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Advocating Classics Education project based at @durham_uni. Co-directed by @edithmayhall & @profarlenehh @durham_classics.
Check out our interactive digital sourcebooks, designed by @world_museum & @KingsClassics, with input from @_hardeepdhindsa. Use them flexibly for revision, enrichment or preparatory teaching. @pdjswallow @drarlenehh @edithmayhall @ahrcpress aceclassics.org.uk/launching-clas…
Great to see the excellent work of @Durham_Classics professors @edithmayhall & @ProfArleneHH highlighted in the @guardian. Read how they're helping prison learners use ancient philosophical wisdom to inform contemporary life: 👉 brnw.ch/21wS0ED #TransformativeHumanities
Numbers in Greek myth! Looking forward to having more fun conversations like this at @hayfestival this year (plus cake, and bookshops!) ☀️🎪 Who else is coming? Tickets here: hayfestival.com/p-23458-natali…
What did 5️⃣ ever do wrong? Classicist @officialnhaynes on the mysterious significance of numbers in myths, in conversation at Hay Festival Winter Weekend last year.
CELEBRATE the work of the UK's #classics teaching community by nominating an individual or project for @Classical_Assoc's annual #TeachingAwards: 🏆➡️ cup.org/4h1GQnO Deadline 2 May 2025. #classicalstudies
An early draft of my paywalled review in the Telegraph of Dan Mendelsohn's translation of the Odyssey: edithorial.blogspot.com/2025/04/review…
In this edition of @BBCInOurTime , Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Gracchi. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Arlene and Edith are two powerhouses of classics, especially bringing it to people who haven’t previously had access to it. This is an incredible project of theirs - I’m thrilled it’s going so well! theguardian.com/society/2025/a…
My review of Jennifer Roberts’ great new book in this week’s TLS
Moslem Aristotle, Marxist Aristotle, AIristotle, Boristotle! What an amazing conference our Leverhulme Aristotle Beyond the Academy held this week. I’m still buzzing. Book to come! @PublicAristotle @AristotleStyle @LeverhulmeTrust @Durham_Classics @ProfArleneHH
@unibirmingham & @CAHA_UoB are celebrating 125 years! Join us to hear about the department's history, personal experiences of studying #Classics in the West Midlands, and an evening talk from @theAliceRoberts! Everyone is welcome! @classicsforall @Classical_Assoc @CA_BhamMids
Pleased to find that "Facing down the Furies" is recommended by medics dealing with depressed and suicidal patients bjgplife.com/facing-down-th…… @Durham_Classics
We're hosting a FREE CPD day at Leicester University on 18 June for KS3-KS5 teachers of Classical Civilisation. A limited number of travel bursaries are available for state school teachers. See here for further information and to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
A very enjoyable evening with @edithmayhall and the @Classical_Assoc! Thank you for the thoughtful discussion of the bio-political subconscious of the epic tradition - I can't wait to read more in my signed copy!
Fabulously fun launch of Epic of the Earth last night at Durham with @katrinajkelly providing superb questions. Thanks so much to Magdalena Zira, Roberto di Tuccio, @ProfArleneHH, Alessandro Vatri, Rory McInnes-Gibbons for sterling support @Durham_Classics @Classical_Assoc
It's publication day! £18.99. I'll be recording the audiobook soon. Here's one of the images, showing wanton consumption of timber to make a point at a funeral. yalebooks.co.uk/book/978030027…
Another image from my book published yesterday. When Achilles destroys the trees and plants on the bank of the Scamander, the river god summons another, Simois, to help defend his ecosystem from the rampaging human yalebooks.co.uk/book/978030027…
On #WorldSparrowDay, a mosaic from Italica north of Seville and a fresco from Oplontis, Campania. It's also the birthday of the poet of Ovid, inconveniently not the Roman poet who did write a poem about a sparrow--Catullus.
Classical Association Conference 2025. 🗓11-13 July 📍St Andrews Registration is open! 👉ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/registration-i… #CA2025 is hosted by @StA_Classics at @univofstandrews, in partnership with @Classical_Assoc and @CAScotia. #Conference #AllWelcome #ClassicsTwitter
Announcement of the annual congress of Euroclassica in Sofia, Bulgaria: aaduce.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/eur… @Classical_Assoc @classicsforall @StevenHuntClass @Cnarela1 @SEEC_nacional @ChristianL14405
Another choose the cover. I assume the Getty credit will disappear. I like the lettering on the green one and the water-clock (which is the whole point) is clearer on that one. But the white one has better clarity on the humans. Thoughts? The hive mind here is always right!
Chaired a truly brilliant talk by Matthew Kilburn on socialist author, populariser of Roman British History, independent North Eastern publisher and all-round people’s hero Frank Graham at Durham tonight. @Durham_Classics
When you go on a whim to the tiny museum in Saffron Walden, find a Greek vase with the worst haircut in Greek ceramic history, and are told the SOLE interesting Roman object on its website, this gladiator, is IN STORAGE. Have they not heard of Ridley Scott? Wake up Curators!!!