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Recreation of Helen of Troy's maquillage based on 13th BC Mycenaean plaster head, Nat Arch Mus Athens. #WorldGothDay
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Pythika
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Pythika
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'My words should and can be brief lest by dwelling on your great deeds I treat them unworthily.'
Beigetreten Şubat 2014
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Took a long walk up the Oxford canal & utterly delighted to find my first butterbur of the year!🌸🩷
Tolkien used to walk here & Butterbur is the name of the Prancing Pony's innkeeper🌸🐎🌸
I like to think he in turn inspired the drink served in #HarryPotter - Butterbeer 🍻⚡️
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THE PAPERBACK: God is an Englishman, just off the press - available 26th March...
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Cam High Road is a historically significant well preserved Roman Road, ancient packhorse route and later, (1751) turnpike road. It connected the Roman fort at Bainbridge (Virosidum) with Ingleton. These days it is a high altitude and sometimes very 1/2
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Thrilled to announce the publication of my research on the Great Palace of Constantinople. We’re taking a fresh look at the heart of Byzantium. I hope you find it an engaging and insightful read.
Free for two weeks on Cambridge Core: cambridge.org/core/elements/…
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Absolutely top-drawer indexing here 😂
John Gillibrand@Ficer_John
@DrFrancisYoung Hugh Trevor-Roper never really settled at Peterhouse, did he?
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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,
Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks.
Today is St Lucy's Day, which was once the date of the winter solstice - the saint of light in the darkest days of winter. This luminous medieval St Lucy is from Minster Lovell.
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CfA is fab. The Liverpool Greek Academy teaches state school kids from Beginners to A level on a Saturday, all for free. Some go on to read Classics, others discover a love for language, archaeology, history. It's transformative. I know; I teach it! Donations doubled to 6th Dec!
Classics for All@classicsforall
🎁Donate here: tr.ee/GpJdutlMe6 Help us reach our goal of raising £110,000 (our biggest target yet!). For each and every pound you give during the @BigGive week, your donation will be doubled by our match funders! #biggive #donate #christmaschallenge
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anseres non fefellere quibus sacris iunonis... #Livian
Alexandra@Alexandr4Denman
Police say a man was taken into custody last night after attempting to steal a goose from a local park but the goose took care of the situation long before officers arrived. When police reached the scene, they found the man sprawled on the ground, shouting for help, while the goose stood over him like a furious security guard: wings spread wide, hissing, and refusing to let him get up. By the time officers separated the two, the bird had already “made the arrest.” One responding officer summed it up perfectly: “Honestly… the goose did our job for us. Get a guard goose i say! 🤣
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Can our friends and supporters help share our fundraiser ? @Classical_Assoc @Mr_S_Tiffany @for_fi @GrecianGirly @AntigoneJournal @ArmandDAngour @GeorgyKantor @wmarybeard @bettanyhughes @ProfArleneHH @EgyptMcr @OCR_Classics @lsaclassics @BufacchiV @Pythika @andrewsillett
Classics for All@classicsforall
🎁Donate here: tr.ee/GpJdutlMe6 Help us reach our goal of raising £110,000 (our biggest target yet!). For each and every pound you give during the @BigGive week, your donation will be doubled by our match funders! #biggive #donate #christmaschallenge
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@TheHillpaul @TimONeill007 To be fair, I've not read it. The review is amusing though.
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@Pythika @TimONeill007 I woukd almost waste the money buying a copy just to make notes in the margin.
In a big red pen with lots of !!!!
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There's Judith Herrin, Peter Brown, Peter Heather, and Tom Holland; and then there's Alice Roberts, 'an activist with a message'. TLDR: 'Domination is not a very good book'. Tart prose from @TimONeill007
Tim O'Neill@TimONeill007
New on History for Atheists: my long awaited and rather long critical review of Alice Roberts' new book *Domination*: historyforatheists.com/2025/10/review…
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It is a nice face, isn't it :-) The wonderful Bishop's Wife is on @BBCiPlayer until midnight tonight - catch it while you can...
The Sting@TheStingisBack
What?! Cary Grant is trending, and nobody invited me? Almost time to rewatch The Bishop's Wife, then North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, maybe Charade...
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The rather baffling entry for “X” in The Merry Cobler and His Musical Alphabet (ca. 1800). See the other 25 letters here: buff.ly/1QGXAjR
And more examples of how the letter “X” has been treated in alphabet books here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/x-i…
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Today is the feast day of the icon of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn (Aušros vartai) or Sharp Gate (Ostra Brama), protector of the city of Vilnius. The famous icon is venerated by Catholics, Greek Catholics and Orthodox alike
Dr Francis Young@DrFrancisYoung
Today’s return to Vilnius has been overwhelming. Early this morning I entered the old city by the Gate of Dawn; the city’s last surviving ancient gateway, protected by one of the most venerated miraculous images in Europe
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Registration is open the online talk by Professor James May on #oratory in the age of #Cicero.
📅 Wednesday 19 November at 5.30
The talk is free but requires registration.
@StephenJenkin @classicsforall @Classical_Assoc
@LboroGrammar ticketsource.co.uk/classics-lough…
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Ladies, no second date if he was on the wrong side at the Battle of Marston Moor. If he's not for the King, don't wear the ring
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ἄρκτος (arktos): bear; the north; where the bears are.
Thinkwert@Thinkwert
For every polar bear who strikes it rich in soft drink advertising, there are dozens back home in the Arctic living in dilapidated housing.
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Berlin will stop training students to become teachers of both Latin and Greek. Because most Classical scholars in Germany start college in the programs for future teachers, becoming academics only as postgrads, the city is indirectly axing Classical scholarship as a whole.
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