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Blog on the oldest surviving chunk of Greek prose, written by a Greek man called Achillodoros, 'Gift of Achilles', on a tiny Ukrainian island in about 510 BCE. It's all about fear of enslavement. https://t.co/u5Z5ZUu08v

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2019-06-04

How do we recognise "play" in the ancient world? Children were likely more socialised with adults than today; most depictions of "games" (like this from the tomb of Baqet III at Beni Hasan, c. 2000 BCE) come from religious or funerary contexts. This ball is from Kahun

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2019-05-15

Ave!
This is a portrait of Julius Caesar on the ides of March 44 BCE (Colorised)
[Retweet because I wasn't happy with it, and some feedback from ]



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2019-05-11

The sources for imagery are vast, ranging from 5,000 BCE to newspaper clippings. This is Sheela na gig, the Celtic goddess of fertility and destruction, a mythical figure Spero describes as, "beguiling, childlike, terrifying, and funny." https://t.co/CWwRxtE6z8

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2019-05-03

Atusa (550-475 BCE) was the daughter of emperor Cyrus the Great & married to Darius who held the vast Persian empire that spanned huge portions of Asia. Atusa was considered an influential & helped put Xerxes in power after Darius. She suffered from mastitis.

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2019-04-26

Naomi returns home

Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, to turn back

and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go...”

Book of Ruth

4th century BCE

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Painting by William Blake, 1795
Naomi entreating daughters-in-law Ruth and Orpah
to return to the land of Moab

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2019-04-24

Place of birth of the Roman Emperors from BCE 27 to CE 518. Many Roman Emperors were born outside of modern day Italy. Source: https://t.co/xanIHqEiu3

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2019-04-01

remember i read 36 years back. Written by 3rd-4th BCE. All his works were lost. but in Kerala few manuscripts found, as in they perform He predates his 13(or 14) plays r revived

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2019-03-27

They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea

Horace

The Epistles (or Letters)

Book 1, 11, v. 27

20 BCE

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2019-03-19

Alberto Giacometti in his studio with L'Homme qui marche.
How very Etruscan; As Ombra della Sera, The Evening Shadow (3rd c. BCE), the votive statuette from the ancient Velathri, Italy, influenced by the Greek Hermai stelae.
Non Obliviscar. The Recipient of the Past.

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2019-03-17

越过草原的弁形冠
Cap of Saka : in Persepolis, 518 BCE
Cap of Altaian : in Bayan-Ulgii, 5th-3rd c.BCE
Cap of Chinese : in Luoyang, 3rd-2nd c.BCE
Hat of Xiongnu : in Noin-Ula, 1st c.BCE - 1st c.CE
Hat of Korean (1) : in Pyongyang, 5th c.CE
Hat of Korean (2) : in Buyeo, 6th-7th c.CE

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2019-03-14

A culmination of Sophia Al Maria’s Writer in Residency at the Whitechapel Gallery London, BCE teams the artist with Victoria Sin in an immersive installation of videos and texts exploring the concept of creation myths through a feminist, intersectional lens. Till 28 April 2019.

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2019-01-31

🇬🇷Alexander the Great🇬🇷
Bronze head, ca. 150 BCE - 138.
Metropolitan Museum of

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2019-01-14

Bronze owl wine vessel. Shang Dynasty, 13th-11th century BCE. Yale University Art Gallery.

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2018-12-17

On 23rd October 42 BCE the Roman Republic finally died east of Thessaloniki with the suicide of Brutus after 2nd Battle of Philippi. Shakespeare gave Brutus the foiled "Liberator" these resonant dying words: "Caesar, now be still: / I kill'd not thee with half so good a will."'

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2018-10-23

Lector priest Kaaber (around 2500 BCE, 5th Dynasty) Aquarell 35x50cm September 2018

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2018-09-27

Detail of a Chinese embroidery piece from 4th century BCE. This article gives an interesting brief history and definition of "What is Embroidery?": https://t.co/LGOC32Bjbo

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2018-09-12