#HipsterGarum https://t.co/9tUlZCHqho
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) March 26, 2017
arrrrrrggggh … latest firefox update wiped out all my addons!!!!
— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) March 26, 2017
check this out … https://t.co/QtEMxxElcX
— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) March 26, 2017
The Ancient Arts Podcast, and @TheFencast are two history related podcasts with a great sense of humor #trypod @1a @lucaslivingston
— Bill Helman (@thinkpol) March 26, 2017
My students thanked me profusely last term for not making them buy a textbook. Of course, it was in part b/c there WAS no text
— Jacquelyn Clements (@peripatesis) March 26, 2017
yeah I was going to mention this too: classics is not very into textbooks (I'm glad); texts I'm assigning have no school edns
— Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird (@opietasanimi) March 26, 2017
What did the Romans ever do for us? The best latrines this side of Rome! Come and see, and the lovely walks & views! pic.twitter.com/rXKlYwFP3A
— NTHadrian'sWall&Tyne (@NTHadriansWall) March 24, 2017
Thrilled to find rare new pic of 1907 pioneering Suffragette 'protest' Medea at Savoy Theatre with Edythe Olive pic.twitter.com/32cVoBN3QI
— Edith Hall (@edithmayhall) March 26, 2017
The Seikilos #Song: the Oldest Complete Song from #Ancient #Greece. https://t.co/qsena742iW
— Ancient History Encyclopedia (@ahencyclopedia) March 26, 2017
Hacking Data Education: It's an Adventure! My comic-only poster for the DataEd Hackathon (@prpayne5) at #TBICRI17 Tues 10:30 #BigDataLand pic.twitter.com/n7iPpDh6Nn
— RedPen/BlackPen (@redpenblackpen) March 26, 2017
Very interesting Pecha Kucha session @sssbconf pic.twitter.com/MoisI9XO0n
— Pompeii Archaeology (@PompeiNecropoli) March 26, 2017
Funerary chest for the ashes of Scribonia Flacilla, daughter of Publius, died at Centuripe, aged 13 #Sicilia #epigraphy pic.twitter.com/ko4y79z0mx
— I.Sicily (@Sicilyepigraphy) March 26, 2017
About 1,700 wooden objects have been unearthed in annual excavations at Vindolanda, which was the site of nine… https://t.co/5xcxqopDJe
— Past Horizons (@PastHorizons) March 26, 2017
As familiar in today's #landscape as it was c1300-1200BC: an egret removes a tick from an ancient Greek bull https://t.co/bnlT2ZUp07 #loveit pic.twitter.com/aV7QqevFlc
— Prof Susan Oosthuizen (@DrSueOosthuizen) March 26, 2017
According to Roman accounts, the Huns brought only terror and destruction. However, research from the University… https://t.co/6V0PGBAyvh
— Past Horizons (@PastHorizons) March 26, 2017
Percy Jackson series has encouraged many to read classics egHomer's Odyssey, so what is the problem? @SianGriffiths6 https://t.co/2n6yYetFrg
— Mr Andrew Christie (@MrAJChristie) March 26, 2017
New blog post on the Roman sarcophagus @BlenheimPalace. Why has it only now been discovered? https://t.co/uitDnxaMaQ
— Chris Dickenson (@cpdickenson) March 26, 2017
@wmarybeard another 'discovery' that wasn't. The Blenheim Palace Sarcophagus. A blog post: https://t.co/uitDnxaMaQ
— Chris Dickenson (@cpdickenson) March 26, 2017
Auctus was freed by Lucius Cocceius Nerva, the man who mediated the reconciliation between Octavian and Antony in 40 BC at Brundisium.
— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) March 26, 2017
and, of course, a distant relative of Marcus Cocceius Nerva, emperor 96-98 AD.
— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) March 26, 2017
The wonderful Roman 'Deae Matres' (Mother Goddesses) found at Ancaster, Lincolnshire, in 1831; on display @collectionusher. pic.twitter.com/A4MUvd2UmV
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) March 26, 2017
Fascinating question raised on Ancient Warfare podcast: was there any equivalent of army chaplain in pre-Christian Roman Army? pic.twitter.com/7KyfIoURNW
— Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc) March 26, 2017
Now THAT's how you discover a sarcophagus! https://t.co/BMoyAVFU55
— Chris Dickenson (@cpdickenson) March 26, 2017
#RomeOnThisDay · 304AD · Saint Emmanuel is martyred (along with 42 others) during the reign of Diocletian (image). https://t.co/X3W5QzPIR1
— AIRC Roman Culture (@SaveRome) March 26, 2017
Thank u for sharing this. Museo Crypta Balbi #Rome is good eg of medieval houses built over ancient porticus and #theatre pic.twitter.com/pIohVF3ZA9
— Cultural Heritage (@archheritage3) March 26, 2017
@holland_tom @pompei79 We've found A WHOLE SHOP selling hipster garum. pic.twitter.com/wfBsYnMxd6
— Jamie Muir (@jamiembrixton) March 26, 2017
Someone's just pointed out that Medea was not the appropriate figure to tweet about on Mother's Day. So here's the exemplary mum Demeter too pic.twitter.com/Wbe6BlQdxk
— Edith Hall (@edithmayhall) March 26, 2017
One way of cutting the Gordian knot of jihadi terrorism: convert the jihadis to Christianity… https://t.co/JcwqhfrXaO H/t @GabrielSaidR
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) March 26, 2017
http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/846065346004029441
Btw most frequent Latin palindromes: non, esse, illi, ibi, ecce, tot, sumus, sis, usu & tenet.
— Patrick J. Burns (@diyclassics) March 26, 2017
New post: "Finding Palindromes in the Latin Library"—https://t.co/QIwscD7VVp #cltk #latin #wordplay
— Patrick J. Burns (@diyclassics) March 26, 2017
Korinthian Women and the Plot Against Medea https://t.co/dcUG3wjWal pic.twitter.com/UkGLkbe0Mv
— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) March 26, 2017
The 1st Triumvirate was formed in 60 BC by Pompey,Caesar & Crassus.It was not a political coalition but a secret arrangement between 3 men pic.twitter.com/iYJViIi0vP
— Roman History (@romanhistory1) March 26, 2017
Persephone as Kore holding the torch's black light into the underworld- Cyrene Museum, Lybia pic.twitter.com/5RLqF4lqvL
— Michel Lara (@VeraCausa9) March 25, 2017
Rejuvenate This: Medea's Marvelous Magic https://t.co/sdRQeAjz03 #Medea Post 1
— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) March 26, 2017
Medea's Magic Was Really a Spa Treatment https://t.co/AHzJoYyifH #Medea Post 2
— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) March 26, 2017
2D Latin #palindrome 'Sator arepo tenet opera rotas' also part of the Rotas-Sator square, found in Porta's Magiae naturalis, 1597 [H.20.32] pic.twitter.com/HbQpV0INhU
— Queens' Library (@Queens_Lib) March 15, 2017
The sentence ‘we enter the circle after dark and are consumed by fire’ is a palindrome in Latin—‘in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni’.
— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) July 10, 2015
Impressive Exhibition ‘Pompeii and the Greeks’ Opens in Italy https://t.co/IAOaIbKoqe
— Following Hadrian (@carolemadge) March 26, 2017
The secret to making Latin fun for kids? Bring them to ancient Rome… https://t.co/Ysr3Lo16ge
— AIRC Roman Culture (@SaveRome) March 26, 2017
Fave Latin palindrome at the moment—
mutatum, a word that means something has changed, but when reversed stays exactly the same.— Patrick J. Burns (@diyclassics) March 26, 2017
#RomeOnThisDay · 304AD · Saint Emmanuel is martyred (along with 42 others) during the reign of Diocletian (image). pic.twitter.com/AYJVvOps8b
— AIRC Roman Culture (@SaveRome) March 26, 2017
47D 5L: Lyre-plucking Muse
80D 4L: Bona fide#classicxwords— John (@jdmuccigrosso) March 26, 2017
Tomorrow! https://t.co/RzeDqS4PtN
— Roman Society (@TheRomanSoc) March 26, 2017
Today's Word of the Day is orogeny.
