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All Things Ancient
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All Things Ancient
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Tweeting about the Romans, the Greeks and the Early Christians, their languages, and anything else that comes up. Also tweeting at J_Piekarski.
Katılım Nisan 2012
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The Founding Fathers discovering we elected TWO Catholics as President: [through gritted teeth] We did say “all men are created equal” I suppose
Ben Crew@BenjaminCrew1
Something very funny about the hypothetical of "What what the founding fathers think of America if they could see it today?" is that more than anything John Adams would be pissed off at a man he considered the DEVIL having an acclaimed musical about how he is cool
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A tourist is asked by the officer in passport control at Athens airport:
'What is your nationality?'
He replied 'German.' The officer then asks:
'Occupation?'
The tourist replies: 'No,only visiting.'
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I didn’t really have a frame of reference for how quickly sailing vessels travel, but learning that a voyage from Carthage to Rome only took 3 days really shifted my perception of antiquity a little
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Me if I worked customer service at one of the three terminals in Charles de Gaulle airport: “de Gaulle est omnis divisus in partes tres”
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For the Latinists out there, is there a single post-medieval / neo-Latin poem that you think would HAVE to be included in any anthology of later Latin?
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Applications are now open for our 2026–2028 OxLAT programme, which offers free tuition in Latin language and literature from scratch through to GCSE examination.
If you are in Year 8 or 9 at a nearby state school which does not teach Latin, but you are interested in learning the language of the Romans, apply to study it here with us!
Full details and applications forms are available at classics.ox.ac.uk/outreach
***APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday 15th May 2026***
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Is it a damp, drizzly November in your soul? Tempted to go out in the street knocking men’s hats off? I know just what you need: sun, summer, and the sea!
Come read MOBY-DICK with me this summer for the @CatherineProj Tuesday nights 8-10pm est!
catherineproject.org/general-offeri…
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Another installment of Jack Laurel's alliterative Iliad
jacklaurel.substack.com/p/an-alliterat…
#alliterative #poetry #iliad #homer #poetrytwitter #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #classics #alliterativeverse
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“Operation Market Garden, but all we seize is a market garden.”
Niall Ferguson@nfergus
Exact wording. General Sir Richard Barrons: Acting in its own, the British Army today “could seize one small market town on a good day.”
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North and Hillard
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Keats Respecter@keatsrespecter
Has anyone found a greek prose composition book that they recommend?
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My nine year old son said grace the other night and ended with “if it seems reasonable to you.”
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The most adorable 6 year old is sitting next to me on the plane.
Kid: Why is your hair red?
Me: Because I have a gene mutation called MC1R that makes it like that.
Kid: You’re a MUTANT! I knew it!
Me: Are you ok with sitting next to a mutant?
Kid: Teach me your ways.
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Genuinely one of the most exciting books I have ever read. The marching of the Greeks up the Tigris and the mountains of Armenia got me through an incredibly repetitive and boring summer job.
Michael McGill 🏛@mcgillmd921
Tfw you come home to a package containing a brand new Loeb.
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