#Classicstober 24
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quidam-sirenae · 1 month ago
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Classicstober day 4: cleopatra selene
Antony and cleopatra from shakespeare can count right? That can count since cleopatra selene is their daughter? Right? (<- delusional) anyway.
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medusaspeach · 1 year ago
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Classicstober Day 26: Thetis ✨🌊
Homer, Iliad 24. 59 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "A goddess [Thetis], one whom I myself [Hera] nourished and brought up."
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classicstober · 2 months ago
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✨Welcome to ClassicsTober 2024!✨
The idea is to create something – anything – for the prompt. Like other October prompt lists, it can be an illustration, but it can also be text, reference, historical artefact, video, story, translation, pretty much anything you’re interested in from the Ancient Med World that fits with the prompt. There’s no pressure to do every single one, just the ones you like.
This year it’s an ANCIENT HISTORY TAKEOVER! We asked Classicists, Ancient Historians, Archaeologists and Authors we know and love to suggest an ancient personage that they think everyone should know about! And, to combat misinformation and encourage research, we invite you to share your sources with your submission, whether that’s image references, texts, or even a whole bibliography!
✨NO AI USAGE ALLOWED✨
See the ClassicsTober24 Details page for background on each of the names chosen by our friendly Classicists, Archaeologists, Historians and Authors, to get your creativity going! https://greekmythcomix.com/classicstober-24-details/
THE LIST:
1 Regina of South Shields
2 Eumachia
3 Thucydides
4 Cleopatra Selene
5 Pliny the Elder
6 Meleager of Gadara
7 Harmodius and Aristogeiton
8 Boudicca
9 Eritha
10 Vitruvius
11 Julia Felix
12 Homer
13 Zenobia
14 Kallistomache
15 Aesop
16 Elagabalus
17 Iphikrates
18 Tacfarinas
19 Vespasian
20 The Trung Sisters**
21 Marcus Aquilius Regulus
22 Martial
23 Corinna
24 Cleopatra Thea
25 Sappho
26 Vitellius
27 Menander I Soter
28 Crassus
29 Phryne
30 Flavius Cerialis
31 Sejanus
*Ancient Greece and Rome and other near-Mediterranean Ancient cultures
**wildcard!
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apatura-iris-atelier · 1 year ago
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ClassicsTober day 24: Hephaestus
I actually gave up at some point haha. Make his skin looks like rocks took all of my energy but at least it looks like I wanted.
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leonxlykos · 1 year ago
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Classicstober Day 24 - Hephaestus
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Regina of South Shields: funerary inscription
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Despite knowing nothing about Regina of South Shields prior to reading about Classicstober, I just had to share the funerary inscription I found for her. It translates as ‘To the spirits of the departed (and to) Regina, his freedwoman and wife, a Catuvellaunian by tribe, aged 30, Barates of Palmyra (set this up)’. She was a British woman during the second century CE who married a Syrian man, and was clearly prominent enough for an elaborate tombstone to be set up. Roman Britain is one of my more special interests, so I look forward to learning more about her!
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Sources: https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/1065 https://greekmythcomix.com/classicstober-24-details/
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willow-mortem · 2 years ago
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#classicstober day 24 ''Idol''
Little statues kept in the home to honour deities
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quidam-sirenae · 16 days ago
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Classicstober day 20. Free space! I did Catullus 5, because of course I did. So here we are:
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quidam-sirenae · 1 month ago
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Classicstober day 2! I looked up eumachia and found out she led the fabric makers guild for a while and my brain went cool let’s think about fabric making in the ancient world and then I wrote a poem (plain text below and ignore the notes for Greek class above the poem)
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Making a χιτων in the ancient world
Calloused hands and tired muscles
Undergarments ripe to be bloodied
Cloth made for destruction
Women’s work made mens hands.
It s difficult work dying fabric,
Weaving it to shape, sewing in sleeves and cutting frayed edges.
