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Day 6 novel #book scene.
The stone Drapano bridge built 1813 and almost 690 m long, #Argostoli, #Kefalonia #Greece. Catching a glimpse of #loggerhead #turtles is not an uncommon sight.

The dramatic volcanic island of Stromboli, Italy, in constant state of eruption. It acts as a beacon to sailors in the Med and thought to be "Wandering Rocks" in #Homer's #Odyssey.

Started reading this.

"Rome will exist as long as the Colosseum does." - Venerable Bede

Based on a photo from a trip to Rome many years back.

Find out about prints here:

Etsy (US,UK,IE): https://marktisdaleart.etsy.com/listing/1749955658/ancient-rome-print-colosseum-wall-art

Pixels (most locations, added options): https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/colosseum-ruins-rome-art-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print

Traveling for work & on my morning off, I captured both

1) CENTAURS

And

2) DARK SKIES & SPACE ROCKS

#StarryTime is Life

If you too like centaurs & space — check out our #podcast here: https://www.starrytimepodcast.com/episodes.html

The prologue from _Metamorphoses_ by Ovid translated by Allen Mandelbaum:

> My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the world’s beginning to our day.

I think it's a fantastic trans mantra.

I see that "Connections and Divisions: Landscape Features of the Ancient World", the 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference in Classics at CUNY has been announced:

Friday 2 May 2025
9am - 6pm US Eastern Time
In-person & via Zoom

Register via the conference website: https://gscclassics.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Keynote by Dr. Prudence Jones (Montclair): "Fluid Borders: Rivers, Exile and Migration"

How many of these have you read? How many of these did you understand?

The Most Misunderstood #Books Ever Written—And What They Really Mean
https://buff.ly/2sDALO3

I see that Hélène Roelens-Flouneau has a review of the revised Atlas of classical history out in BMCR:

Hélène Roelens-Flouneau. “Review of: Atlas of Classical History.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Accessed April 9, 2025. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.04.11/.

"In sum, it can be reasonably asserted that the revised edition of this atlas will continue to serve as an invaluable resource for both researchers and students for at least the next twenty years."

Shout-outs for the original editions and translations, the Barrington Atlas, for the CAWM map tiles, and for the Pleiades gazetteer (even if it undersells the latter quite a lot).

Oh Tubi, you know me so well.
If this is also YOUR idea of "classic cinema" join us at
http://info.MechaVsKaiju.com
#movies #classics #Mothra

http://mechavskaiju.com/2025/04/07/oh-tubi-you-know-me-so-well/

I see a lot of talk about #oligarchy (as, recently, Monbiot), and am reminded yet again of Herodotus' so-called "Debate on the Constitutions", whereby in a three-way shootout between monarchy, oligarchy and democracy, it will come down to a fight between #monarchy and #democracy. In this account, oligarchy will always reduce to monarchy (=tyranny).

'A treat for the international army of Janeites.'

Later this month, the illustrator Isabel Greenberg teams up with expert Janine Barchas to give us The Novel Life of Jane Austen:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/janine-barchas/the-novel-life-of-jane-austen

#books #reading #writing #comics #classics #austen #JaneAusten #bookstodon @bookstodon

I've started a cool online short story club as an antidote traditional in-person book clubs that make members read books that are too long, too expensive, and just not worth the effort.

The first selection: "The Bishop" by Anton Chekhov, the father of the modern short story. Please join us!

#shortstories #fiction #literature #reading #classics

https://jansplaining.substack.com/p/chekhovs-great-short-story-the-bishop

Just published "Negation in English and other languages" by Otto Jespersen, edited by Brett Reynolds & Peter Evans #classics #openaccess https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/501

Check the date and read to the end However, too close to the reality #Classics https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/04/01/oxford-university-to-abolish-classics-degree/

#GeoffreyChaucer fans, #medievalists , #EnglishLanguage and #linguists

Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)

“On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...

Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”

https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1

#WhanThatAprilleDay 2025 anyone?

https://www.europesays.com/1950744/ Pedersen et Ganna, les meilleurs du reste : “Plusieurs fois, j’ai eu envie de pleurer” #1.uwt #2025 #68e #68ieme #68ste #68th #classic #classics #classique #cource #cycling #Cyclisme #E3Prijs #E3SaxoClassic #Elite #europe #flanders #FlandersClassics #flandersclassics #GrandPrixE3 #Harelbeke #hommes #klassieker #koers #mannen #men #road #route #Sport #TimDeWaele #tour #UCI #uwt #weg #wielerwedstrijd #wielrennen #world #WorldTour