Welcome to #ClassicsTober24 !

📜ANCIENT HISTORY TAKEOVER🏛️

Details on each of the names chosen by Classicists, Archaeologists, Historians and Authors, to get your creativity going!

Day 7 of #ClassicsTober24: Harmodius and Aristogeiton

Two lovers in Classical Athens, known as the Tyrannicides (τυραννόκτονοι, tyrannoktonoi), for assassinating Hipparchus.

‘The Tyrannicides started a revolution which in four years swept away the tyranny’ Carpenter, T. H. (2021).

Day #6 of #ClassicsTober24: Meleager of Gadara

Poet (c. 1st Century BCE). He is known for his own epigrams, and for his anthology of epigrams called The Garland, a collection of 46 Greek poets.

Day 5 of #ClassicsTober24: Pliny the Elder

Manuscripts time!
Pliny the Elder, Natural History, MS Plut. 82.4, fol. 3r. and 6r, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana.

Day 4 of #ClassicsTober24: Cleopatra Selene

Silver denarius from the reign of Juba II (29 BC - 23 AD) and Cleopatra Selene II (c. 40 - 5 BC), a Ptolemaic descendant.

Obverse: Juba II with "Rex Iuba" (Latin for "King Juba").
Reverse: Egyptian crocodile with "Βασίλισσα Κλεοπάτρα" (Greek for "Queen Cleopatra").

See shorturl.at/F0oRg

Today, while browsing the library shelves, I stumbled upon a gem: a bilingual edition of Thucydides.

I remembered of the Day 3 of #ClassicsTober24 and it was so cool or magical or both!🪄