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A print+online #literarymagazine dedicated to the Ancient Mediterranean 🔆 Tweets by Samantha (EIC) & Kaitlin 🧡
Issue 9 is out!
Joined February 2022
“New friends arriving on the scene are more persuasive than familiar ones.” — Andromache, trans. John Davie. #classics #literature #mythology #ancienthistory
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"The female figure waits in the container for the generation of a life." From "Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë/Sado)" by Monica Youn. https://t.co/KXSu429c8j
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One figure is female, the other is male. Both are contained. One figure is mythical, the other historical. To the extent that one can be said to have existed at all, they occupy different millennia,...
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Our #bookoftheweek is THE CASTAWAY AND THE WITCH by Ioanna Papadopoulou! This novel is perfect for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. We personally enjoy its enchanting prose and memorable characters. 🤍
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"Architectural Fantasy: Ruins of a Circular Temple Seen through a Natural Arch" by Pierre-Adrien Pâris, c. 1785.
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Our weekly writing prompt is here! Use the following words in a poem or short prose piece and tag us! We can't wait to read whatever inspires you. 🤎
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Andromache tries to convince Melanus to let her and her young son go when Hermione orders for their deaths. The interactions between Andromache and Hermione highlight the difficulty of being women (in two roles: a wife and an enslaved concubine) in Ancient Greece.
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Issue 9 is out now! Read this piece and more on our website. Trust, you won't regret it. Tell us your favorite piece after you're done. 🤎
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“It was a savage storm you met with but now you have reached the harbour's calm.” — Andromache, trans. John Davie. #classics #mythology #literature
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"How beautiful, if sorrow had not made / Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty’s self." From "Hyperion" by John Keats. https://t.co/klDXrzxlhW
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Deep in the shady sadness of a vale
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Our #bookoftheweek is ELYSIUM by indie author L. V. Brooks! This novel reimagines the love story of Odysseus and Penelope, beginning from the moment of his return after the Trojan War. 🤎
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"Two Classical Vases and a Ewer" by Patrick Begbie, c. 1779. This unique print is an etching on laid paper in red ink. Currently housed in the National Gallery of Art. #classicalart #arthistory #greekhistory #artinspo
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Spoken by Helen's daughter Hermione as she struggles to reconcile her husband's relationship with Andromache against her own. Andromache was given to Neoptolemus as a slave after the Trojan War. #classics #readingcommunity #andromache
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Read Caitlin Cacciatore's writing and more in Issue 9. Out now! 🏛️
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“If we women are a dangerous plague, that is no reason for men to copy our ways.” — Andromache, trans. John Davie. #classics #mythology #literature #classicsbluesky
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Happy November! Have you ever wanted to submit to Aôthen? Our Columns is the perfect way to do so while we're closed to submissions. Read more about Columns and what we're seeking on our website. 🏺🏛️ 🤎
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"Before abandon, / the body bargains with itself." From "in a house with a small body of water" by Fahad Al-Amoudi. https://t.co/lbNHp28YmZ
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Our #bookoftheweek is Edith Hall's new reading of Homer's Iliad as one root in the beginning of ecological disaster for contemporary society. Thought-provoking and smart, Hall astounds in this fresh perspective on how ancient history permeates our environment today. ☀️
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"Helen" by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, c. 1787. This fascinating portrait depicts Helen of Troy (or, alternatively, Helen of Sparta), the woman whose beauty launched a thousand ships and ignited the Trojan War (or so the myth goes!). #mythology #classicalstudies
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We've begun reading Andromache by Euripides as translated by John Davie (Penguin Classics). Andromache takes place after the Trojan War. The quote featured here is in the introduction to the play. #amreading #classicalstudies #classics
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We're still in awe of Craig Dobson's incredible writing! Read in Issue 9, out now. ☀️
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