Repititiationes ~ 12/16/15

Graces and Venus dancing before Mars
Antonio Canova, 1797
Museo Canova, Rossagno
✨@Asamsakti @emanuelaneri14 pic.twitter.com/VQ4rt9dbIP

— Lucia Tassan Mangina🐦🇪🇺#FBPE (@LuciaTassan) December 15, 2015

this askos c1500BC 🐚 #mycenaean #greece #aegean #marinestyle #octopus #bronzeage #pottery… https://t.co/nO9VyAL7Oa

— Francesca Bouaoun (@frantasticx) December 16, 2015

I really wish American politics didn't drown my twitterfeed… You can only drive past a car wreck so many times…

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) December 16, 2015

@DorothyKing @pompei79 Isis from the sea (photoshopped for classroom purposes, 2 illustrate Apuleius' Metamorphoses) pic.twitter.com/I189rBnade

— Dr Francesca Santoro (@Phyllida1234) December 16, 2015

Socrates Now: For Greece, For Europe & The World | THE GREEK THEATRE FOUNDATION's Fundraiser
https://t.co/sIm3vNNvU0

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) December 16, 2015

Achilles buys shoes. pic.twitter.com/dXxYrz68dr

— The Classics Library (@StephenJenkin) December 16, 2015

sexto decimo die Decembris, Minimus ursulum invenit (On the 16th Dec, Minimus finds a little bear) pic.twitter.com/eEy46hFycQ

— Helen Forte (@minimus_latin) December 16, 2015

A brief history of sex in Ancient Rome https://t.co/QIFNBS1jb5 pic.twitter.com/bfm3xk1tKD

— HistoryExtra (@HistoryExtra) December 16, 2015

Cornelian amygdaloid seal with a man & chariot
Late Minoan II – IIIA1
1450-1375BC
Knossos
1880,0428.1@britishmuseum pic.twitter.com/4rIA5xbFDq

— Sarah Scott (@sarahdawnscott) December 15, 2015

@holland_tom @pompei79 Hmm… "Hollandus, i Romae"? Wait, does Roma take the locative? Glad @JohnCleese isn't hear to threaten me…

— CANI (@ClassAssocNI) December 16, 2015

Get the gifts, switch place with the slaves – it's time: #IoSaturnalia! pic.twitter.com/Wby7X6qCzG

— IMP CAE DIV FIV AVG 😷 (@Divus_Augustus) December 15, 2015

After visiting #Sperlonga with @holland_tom looking forward to hearing more about Julio-Claudians @the_bsr #Dynasty pic.twitter.com/qfQVnc85Da

— Stephen Kay (@stephenjohnkay) December 16, 2015

Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme di Diocleziano, 2015
photo @GrassiMarcello pic.twitter.com/XqNkXP3X0Y

— Marcello Grassi (@GrassiMarcello) December 16, 2015

Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme di Diocleziano, 2015
photo @GrassiMarcello pic.twitter.com/qMUkuXji9b

— Marcello Grassi (@GrassiMarcello) December 16, 2015

When in Rome: @kingsclassics' adventure continues! 🏛🇮🇹🍕 #kclrumblerome pic by Hermione Penny https://t.co/6gr9ECDSIP pic.twitter.com/gA37fgy6Wf

— King's Arts & Humanities (@kingsartshums) December 15, 2015

The #Odyssey is here! Watch all 12 hours of 60+ artists reading #Homer from the streets of London: https://t.co/RcryiU1P1c #AlmeidaGreeks

— Almeida Theatre (@AlmeidaTheatre) December 15, 2015

Homer's Odyssey. Online. All of it. https://t.co/b4Eixfc2sX

— Elton Barker (@eltonteb) December 16, 2015

'Ubi Fera Sunt' – Where the Wild Things Are has a new translation and it's #Latin! https://t.co/uSUpTAFg39 pic.twitter.com/4Wt0fIVhlJ

— Roman Society (@TheRomanSoc) December 16, 2015

Fool and knave! https://t.co/XRpWclnq6w pic.twitter.com/P8dftEKkzC

— Reading Marginalia (@rdgmarginalia) December 15, 2015

Caesars & whores? Surely after a trip to Lake Nemi @holland_tom will mention Caligula in his talk TODAY 6pm @the_bsr pic.twitter.com/QPSbmwDZe0

— Dr Sophie Hay (@pompei79) December 16, 2015

Thoughtful tweet of the day:
I read: "Ora pro me."
I hear: "Ora pro 'meh'?!?!?!!!?!?" #wat #latin @sentantiq @enchantedcath

— geophf ن (@geophf) December 16, 2015

Have you been wondering how the Terme Boxer went from white to bronze? Here's a video of the process! https://t.co/pjuRBZnA9z

— Museum of Classical Archaeology (@classarch) December 16, 2015

En cette journée #StarWars n'oubliez pas la bonne parole de #Yoda ! pic.twitter.com/mV1MAievn2

— Culturez-vous (@CulturezVous) December 16, 2015

If #yoda spoke Latin, would the word order be English?

