@belovedofoizys
Ancient Historian in the UK. 📖'Gladiators in the Greek World' coming summer '26. Public history devotee. ADHD + ClusterC. Sweary. Expect typos. Birkbeck and Leicester alum www.ancientalexandra.co.uk https://linktr.ee/alexandrasills
Greatest honour of my career so far. As founding editor I'm proud to announce @edinburghup.bsky.social Studies in Late Roman History. The world's first book series exclusively dedicated to the core domain of Late Antiquity. Like to discuss proposals or manuscripts? Reach out!
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I made a facebook page for the podcast and I'm going to give you three guesses what kind of "classics content" was immediately pushed onto its feed by the algorithm...
If you read my book you will find out about some of the weirdest evidence you never get to hear much about! In this case, possible banana proteins found in ancient dental plaque ... the glamour that is ancient history!
We're setting up our online spaces!
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It's particularly galling since the average attendance for the entire school has never (to my memory) dipped below 95% anyway. My daughter is at 97.7. There doesn't seem to be an issue for our family, and there doesn't even seem to be THAT much of an issue for the school. Why are they making it one?
For some reason my daughter's school feels the need to email parents DAILY on the attendance percentage "achieved." As someone who grew up with a chronic condition I have thoughts on this, and none of them are friendly. I will have to sit on my hands to stop myself sending a very angry email.
IRGC terrorisrs are trolling Americans & Israelis, copying their cruel practice of writing messages on missiles. This one says “For the memory of the victims of the E*st*in island.”
It’s enraging that Western leaders are so corrupt & incompetent that they give space to genuine evil to mock them.
"The choice of Epic Fury for this campaign tells me they haven’t been reading Homer at all. If they have, they have failed to understand what epic means."
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Pages of a brightly illustration children’s retelling of the Odyssey
Pages of a brightly illustration children’s retelling of the Odyssey
Pages of a brightly illustration children’s retelling of the Odyssey
Pages of a brightly illustration children’s retelling of the Odyssey
Just a taste of what my Odyssey has to offer… the book is full of stunning illustrations, Homeric turns of phrase, an unaltered timeline, ancient world fun facts, seal-men wrestling gods, and even (somewhat) historically accurate features like the palace of Pylos! 🥰 geni.us/TheOdysseyBook
My daughteris going to LOVE THIS
Also, how beautiful is that cover!?
Congratulations!
For context, I have forgotten to eat lunch for the last... at least 9? days in a row.
I remembered to eat lunch today! I'm guessing anyone else familar with lisdexamfetamines will appreciate what an accomplishment this is...
I've just seen someone predict that "[a ground invasion of] Iran will be America's Teutoberg Forest"...
Every student matters. Every student should be celebrated.
We're in UK uni offers season so I address this to all college teachers:
If you only boast about the students who get into Oxbridge but not the students who get offers from elsewhere, or say "7 students got offers in my subject *including* 1 for Oxbridge", then you are a knob and I don't like you.
Sunshine for our impromptu detour to revisit Hadrian's Wall, and we managed to fit in Magna, Birdoswald and a few milecastles into our morning. Now for the long drive south...
I'm so sorry, and I hope your Mum is as OK as she can be.
A quick visit to the wall to say hi to Hadrian before the long drive home, I think...
My set came with a broken wing, which I wrongly assumed was deliberate!
An absolute joy talking at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social today: fabulous museum with a top notch team, an engaged audience and a lot of thoughtful questions afterwards. My favourite way to spend an afternoon!
It's definitely been a steep learning curve...
I don't have the spoons to talk about this now, but I'll most definitely be unpacking this in my upcoming @anihoproject.bsky.social article on the American far-right and their love affair with Maximus...
Consider a copy sold already! How exciting
Thanks, Curtis. How depressing...
I'm on my way to Carlisle! I'm looking foward to giving my Women of the Roman Arena for the third time tomorrow. It's such an enjoyable talk to give, and I'm rather sad that this will be its last outing (for a while, at least.) Hoping to go out on a high...
New podcast coming soon, hosted by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social! I have already recorded two with them: one on Xenophon and one on the Spartan Mirage.
We have yet to launch, but that doesn't mean you can't subscribe to our show!
You can follow us on
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Deezer: www.deezer.com/show/1002731...
Acast: shows.acast.com/ancient-hist...
New classical reception just dropped...