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UK. Literature, Poetry, Architecture, Classical Music, Art Galleries & Museums. British Folk Music Revival 1950-80.
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From the poet politician Solon:
#Classics
#Greece
White text over a black and white photo of a cave in Cape Tainaron in Greece: "Not for long do acts of arrogance persist among mortals: Zeus watches over the end of all things, and suddenly, as a wind quickly scatters the clouds...such is the retribution of Zeus." Solon, translated by Andrew M. Miller
May 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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armchairclassicist.bsky.social
From the opening to the Apostolos N. Athanassakis translation of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo:

#Classics
#Poetry
📚💙
White text over a black and white photo of ancient armor: "Memory must now turn to Far-shooting Apollon. The gods of the house of Zeus tremble at his coming, And at once all spring up from their seats As he approaches, stringing his splendid bow. Leto alone remains by Zeus who delights in thunder To unstring Apollon’s bow and close his quiver; From his mighty shoulders with her hands she takes The bow and hangs it from a golden peg on her father’s own post, And after that she leads him to a seat. Then his father offers him nectar in a golden goblet And drinks a toast to his beloved son."
May 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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armchairclassicist.bsky.social
The Sicilian expedition is my favorite part of Thucydides.
#Classics
#AncientBlueSky
#HistoryMemes
Picture of Bernie Sanders outside in a heavy jacket. The meme identifies him as "Nicias" and adds the following dialogue: "I am once again asking to come home from Sicily."
May 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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armchairclassicist.bsky.social
The Athenian politician and poet Solon was famous for his reforms, but in his Life of Solon, Plutarch provides a potential criticism of the famous reforms with the figure Anacharsis, who draws attention to a problem we still deal with today.

#Classics #Class #Law #Equality
White text over a black and white photo of a landscape in Greece: "Anacharsis, accordingly, on learning what Solon was about, laughed at him for thinking that he could check the injustice and rapacity of the citizens by written laws, which were just like spiders' webs; they would hold the weak and delicate who might be caught in their meshes, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful." Plutarch, Solon, Translated by Bernadotte Perrin
May 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Sarah Jarrett - A Song For The Green World
April 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The Sunflower Door in Prague, built in 1900, Czech Republic. 🌻
April 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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uigi Secchi, La Meditazione
Marble. Imagine the patience
April 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Case of the Day: Statue of Sabina

This statue of Sabina (aka Vibia Sabina) illustrates how freshly looted objects can move through the hands of multiple traffickers and dealers before entering an elite museum collection. (1/3)
April 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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museumbums.bsky.social
Michelangelo wasn't the only Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle 🐢 to create a "David" in Florence; this biblical slingshot hero is by Donatello, made c1440s, and is at the Bargello Museum 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
A bronze statue of a figure standing with their hands on their hips, and a foot on a dead giant's head
April 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Diolch, thank you, unfortunately there’s a mistake in the version you’ve used: it should read: “that had *the* treasure in it” - this changes the meaning and rhythm of the phrase.
Here’s the correct version…
‘The Bright Field’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)
Text of poem - The Bright Field. I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had the treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
March 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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A. E. Housman - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
March 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Currently reading . . . excellent introduction by David Bromwich too. Sobering sentences by Arendt. #LiteratureSky
March 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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#ReliefWednesday, from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, a relief depicting a drunken Dionysus being propped up by a Satyr while Maenads and his Thiasus surround him. Dated to the 2nd century CE.

#Archaeology 🏺 #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky
March 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Camille Claudel
#CamilleClaudel #art #WomensHistoryMonth
March 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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More about Usk Roman Fortress: www.roman-britain.co.uk/places/burri...
Burrium (Usk) Legionary Fort - Roman Britain
Burrium or Bvrrivm was a legionary fortress in the Roman province of Britannia Superior or Roman Britain. Its remains today lie beneath the town of Usk in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. The surround...
www.roman-britain.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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lindsaypowell.bsky.social
Burrium (Usk) was a roman legionary fortress in the country of the Silures in what is now Wales. It was superceded by the more famous fortress at Isca (Caerleon). #RomanFortThursday #AncientBluesky
uskcivicsociety.org.uk/roman-usk/
Roman Usk | Usk Civic Society
uskcivicsociety.org.uk
March 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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☔️❄️☔️Peaceful Thursday☔️❄️☔️

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
Michelangelo

Michelangelo ( 1475-1564 ) The Deposition/ Florentine Pietà 1547-1555
#NatiOggi
March 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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The Mercury of Baccio Bandinelli, whose attribution had been lost for two centuries and which passed for an antique, superbly presented today under the Mollien staircase in the Louvre.
The Mercury of Baccio Bandinelli, whose attribution had been lost for two centuries and which passed for an antique, superbly presented today under the Mollien staircase in the Louvre.
March 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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daja57.bsky.social
#readindies month

A selection of self-published and independently published books.

"How I got into art school (and out of prison)" (also known as Wild Ride to Freedom) by William McLellan
Old Street Publishing

My Review: bit.ly/2MEVwiw

#Booksky 💙📚
#Books 📚
#Literaturesky
"How I got into art school (and out of prison)" by William McLellan
This book also seems to be published under the title Wild Ride to Freedom . There's not a lot about art school. This is a memoir of prison...
bit.ly
February 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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juliew67.bsky.social
#Alphabetchallenge #WeekHForHeroes
Statue at John Ryland's Library Manchester depicting Science Theology and Art
Alt text below
February 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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chembarathi.bsky.social
May we raise children who love the unloved things-the dandelion, worms and spiderlings. Children who sense the rose needs the thorn - Nicolette Sowder
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
May we raise children who love the unloved things-the dandelion, worms and spiderlings. Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards sun... And when they're grown and someone has to speak for those who have no voice may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the ones. -Nicolette Sowder
February 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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chembarathi.bsky.social
I'm here to tell you the tide will never stop coming in.

I'm here to tell you whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful.

-Hala Alyan, "Spoiler"
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
It might not happen for a long time, but one day you run your fingers through the sand again, scoop a fistful out, and pat it into a new floor. You can believe in anything, so why not believe this will last? The seashell rafter like eyes in the gloaming. I'm here to tell you the tide will never stop coming in. I'm here to tell you whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful. -Hala Alyan, "Spoiler"
February 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM