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"'The moment a child is a born, the Aramaic language would be spoken at home.' he said. 'When we started going to school as children, we didn’t know Arabic.' Now the language is mainly taught at home and is spoken more widely by older generations." #AncientBluesky apnews.com/article/syri...

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I have recently become one of the managing editors for @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social - bringing some proper ancient military history back into the conversation! The latest edition has just been published, but still no ancient stuff ... yet: journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/

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“When the philologist lifts his eyes from his petty daily labour and beholds the majesty of scholarship, then he experienced as a feeling akin to holy silence on a starry night. The sensation of the splendour and infinity and unity of the whole suffuses his soul.” U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.

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Well, it’s only a free short story about our favourite rude poet Ovid being serialised on my Substack! open.substack.com/pub/fionafor...

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Our Brand New Occasional Mini Series, Bylines Reports, is where one of the journalists from across the network interviews a significant figure. Ginny Smith of @sussexbylines.co.uk sits down with @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social to pick his brains about any topics. open.spotify.com/episode/35xb...

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I've signed this. Please consider doing the same and sharing. I think it's important that we use our power as consumers to pressure companies like M&S not to financially support a 'news' provider that promotes hatred and intolerance. #HopeNotHate actionstorm.org/petitions/ma...

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"We found that the association between anger and satisfaction (of both men and women) was mediated by how women estimated their partners’ intelligence." 🗺 It seems like there are famous historic couples where this was true. How many men were more successful because their wives believed in them?

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2,000 year old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Ofsted should measure school performance based on the amount of time pupils have to play, a new report suggests

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This was an amazing event. 11 of the best pictures as hundreds of musicians protest Cardiff University cuts - Wales Online search.app/KCmNfGa1p3Be...

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It’s a rainy grey Sunday so here’s a robin singing his heart out. Have a peaceful day, folks ☕️🥐 #birds

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Camino Portugues de la Costa #caminodesantiago #camino #delacosta

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The Judgement of Paris BL Royal MS 6 E IX; c 1335; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; Italy (Tuscany); f.22r

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This would always be on a list of my 100 favourite artefacts. Could there be a more powerful symbol of the fragility of life.

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Edward Gorey cover for Nineteenth Century German Tales

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I went to Norwich yesterday to see the Cathedral and especially the medieval bosses in the nave, choir and the cloisters. They are absolutely amazing in their detail and their humour combining the everyday and the divine, e.g. a pair of Norwich musicians next to the last judgement. #AncientBluesky

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Friends, Romans, Countrymen (and women!) - please help keep Latin alive at West Kirby Grammar School! WKGS is currently the ONLY Wirral state school offering Latin as a timetabled subject. change.org/p/keep-latin-a… @classicsforall.bsky.social

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Nothing says 'back to school' like sitting down to do the pile of marking put off until the weekend before we return. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 #Edusky

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Alcuin Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc.Bibl.1; Alcuin-Bible; circa 834 CE-843 CE; Marmoutier near Tours; f.5v

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Also seen last night - a Tudor silver salt and a medieval cat from Peterborough.

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Economic inequality is destroying opportunity for the working class. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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💷 Medway Council ponders selling Brook car park, Upnor Castle, its own council chamber, and a bunch of other sites 🏡 New Intra housing proposals are inefficient but look nice 🏘️ Lodge Hill awakens from slumber 🗞️ News in brief, and more

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I went to @romancircusuk.bsky.social and played my first ever game of Aquila. A very enjoyable time! I will definitely be investing in a couple of these for my department. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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Staggering but true: in 2024, the typical male worker was earning 7 per cent less than their predecessor twenty years earlier, back in 2004 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Roman Dining - Emperors of Rome - Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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I'm about to start reading Tom Holland's Pax. I have previously read his Rubicon, which I enjoyed very much, so I am hoping for similar with this. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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The interior of a tomb in the Mycenaean cemetery of Aidonia, Peloponnese, Greece. The cemetery, discovered in the 1970s, has over 20 tombs dating from 1700 - 1100 BCE. 📷 My own. #Archaeology

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We're thrilled to announce the OA publication of Issue 14 of New Voices in Classical Reception Studies! With three exciting new research articles, plus an editorial reflecting on 20 years of New Voices and remembering our much-missed editor and colleague, Trevor Fear. fass.open.ac.uk/research/new...

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This #NationalNestboxWeek, remember not all birds nest the same way! Here's a few options to get you started... 🧵👇 Robins and Wrens like to keep hidden, tucking their nests away in dense cover. An open-fronted box placed low down and out of sight is just their style. (1/4)

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Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with US Health Insurance which would be 4x more expensive and worse in every way. Except for the £600bn a year profit for him and his mates.

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Sunrise in the bathroom

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#MosaicMonday An old favourite 👀🤩 #Roman mosaic of water #birds uncovered in Trier (#Germany). Dated back to 4th century AD. #Archaeology #art #History

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Just started reading A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov. #BookSky 📚💙

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Palmyra: 80% of the city destroyed or on the verge of collapse. Report documents devastation of ancient city of Palmyra, a World Heritage Site, after the fall of the Assad regime. 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

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A very useful article for the Eduqas Latin GCSE Roman Civilisation paper. I will definitely be sharing this with my students. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 #Edusky www.worldhistory.org/article/2629...

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Looking forward to giving the University of Manchester #archaeology seminar tomorrow on the ‘sights and sites of ancient winemaking’ 🍇🍷 🏺 #Ancientbluesky 📷 #mosaic depicting grape treading, imperial baths, Minturnae, Italy.

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Excavations at Løsning Søndermark in Denmark have discovered a Roman helmet alongside a substantial cache of weapons. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.heritagedaily.com/2025/02/roma...

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Finisterre - May 2016

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Our friends at contubernales.bsky.social are having a sale which INCLUDES our new book A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology! Buying direct from Contubernales means we don't lose half the profit to fees and stuff like we do on other sites, which means more money toward our outreach projects.

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A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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#AncientBluesky #RomanHistory #History Many of the rumours about Nero are not true, although it is certain that he did have a rather magnificent organ. What other types of musical instruments did the Romans play? Please help yourself to a free sub! open.substack.com/pub/jamescov...

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