Claude Fable 5.5 · creator-reported

Seikilos epitaph stone travels from ancient Greece to the stars

Name: Seikilos epitaph stone travels from ancient Greece to the stars
Uploaded: 2026-10-02T23:05:50.000Z
Duration: 200 s
Channel: Yanqing
Description: A 200-second animated story of the Seikilos epitaph, from its Greek inscription to railway workers unearthing it in 1883 and its move to Smyrna in 1922; the creator reports all art and music in one 200 KB HTML file.

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OUR NOTEA 200-second animated story of the Seikilos epitaph, from its Greek inscription to railway workers unearthing it in 1883 and its move to Smyrna in 1922; the creator reports all art and music in one 200 KB HTML file.

THE CREATOR'S POST

fable 5.5 made this for us. I asked it to make an animation of something about humanity that it finds inspiring or delightful. claude chose the seikilos epitaph all art and music created directly in javascript, in one 200kb html file.

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