Read the full definition here: https://t.co/9ly7NzIcHt pic.twitter.com/ZxrhKiX7ow
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) March 26, 2017
http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/846091220250218496
Il magnifico pavimento a mosaico della Casa di Paquio Proculo a #Pompei. https://t.co/V9ldca5aa7 #thisweek #SundayMorning pic.twitter.com/KPfZ1Iyfc4
— Capitolivm (@Capitolivm) March 26, 2017
So many stories behind #Medea before #Euripides variant became canon. Christa Wolf has a great novel around one of these variants! https://t.co/lUBWgPRT8J
— Torie Burmeister (@mercury_witch) March 26, 2017
The feast of Castulus, traditionally chamberlain of Diocletian and husband of St Irene was martyred in Rome in 286, is celebrated #OnThisDay pic.twitter.com/pjb1aMR3qv
— CANI (@ClassAssocNI) March 26, 2017
A group of 43 martyrs under the leadership of Saint Quadratus, bishop of Anatolia, were put to death under Diocletian in c.304
— CANI (@ClassAssocNI) March 26, 2017
Roman lead bar found in #Somerset field fetches £25,000 https://t.co/4299fJEcUA #RomanBritain #Roman #Wells pic.twitter.com/d2NzzQEpUN
— Roman Britain News (@Roman_Britain) March 26, 2017
I submit that "natural causes" and "possibly assassinated" might also be "assassinated super well, top-notch work guys." https://t.co/WDH14p0b5N
— Alix E. Harrow (@AlixEHarrow) March 26, 2017
2,000 years ago a puppy scampered over a tile from Roman Leicester #NationalPuppyDay #Immortality pic.twitter.com/RKdU3t2TYx
— Pythika (@Pythika) March 23, 2017
Well said. Since I was taught Latin and Greek at my Liverpool Comp in the 70s these subjects have been virtually made exstinct in state..1/2 https://t.co/Yb8IeY67uN
— Jimmy Mulville (@hattrickster) March 26, 2017
…schools. That oaf Charles Clarke (Educ.Minister for Blair) said they were "elitist". Well they are if you remove them from free schools.
— Jimmy Mulville (@hattrickster) March 26, 2017
On Delingpole: I had no Latin or Greek until my 2nd year of University. As a professor teaching Greek 101 is a rare (unfortunately) joy.
— Dimitri Nakassis (@DimitriNakassis) March 26, 2017
Mary Beard on stonking form with her – er – expertise, showing that James Delingpole hasn't got a clue what he's talking about. https://t.co/sUtOOSzmH4
— Nathan Gower (@NathanJGower) March 26, 2017
Yes, Quintilus. Variously reported to have killed himself, had himself killed, or been stabbed to death.
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) March 26, 2017
Lovely. I'll always be grateful to Cambridge (and JACT, who gave me a Bryanston bursary) for their magnificent language teaching
— Nathan Gower (@NathanJGower) March 26, 2017
"They persist in their wicked paths, setting Tibullus in type…" https://t.co/KET5k7ZS8b
— Patrick J. Burns (@diyclassics) March 26, 2017
Fantastic feline from Gesner’s Icones Animalium "Feles, uel Catus – Gatta, uel Gatto – Chat – Katze" #Gesnerday pic.twitter.com/BN1jWPWCux
— UofGlasgowASC (@UofGlasgowASC) March 26, 2017
I'm intrigued as to why @jk_rowling has a picture of the Three Fates of Greek mythology, Clotho Lachesis and Atropos, as her header… pic.twitter.com/LSAzPm86xe
— L E Jenkinson-Brown (@LEJenksBrown) March 26, 2017
http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/846094331807256576
A warm Canadian Twitter welcome! to @PaulMcGilvery, working on his PhD (Greek historians, #Xenophon κ.τ.λ.)
