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Manolis Spanakis (Dr)
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I currently work as a Lecturer of Modern Greek Language and Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Passionate about cultural exchange, I love exploring the world, connecting with people from diverse backgrounds, and exchanging innovative ideas.
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You can retrace the SASA @saveancientstudies.bsky.social Halloween Bash 2025 Masterclass: "Healing, Dreams, and Curses: Unveiling the Supernatural in Ancient Greece", led by our own Dr Manolis Pagkalos (@immanump.bsky.social).

#AncientStudies #AncientGreece #Epigraphy
Healing, Dreams, and Curses: Unveiling the Supernatural in Ancient Greece | SASA Halloween Bash 2025
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November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Join @saveancientstudies.bsky.social for this year's Halloween Bash. Many events for a week and a good place to support not only the Ancient Studies, but the Humanities and a diversity of voices from scholars worldwide!
saveancientstudies.bsky.social Save Ancient Studies Alliance @saveancientstudies.bsky.social · Oct 3
🎃We are thrilled to announce SASA’s Halloween Bash fundraiser!

🗓 October 24th - 31st, 2025

➡️Click here to learn more about SASA’s Halloween Bash fundraiser: saveancientstudies.org/halloweenbash

#Halloween #HappyHalloween
October 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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hellenicsociety.bsky.social
SALVÉTE! XAÍPETE! LŪ ŠULMUM! Interested in learning Latin or Greek or Akkadian? Our friends at Living Classical Languages have asked us to share info about their FREE weekly workshops. For details and contacts visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Living Classical Languages Society
Try out an exciting way of learning and fully absorbing Latin or Greek or Akkadian! Living Classical Languages is all about enjoying our languages by speaking them.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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👻The rest of our Halloween Bash live events!

https://www.saveancientstudies.org/events
October 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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🎃Check out the full lineup of FREE live streamed spooktacular events during our Halloween Bash Fundraiser 2025! Make sure not to miss your favorite topics and speakers!

🗓 October 25-31, 2025

➡️ Click here to learn more: saveancientstudies.org/halloweenbash 👻

#Halloween #History

October 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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armchairclassicist.bsky.social
Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday. I'm using mine to read.

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White text over a black and white photo of the spines of antiquarian books: "There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them." Bernard Malamud, "The Fixer"
July 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Despite the heroics of Ajax and Diomedes in earlier books, the Greeks find themselves pinned behind the wall and ditch protecting their ships. At this point in Book IX, Agamemnon realizes he made a mistake in enraging Achilles and begins to try and make amends.

#Classics #Myth
Background is a black and white photo of the famous headless "Nike of Samothrace" on display at the Louvre. White text over the image reads as follows: And Agamemnon the lord of men consented quickly: ‘That’s no lie, old man—a full account you give of all my acts of madness. mad, blind I was! Not even I would deny it. Why look, that man is worth an entire army, the fighter Zeus holds dear with all his heart— how he exalts him now and mauls Achaea’s forces! But since I was b, lost in my own inhuman rage, now, at last, I am bent on setting things to rights: I’ll give a priceless ransom pain for friendship.” Homer, the Iliad, Book 9, line 136, Translated by Robert Fagles
July 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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In Book IX of the Iliad, when Agamemnon sends an embassy to make peace with Achilles, they find him playing his lyre, singing tales of the heroes that came before him. I like that Homer shows us this other side of his greatest warrior.

#Myth #Classics 📚💙
On the left is a photo of a red-figure Greek vase showing a person playing a stringed instrument. On the right is the following the text: “they found Achilles there, delighting his heart now, plucking strong and clear on the fine lyre— beautifully carved, its silver bridge set firm— he won from the spoils when he razed Eetion’s city. Achilles was lifting his spirits with it now, singing the famous deeds of fighting heroes..” Homer, The Iliad, Book IX, Line 223 Translated by Robert Fagles
July 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Our final review of the summer on Rhea. Back in September!

Thomas R. Keith reviews Boris Kayachev, "Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana" (Classical Press of Wales 2020).

Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana
Kayachev, Boris. Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana. Introduction, Text, Apparatus Criticus, Translation and Commentary. Swansea, UK: Classical Press of Waales, 2020. ISBN 978-1-910589-81-6…
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June 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
manos36.bsky.social
No mood for pics… only relaxation #mulan #dogs_in_claws
July 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced a historic breakthrough in the endeavour to decipher text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum.

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Inside of Herculaneum scroll seen for the first time in almost 2,000
The Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced a historic breakthrough in the endeavour to decipher text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum.
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February 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Lost works of ancient mathematician Apollonius of Anatolia found in rare Arabic manuscript

🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

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Lost works of ancient mathematician Apollonius of Anatolia found in rare Arabic manuscript - Türkiye Today
Apollonius’s lost works found in Arabic manuscripts show the preservation of ancient Anatolian knowledge during the Islamic Golden Age.
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February 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Medusa in the Time of Covid.

🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

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Titled ‘Medusa after quarantine’, a cartoon Medusa is shown with completely disheveled snakey hair. Medusa cartoon where she and all the snake heads in her hair are wearing PPE masks.
February 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Save the Cardiff Ancient History petition has now over 3400 signatures. Sign, share and join @flintdibble.bsky.social at 6pm for a discussion with @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social on YouTube to hear more. www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
Sign the Petition
Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree
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February 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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I do not know what the future holds

I do know we all should actively participate in how it is shaped

The only way to do that is to do it

This is not a time to be silent. This is not a time to blame others

This is a time to gather courage. This is a time to speak up and build community
February 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Classics showing its working | Blog post | Mary Beard
Classics showing its working | Blog post | Mary Beard
The big discovery for me this week (or at least it has only recently been published) was a papyrus, containing more than 100 lines of Greek text, which
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February 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This book is the result of long sustained effort by the editors, Manolis Pagkalos and Andrea Scarpato - both are on the Bad Place but not here yet, but big props to them. Buy your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-persp...

You can also DM me for a PDF of my chapter
The cover of 'New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese', edited by Manolis Pagkalos and Andrea Scarpato. It has a photo of column drums from Olympia, Greece.
December 6, 2024 at 10:08 AM