And the great granddaughter of your sons first wife will wear this dress dyed green from leaves picked and boiled.
It’s blistered work,
Moneying, soaking the fabric in urine,
Making clean cloth from dirty things.
Penelope kept it going for three years,
Shuttle up,
Pedal down,
Women’s work making mens battle scenes.
It’s heavy work, that linen.
Hours and hours of slaving at the loom.
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quidam-sirenae · 24 days ago
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Classicstober day 12: Homer! I did a lot of Latin for this so bear with me, translation below. Basically I did a web weave poem but translated my things into Latin. So the sources then the translation is below:
Poem:
In terra simul eamus
Si mors solus darer, accipo.
Gaudeamus dolorum iniuriumque
Dico noster iter aeternum memoriam cum illis esse.
Amans, quare loquit? Quare venit, Patroclus?
Et caput tuus in oblivium cum coronavit.
Meus non ossa procul pone tuum
Cum mortus omnum destruit.
Sources: Iliad 23.91/memorial to a marriage, plaque in Glasgow/iliad 23.95/Sappho 85/Iliad 23.93/Howl for Carl Solomon/Iliad 23.85/erinna fragment
Translation:
Let us go together into the earth,
If all I get is death, I shall have it.
Let us rejoice in pain and injustice
And I say, our journey will be an eternal memory.
Love, why speak you? Why do you come here, Patroclus?
And so shall your head be crowed in oblivion.
My bones, let them be placed not far from yours
Though death ruins it all.
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quidam-sirenae · 11 days ago
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Classicstober day 25. This is Sappho 102, and I translated it inspired by Allen Ginsbergs poem malest cornifici tuo catullo which is in turn inspired by Catullus 38. Intertextuality baby.
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quidam-sirenae · 1 month ago
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Classicstober day 3 is Thucydides and I’ve got so many thoughts about Luke from the Bible and Thucydides but we’re just going to share some articles since today is packed.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/156061
Thucydides is The Guy in Greek historiography. Luke is following that example. The speeches are alike to each other and I’m obsessed with this. Luke’s Greek. He’s not writing a Jewish gospel he’s writing a history. His speeches are historiography his characters like Jesus are exemplars. Read Livy then read acts and you’ll get it.
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quidam-sirenae · 21 days ago
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Classicstober day 15: Aesop. My favorite fable is this one, so I drew it:
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quidam-sirenae · 1 month ago
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Classicstober ‘24 day 1: Regina of South Sheilds
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Idk what this is supposed to be about but sources:
Regina of South Shields tomb/Jason McCall, My Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Who Owned My Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother Also Owned a Jewelry Store and a Railroad, So He Probably Had a Dope Watch/gustav Klimt, the kiss/Sappho 147/William Shakespeare, Antony and cleopatra/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Fragmentary head of a colossal youth/Britannicas bio of phryne/Matthew Shenoda, relics/Catullus 51 from Perseus/Regina of south shield’s inscription translation
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quidam-sirenae · 14 days ago
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Day 22 Classicstober is martial. I was originally gonna translate this poem to be Allen ginsberg-esque but I couldn’t get it to work so. Here’s philaenis.
Philaenis is a dyke that assfucks her boys
And ravishes her women all day.
She ties up her skirts to play handball
And gets all sandy,
She makes herself a butch & easily
Swings weights over her shoulder
& in the grimy dust of the ring
Her greasy trainer flogs her with his whip.
Philaenis drinks seven neat wines and then vomits them up & doesn’t sit down or eat ‘till she’s done it.
And she thinks she’s gotta get back what she lost from that
By eating sixteen steaks.
After she’s all fucked out
She doesn’t suck her boys off, she thinks that makes her faggish
But instead she eats out her girls.
I hope the gods cock you up, Philaenus
Men don’t lick cunt.
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medusaspeach · 1 year ago
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Classicstober day 24: Hephaestus ⛓️🔥
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