silence.
April 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I was planning a Circe joke but didn't use it because the audience were just pigs.
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This week on the blog: closing thoughts on Gladiator II and how it treats the city of Rome, the Colosseum and gladiators and the Severan dynasty.
In particular, we look at why the real, historical Caracalla is history's crushing rebuttal to this film's own themes.
acoup.blog/2024/12/13/c...
In particular, we look at why the real, historical Caracalla is history's crushing rebuttal to this film's own themes.
acoup.blog/2024/12/13/c...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipmen…
acoup.blog
December 14, 2024 at 12:40 AM
This week on the blog: closing thoughts on Gladiator II and how it treats the city of Rome, the Colosseum and gladiators and the Severan dynasty.
In particular, we look at why the real, historical Caracalla is history's crushing rebuttal to this film's own themes.
acoup.blog/2024/12/13/c...
In particular, we look at why the real, historical Caracalla is history's crushing rebuttal to this film's own themes.
acoup.blog/2024/12/13/c...
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Fresco of a figure carrying a cornucopia from Herculaneum. Throughout Pompeii and Herculaneum, the guardian deities (Lares) are often depicted holding rhytons or drinking horns, but the cornucopia signifies abundance and precedes our modern day ‘horn of plenty.’
📸Steve Shriver
#Ancientbluesky 🏺
📸Steve Shriver
#Ancientbluesky 🏺
November 28, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Fresco of a figure carrying a cornucopia from Herculaneum. Throughout Pompeii and Herculaneum, the guardian deities (Lares) are often depicted holding rhytons or drinking horns, but the cornucopia signifies abundance and precedes our modern day ‘horn of plenty.’
📸Steve Shriver
#Ancientbluesky 🏺
📸Steve Shriver
#Ancientbluesky 🏺
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When cultures meet, pagan gods mix: the Greeks inherited a number of gods and ideas from Mesopotamia, chief among them Aphrodite whose myths and folklore borrow liberally from Inanna; when Hellenization occurred, gods mixed once again, like Aphrodite-Isis. #FolkyFriday
November 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
When cultures meet, pagan gods mix: the Greeks inherited a number of gods and ideas from Mesopotamia, chief among them Aphrodite whose myths and folklore borrow liberally from Inanna; when Hellenization occurred, gods mixed once again, like Aphrodite-Isis. #FolkyFriday