Toto and Sappho Not a Narrative, but an Atmosphere

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I was so tempted to recreate a curse tablet. I’m going to use this as a bookmark 🔖 ref: Tab.Sul.5

Cervicale and the Dating of Pompeii’s Destruction The eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii is traditionally dated to 24 August 79 CE, based on Pliny the Younger’s Letters 6.16.

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Cursed Fields: how Pharsalus and Sekigahara remember the dead “… let Pharsalia’s fields swell with curses, Hannibal’s shade glut on blood—”

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I’m still reading Book 1. I spent a day thinking about these two lines media.com/share/e8f3a1...

Penguin version of Lucan’s Civil War was not available in the UK so I imported from the US. It’s worth the wait the translation is great… and I might have judged the book by its cover 💀

A868 - doing MA next!

My summer reading 📚

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

This is totally utterly shocking - Ancient History is part of the cut 😱 My son won’t be applying to his local university…

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Twelve Caesars Check out this great listen on Audible.com. This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of pow...

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 🌟✨
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Ordered from Contubernales delivered by Amazon UK today. How does it work?? I was expecting a delivery from US sometime in Feb. Arrived before the publication date!

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

Emperor of Rome Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the ...

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 🌟✨
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Ordered 🥳 looking forward to it!

Trying to find out what Trajan said to Pliny 🐱 🐾

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I was there too loved it!

This is from my Metamorphoses notes. I didn’t know how a hoopoe looked like and I had to look it up. ‘he still looks armed’ indeed.

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)

Arrived this morning it’s gorgeous 😍 #SingOMuseZine

Sign the Petition Ancient Languages are being removed from the School of History, Archaeology, and Religion (SHARE) at Cardiff University. This is an affront to our classical education. We should be working to bring th...

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I recently learned the teaching of ancient languages at Cardiff University is under threat: Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew & Sanskrit

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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 😭

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Just found a controversial statement by Sappho 🤯

Yup there must be issues. Facebook & Threads not working for me but strangely Instagram is working. Came here to check if everyone else is experiencing the same 😂

Behind the tweets at the British Museum Why is the Roman Empire like a carrot? Cause men need vegetables five times a day. That joke’s not particularly good but it is mine, and riffs on the now well-known meme that men, and particularly men...

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...

Shattering Violence, Shimmering Prizes Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Iliad brings the strange and brutal beauty of Homer’s world into the English-speaking now.

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...

Indeed. I also like her choice of metre. It’s so rhythmical when read aloud.

Comparing translations is very interesting 🤔

Nice feeling when I can read the inscription 🔍