RepiTitiationes ~ 04.09.15

Josiah Wedgwood produced a copy of the celebrated Portland Vase in black-and-white jasper-ware http://t.co/0TlQ08SvuJ pic.twitter.com/hOe7ZwnZ52

— The Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum) April 9, 2015

@c_katsari The Ancient Greeks had some more rather unpleasant alternatives to birth control too: http://t.co/b0oXXBd59p

— Dr Anton Howes (@antonhowes) April 8, 2015

Wondered whether it was worth blogging Legend of Hercules after yesterday's viewing. Have decided it is, to explore why it fails so much.

— Dr. Liz Gloyn (@lizgloyn) April 9, 2015

Loving the audio version of @wmarybeard's #Pompeii http://t.co/0B2IkgaVad @Newnham_College @pompei79 @stephenjenkin pic.twitter.com/lpdcMEnHNC

— Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc) April 9, 2015

The Roman Empire in 117 AD, at its greatest extent pic.twitter.com/sCn2reWOdj

— VintagePhotos (@NotableHistory) April 8, 2015

5 people used this #Roman brick as notepad at 20th Legion tileworks, nr #Chester, signing on wet clay for 'expenses' pic.twitter.com/ndShiXiP3w

— Helen A. (@Helenus_) April 8, 2015

Floor of Great Hall -The House of the "Golden Cupids" at #Pompeii. #Archaeology pic.twitter.com/CSHHDYtyzD

— Pompeii – The APP (@PompeiiApp) April 9, 2015

Why we should ignore – yes, ignore – the vandalism and looting in Syria and Iraq. Mine for @AncientHistMag. http://t.co/xvFzb5ShD2

— Jona Lendering (@JonaLendering) April 9, 2015

.@Helenus_ @caitlinrgreen @collectionlinc snap! Also have tile w dog pawprint in our school visit collection pic.twitter.com/PuzBjTXkdz

— SHARE with Schools (@SHAREwithSchool) April 9, 2015

What should you visit in Roman Spain. I have a few favourite Roman inscriptions there. And what else? http://t.co/w9gBaF3erE

— mary beard (@wmarybeard) April 9, 2015

(and if you didn't catch Natalie Haynes on the body beautiful ancient and modern it's here on iPlayer: http://t.co/Rj4rTfbRVI)

— Dr Emma Bridges (@emmabridges) April 9, 2015

As today is my hump day I went searching for something to make me laugh. Enjoy. #humpdayhumor pic.twitter.com/0Y91wIdjEZ

— David Allsop (@da11sop) April 9, 2015

Fab Roman magpie (pica) from House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii. To hear him, go here: https://t.co/fkYJNhq2rt pic.twitter.com/MjNEIK5Ej6

— Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc) April 9, 2015

#50sfumaturedibronzo #bronzifirenze pic.twitter.com/TY3q9125rZ

— Palazzo Strozzi (@palazzostrozzi) April 9, 2015

#OnThisDay in 193, Septimius Severus is declared emperor by his troops at Carnuntum in opposition to Didius Julianus pic.twitter.com/Nad0HsjD72

— CANI (@ClassAssocNI) April 9, 2015

THE WARBURG INSTITUTE: Pseudo-Galenic Texts http://t.co/zsrwpxqFav

— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) April 9, 2015

@TheWildHogg @Curculiunculus @PenguinClassics i gave up hope on that years ago …

— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) April 9, 2015

@TheWildHogg loeb is the word if you want 'the whole thing'

— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) April 9, 2015

@TheWildHogg i'm assuming you know of loebulus https://t.co/pIDhfECvLi

— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) April 9, 2015

@TheWildHogg correction: loebolus …

— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) April 9, 2015

An oil lamp lid in the shape of Eros riding a dolphin, 1st-2ndC AD, found Hertfordshire: https://t.co/T2v1W47Pkq pic.twitter.com/OWJVMZVVIC

— Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) April 9, 2015

Symbols and Metaphors Postgraduate Conference 3rd June 2015. Abstracts to pgclassicsconference@leeds.ac.uk by 1st May http://t.co/kwUdNeOghA

— Classics and Ancient History at Leeds (@LeedsClassics) April 9, 2015

House of Menander in Pompeii pic.twitter.com/5oRTQIjW0J

— Adrian Murdoch (@adrianmurdoch) April 9, 2015

Visit the @AntiquityJ website to browse the contents of the latest issuehttp://t.co/DWZgF039gv #world #archaeology pic.twitter.com/O7gbcsz6lk

