And did extra Latin for fun! Chapeau

A superb effort!

Lovely to see the A-Level taking people in so many varied directions. The Circe episode is a disturbing one with women as the danger to masculinity followed by Odysseus asserting patriarchal power through waving his "sword" and sex at knifepoint.

Just came back to a card from one of last year's students. She and I differed on whether the Aeneid was better than Homer and had lovely arguments. Intelligent students with their own ideas always make me happy.

Really enjoyed Armand D'Angour on Symposium. I have always felt that Alcibiades at the end shows the success of Socrates in climbing the metaphysical ladder so that he is unmoved by the sexy Alcibiades; nice to hear a different reading. shows.acast.com/6666bdd17f00f6…

One missing word; a whole world of incest. Sometimes marking has gems to lift the soul.

I have a student wanting to EPQ on this text and just looking at the contents this will be the gift that keeps on giving.

I have today loaned my copy of Daniel Mendelsohn 's Cavafy to the news head of English with all my favourites picked out. I think that makes 5 loans and 4 gift purchases. I just keep coming back to it.

The impossibly elegant, swan-necked portrait of a Flavian lady named the 'Fonseca Bust'. Looking behind her tower of curls reveals the complex hairstyle and braids. A patrician woman would have had one or more enslaved ornatices - hairstylists - to maintain it. 1/ 📸 me

An absolute absence of consensus about responsibility in Aeneid IV today (except that Juno and Venus are malevolent). Attempts to push more blame towards Dido came in for significant resistance. I do like having engaged (and engaging) students who disagree with me and each other.

"I suppose we live in the shallows of one another's personalities and cannot really see into the depths beneath" (Lawrence Durrell's Balthazar). Durrell Society always something moving in Durrell.

We plan to read some Juvenal as part of the A-level Classics Soc (so it doesn't need to be expurgated). Does anyone have a good translation with explanatory notes they would recommend?

Reading mary beard's Emperor of Rome. How have I got until today without knowing Augustus had a pet goat he took with him on sea voyages!? Greek anthology IX. 224

Every year when we embark on Seneca in Cambridge OCR Classics, we think of Dr. Liz Gloyn and are grateful!

Marking mocks and have enjoyed hearing the stoic Sage described as "The Stoic Influencer". That sounds about right.

A year's wait is almost up. I loved Daniel Mendelsohn's Cavafy and use his essay on Virgil in class, so have very high hopes for this.

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Time to write out some Leavers' prizes. I couldn't really see how it could not be Daniel Mendelsohn 's Odyssey (although were there a nice Ahl Virgil edition...). I am hoping that this Penguin Books UK translation will replace the Rieu for Cambridge OCR Classics at some point.

Setting work for Year 12 just digging into Imperial Image and Odyssey. Without planning it that way it's a double mary beard: masculine self-assertion as kyrios in Odyssey 1 and some work on military triumphs too.