Overlooked Pre-Raphaelite John Dickson Batten was born 8 October 1860 in Plymouth. In 'The Garden of Adonis—Amoretta and Time', Spenser's Amoretta is distraught when Time cruelly scythes down the flowers of ephemeral beauty. Her posture says everything about the human condition.

#ClassicsTober23 Day Eight: Icarus

The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper (1898)

I’m Meg, a PhD researcher in Classics. I sell handmade jewellery inspired by my love of the ancient world using replicas of genuine Greek and Roman coins. All sales help support an early career scholar AND you get to own a beautiful thing! #ClassicsTwitter ko-fi.com/agameganon/shop

#ClassicsTober23 Day Seven: Persephone

Proserpine (No. 8) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1882)

#ClassicsTober23 Day Six: Medea

Medée (Poster
for a performance by Sarah
Bernhardt at the Théâtre
de la Renaissance, Paris) by Alphonse Mucha (1898)

#ClassicsTober23 Day Five: Chiron

The Centaur Chiron Receiving the Infant Achilles by Antonio Balestra (c. 1710 - 1720)

People are taking this in bad faith but I get it. Loving your subject matter is nice (we all ‘love’ what we do at times, to some extent) but you can’t love it unconditionally. Really loving something also doesn’t necessarily make you a good researcher or teacher of said thing.

#ClassicsTober23 Day Four: Lycaon

Jupiter and Lycaon by Jan Cossiers (1638)

Thank you to Charlotte Rosen and @publicbooks for publishing a section from my Translator's Note for the Iliad. If you're curious about my approach, please check it out! publicbooks.org/i-began-with...

#ClassicsTober23 Day Three: Asterion

The Minotaur by George Frederic Watts (1885)

it feels wrong to say I ‘like’ this sculpture because it actually makes me feel deeply disconcerted and it is - I think - one of the most distressing depictions of Medusa and yet that’s why I chose it for the prompt because I find it so arresting

#ClassicsTober23 Day Two: Medusa

Perseus and the Gorgon by Laurent-Honoré Marqueste (1875-1903)

#MosaicMonday - A striking representation of Bellerophon and the Chimaera: ca, 4th Century AD. Discovered at the farmhouse of Can Pau Birol, near Girona, in 1876. #Roman #Art

Image: Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona (MAC BCN-005163). Link - arqueoxarxa.colleccions.cat/objecte/mac-bc…

Two illustrations by Alice & Martin Provensen for a children's book adaptation of the Iliad and Odyssey (Simon & Schuster, 1956). #MythologyMonday

it’s been a week of horrible tooth pain and I’m about ready to put a b*ll*t in my br**n! great start to the semester!

#OTD in history, October 1st 331BC, #AlexandertheGreat defeated Persian King Darius III in a decisive battle at Gaugamela, also known as Arbela. This victory brought an end to the Achaemenid dynasty which at the time held the largest empire in the world and had ruled for over-

So excited for shelbyjudge on threads/bsky's Transatlantic Literary Women (TLW) talk on the 4th! Shelby will read Euripides’ Medea alongside recent, novelistic adaptations to demonstrate how the Classical canon can be problematised, parodied, politicised and expanded. Sign up here – or DM! transatlanticladies.wordpress.com/2023/09/05/oct…

The Philippeion at Olympia, made in celebration of Philip II’s victory at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE

#ClassicsTober23 Day One: Cassandra

Cassandra by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (1885)

I have a code for a free download of the Iliad, read by Audra McDonald. Reply to this thread with one favorite line from Homer (original or any translation), and the goddess Nike, with my help, will select a winner on Oct 9th. audible.com/pd/B0CJGNKFDQ?…