Dr Daisy Dunn

'A complete history of the Mediterranean world with the women added back in, as they always should have been' – NY Times. My book is out in UK *paperback* on 22nd May. I'd be so grateful if you'd help me spread the word/pre-order/ogle the regal purple amzn.eu/d/1VwQkc2

@DrJRLiebana @pompeii_sites That's very kind - and wonderful to hear. Many thanks indeed (and my apologies for taking ages to reply; I am not often on X these days, but truly appreciate your post).

Read in one sitting: a compelling, utterly enthralling book. @DaisyfDunn masterfully weaves the private lives of the 2 Plinys and their lasting influence—from Renaissance scholars to Romantic poets—into a vivid tapestry of the Roman world, starting with @pompeii_sites catastrophe

I've reviewed a couple of good tech docs on @BBCRadio4 for @spectator @CultureHouse this week. Ft. AI, robots, smart glasses and chopped-up books. The question arising from it all may be, what do you trust more, your glasses, or your humanoid carer? spectator.com/article/china-…

'The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World' by Daisy Dunn is a vibrant reimagining of the ancient world that pulls women—from poets to queens—out of the footnotes and back into the center of the historical narrative. #BookOfTheDay: on.nypl.org/47hptgK

Is the @bookclubpodhq friend or foe to authors (hint, the former)? And what can the @LRB podcast tell us about the contents of Jessica Mitford's handbag? This week's column for @CultureHouse @spectator spectator.com/article/the-pr…

@DaisyfDunn considers the concept of ‘book podcasts’ in the latest issue of the @Spectator, including a review of the new @LRB pod discussing ‘Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford’ by @KaplanCarla. spectator.com/article/the-pr…

The man you've all been waiting for on @BBCRadio4's Great Lives. I give you, #MarcusAgrippa: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Tonight on @PBS in the US we go in search of female #gladiators for a special edition of #Secretsofthedead The episode is reviewed in today’s @WSJ #queensofcombat

🎙This week's @spectator out loud: 🗣 Gavin Mortimer on the EU vs farmers 🗣 John Campbell on Lord Haldane 🗣 @MarkPiesing on the battle for the Arctic 🗣 @DaisyfDunn on Poems on the Underground spectator.com/podcast/gavin-…

@ae_stallings @kazbel Oh good! I’m always aware that each and every millimetre of that city must thrum with a thousand facts

@DaisyfDunn @kazbel It is fun being back in Oxford with so much more information and context and history, as I walk about.

I am so enjoying this book by @DaisyfDunn--Oxford between the wars, with three important Classicists--Maurice Bowra, E.R. Dodds & Gilbert Murray. Gossipy and full of great characters and scenes and cameos. Would make an excellent film or series?

@kazbel @ae_stallings Thank you very much - and thanks also to Alicia for bringing it to your attention! That’s really nice to hear.

@ae_stallings @DaisyfDunn Thanks for the recommendation. My public library supplied me with a copy and I greatly enjoyed it. Had it not been for your post, I would probably have avoided it because of the focus on Brideshead in the title, which was presumably meant to appeal to a different audience.

#Podcast Are you a fan of The Rest is History and We Have Ways Listen to the Aspects of History Podcast aspectsofhistory.com/podcasts/ Featuring @cspencer1508 @LeandadeLisle @hrcastor @BernardCornwell @DaisyfDunn and more... #historylovers #podcastandchill #booklovers

Who survived the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 – and where did they go? Steven L. Tuck has traced 173 survivors from #Pompeii and Herculaneum to 12 nearby cities. I've reviewed his fascinating book for the Wall Street Journal this weekend wsj.com/arts-culture/b… @WSJBooks

@JimCleary6 @Jorrit_Kelder @digkabri Oh thank you very much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

Part2 of #TroyStory is excellent: shows how excavations subsequent to Schliemann, using modern techniques, have advanced our understanding of the site, + some very helpful context regarding the Bronze Age collapse. No @Jorrit_Kelder , but @DaisyfDunn & @digkabri were grand!

Thank you so much! Happy New Year!

@elie_foube16925 @ae_stallings Thank you very much-I loved the cheek too!

@ae_stallings @DaisyfDunn Very good read so far. Gilbert Murray and Howard Castle family. Sounds so Evelyn Waugh too. I never was into Shaw and never read/saw Major Barbara, but LOL at the cheek.

Io, #Saturnalia! I hope your floors look like this by the end of the Roman holiday and your tables are as bird-filled by Christmas Day (a 5th-century mosaic from the eastern Mediterranean, now at Chateau de Boudry, Switzerland)

@RobertThornton_ Super - many thanks!

Started watching this today on catch-up. Very good!