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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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'My words should and can be brief lest by dwelling on your great deeds I treat them unworthily.'
Katılım Şubat 2014
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Friends in the #UK! I’ll be talking about the joys and challenges of #translation and #Homer’s #Odyssey at the @hayfestival on Wednesday 27 May, in conversation with the excellent @chris_power ! Ticket info below:
hayfestival.com/p-25290-daniel…
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I have conducted an infallible survey of international experts (*me) and these are the greatest novels of all time. I don't want to hear any whining from fricassee-fancying Frenchie fops or tax-dodging Yankee parvenus: you can disagree, of course, but you're objectively wrong.
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Nothing beats the novels we read as teenagers and return to throughout our lives: Middlemarch, War & Peace, all of Austen, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, the Magic Mountain. What do you still love?
Simon Schama@simon_schama
Am aboard the Pequod ( for the 4th time I think) Moby Dick the second greatest novel ever written and a whole universe of writing to live in .. As an antidote to the flat- footed prose of the media, trailing their stale opinions behind them and the fanatical drivel of the powerful plus the smug certainties of billionaires, rich only in money, nothing beats the great masters of writing. They are our life support, our thread of humanity in a mechanical world . AI will never produce a Melville for there is no data set that could have predicted him.
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Really entrancing spatial-visual guide to the Iliad’s action
> Of the 360 named characters, 232 are warriors killed or wounded, yet the poet is remarkable in his ability to keep his characters on the battlefield straight (the instances of Homer's nodding are strikingly rare).
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@PaulMcKenna4 I suppose we have to ask why public life is so degraded and why good people shun it.
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@Pythika Yep, we can only imagine.
Honesty, integrity, courage, selflessness, and more all gone now.
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Another one of the Classicists who served
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Paul Embery@PaulEmbery
Denis Healey, one of six formidable candidates in Labour's 1976 leadership election, was a grammar school boy from Yorkshire who achieved a double first in classics at Oxford, served in the second world war (including as beachmaster at the Battle of Anzio), was mentioned in dispatches, demobbed as a major, spoke several foreign languages, and was a gifted amateur painter and pianist and all-round aficionado of the arts. My piece examining the decline in calibre of British parliamentarians. paulembery.com/p/titans-and-p…
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Night thoughts on “polytropos,” 1:
The syntax of the Greek suggests that the relative clause (“who greatly wandered…”) that follows this adjective is intended as a gloss on it. Hence the translation of p should be a word(s) that describes his route as well as his personality.
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Interesting interpretation of the Homeric vowel system and the (overly breathy?) aspirates; but this is the best demonstration of the pitch accent.
Perkʷunós@parjanyudu
Homer's Iliad Book 1 Lines 1-27 in Restored Ancient Greek Meter, Pitch Accents & Pronunciation with English translation.
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God, I love @HadleyFreeman - “laughter is the best pesticide” as Nabokov said, and by withering antiSemites with wit she is being both the best of Jewish and British columnists.
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Last chance to secure a free ticket to our great event next week in #Liverpool - ticketsource.com/liverpool-clas… - grateful for any shares @Classical_Assoc @BoltonHistory @Knox_Harrington @LiverpoolBCS @BlueToga @GrecianGirly @Pythika @for_fi @thereaderorg @chrissypartheni @wmarybeard
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Cow drinking with its reflection in the water and more mosaics of animals from Early Byzantine churches of Hadrianopolis in Paphlagonia, an archaeological site in
Karabük Province
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This now lost figure of Christ from an inscribed stone at Llanglydwen, drawn in 1820, is done with your nonsense and is coming for you
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This will be brilliant - come along! #Liverpool Thursday 23rd April at 7pm.
Liverpool Classical Association@LiverpoolCA1907
Drink ! Eat ! Indulge your soul !: Food and Feasts in Ancient Greece - still time to reserve a free ticket for our next talk in #Liverpool @LiverpoolBCS on 23 April ticketsource.com/liverpool-clas…
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Good to learn from this that the Mycenaean name for Cambridge is ‘ka-mo-jo ke-pu2-ra3’
Antigone Journal@AntigoneJournal
The astounding story of how that most fascinating of scripts, Linear B, was painstakingly decoded in the mid-20th century, revealing at last the life of the Mycenaeans in technicolour: antigonejournal.com/2024/01/deciph…
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April is the cruelest month
🐝Bee@BloodyPolitics
Now THAT'S a proper Easter Egg. No hollow disappointment. No palm oil.
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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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