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I'm inviting participants 18 years or older who identify as Hellenic Polytheist practitioners or closely related religions that include worship of the Greek gods to participate in a questionnaire for my PhD thesis. If interested, I will send over the participant information.

#Hellenic Pagan #Hellenic Polytheism #Hellenismos #tagamemnon #tagitus #personal #drop me a line and I'll send over email #feel free to spread far and wide

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Beware the Ides of March

#Ides of March #yeah I wore this to my office today and of course no one is here lol #tagitus #tagamemnon

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Going to the Scottish Pagan Federation Conference in Glasgow today. If you see me, feel free to say hi 🥰

#personal

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one last job

#how dare you make me feel my feelings about this when I’m about to go to bed #this is beautiful OP #Odysseus #The Odyssey #tagamemnon #contemporary art

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A call for papers for postgraduates for the ICS Work in Progress Seminar. Speakers will give a paper of about 45 minutes’ duration, dealing with any subject connected with the ancient world (broadly defined), the reception of antiquity, or classical scholarship. Abstract should be 300 words, a working title for the paper, your preferred term, and your attendance preference (online, in person). We are also accepting panel sessions of two coordinated papers. These sessions consist of two closely related 25-minute papers. Submissions for coordinated panels should include two abstracts of around 200 words each and an overview of the panel of around 100 words. Submissions should be directed to the seminar’s joint chairs at [email protected].

#tagamemnon #tagitus #Ancient Greek #Ancient Rome #Ancient World #call for papers #graduate school #y’all should reblog this

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The double herma with the two major ancient Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides

Portrait double (twin) herma of Herodotus and Thucydides, archetype from 400-350 BC. Plaster cast. Gallery of Classical Art in Hostinné. Original: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. 6239)

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herma_of_Herodotus_and_Thucydides,_Thucydides,_Plaster_cast,_Hostinn%C3%A9,_188444.jpg

#Herma #Herodotus #Thucydides #ancient Roman art #tagamemnon #tagitus

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#Hades #Hades game #playthrough #tagamemnon #tagitus #personal #Youtube

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Sons Of The Labyrinth or The Things Our Fathers Do To Us

#OW MY HEART #The Minotaur #Icarus #Greek mythology #contemporary art #comic

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#I'm the worst YouTuber ever lol I forgot to say I've been posting again! #tarot #literary tarot #tagamemnon #tagitus #person #The Ancient Geeko-Roman #Youtube

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I legitimately need the 20 volume run of a manga for an academic reason

In the States, I was used to my uni library carrying fiction in general, and being able to request ILLs for them if they didn’t have it. And yes, I do realise that the USA is bigger than the UK (trust me, I’m aware, I used to take 12 hour road trips every summer and if I did that here, I’d be in the sea), but it’s weird to me that their response to ‘I’m requesting these three books’ (because I didn’t want to overwhelm them with a request for TWENTY all at once), and their response was to tell me to buy them myself.

They told me because all of the ILLs would be outside of the UK (which I find hard to believe that they’re not ANYWHERE here? At all???), they would be too expensive. I went to the Public Library, and I wasn’t prepared for how small it was. I asked them if they could check for me to see if any other libraries had it. No one in Fife had it. I asked if they did ILLs. They did, but they cost £6 for each one outside of Fife. And, again, at that point, I might as well buy them myself. Which, again, I cannot afford to do. (If I could buy every book/series I wanted to in order to write up my research, I would. Alas!)

I put in my request to the university library to buy the entire series, knowing they’ll probably deny it (which, again, I’m confused if they think it’s so cheap I can buy it, and if they come back with it’s too expensive for the library, I might freak out), even though I need it for legitimate academic reasons.

Please remember that a lot of humanities students use fiction in their research and relevant academic work, and to tell a student to just buy the books themselves because they’re ~so cheap on eBay~ is not the right response to an ILL request.

#academia #libraries #y’all I went on two rage walks today because of this #personal #the woes of Classical reception work #the biggest kick in the face is that 18 out of 20 of them are available in my hometown library 15 minutes from my parents’ house

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Actual roman epitaph for a dog

#art #contemporary art #epitaph #epitaphs #Ancient Rome #ouch I’ve seen this epitaph before but that art punched me in the gut #thank you

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worlds most compressed jpeg vs worlds crustiest pdf scan uploaded by an elderly professor. fight

#academia #sometimes it’s the same professor and I continue to be baffled by them #the Chaos Reigns professor

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I really like this painting it's your typical Classical painting about the wrath of Achilles but i also find it hilarious after you notice how Athena holds him

She just tags a tiny bit of his hair like a disappointed mother scolding her child telling him to behave 🤣

#La Colère d'Achille #Louis Édouard Fournier #19th century art #Achilles #Athena #Greek mythology #The Iliad

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Happy Panathenaia! It is time to celebrate Athena (according to the calendar I reference, it actually began yesterday) for the whole week 💖 I’ve read some Orphic & Homeric Hymns and plan to study later.

You can read more about the festival below:

#Panathenaia #Athena #Hellenic Polytheism #Ancient Greece #Athens

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Hebe After the Fall by Hugues Merle (1880)

#Hebe #Greek gods #Hebe After the Fall #Hugues Merle #19th century art

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the 2024 met gala theme will be ovid's metamorphosis to respect the importance of greek classicalism in fashion aesthetic principles of construction. lil nas x will be dressed as actaeon's hounds, a metaphor for the punishment of black men's existence being seen as predatory. kylie jenner will wear a crimped taffeta toga. florence welch will be in dior as medusa, veiled and weeping. she is a statement about the destruction of intent and story in the face of achronistic politics: medusa can't be a monster if she's a woman, medusa can't be a woman if she's a monster. drake wears a tailored black suit with a black tie and white shirt. seventeen different women dress as botticelli's venus in some form and rip each other to shreds in rage and divine madness, watched over by dionysus, who is dressed as jack black

#I cannot describe to you how much I am in love with this post #Greek mythology #Greek gods

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Hello, all! I just wanted to bring your attention to Queering the Past(s)! (https://classicalassociation.org/queering-the-past/) It's an interactive online resource that addresses LGBTQ+ subjects and the gaps in education about them. This is an ongoing project, as the online resource continues to grow, and more chapters and other guides are in the works. The two current chapters that are up are Sappho and Elagabalus, as well as a Teacher's Guide. If you're a teacher focusing on the ancient world and would like to incorporate any of the information into your curriculum, please check it out! If you use any of the resources and would like to give feedback or have ideas on what could be added, please contact Nancy Rabinowitz ([email protected]).

#tagamemnon #tagitus #LGBT #LGBTQ+ #Queering the Past #teaching #ancient history #Ancient Greece #Ancient Rome #Sappho #Elagabalus