@edithmayhallさんのイラストまとめ

I think painting Vulcan/Hephaistos was so popular amongst baroque painters because it gave them a rare opportunity to portray an art/craft as masculine and heroic. Here's Rubens' pupil Cornelis Schut's (b. 13 May 1587) version, complete with humorous barrow boy.

Wednesday 12 May 1800, register for my talk on Classics and non-elites historically for @classicsforall
using research I did with comrade @henrystead
. It costs £10 or £5 but is for a fantastic charity. https://t.co/QHotjNKbe7
@ClassCivAncHist

And the confession has arrived. Thanks to my amazing comrades @henrystead and @Becky_Brewis. One writes with me, the other draws beautiful pictures of ancient Greek vases for me. They should not spoil me too.

Eugene Delcroix was born April 26 1798. His MEDEA gets onto the covers of hundreds of books, but I prefer his OVID IN EXILE. It's a bit too sad, though: I have never understood why Ovid complained so much about retirement on the beautiful Rumanian coast @sapphicapuella

Ever wondered how, when and why the subject-area (controversially) known as CLASSICS was invented? My article with the precise answer (circa 1700!) is now free to download from my website at https://t.co/qIABF1vsEC

What does Lady Dialectic look like & read? Aristotle said that she was the strophe to Rhetoric's antistrophe, a lovely dance image. But apparently her pets are 2 birds,1 eel & 2 frogs. Her reading is Aristotle, [Plato's?] Gorgias, Lucian, Libanius and Zeno! Go figure. Dutch. 1575

Plato pretending to be a Russian boyar, with turbaned Diogenes (left) turning up with a plucked chicken at the Academy saying "Behold A Man!" after Plato defined Man as a Featherless Biped. "The School of Plato" by Johann Gerhard Huck (Hildesheim 1795).

There's still time to welcome spring in at 1400 today by watching esteemed comrade @henrystead & me talking working-class responses to ancient Greeks and Romans at the Socialist History Society. Register free of charge at https://t.co/3tMxs8B2VI

For #worldsparrowday2021 there is an issue with ancient Greek because nobody knows whether "strouthos" mean a sparrow or small ostrich-type bird. So here are two exquisite bits of fresco from Oplontis, the sister town of Pompeii and Herculaneum, instead.

I'm used to whiter-than-white ancient Greeks in "fine" art, but red-headed? This was the choice of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of George III & Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, in 1816 when (why?) she painted Orestes & Pylades (& Tutor) in opening scene of Sophocles' Electra