— Tara-Jane Sutcliffe (@tj_sutcliffe) April 9, 2015

4 of Ostia's 16 mithraea (CW: Felicissimus, Seven Gates, the Snakes and Seven Spheres). #mithras #archaeology #rome pic.twitter.com/c2Jwt02T2d

— Dr David Walsh (@d_j_walsh) April 9, 2015

Pre-iphone social media and procrastinating. Chatting on the set of Quo Vadis (1951) pic.twitter.com/3RUoAd96ld

— Imagines Project (@ImaginesProject) April 9, 2015

Best quote of the day so far from my last RHUL PhD student @dangoad "it's amazing what you find if you google on Brekekekex koax koax"

— Edith Hall (@edithmayhall) April 9, 2015

Using Vergil's Aeneid to tell my students' futures this morning, will compile a full report! #Bibliomancy @llewelyn_morgan @CarolineLawrenc

— Edward Zarrow (@drzarrow) April 9, 2015

Francesco Solimena's image of 4th-century martyr and patron saint of Naples: San Gennaro (and his 2 vials of blood) pic.twitter.com/EPaqOcmdhm

— Jessica Hughes 🎧 🌱🏺 (@jesshughes61) April 9, 2015

Hey Classicists! superb 10 month teaching fellowship here in #Classics at #Warwick https://t.co/AR6JvPdufb

— GalenusDixit (@GalenOfPergamum) April 9, 2015

#JamesGillray's 1799 caricature of MPs George Barclay & Charles Sturt as the twin stars Castor & Pollux #GE2015 pic.twitter.com/kVap85YWSt

— Ashmolean Museum (@AshmoleanMuseum) April 9, 2015

Virgil, Vergil, Vergilius Maro. Call him anything as long as u call him! @JanetMcKennaLow @drzarrow @llewelyn_morgan pic.twitter.com/smNT0EmPG0

— Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc) April 9, 2015

Two eerie, ancient Medusa heads are guarding this cistern in Turkey (by @Lent_Hirsch) http://t.co/Sxw8d5Lw6B pic.twitter.com/qBhc36nxAz

— Bess Lovejoy (@besslovejoy) April 8, 2015

I love this little #lararium with #bulla from @raylaurence1's Roman TED talk! http://t.co/P8hPX502gj #RomanChildren pic.twitter.com/5RAbz8rn62

— Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc) April 9, 2015

A child born in ancient Greece with both parents alive was called 'amphithales' ('blooming on both sides').

— AncientBlogger (@ancientblogger) April 9, 2015

Detail from the early 2nd century AD Column of Trajan in Rome, showing the Roman army attacking a Dacian fortress. pic.twitter.com/QIqVRIb82v

— Roman History (@romanhistory1) April 3, 2015

“@LatinProgramme: Why Study #Latin?
by our friend @CarolineLawrenchttp://t.co/hsNOtPP674#WhyLatin? #Literacy” 👍👍

— Rutgers Classics (@RUClassics) April 9, 2015

All go this afternoon excavating the water tank. #vindolanda pic.twitter.com/lahDLhg5N2

— Vindolanda Trust (@VindolandaTrust) April 9, 2015

The lovely Natalie Haynes runs around @britishmuseum after hours! #DefiningBeauty http://t.co/m1TB2UWQq9 #WatchAgain pic.twitter.com/W2sSyWZdBm

— Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc) April 9, 2015

[Artwork of the day]
The "Sarcophagus of the Spouses"http://t.co/xqRMU5MtxT#EtruscanArt pic.twitter.com/GWRXy3I30B

— Musée du Louvre (@MuseeLouvre) April 9, 2015

Congrats to PhD student Sarah Nash, who received the Franz & Neda Leipen Fellowship of the Canadian Institute in Greece @CIGICG #UAlberta!