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) December 16, 2015

Congratulations to Ben Greet on a successful PhD viva yesterday! Ben's thesis is entitled “The Roman Eagle: A symbol and its evolution”

— Classics at Leeds (@LeedsClassics) December 16, 2015

Turkey: Knidos wants to regain its artifacts from foreign collections https://t.co/K0Qq1s2BZe pic.twitter.com/Of7DLNhBTj

— Dr Donna Yates (@DrDonnaYates) December 16, 2015

Pottery(575–550BCE) Montreal Museum of Fine Art pic.twitter.com/gM7eeoSjH5

— Ancient Greek Hero (@AncGreekHero) December 16, 2015

Terracotta funerary plaque
(520–510BCE) pic.twitter.com/KV98bgm5Kf

— Ancient Greek Hero (@AncGreekHero) December 16, 2015

“It was a totally unexpected discovery. The area is away from the sites visited by tomb robbers and indeed the burial is undisturbed.”

— CAMWS (@camwsclassics) December 16, 2015

. @VisitezToulouse : on vous confirme que tous les grands noms de l'Empire sont au @MSR_Tlse 😉 pic.twitter.com/8J6TTtTxX3

— Musée Saint-Raymond (@MSR_Tlse) December 16, 2015

I'm at Royal Holloway until Friday so I can work on my dissertation by reading about epigrams, colour, metre and Seneca's rhetoric!

— Sam Ridley (@Ridderstheok) December 16, 2015

Time for something Roman — an equestrian statue of M. Nonius Balbus in Naples: https://t.co/7AYISdCZei

— Ancient History Mag (@AncientHistMag) December 16, 2015

A new book by an alumna! Check out the book on Catullus by @DaisyfDunn https://t.co/qKyWLYu7Hi

— UCL Greek and Latin (@GrandLat) December 16, 2015

New digitized mss. added to Manuscriptorium https://t.co/NY4UmfIj45 including this Terence Prague VIII.H.24 pic.twitter.com/uwn9ZHrEP6

— Yale Classics Lib (@YaleClassicsLib) December 16, 2015

@ginlindzey not sure which you're talking about but it's probably the one I think looks like they're trying to start a fire

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) December 16, 2015

One attempt at translating 'egg nog' into #Latin. What do you think?

From https://t.co/sbkDIIWSC9 pic.twitter.com/dGKGZy91QW

— The Latin Programme (@LatinProgramme) December 16, 2015

Review of the Greeks at the @FieldMuseum https://t.co/AuVNJQufoW

— Morag M. Kersel (@mokersel) December 16, 2015

The figure on the Ara Pacis whose pint you'd least want to spill in a pub. His fingers already curling into a fist. pic.twitter.com/ssUifuU5gP

— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) December 16, 2015

@holland_tom and the guy behind him has that 'oh shit… Who invited him' look on his face

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) December 16, 2015

Source Criticism in the Digital Age https://t.co/giX1guOnbg

— Gregory Crane (@PhilologistGRC) December 16, 2015

#Terracotta figure of a naked #goddess probably from Tamassos, #Cyprus, 600-480 BCE: https://t.co/Fm0EV7fAvZ pic.twitter.com/W1KV3yYzkX

— World History Encyclopedia (@whencyclopedia) December 16, 2015

By the end the Roman Republic, illicit and extra-marital sex was seen to be damaging and rampant… https://t.co/QIFNBS1jb5

— HistoryExtra (@HistoryExtra) December 16, 2015

Nikephoros Bibliography of Sport in Antiquity https://t.co/Kc0aLUY17l

— Yale Classics Lib (@YaleClassicsLib) December 16, 2015

Pyxis (cosmetic box) lid decorated with a relief of Medusa, the Gorgon. Made in Apulia, c.330-300 BC #BritishMuseum pic.twitter.com/j4gYDoks6D

— Dr Paula Lock (@PaulaLock5) December 16, 2015

Read the latest @TheAtlantic article by @candidamoss & @JoelBaden entitled, "Can Hobby Lobby Buy the Bible?" https://t.co/uH0wRQf3zL

