Still can't believe there was a time when I thought ancient Greek vase paintings were boring.

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Few authors do epigraphs as well as Ali Smith does. Pictured here, the first epigraph from the novel The Accidental.

Visited the Kgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre yesterday. 10/10 - truly a fantastically curated exhibition. Paleontological insight and evidence perfectly balanced with Basotho legends and proverbs.

Also spotted @amayor.bsky.social's The First Fossil Hunters in the museum café!

I'm rereading a thesis from 1910 and the -gh simplifications are delightful.

Thru instead of through.
Tho instead of though.
Thot instead of thought - the most jarring one!

Adding this to the list of reasons why it will always be necessary for humans to read and think about literature, and why this activity cannot be outsourced to GenAI.

From Mark William Roche's 'Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century'.

Sigh. Not even surprised that an "AI"-driven search engine can't even get the basics right. This is apparently an image of, and I quote, "Penelope at her loom," even though the source page of the Bibliothèque nationale de France titles it "Penelope reading".

Even in my holiday reading, I can't escape theories of drama and theatre. In Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed', the anarchist society of the Anarresti view dramatic theatre as the only true Art.

📚 'Held' by Anne Michaels (2024). Such a tender unfolding of mourning and memory. And this definition of fate - much to think about!

Hi there! Not sure what the comment was specifically, but you may wish to try Nicole Loraux's Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman (Façons tragiques de tuer une femme). Chapter 2 is devoted to the ways in which virgins are killed in Greek tragedy.

Thinking about these last few lines of 'Mon enfance' by Jacques Brel, and how they were translated (adapted?) into English by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman.

The nostalgic reminiscing interrupted by the reality of war feels akin to the choral odes of Euripides' Trojan Women.

I have the best colleague! He saved this LSJ from a random church basement for me. It will surely be put to good use! Anyone else still prefer printed dictionaries and lexica to online versions?

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I can no longer stand the disinformation and despair in the other place. May this be a better experience! I don't have a cat, but I can introduce you to Kuzco the curious cockatiel. We are hoping to find a community in AncientBluesky and in the philosophical and literary corners of this platform.