— Classics at UAlberta (@ClassicsAlberta) April 9, 2015

Congrats to another Contract Academic Staff, @KellyMacFarlane, who received the @ualbertaSU SALUTE Teaching Award! #UAlberta @UofA_Arts

— Classics at UAlberta (@ClassicsAlberta) April 9, 2015

Congrats to Lara Apps (one of grad students on the History side) who received the @UofA_Arts Grad Student Teaching Award! #UAlberta

— Classics at UAlberta (@ClassicsAlberta) April 9, 2015

Loved Profs @edithmayhall & Reynolds reciting Sappho on #InOurTime http://t.co/uS2FA0gp3d. Pity no reference to olisbo, tho'. @ArmandDAngour

— Philip Astor (@PDPAstor) April 9, 2015

Antinous holds a serpent
130–140 CE, but snake and man first put together in the 18th century
Altes Museum, Berlin pic.twitter.com/39AMP6BWPc

— Jake Nabel (@JakeNabel) April 9, 2015

7 Apr 44 BC “If a man of Caesar’s genius could find no way out, who will find one now?” Matius to Cicero pic.twitter.com/1uW91gIUVN

— Barry Strauss (@barrystrauss) April 9, 2015

@CarolineLawrenc am talking Lucius at #CA2015 in Bristol on Saturday lunchtime. Seeing guys from @wearecognitive on Tues re: new project.

— ray laurence (@raylaurence1) April 9, 2015

λαλοβαρυπαραμελορυθμοβάτης, ου, ὁ (lalobaryparamelorythmobatēs)
—heavy-going discordant talker

— Henry George Liddell (@LiddellAndScott) April 9, 2015

#OTD We honour the memory of Canadians who fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 #RememberThem @VeteransENG_CA pic.twitter.com/lxbbGzvMze

— Canada (@Canada) April 9, 2015

ICYMI reflections on my vlogging experiment are now live. I'll have a new video up (from #CA15) on Monday! #PhDChat https://t.co/xGFH9IOl8o

— Emma Cole (@Emma_Cole1) April 9, 2015

Il meraviglioso mosaico termale romano del @MuseoCannara #Umbria, tra pigmei e animali esotici http://t.co/0GotR3RAcq pic.twitter.com/YQiAgFbXaM

— Sistema Museo (@SistemaMuseo) April 9, 2015

__Dice Players__ #Fresco I Century: from Tavern in Mercury Street #POMEPEII #Italy #ruins #Vesuvius #Archeology pic.twitter.com/UN6uVwLSTL

— Pompeii – The APP (@PompeiiApp) April 9, 2015

Word of the Day: sciolist – someone pretending to be knowledgeable and well informed… http://t.co/jVB5byTEEn

— Oxford Languages (@OxLanguages) April 9, 2015

The Danaides were sentenced to fill a bathtub that had no bottom. #Painting By Waterhouse. #Mythology pic.twitter.com/LoFlJ2gbB2

— Micro Mythology (@micromythos) April 9, 2015

CfA lecture with Dr Ian Jenkins on ‘Defining Beauty’ http://t.co/jIEJbwVynB

— The Classics Library (@stephenjenkin) April 9, 2015

Learn more from the Ancients. Join our Classical Wisdom Society today: http://t.co/ldJ4OvGeSF http://t.co/c0YYuKg4EZ

— Classical Wisdom (@ClassicalWisdom) March 9, 2015

AIA Lecture Today: The Politics of Public Display! Free & open to the public. #archaeology pic.twitter.com/Y6H90jBQYZ #NearEast

— Kelsey Museum (@kelseymuseum) April 9, 2015

In eastern Crete, an ancient city is revealing the secrets of Minoan civilization http://t.co/YEYk2Xq0vu pic.twitter.com/283c3dpXei

— Archaeology Magazine (@archaeologymag) April 9, 2015

Loved the Lapidarium in the Hungarian National Museum! This sassy Achilles was a favourite: pic.twitter.com/h1RuRXGZ6x

— Dr Steph Holton (@stephrholton) April 9, 2015

Reading Horace's Odes: One-Day Course http://t.co/cdLWp4vswT

— The Classics Library (@stephenjenkin) April 9, 2015

Small Bronze Harpy Unearthed in England http://t.co/JHW114VHtr

— Dorothy Lobel King (@DLVLK) April 9, 2015

Can You Name These Ancient Composers? http://t.co/hIiq3w932z pic.twitter.com/zrGaK9mVVE

— HistoryoftheAncient (@historyancient) April 9, 2015

@NevilleMorley (Official hashtag is #CA15 – would hate to miss your livetweeting!)

