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This is totally utterly shocking - Ancient History is part of the cut 😱 My son won’t be applying to his local university… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Another great book by Mary Beard. So fascinating I’m thinking I might get a poster of Alma Tadema’s Elagabalus’ banquet🌹 Hey! Check out “Twelve Caesars“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨ www.audible.co.uk/pd/069123182...

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It’s a hippopotamus by the River Nile 🦛 … really??🤔

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Really enjoyed this there are quite a few references to what I’ve been studying this year with the Open University A340 Hey! Check out “Emperor of Rome“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨ www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BVG54JM...

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Ordered 🥳 looking forward to it!

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Trying to find out what Trajan said to Pliny 🐱 🐾

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I thought the Greeks liked cattle & sheep more than chickens but I didn’t realise chickens didn’t even exist in the Bronze Age (from Rome: An Empire’s Story by Greg Woolf)

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Arrived this morning it’s gorgeous 😍 #SingOMuseZine

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📢📢📢 I recently learned the teaching of ancient languages at Cardiff University is under threat: Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew & Sanskrit SIGN AND SHARE this petition created by ancient history and archaeology students 🏺 #AncientBlueSky 1/7 www.change.org/p/reverse-ca...

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I was encouraging my Yr11 son to go to Cardiff University because you can learn ancient languages there. If there is no chance to learn Greek/Latin with Ancient History degree, we have to look somewhere else for him to study and he’s going to have to move away from home 😭 chng.it/kbw4thg4yf

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Just found a controversial statement by Sappho 🤯

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This was a bit of a 'blink and you missed it' failure from the British Museum, but @clairemillington.bsky.social summarises why sometimes you should just leave the pop culture references alone: clairemillington.com/2024/03/04/b...

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I'm glad to see this review I wrote of Emily Wilson's Iliad translation out now, via the Penn Gazette. I had so much fun writing this (and could have written several thousand words more)! thepenngazette.com/shattering-v...

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Comparing translations is very interesting 🤔

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Nice feeling when I can read the inscription 🔍

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I love it when the extracts I’m reading next for my Open University module are from the books I’ve already read 📚

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Just finished reading A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story. It ends with a quote from Horace! 👀 I didn’t notice it when I first read it in Japanese over 30 years ago

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Happy new year 🥳 fireworks were so loud that he was not impressed 🙉

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Antilochus can’t die yet in Book 4 of the Iliad 🤔

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Philoctetes is here! 🐱🏹

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Finally I counted the catalogue of ships in Book 2 of the Iliad - definitely 29 contingents 1186 ships!

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Loving Wilson’s translation of the Iliad. This insult to Agamemnon by Achilles has never sounded so brilliant 😂👍 οἰνοβαρές, κυνὸς ὄμματʼ ἔχων, κραδίην δʼ ἐλάφοιο - heavy with wine, with the eyes of a dog and the heart of a deer. (Iliad 1.225)

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You can watch Juliet Stevenson and Tobias Menzies performing passages from my Iliad, and me talking to the brilliant Edith Hall, here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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Ajax is preparing to kill himself 🐱

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Theseus was already 50 years old when he kidnapped the little Helen!? Yikes

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Finally worked out how Theseus is related to Heracles 🐱

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Theseus says what!?

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Loving my new bookmarks, shiny foil stickers & the Cerberus 😍 thank you @flaroh.bsky.social

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This little book is a very good introduction to the myth of Medea. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Medea is such a fascinating character.

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Medea as a ‘naive and vulnerable’ girl🤔🐱??

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Trying to find out about the life of Seneca the Younger 🐱

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#ClassicsTober23 31: Hecate “ibat ad antiquas Hecates Perseidos aras, quas nemus umbrosum secretaque silva tegebat” She went to the ancient altars of Hecate, the daughter of Perses, which the shady wood and the hidden forest concealed. (Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.74-5)

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