— Robert R. “Dr. Bob” Cargill (@xkv8r) December 16, 2015

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

– "L'Apothéose d'Homère", 1827 – Musée du Louvre, Paris – pic.twitter.com/EkJJGxmbH6

— Olga Tuleninova 🦋 (@olgatuleninova) December 16, 2015

Spotted at Largo Argentina- Princess Leia on her way to #theForceAwakens pic.twitter.com/3IJSjxhQVt

— Darius Arya (@DariusAryaDigs) December 16, 2015

@GuyChamberland @iandavidmorris No one gets death threats for questioning the historicity of Lycurgus or the reliability of early Livy.

— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) December 16, 2015

@ginlindzey 'is it supposed to do tjat'?

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) December 17, 2015

Splendours of the Dead: 'Greeks' exhibition review.
Funerary masks, Archontiko, 6th BChttps://t.co/8cbSLswsSY pic.twitter.com/l4IywEiZ7F

— Pythika (@Pythika) December 16, 2015

@GuyChamberland @iandavidmorris IMO cos classics emerged from a Christian tradition: it's secularised patristics. https://t.co/zMTIsScRVA

— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) December 16, 2015

@holland_tom I find too many classicists argue, from the absence of other evidence, that texts must there4 be accepted ─ NO. @iandavidmorris

— Guy Chamberland (@GuyChamberland) December 16, 2015

Christopher Smith introducing @holland_tom for his 'Whores and the House of Caesar' lecture #Dynasty #Dinosty pic.twitter.com/NpIt2ldOxc

— British School at Rome (@the_bsr) December 16, 2015

Literacy through Classics in primary classroom teaching resource website now official after months of work! https://t.co/Ij75uRuzyV

— Evelien Bracke (@Evelien_Bracke) December 16, 2015

"The Romans would have loved Twitter" – @holland_tom
'Whores and the House of Caesar' lecture @the_bsr #Dynasty pic.twitter.com/GyQ4igDpoy

— British School at Rome (@the_bsr) December 16, 2015

Doing some #photography today-trusty Parthenon steed (replica) & #Minerva to keep me company in storage @ROMtoronto pic.twitter.com/Q4wYuJDdhF

— Dr Kay Sunahara (@KaySunahara) December 16, 2015

The mystery is solved. #TheForceAwakens pic.twitter.com/eT9qCQHKrr

— W. Ryan Dodge (@wrdodger) December 16, 2015

CALL. 25.01.2016: Roman Provincial Calendars and the Hemerologia – #London #England #callforpapers https://t.co/SNAN4KQnBG

— Fasti Congressuum (@fasticongress) December 16, 2015

A Greek inscription on a column in ancient Thira.
📷Gareth Fabbro. pic.twitter.com/RdtR7RuJBM

— Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) December 16, 2015

Ovid as the 'proto-hipster' @holland_tom answering a question asked by @UKinItaly #dynasty#WhoresandtheHouseofCaesar https://t.co/UnzW2FHO7Q

— British School at Rome (@the_bsr) December 16, 2015

A wonderful roller coaster of a lecture by @holland_tom @the_bsr with #whores, #hipsters & #metrosexuals pic.twitter.com/rQ4XAd5ZUN

— Stephen Kay (@stephenjohnkay) December 16, 2015

Adonis' blood transforms into anemone flowers. Hans Bol was born #otd in 1534 https://t.co/rzXXggG2as pic.twitter.com/ayBHMgG8iV

— Getty (@GettyMuseum) December 16, 2015

The remains of the #Roman Legionary bath house under the Pub #York #Eboracum #archaeology pic.twitter.com/hWz2y7Rl13

— Pete Savin (@pete_savin) December 15, 2015

Gold earrings with Ganymede and the eagle pic.twitter.com/750hRN7qVC

— Ancient Greek Hero (@AncGreekHero) December 16, 2015

Saturnalia, Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, Brumalia, Hanukkah -ancient festivals mark winter solstice. https://t.co/duLumDBNWI

— Roman Society (@TheRomanSoc) December 16, 2015

Flavian Amphitheatre, circa 1860 pic.twitter.com/wGuB0pk7n1

— Roman History (@romanhistory1) December 16, 2015

Lo único bueno que tiene estudiar historia es que paso más tiempo en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional que en mi casa. pic.twitter.com/hHGL1TwNtM

