Armand D’Angour

armanddangour.bsky.social

18 October 2026 16:30

A funny ancient Greek epigram: “A grammarian’s daughter who slept with her suitor Gave birth to a child that was masc., fem., and neuter!” Γραμματικοῦ θυγάτηρ ἔτεκεν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα παιδίον ἀρσενικόν, θηλυκόν, οὐδέτερον. Greek Anthology 9.489

Kevin Wilbraham

kpw1453.bsky.social

13 October 2026 16:03

The Shrine of St. Wite which is located in the Church of St. Candida & Holy Cross at Whitchurch Canonicorum in Dorest - the only parish church in England to house an intact medieval shrine that survived the Reformation. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #StWite #WhitchurchCanonicorum

Chapps

chapps.bsky.social

12 October 2026 20:43

These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me

Dr Pat Witts

wittspat.bsky.social

12 October 2026 19:59

For this #MosaicMonday, a strip of guilloche looking like mosaic but actually painted. This is the piece I mentioned in the recent post about mosaicists/painters. In Winchester City Museum. #AncientBlueSky🏺

EMILY WILSON

emilyrcwilson.bsky.social

09 October 2026 16:00

I know many people were grumpy about the "hook" at the start of that essay. But if you can't make a startling, maybe-funny literary juxtaposition/analogy at the start of an essay about Carson, when can you ever do it?