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@digkabri Enjoy. coming along the coast? We are near kas. !!! M

"On the Road Again"... 🎵 Touring Ephesus this morning, then long afternoon bus ride down to Bodrum…looking forward to seeing the underwater archaeological museum in Bodrum tomorrow morning…

@dudesthoughts Well done!

@wmarybeard My son and I love reading your materials. He's in middle school and you helped inspire a love of the classics. We created this site to document his love for the later Empire and draw comparisons to the our own modern Empires- empireanddecline.com

I talk about Classics on the Laphams Quarterly pod this week laphamsquarterly.org/content/mary-b… And they also carry an extract from my Talking Classics laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/won… Enjoy!

@wmarybeard Quite right! We are nothing without Ancient. Next poll: favourite bit of Ancient history. Thanks for the prompt.

@WolfsonHistory Does Ancient not count????

Which era of European history fascinates you most?

@KathyKe34073347 I was meaning the book. But there is discussion on the pod “instant Classics”, enjoy

@wmarybeard Can you tell me the right podcast please

Wish people sounding off here wd read what I’d actually said. One guy says I hate eg Gladiator bc it’s too right wing (err??). I’ve always said I LOVED Glad 1. Others saying I want to silence conservative voices in classics. My recent Talking Classics argues exactly the reverse!

@CambriaCeltica Enjoy!

I was wandering through TARRACO VIVA® the Roman Festival in Tarragona today and stumbled across a copy of @wmarybeard El Partenón in Spanish 🏛️ at one of the book stalls

@Patrick87730101 There are. But I suspect you would feel as irritated as I do when people pile on here for saying things I didn’t. I don’t think it is unreasonable to feel a bit annoyed.

@wmarybeard There are better things to be offended about.

Think it's an insult to those of us who really do know about triumphal arches for the Chair of Commission of Fine Arts, in approving the planned Washington DC arch, to suggest that opposition to it is "due to a lack of understand<ing> about the history of such triumphal arches".

@egotis10 @AncPhi And your knowledge of what I have said at the BM is what exactly? Did you listen to the BM debate on cultural ownership, available online?

@wmarybeard @AncPhi How is your conscience clear? You sat on the BMuseum board while rejecting calls for the repatriation of the Parthenon Sculptures, yet seem eager to appropriate Greco-Roman culture for personal profit whenever possible. It is hard not to see this as betrayal of antiquity & ethics

@egotis10 @AncPhi Qed

@egotis10 I try not to deal in hate! But prefer accurate quotation.

@wmarybeard Do you realise that you are nowadays more hated than praised. Do you think there is a reasonable reason behind it ? Any self criticism ?

@CrusaderF8E I am not saying the gallows. But hang on … (haha)

@wmarybeard He insulted triumphal arch knowers? To the gallows!

@AncPhi Many. My conscience is clear on that (I hope not over optimistically). I do talk about this in my new book

@wmarybeard What steps have you taken to ensure that conservative voices in Classics are equitably considered for employment without political or religious prejudice?

@UppityAlice Not asking them to be well informed, just quote quote me accurately!

@wmarybeard Come on now, its twitter, why would you ever expect them to be well informed and/or reasonable - espeically about something as fash-attractive as ancient greco-roman history

“What is the point of the ancient classics? Why should we bother about what people did two thousand years ago or more: what they made, wrote, and thought?” —Mary Beard, from the new ep. of The World in Time. Link in reply.

@ren_dvm Thanks for saying

@wmarybeard Sometimes I think there needs to be a temporary check, maybe a red checkmark, attached to accounts that are repeatedly rude and/or act like they're very drunk. Hecklers online can be a real drag. I love Talking Classics 😊

@JoritWintjes I dislike Ii but love I

@wmarybeard Wait - what? You LOVE Gladiator? Yikes... 😉😁 Just for the record, I DO hate that movie with about as much passion as I can muster, for being as bad as it is. Didn't think it could get worse, but then of course we were graced with Gladiator II...

@bphillipsonMP Errrr. The Latin Excellence programme??? Pity that didn’t survive

Labour is opening up access to subjects that have been the preserve of a privileged few for too long. We're investing in school sport & overhauling the system to end the postcode lottery. Levelling the playing field, so every child can achieve & thrive. gov.uk/government/new…

@IdaOstenberg Quoted in the Art Newspaper

@wmarybeard Do you have a link for that statement? Am also interested …