— martín (@MART1111N) December 16, 2015

Just saw #TheForceAwakens in Rome- afterward had a few drinks with Leia & a Wookie to decompress and take it all in pic.twitter.com/loC1cko86Q

— Darius Arya (@DariusAryaDigs) December 16, 2015

Phaistos disk unlocked again?https://t.co/E4crZwTG1R pic.twitter.com/j8jurUgUAR

— The Classics Library (@StephenJenkin) December 16, 2015

Romans in America – Smoking Gun Proof: Startling new report on Oak Island is set to ‘rewrite histo… https://t.co/s6PbMJjxG2 via @TFCommander

— Metal Detectives Group (@DetectingDigsUK) December 16, 2015

@DetectingDigsUK @TFCommander that sword ain't Roman

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) December 17, 2015

"#Circe porge da bere ai compagni di Ulisse" del Parmigianino, in mostra @ #MuseiCapitolini https://t.co/xngqbnubps pic.twitter.com/RGgE45Yztb

— Musei in Comune Roma (@museiincomune) December 16, 2015

One for @OU_Classics MA students! https://t.co/zUQyDDoUS2

— Emma Bridges (@emmabridges) December 16, 2015

The Very Hungry Caterpillar reinvented as The Very Angry Achilles – brilliant! https://t.co/vDn5oKOesH

— Emma Bridges (@emmabridges) December 16, 2015

RT @AquincumMuseum: Fragment of #Roman military diploma from Aquincum https://t.co/DDj8Ug4kFU #RomanMuseum #Budapest pic.twitter.com/mzRFQ6ORXE

— Roman Society (@TheRomanSoc) December 16, 2015

Caligula enjoyed dressing up abusing, humiliating people: the Romans enjoyed the gossip Tom Holland Dynasty @the_bsr pic.twitter.com/elXMsTMsj9

— Letizia Ceccarelli (@lc368) December 16, 2015

Happy #Saturnalia eve! Can't wait for the start of the festive season tomorrow. Io, Io! pic.twitter.com/CezFzbsSj7

— Following Hadrian (@carolemadge) December 16, 2015

See over 200 objects excavated from the ancient site of #ROMpeii @ROMtoronto. Until Jan. 3. https://t.co/iGRPDk7Bsz pic.twitter.com/VObjOmy8ZP

— Explore Ontario (@ExploreON) December 16, 2015

"80 and 18" by John William Godward, 1898 pic.twitter.com/stjsDk7OyE

— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) December 16, 2015

"Priestess of Bacchus" by John William Godward, 1890 pic.twitter.com/4izulmB6FD

— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) December 16, 2015

'Marmoreal grandeur' – Glen Bowersock on #Dynasty https://t.co/HLtq6ls1DL

— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) December 16, 2015

Even Homer nods… https://t.co/dID8HzD94L

— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) December 16, 2015

@holland_tom it's the formulaic repetitions, the same wondrous platitudes…

— mary beard (@wmarybeard) December 16, 2015

@ClassAssocNI @rogueclassicist @holland_tom @pompei79 @JohnCleese ugh. Hollande – use vocative, Romam – to Rome.

— Armand D'Angour (@ArmandDAngour) December 16, 2015

11th Moisa Summer Seminar on Ancient Greek and Roman Music https://t.co/EhUbBSJZqw

— SCS (@scsclassics) December 16, 2015

CFP: Ancient Hellenic & Roman Music Conference 2016 https://t.co/w8NEPwniVp

— SCS (@scsclassics) December 16, 2015

CFP: Praying and Contemplating: Religious and Philosophical Interactions in Late Antiquity https://t.co/iBGJEsRTXh

— SCS (@scsclassics) December 16, 2015

Oxford Summer School in Greek Palaeography https://t.co/IYsneXA8vE

— SCS (@scsclassics) December 16, 2015

A child of #Egypt from 2000 years ago. A touching funerary portrait of humanity and pathos. #history pic.twitter.com/QuA6TbYvvT

— Matthew Ward Hunter (@HistoryNeedsYou) December 16, 2015

'#Greek gov’t changes course on #ParthenonMarbles.' https://t.co/rm9oyARzAQ #Greece #History pic.twitter.com/0pxjNJcHjd

— World History Encyclopedia (@whencyclopedia) December 17, 2015

@MariusHollenga @DetectingDigsUK @TFCommander it's burning my eyes

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) December 17, 2015

Archaeologist Claims to Have Unlocked Phaistos Disk Mystery | https://t.co/eGiuSzZWBU – https://t.co/ftqiosPpDf

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) December 17, 2015