— Bill Thayer 🎗️ LacusCurtius (@LacusCurtius) March 26, 2017
Some superb Egyptianizing sculpture in our new Roman Egypt display @World_Museum for fans of this later episode of Egyptian history pic.twitter.com/6iSwxhynTG
— Ashley Cooke (@EgyptCurator) March 26, 2017
#britishsummertime – an excuse to remind folk that there exists a Roman sundial in the shape of a leg of ham.https://t.co/PHwTjXK1mD pic.twitter.com/9dWBLYA3mX
— Dr Sophie Hay (@pompei79) March 25, 2017
How Aristotle Created the Computer The Atlantic… https://t.co/RVCDOdZtd1
— Yale Classics Lib (@YaleClassicsLib) March 26, 2017
dunno.. I only use it to do my explorator because it has a couple extensions chrome doesn't
— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) March 26, 2017
Saturday evening movie with the kids: Jason and the Argonauts, with @Ray_Harryhausen FX. #amwatching #Harryhausen #parenting pic.twitter.com/Uch722uZUc
— Space Force Cavalryman (@Ender108CAV) March 26, 2017
Gesner's (born #OTD 1516) "Historia Animalium" https://t.co/n6xKy6ec4Z is full of monsters. Why? https://t.co/TtgPa1jzUp #GesnerDay pic.twitter.com/zJcI6OQawX
— BHL (@BioDivLibrary) March 26, 2017
Any opinions on Ramsay's Loeb translation for #Sallust #Catiline? Trying to decide on text for upper level Latin in fall. Want Ss to read >
— Dr. Alexis M. Christensen (@AM_Christensen) March 26, 2017
all of Sallust, but don't have time to do all with Cicero Cat. I. Class is mixed 3-4th year & need to build Latin, but also cultural content
— Dr. Alexis M. Christensen (@AM_Christensen) March 26, 2017
Loeb seems like possible option to get Latin in front of Ss for whole of text, and can then focus on some passages from Sallust
— Dr. Alexis M. Christensen (@AM_Christensen) March 26, 2017
Thx Bill. Loeb has "crucified" in the translation, which is more than what ἀνασταυρῶσαι means, & 1 doesn't expect the Roman punishment here. https://t.co/ntvkUVTuWN
— Guy Chamberland (@GuyChamberland) March 26, 2017
Would like to do a bit of reception on Catiline too, so if anyone has recommendations….
— Dr. Alexis M. Christensen (@AM_Christensen) March 26, 2017
Does your library have e-access to the LCL? That's what I did for Strabo & Pliny in Classical Geography this semester.
— Hamish (@peregrinekiwi) March 26, 2017
I've met some of the state school students Delingpole derides as lightweight Classicists.They are extraordinary young people who made me 1/2
— Jimmy Mulville (@hattrickster) March 26, 2017
..glad that the 4 year Classical Tripos exists. They were every inch the dedicated knowledgable Classicists one might expect at Cambridge.
— Jimmy Mulville (@hattrickster) March 26, 2017
⭕ Rome 'gladiators' fined €800 for charging tourists for photoshttps://t.co/k00RpLyflX pic.twitter.com/FPlFq5COtn
— Archaeology in Italy (@AinItaly) March 26, 2017
CALL 01.06.2017 Between nostos and exilium: "home" in on-screen representat… (@ 2017Film&History) #Milwaukee #USAhttps://t.co/K2tHs33CLA
— Fasti Congressuum (@fasticongress) March 26, 2017
Our next public talk will be Dr Katerina Kolotourou on ‘Greek Percussion’ @QueensUBelfast @QUB_History on 6th April 6.45pm pic.twitter.com/qVSS7IwdSh
— CANI (@ClassAssocNI) March 26, 2017
Un capolavoro dei Musei Capitolini al giorno. Info: https://t.co/PixgEtsMOX pic.twitter.com/LqC2FAAkbx
— Musei in Comune Roma (@museiincomune) March 26, 2017
http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/846098477151113216
Keeping with today's theme—a word-square bot: @each_wordsquare pic.twitter.com/K6QqPG4vAg
— Patrick J. Burns (@diyclassics) March 26, 2017
http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/846099242410217472
The famous Torlonia collection will go back on display #RomanArt #Torlonia #Rome https://t.co/HOaMFuy7NZ pic.twitter.com/RA4gZt2pos
— Mantha Zarmakoupi (@mzarmakoupi) March 26, 2017
I wonder if the constant conflation of impale/crucify might not be due to the sedile on the Roman cross?
