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www.bettinajoydeguzman.com PhD Classics student, Uni of Reading. Multi-instrumentalist. Composer. President of CCA South. Classics MA. Educator. Poet. BA English, Music, Psychology. Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman
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Spotify,YouTube, etc!! 😃😃Finally!!! Achilles, Patroclus, and Briseis: Iliad 19 and 23. (Bettina Joy de Guzman.) 23.13 χαῖρέ μοι ὦ Πάτροκλε καὶ εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοισι: Πάντα γὰρ ἤδη τοι τελέω τὰ πάροιθεν ὑπέστην “Hail Patroclus, even in the house of Hades…

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Ethos Arts’ wondrous exhibition of Marton Varo’s sculptures. Pleasure to meet the lovely gallery owner, Georgeanne Ireland, as well. 😊 Newport Beach, SoCal. Music: Harp Meanderings by Bettina Joy de Guzman. 🤗

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Ethos Arts’ wondrous exhibition of Marton Varo’s sculptures. Pleasure to meet the lovely gallery owner, Georgeanne Ireland, as well. 😊 Newport Beach, SoCal.

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I love these!!

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6 more days of the semester!! I am already missing my graduating students 🥲but it’s also that time of year when former students visit from their universities and it’s wonderful to hear their stories! 😊

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An amazing opening night at Bowers Museum for World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi! 😃 Tianlong Jiao (Chief Curator) gave a fascinating lecture, introduced by my longtime friend Sean O’Harrow (President & CEO). #bowersmuseum #terracottawarriors

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The study of Indo-Roman trade has really expanded (🫶) in the last two decades. And Rebecca Darley has a great historiographical essay on this field expansion in JRS: “Indian Ocean Trade in the First Millennium C.E.”. Definitely a great comps list addition for many. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Piano Trio in a minor, Ravel. UC Irvine. Absolutely immersive performance! With my dear college friend Dr Nick Yee for dinner, boba, & a concert in our alma mater! Then backstage to visit my piano prof, Lorna Griffitt. Now that my son is grown, time to listen & think music & research!!

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I’m an injured Classical pianist. I play 60 instruments but piano was my first love. Had a piano cover fall on my left hand my final year of music school- changed my trajectory, but not my love of music. When I do enough yoga & other string practice, I can play some good piano Chopin etude. 😊

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Tomorrow at 8pm UK/3pm EDT, I'll have Dr Sarah Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social on the ol' YouTube to discuss her new book Strike. Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire It will be a lively and timely chat, so join us live or catch the recording www.youtube.com/live/TurBEpo...

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🎉THE WORKING CLASSICISTS AWARDS 2025🎉 NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN UNTIL JUNE 14TH! Six Categories to choose from... 🤝 Community Classicist 🎨 Creative Classicist 👩‍🏫 Educator Classicist 🌱 Newcomer Classicist 🌤️ Unsung Classicist 🏆 Working Classicist of the Year docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Central Park is delightful. That’s it. That’s the post.

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I have accepted the offer from University of Reading, PhD program in Classics!! After 17 years, now that my baby boy is in college, it’s my turn! My research proposal: “The Wandering Lute: from classical Greece to China and Byzantium in late antiquity.” 😃I’m soooo excited! 1/3

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4th century Greek lute (replica from Mantineia Base slab, National Archaeological museum of Athens) ; tortoiseshell lyre replica; traditional Irish harp; frame drum.

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State Convention, @CaliforniaJCL I lectured about ancient stringed instruments - more than 100 people participated as I asked them questions about music & myth & stringed instruments! 😃 Also, my students won 3rd place in State Finals for Grammar/History/Culture competition! 🎉

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Wow! Thank you so much! 😃Honored and touched! I just spent two tiring days chaperoning my students at California Junior Classical League, and then spent two hours lecturing about Ancient Stringed Instruments to a packed room. Tired but feeling fulfilled. And then this! Thanks again! 🥰

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My dear friend @gregwoolf lecturing at UC Berkeley for Sather Classical lectures series! 😊Can’t be there in person, so doing this by Zoom: A Sather Lecture by Greg Woolf Zoom Link: berkeley.zoom.us/j/98041557469

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Very excited to say that my chapter on Suetonius, Piranesi, and the death of Nero, is available now online in this fabulous OA volume — I’m in great company! irfrome.org/it/publicati...

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NYU friends, I’ll be there Apr 6-12. 😊Let me know if you want to meet up!

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