Newnham College @llewelyn_morgan Cambridge University mary beard Someone told me that Joyce Reynolds told off a certain Libyan leader for not looking after the monuments of his country. True?

Is there an #Icelandic version of Monopoly and, if so, what is the equivalent of Park Lane/Mayfair? Inspired by Iceland

Ventris! Nice he's got a plaque! #linearB x.com/Robinson_IP/st…

Good to visit the new National Library of Greece, in the impressive and huge new Niarchos cultural centre. Excellent audience for #Byzantium and some challenging questions

Best bit of advice - given by a friend, who was minister in the Scottish Episcopalian Church in Ardrossan (met in Cornmarket during St Giles' Fair YEARS ago) - "Everyone fits in here". #OxfordOpenDay Oxford Classics Outreach x.com/TrinityOxAcces…

Newsflash: Macron imposes statewide Cherry Bakewells. ift.tt/2KfW1iH

A bit like buying a ready-made supermarket Caipirinha. "Okay it's not like sitting in a beach cafe in Ipanema or Leblon sipping it but...well, it's just NOT!" x.com/Twhittermarsh/…

Dani Dyer would have been a cracking addition to Aeneid 4. #lovelsland

Just heard from someone out there that the only book on the shelves (or in the Catalogue) on Roman or Late Antique or Byzantine History at Prince Mohammad University in Al Khobar Saudi Arabia is Cameron, Averil. _The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity 395-600..

A bit of Greek myth: Richard Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos. Gundula Janowitz, possibly the most beautiful soprano voice of the 20th century, unforgettable in Ariadne's "Lass meine Schmerzen nicht verloren sein" - Let my sorrows be not forgotten at 3'42" youtu.be/KwhGFbQpiRA?t=…

Highly paid individuals can be exceptionally good at creating their own hype, but the truth is surprisingly few people are genuinely so special that the world would end if they left. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Dr James Corke-Webster King's College London gave the 1st lecture of term for our Classical Society. He spoke on "The Last Letter of Jesus" + introduced us to some fascinating ideas about Eusebius' method & about historiography. Great start! MEMO: must find my Prezi password again!

Turn the wireless on!

Ammianus is beginning to sound a little bit like Roger Ackroyd

And the most vitriolic form this ODIUM takes is detecting a false quantity. I have heard that Housman never spoke again to a colleague over something like that

There is something fishy about the death of Otho in AD69. "He awoke at dawn and promptly stabbed himself....at first he could not decide whether to conceal or reveal the wound [to his attendants], which proved fatal. They buried him at once." Suetonius 11 Hmmm! But m'lud...

Our most successful tweet so far - out of 845 - has been about #cherries! (and #Lucullus) 🙂

It is hard to equate the #Otho of #Tacitus/#Suetonius with the #Ottone of #Monteverdi L'incoronazione di Poppea, incomparably sung here by Paul Esswood. youtube.com/watch?v=H2KLF6…

And the video is a fine tribute to Nikolaus #Harnoncourt (Johann Nikolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d’Harnoncourt-Unverzagt 1929 – 2016). Got to know this work first in his recording. Yes, things have moved on in the world of Baroque performance practice but he was THE pioneer.