Category: History
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Is the Anthropocene so new? Sophocles on Human Dis-Integration from Nature (Antigone, 332-375)
A translation of a song from Sophocles’ Antigone, with commentary on the Anthropocene.
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Reading List: Palestine: History and Culture, Indigenous and Diasporic
Let’s read, deeply, about Palestine and its peoples. Make these humans in your mind as fully human as you! 🖤
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Putting an 8th-century manuscript back together: Mich. Ms. 155 (Video)
Video: That time I accidentally put an 8th-century codex back together again based on patterns of damage.
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Greek Pottery: Soldier-Head Aryballos (E. Greek, 600-575BCE)
A surprisingly adorable hoplite-headed Eastern Greek oil flask, c600-575BCE.
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The Oaks are our mothers (Zonas of Sardis, AP 9.312, 1st CE)
A translation of an unusual epigram attributed to Zonas of Sardis advising against chopping down oaks.
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Homeric Hymn 30: To Earth Mother of All
Text and translation of Homeric Hymn 30 to Earth Mother of All, with a commentary on our extractive relationship to the earth and our mothers, plus remarks on the language of the hymn.
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Greek Pottery: 6th-century eastern Greek faience fish-shaped aryballos (tilapia nilotica)
Here’s a 6th-century eastern Greek oil flask shaped like a fish—allegedly a tilapia nilotica.
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Greek Pottery: 6th-Century Hedgehog Oil Flask
A cute lil hedgehog oil flask at the Met from the eastern Mediterranean.
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Greek Pottery: A Hare-Shaped Oil Flask (Aryballos) from Corinth, c. 625 BCE
A bunny-shaped oil flask (guess where the oil came out? … lol)
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Greek Pottery: Stylized Octopus on a Mycenaean Stirrup Jar at the Getty!
A highly stylized octopus on a Mycenaean stirrup jar at the Getty.
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