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Very pleased to announce the launch of my new techno podcast. Lots of deep, hypnotic tunes on this one. Check it out and let me know what you think.

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Moon worship. “Idols of the Saxons.” The Ladies’ Garland, v.1. 1838.

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The Young Folks’ Book of Etiquette, Chicago, 1905

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Takato Yamamoto

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Saint-Lazare Station, Exterior View (1877)

Claude Monet

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Joao Ruas.

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by Joao Ruas

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A sailing ship in dry dock Millwall, East London 1932

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Hi guys! As it was in Rome, this is a superficial way to appease the masses a sincere thank you for following and supporting me! Each and every one of you has added to my joy, both in running this blog and also in sharing the fun parts of classics! To celebrate reaching 1000 followers I wanted to give something back to you (as cheesy as that sounds), so I’m hosting a giveaway!

I have three classical/mythology related texts that I picked up at my local used bookstore (bc classics books are always more special when they are old):

The Iliad, trans. Lang, Leaf, Meyers, published 1950 as part of the Modern Library Books series, with original dust jacket and binding!

Greece Before Homer: Ancient Chronology and Mythology, by John Forsdyke, pub. 1957 by W.W. Norton & Co

Dictionary of Classical Mythology, by Pierre Grimal, pub. 1991 by Penguin Books

I picked these out because they all looked fascinating and like great additions to any classicist/historian’s library! OK SO HOW TO ENTER

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1 reblog = 1 entry (multiple entries allowed)

you may not be chosen as a winner more than once

I will choose three winners (first winner gets first choice of books, second gets second, etc.). Entries close pr. Kal. Sept. MMDCCLXIX a.u.c. (August 31 2016 AD). I will announce winners shortly after that, one per day.

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, please message me! I will be following the tag #icb giveaway as well as the usual #it’s caesar bitch if you need my attention. I will be posting pictures of each of the book prizes later!

Bonam fortunam v’omnibus!

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I want these books so bad!

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Marblehead [Alden Triangle sloops] Leslie Jones, August 1931 Boston Public Library, Print Department Leslie Jones Collection, accession # 08_06_013096 (CC BY-NC-ND)

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‘The Fascinating Cypress’, by Max Ernst, oil-on-canvas Just like collage and frottage, it [decalcomania] was simply a perfected form of a well-known children’s game, the ‘blotting’ game. Here the method was to pour diluted black gouache on to a sheet of white paper of a certain texture, covering this with another sheet and then execising uneven pressure with the hands, in order to spread the gouache. The result, always unpredictable, is a highly contrasted composition in black, grey and white, in which one can discover landscapes, profiles or heads, composite animals, [or] unknown plant life. […]Max Ernst conceived the idea of trying the experiment directly on a canvas, with oil paint reduced to a suitably fluid state. What began as a mere game suddenly seemed to him to offer rich possibilities… - Patrick Waldberg.