@edithmayhallさんのイラストまとめ

It's Mark Chagall's birthday (1887). He adored Greece ("down there all is light") and illustrated Longus' Daphnis & Chloe and the Odyssey. Watch this film: https://t.co/Amv7X03v2k

Why have I never heard of Elisabetta Sirani, 17th-c. artist who painted Plutarch's little-known story of Theban Timoclea's revenge on her rapist, a captain in Alexander's army? She told him there was money at the bottom of her well, pushed him into it & blocked it with stones.

Classics-informed advert no. 19: The first runner of the Marathon, Pheidippides, wouldn't have died on reaching Athens with the news of victory if he'd put NOUVELLE KERVOLINE in his car.

Classics-informed ad no. 15: This is complicated. The ancient Greeks believed colours could be psychologically therapeutic, we are told, with a picture of Socrates and some ancient Greek paint-vessels. Now SUNTILE floors can boost factory productivity by being really boring grey

Lockdown classics-informed adverts no. 10: "ARE YOU READY FOR CENTAUR? Out of the Wild and Violent days of ancient Greece comes the exciting concept of a Massage Cologne…a low level aroma that...transmits its virile message only in moments of close and intimate contact".

Lockdown Classics-informed advert 9: The Helicon Double Bflat Bass sousaphone. I've always felt that what was missing from accounts of Helicon was that the Muses were an all-girl brass band.

Aristotle on warriors' libido: "the Celts & some races have openly honoured passionate friendship between males. For [Homer] had reason to unite Ares & Aphrodite, for all martial men seem attracted to the companionship either of male associates or of women" [Politics I269b]

1st press on A People's History of Classics is the great @MichaelEDyson in New York Times, no less, on the "thrilling reclamation of the history of the British working class reading & making use of the classics" wot I did with @henrystead. https://t.co/iclyQsGWzX Thanks Michael!

On #WorldBeeDay here are an exquisite bit of Cretan filigree jewelry from-almost unbelievably-7th century BCE & a gold plaque depicting the Bee-Goddess Melissa from Rhodes about 1,000 years later. She fed the baby Zeus honey not milk as in top of Poussin pic. He loved her for it

On #WorldMuseumDay 2020 let's be grateful we can visit so many of them virtually (this 1800 print from BM online collection) & remember that the first Mousaion was wherever the Muses were to be found cultivating the life of the mind-Helicon, Parnassus, Alexandria, your kitchen...