Classics Department

What better day than #WorldHeritageDay2023 to plea yet again for the @britishmuseum to DO THE RIGHT THING and send the Parthenon Sculptures back to their homeland and the staggering @acropolismuseum with its view of their original setting? @BCRPM

Where I learned Latin (some years ago). It's a terrific school.

‘Exquisite’ Roman figure found on HS2 dig in Buckinghamshire theguardian.com/science/2022/j…

Roman town’s remains found below Northamptonshire field on HS2 route theguardian.com/science/2022/j…

Nero exhibition with Sixth Form Classics students

Pompey the Great arrived in Egypt & was assassinated on 28 September 48BC, aged 57 & the day before his 58th birthday. He was seeking aid from the Pharaoh, Ptolemy XIII, in his ongoing civil war with Julius Caesar. Those advising the boy king thought it safer to kill Pompey.

Today: Edward Gibbon and his masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire bbc.in/3zuqqQo 9am @BBCRadio4

It's the anniversary of the very day Troy fell, 11 June 1184 BCE (Dionysius of Halicarnassus) or 1183 (Eratosthenes in his Chronographies). Either way, here (1) the Trojan Horse on a jar found on Mykonos (2) Romare Bearden's Fall of Troy (1979) conceived with African personnel

Today 1184BC Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes

"Qualis artifex pereo!" ("What an artist dies in me."). #OnThisDay in AD 68, emperor Nero committed suicide. ⚱️

I have stumbled across this Youtube channel 'Odyssey' which has gathered a range of very useful historical documentaries, especially good for teachers of the classical subjects.

🏛️ The Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome is now open to the public for the first time in years, but visiting remains impossible for most. For the time being, here's an interactive history of the site (complete with 3-D models) from @Roma: experience.mausoleodiaugusto.it/en/intro #ClassicsTwitter

We’re excited about the upcoming Virtual Oxbridge #Classics Open Day which we’re hosting on 29th March 2021 with @camclassics. Today, we’ve launched the programme👇🏼 Pupils & teachers can register until 24/3/21: join us! ⁦⁩@oxoutreach @oxhumanities clasoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/oxford-and-cam…

theguardian.com/world/2021/mar… A terrifying window into the last minutes of the citizens of Pompeii

#OnThisDay in 44BC, as his ex-soldiers fill Rome, Caesar's will is read in public revealing significant gifts to large sections of the population. Much to Antony's chagrin, the reading of Caesar's will also revealed a new heir to the Caesarian name - one Gaius Octavius

Save the date! On 28 & 29 June 2021 the King's Greek Play will be performed online, and will take a radical new and creative direction. /1

☀️ #OnThisDay #Caligula was elected emperor by the Senate of Rome. At first he was highly popular & his rule was liberal. But after an illness (or poisoning?), he became diabolical. His cruelty, and also financial crises & famine caused by his expenses provoqued people's hatred.