RomansInDidcot

Are you #TeamDido or #TeamAeneas? Or do you think it's NOT THAT EASY? Have a listen to the latest podcast on #VirgilsAeneid via the #ClassicsPodcast and let me know if your opinion has changed! #DidoAndAeneas podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

@CarolineLawrenc @flaroh I am really pleased to see this - although much later than I should have! I just came to tell you that I tutor English, and I'm currently reading 'The Slave Girl of Jerusalem' with a pupil. She loves it - as do I :) Thank you so much :)

Just out! The latest in my Tales from Virgil’s Aeneid: "Achates: Soul of a Hero". I have cheekily envisaged Aeneas’s sidekick “faithful Achates” as a Molossian hound. It will give readers a totally new perspective on Virgil’s masterpiece. Cover by @flaroh amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/AS…

@MuseumofOxford @ArchaeoAnni I think you would?!!

@RWE_UK Hello! I am trying to send an email FAO your Didcot station. Unfortunately, the email does not work. Please advise as to how I may contact you. Many thanks.

We are raising money to cover loans of objects from the Oxfordshire museum service for a pop-up museum in Didcot. Please support us by joining the SODC lottery. Together we can make this happen. Many thanks.

@mutablejoe Melissa, Melanie, Mel, Melvin...

hardest thing about beekeeping is thinking of all the names

Yeah, imagine if people hated him so much that they convicted him or even killed him!!

@drcorabeth @OU_Classics Ha!! I used Winterson's new book for the sexbots, but the whole thing is a Pygmalion rewrite. Also Stepford Wives and Carol Ann Duffy's Pygmalion. Ovid, he KNEW.

@StretchDidcot @OU_Classics That's one of the things about Classics - it pushes out the boundaries of what we see as disturbing! For instance, I read your tweet and thought 'Ooh, interesting...' and immediately started thinking of examples...😂

Yes, @OU_Classics students are the nicest students. 🍾

@drcorabeth @OU_Classics I used to be a teacher and so believe you! I got a 2:1 in the end, so that pleased me. My poor tutor though - my dissertation examined receptions of the Pygmalion myth and included a chapter on sex robots. It was disturbing to write and grim to read! Poor chap!

@StretchDidcot @OU_Classics That's nice to hear! And fancy presents are lovely - but all tutors really want is to see their students do well! (And I'm not kidding about that - we get REALLY invested in our student groups... 😂)

@AmandaCHart @CoriniumMuseum @cnl_showcases Thank you so much!

Heads up @CoriniumMuseum I'd really like to know where you got your museum cabinets from, the ones upstairs with the drawers in them. Will be in touch by email! Many thanks :)

@DrJaninaRamirez @OxfordConted @UniofOxford Excellent news. Congratulations :)

Whoop whoop!!!! I’ve been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society ‘in recognition of your contribution to historical scholarship’!!! I’m honoured. This one’s for you @OxfordConted @UniofOxford

@OxonMuseum Wouldn't that be nice!

This is not a beautiful woven tapestry. It is not a painting. It is the most detailed image of a human cell to date, obtained by radiography, nuclear magnetic resonance and cryoelectron microscopy.

@OxonMuseum Lovely castle. I had my GCSE history class do a study on it and the site. V interesting place!

@s000zy @PPUK_ @Bobby_Seagull Is there nothing you can’t do?! 💜

#5 Bobby Seagull I follow an excessive number of mathematicians on Twitter (my 12 year old has a maths habit and I’m his dealer). Bobby ran an excellent quiz last night on behalf of @PPUK_ so gets his pic done as a reward for bringing happiness. @Bobby_Seagull

Last week I started sketching some people who have made things brighter over the last year. After 5 days drawing 1 a day, and realising I'd coincidentally started on the first day of Lent, I thought I might aim for 40…

@romanpalace @MyDoncaster Oh yes! Their tweets are also v funny :)

@StretchDidcot @MyDoncaster We're hoping that's a Good Thing.

How's your week going so far? We're a solid 9, aspiring to a 4. #MosaicMonday

@thorneh One of our favourite walks.

By request, people enjoying the Thames at Goring, taken in September. HedleyThorne.com #goring #thames