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To celebrate #WorldTurtleDay a #Roman mosaic depicting a turtle, from the Basilica of Aquilea, 4th C. The day was created in 2000 by the #AmericanTortoiseRescue to raise awareness about turtles & tortoises, their disappearing habitats, & to encourage their protection.

I've just finished indexing Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE's and Edith Hall's terrific and eye-opening history of Classical Civilisation in British secondary education liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.38…

On #YoyoDay2025 a delightful image you could find in the bottom of a wine-cup when you'd drained it circa 420 BCE. Made in Athens. Now in Berlin.

On #BlackBearDay2025 a mosaic from the Villa Fortunatus in Zaragoza, made in the 4th century CE. Love the Arbutus berries

So today, while editing book on the Afterlives of the Aeneid’s Women, I come across this at a tacky local stately home. Aeneas is LITERALLY TRAMPLING on Creusa to get the menfolk away from Troy Richard Poynder

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@edithmayhall I asked ChatGPT to re-imagine the statue such that Creusa did not look like she was being trampled.

On #WorldPetMemorialDay an ancient Athenian dog sarcophagus and a tomb inscription for a dog from Gaul called Margarita (Pearl) in the British Museum. I'm still missing our late beloved Finlay terribly.

Thurs. 19 June 1700, late antique luminary Prof Tim Whitmarsh's lecture! 5:00 pm, 'Translation as imperialism: Late Greek Poetics and the Hebrew Bible'. Durham Classics Ritson Room and online, for which register events.teams.microsoft.com/event/238c0981… Tim Whitmarsh

Wow! What a brilliant first day for the Style & Substance workshop. Terrific papers ranging from the #Analytics to the #Poetics and thought-provoking discussions after each. Lots of food for thought and more to come..Roll on Day 2! #Aristotle #style #philosophy

On #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour two vases showing the seamy side of domestic slavery in classical Athens and reminding us who had to supply some of those lovely ceramics when their dissipated owners needed them

On #InternationalAxeThrowingDay, a couple of Scythians showing how it's done. Don't mess with the nomads of the Steppes

We did it! Long inspiring Durham conference on style and substance in #Aristotle. The survivors! How Aristotle Writes Durham University

Just a Cupid in a rose bower for Richard Poynder on Father’s Day. At a non-tacky local stately home called Longstowe Hall

Proud dad and mum of five

This mosaic depicting a turtle was sold on an online auction house on September 7th, 2024 for $4,059.00. The website says it is 'from the early Roman period, ca. 200 BC' but names no provenance. I have my doubts, lovely as it is! antiquearena.com/lot/79275?auct…

Researching 17th-c. jokes. Monty Python's rhyme of Aristotle/bottle was anticipated in a 1651 drinking song: 'What need we take care for Platonical rules?/Or the precepts of Aristotle?/They that think to find learning in books are but fools,/True Philosophy lies in the bottle'.

Aristotle's way,how ancient wisdom can change your life by Edith Hall Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Αισχύλου Ορέστεια satrapis21 τα τρία βιβλία που ζήτησες

On #InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfSexualViolenceInConflict there are is an embarrassing number of ancient images of rape in war. Ajax 'the lesser' here drags poor Cassandra from the statue of Athena where she's taken refuge. He has it coming: he'll die on the return voyage