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The paintings of Iphigenia & Plato's Symposium by Anselm Feuerbach, born Sept. 12 1829, are much reproduced. But I love his 1870 'Departure of Medea' because she looks plausibly Georgian & clearly adores her children; her nurse is plausibly downcast & the Black Sea plausibly wild

On WHO #SuicidePreventionDay, here's Ajax. In Sophocles' tragedy he evinces every symptom of imminent self-harm, yet is left alone by friends and family just long enough... And a blog I once wrote on the effect of suicide on close family https://t.co/Qm1fS0bUB1

Blog on Johnson's attempt to pass off classical references to Tall Poppies, & a diarrhoea of other metaphors, as an Economic Policy called Levelling Up https://t.co/raLIaYPNiP

Joshua Reynolds (btd 1723) used classical myths in artful portraits-here Annabella Blake's Juno, to seduce Jove, borrows Venus' girdle embroidered with Love, Desire & Flattery That Robs a Man of Nous. It worked: Blake soon after got her marriage dissolved & married her lover.

John Singleton Copley, btd 1738, foremost American colonial portraitist, taught himself to paint by copying Italian engravings, producing 'Return of Neptune' at age 15! He rarely did mythological subjects later, but 'Venus & Cupid' is a wonderfully warm study of mother & child

On #worldrefugeeday2021, here's Dido, joint ruler of Phoenician Tyre, driven out by her dastardly brother Pygmalion, who'd killed her husband. She bravely led other refugees to found a new city at Carthage. Before Roman ideologues got involved there was no Aeneas in her story.

“The Irish, being underdogs, necessarily knew more than their rulers. Theirs was the perennial problem of quickwitted subjects under the governance of dull-witted administrators”. James Joyce, ULYSSES. Here are Richard Hamilton illustrations including SIRENS-Happy Bloomsday 16/06

Btd 1779, poet Thomas Moore. His 1800 version of the party-themed Anacreontea, with racy pictures, influenced Romanticism. Despite knowing ancient Greek & studied apolitical stance, as the son of a plebeian Dublin Catholic grocer he was not always welcome in polite London society

On #InternationalMissingChildsDay here are Persephone with her mother, pre-abduction (statuette from Melos) & reunited, receiving a woman initiate into Eleusinian Mysteries (tablet from Eleusis). This story had a fairly happy ending and Persephone got to wave her torches again

My wonderful colleague Ellen Adams (@DrNellyUK) has done something so special to make Classics a better subject. My contribution, on the myth of blind Orion, lame Hephaestus and small Cedalion cooperating together, is free to anyone who emails me via https://t.co/73FpkzYHPN https://t.co/X5JC2DCP21