— Dr. Liz Gloyn (@lizgloyn) April 9, 2015

Augustus and Agrippa, bros for life. pic.twitter.com/DeS3WIlXyp

— Jen Ebbeler (@jenebbeler) April 9, 2015

#AccaddeOggi: il 9 aprile 193 Settimio Severo venne proclamato imperatore romano. Un ritratto http://t.co/3ONrrHJFWi pic.twitter.com/AmBm9QO2Dv

— Musei in Comune Roma (@museiincomune) April 9, 2015

9 Apr 44 BC “Personally, I think Antony spends more time planning his menus than concocting any real trouble”–Cicero pic.twitter.com/p7GyoyZ0zP

— Barry Strauss (@barrystrauss) April 9, 2015

Head of Janus from #İzmir Agora, in İzmir's excellent Museum of History & Art. pic.twitter.com/5b355av32F

— Pat Yale (@patyale) April 9, 2015

#archaeology Knidos’ theatre under restoration http://t.co/r0UJZn4f4P#Turkey pic.twitter.com/Z4fS3ZdiDn

— Following Hadrian (@carolemadge) April 9, 2015

1 of 2 blog posts I wrote about a Roman plaque from Ostia for those interested in #Parturition http://t.co/9QcZYT5RLU pic.twitter.com/LZuQ8aUwIH

— Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc) April 9, 2015

Posts on the digitized BL Greek manuscripts http://t.co/TbbkTqUyQ4 @BLMedieval

— Adam Carter Bremer-McCollum (@adamcmccollum) April 9, 2015

@caitlinrgreen @collectionlinc Coincidence, but had researcher looking at #Roman tile today and this was in 1st box! pic.twitter.com/PGHBzuDidj

— Antony Lee (@lidongni) April 9, 2015

@lidongni @ProfChristensen @caitlinrgreen @collectionlinc I'm starting to think having an animal run across tiles was a 'thing'

— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) April 10, 2015

P.S. The more I look at this, the more I think it shows the afterbirth! @Phyllida1234 http://t.co/vkSzrXTRrE pic.twitter.com/aIy6kJnIlV

— Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc) April 9, 2015

I'd missed the news of this wonderful bronze harpy discovery.http://t.co/iCMSpuUgZc pic.twitter.com/U9luf1DVKN

— The Classics Library (@stephenjenkin) April 9, 2015

@stephenjenkin no hands? Siren, not harpy

— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) April 10, 2015

@_youhadonejob @rogueclassicist Nothing new under the sun! https://t.co/NNKbgJrGlq https://t.co/7rek4RIMUe pic.twitter.com/zsidCqr5PL

— Dr Margaret Maitland (@eloquentpeasant) April 9, 2015

@eloquentpeasant @_youhadonejob my exact thoughts

— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) April 10, 2015

I think this is a perfect Latin term for gin. MT @tulikettu: @AvenSarah laetitia juniperi 😉

— Aven (@AvenSarah) April 9, 2015

Eric Cline
"1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed"https://t.co/IXCygdtMyD

— Guy Chamberland (@GuyChamberland) April 9, 2015

@GuyChamberland just bought the audio book!

— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) April 10, 2015

DC-area lecture THIS SUNDAY: Dr. Marden Nichols, “Theatrical Scenes in Roman Houses” http://t.co/hDUTQsDKAl pic.twitter.com/4vYQVWBFjk

— Biblical Archaeology Review (@BibArch) April 10, 2015

@sentantiq The worthy physician Soranus/Found cures for conditions that pain us;/ so what a bum rap/ for that medical chap…

— Armand D'Angour#StayHomeSaveLives #WashYourHands (@ArmandDAngour) April 10, 2015

@sentantiq that his 'sore'-name should so entertain us

— Armand D'Angour#StayHomeSaveLives #WashYourHands (@ArmandDAngour) April 10, 2015

Exercitus Romanus. pic.twitter.com/SAbfbYoh4z

— ᒍᑌᗩᑎ ᗩGᑌIᒪᗩᖇ (@latinategua) April 9, 2015

@ArmandDAngour the byzantine bishop eustathius / lived some time after the cretaceous/ he wrote on both homer's poems….

— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) April 10, 2015

@ArmandDAngour and rarely left home / as a result his rump was curvaceous

— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) April 10, 2015

@RUClassics @RockingClassics let the tweets begin!

— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) April 10, 2015