— Bill Thayer 🎗️ LacusCurtius (@LacusCurtius) March 26, 2017
Saddened to hear of Prof. Louis Feldman's passing, we lost a great man and scholar of #Josephus & #Judaism in #GrecoRoman periods. @YUNews.
— Int'l Catacomb Society – http://www.catacombsociety.org (@CatacombSociety) March 26, 2017
Remembering Louis Feldman z"l – rereading one of my fav articles of his: "Abraham the Greek Philosopher in Josephus" https://t.co/kcQ5FEXUw7
— Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed (@AnnetteYReed) March 26, 2017
That Beard and Delingpole thing has got me remembering just how amazing the language teaching for Greek at Cambridge was.
— Nathan Gower (@NathanJGower) March 26, 2017
Marble statue of Artemis,7th c.BC.Found in Delos island,Cyclades,Greece pic.twitter.com/jk8q2sARlf
— Ioannis Tz (@tzoumio) March 24, 2017
What else then? (I'm confused, rather than helped, by the richness of TAPA 39 https://t.co/13SX6daCGp …)
— Bill Thayer 🎗️ LacusCurtius (@LacusCurtius) March 26, 2017
— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) March 26, 2017
My impression is that the noun can refer equally to a pointed or not-pointed beam of wood.
— Bruce Robertson (@heml) March 26, 2017
Yes, σταυρος = upright pale/stake, but some verbal derivatives mean "deserving to be suspended/nailed to a stake"
— Guy Chamberland (@GuyChamberland) March 26, 2017
How can a professor use virtual reality in the classroom for art that’s not contemporary? https://t.co/5TqMnhSkx6 @a_h_t_r pic.twitter.com/FpJrM648kE
— CAA Advancing Art & Design (@caavisual) March 24, 2017
Christ walking on the water, healing the paralytic & as the Good Shepherd. Hauntingly early… (mid 3rd century) #DuraEuropos pic.twitter.com/lGoCNrGREI
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) March 26, 2017
It makes sense if death is by suspension on a pale/stake. I suppose the books by Cook & Samuelsson on crucifixion address all this.
— Guy Chamberland (@GuyChamberland) March 26, 2017
The healing of a blind man is depicted on this 4th c. sarcophagus from #Rome (btm right register)https://t.co/1BkUYApbR4#Bible #art #Italy
— Arthur Urbano 🇮🇹🇻🇦🇬🇷🇹🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇧🇪🇫🇷🇸🇪 (@arturoviaggia) March 26, 2017
but left like that is death by suspension
— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) March 26, 2017
flaying is added feature.. Like nails for crucifixion
— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) March 26, 2017
. @LacusCurtius @GuyChamberland Impaled Romans sat on a cross with a sharpened top branch. Cf Maecenas Fr. 4. Quoted https://t.co/WdeW2ftdJ1
— Michael Hendry (@Curculiunculus) March 26, 2017
but the sculpture is of the suffering beforehand.. Which is a very roman punishment imahd
— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) March 26, 2017
I think that's the underlying theme of the contest of muses and sirens… Eg my cover photo
— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) March 26, 2017
image… Let them know they are dying
— rogueclassicist (@rogueclassicist) March 26, 2017