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Lydia Schoch<p>What I Read When I’m Not Feeling Well: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-what-i-read-when-im-not-feeling-well-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-what-i-read-when-im-not-feeling-well-2/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NonFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Classics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a></p>
ArturoViaggia<p>Bronze statuette of the philosopher Epicurus found in the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. It was found in what was probably the library suggesting it served as a shelf marker for Epicurus (and/or Epicurean) works. </p><p>📷🇮🇹 <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2meGuU4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flic.kr/p/2meGuU4</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Classics</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@humanities" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>humanities</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@visualarts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>visualarts</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/photography" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>photography</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/philosophy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>philosophy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/classics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>classics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/archaeodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>archaeodons</span></a></span></p>
Lydia Schoch<p>Books I Had to Read in School and Didn’t Like: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-had-to-read-in-school-and-didnt-like-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-books-i-had-to-read-in-school-and-didnt-like-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Classics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/School" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>School</span></a></p>
FunHouse Radio<p>"Filmed in 2022, and originally planned for a theatrical release in 2023, the animated and live-action hybrid movie was at one point effectively canceled by Warner Bros."<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cartoons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartoons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reboot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/animation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comedy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.polygon.com/news/616563/coyote-vs-acme-movie-release-date-warner-bros" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">polygon.com/news/616563/coyote</span><span class="invisible">-vs-acme-movie-release-date-warner-bros</span></a></p>
Anthony<blockquote>Beach vacations only became popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries as part of the lifestyle of the wealthy in Western countries. Early Europeans, and especially the ancient Greeks, thought the beach was a place of hardship and death. As a seafaring people, they mostly lived on the coastline, yet they feared the sea and thought that an agricultural lifestyle was safer and more respectable.<br></blockquote>From <b>The beach wasn’t always a vacation destination - for the ancient Greeks, it was a scary place</b>: <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-beach-wasnt-always-a-vacation-destination-for-the-ancient-greeks-it-was-a-scary-place-259356" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/the-beach-wasnt-always-a-vacation-destination-for-the-ancient-greeks-it-was-a-scary-place-259356</a><br><br>A post in The Conversation by my favorite classicist (my wife!)<br><br><a href="https://buc.ci?t=summer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#summer</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=beach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beach</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ancientgreece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AncientGreece</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=myth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#myth</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classics</a><br>
Catherine Zipf<p>Free at the library. I refrained, but it was hard. </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harvard</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classics</span></a></p>

A Classic Book Reading List: 101 Timeless Masterpieces You Must Read Before You Die by Legacy Creative Press, 2025

With bite-sized summaries and just enough info, you’ll know exactly which classics are right for you—no sweat!

101 Must-Reads, Made Easy: This isn’t a dense academic textbook—it’s a fun, approachable list to help you explore the classics at your own pace.

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Classics librarian job: The University of Cincinnati Libraries seek to fill the position of Head of the John Miller Burnam Classics Library. The Head of the Classics Library provides services to the internationally recognized Classics Department, researchers, faculty, and students. The successful candidate for this tenure track position will continue to enhance the library’s reputation as a world-class, top-ranking research library for Classics scholars at UC and globally.

(On a personal note, I can vouch that this is one of the top Classics libraries in the US. It has an individual endowment that has enabled it to maintain a vigorous acquisition policy in an era of library funding cuts.)

More information at the link below.
jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Hea

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This is a series of stories based on a famous real-life judge in China during the Song dynasty. It was written centuries ago, and one of the defining memories of my childhood is my dad giving me these very books to read. It has pictures but also Chinese and English writing. Rereading them and am amused by the fact that as a kid, I was reading about tortures, poisonings and how every story's "happy" ending ends with a decapitation of a bad guy. We Chinese kids have quite a morbid and grim diet for bedtime stories, looks like 😅

In that sense, I think we have something in common with the Germans 🤣