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I missed out 6) which is that Nolan's use of Bronze Age material culture (some instantly recognisable, some a bit more allusive/not-quite-right, mixed in with a whole bunch of Not Bronze Age stuff in a fantasy world) is more or less spot on for the Homeric epics' relationship with the Bronze Age

Thoughts of a Bronze Age Aegeanist watching the #Odyssey 1) nice pottery 2) Palace of Ithaca on the outside is totally the Evans concrete version of Knossos, right? 3) Polyphemus lives in the Cave of Nestor! 4) Nolan appears to think you can walk to Pylos from Ithaca? ... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

I very much enjoyed the Antonine Wall display on my recent visit to @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social. Especially love this building inscription, where the Victory figures seem to be cheerleading to celebrate how much of the wall the legion has built #EpigraphyTuesday #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

#OnThisDay in 1952 Michael Ventris announced on the radio that he had deciphered the Linear B script, and the language it was used to write was Greek: www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/maga... #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 1/2

Linear B decoder Michael Ventris on BBC in 1952For more than 50 years, the decipherment of a mysterious ancient script called Linear B was seen as one of the greatest linguistic riddles - it was eventually cracked in 1952 by a British architect.www.bbc.co.uk

This is awful news from Exeter 😢

This week's #TinyJoys: #NotMyCat has been helping* me work from home *napping very comfortably while I work

Well, this definitely feel like way too apt a metaphor for... *gestures incoherently at Everything Right Now*