"The true meaning of the Christmas story will not be revealed until Easter – or possibly much later ..." (Mervyn King, then Governor of the Bank of England, commenting on pre- Christmas 2004 consumer spending).

Celebration of #Theophaneia (Holy Epiphany in the small island of Symi, Greece. According to tradition, a cross is throwing into the water by a priest and men & women plunge into the waters to catch it. Whoever manage to catch it is believed to be blessed. Χρόνια πολλά!

Next Thursday (18th) at 6 pm we're hosting our 2024 Classics Lecture: 'Sappho of Lesbos: the Tenth Muse of Ancient Greece'. Our speaker Patrick Finglass is a prof at Bristol & edited The Cambridge Companion to Sappho. Tickets are free and Dartford is just 42 mins from Waterloo...

If you'd like to come to Dartford Grammar for this event, email Mr Herman at [email protected].

We are very grateful to Prof. Patrick Finglass of Bristol Classics for joining us at Dartford Grammar yesterday. His words of wisdom for our aspiring Hellenists in the afternoon and his lecture on Sappho in the evening were both superb.

A quiet moment after breakfast to appreciate the beauty of our Elizabethan hall 💚 #jesuscollegeoxford #oxford #collegespaces 📷 Andrew Ogilvy

THE LORD OF THE RINGS Written & Directed by Martin Scorsese

#ΗμέραΕλληνικήςΓλώσσας

Reverse Cardiff University's decision to cut ancient languages - Sign the Petition! chng.it/CbcpfBq6 via Change.org UK

Arctic fox.. 😊

Stations of the Cross in a torchlit Colosseum on the night of Good Friday

- I want the most French ambassador humanly possible - no, that’s too French

Incredible! 97-year-old WW2 paratrooper vet returns to Normandy to recreate his D-Day jump. 🫡🫡

Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus.

Thread of surreal archeological discoveries 🧵 1. Roman mosaic found under Italian vineyard

Palermo Cathedral, ⛪️ located in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy, 🇮🇹 dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. #Sicily #chiesepalermo

At Jac-O-Bites Cafe in Mallaig, enjoying a Walker's shortbread finger (a confection to which Moon Pavilion is partial, as I recall).

If you have 30 seconds to spare and wish to make an attempt to save Latin in the state sector, signing and sharing this petition will be a very helpful step forward. (We have a powerful piece on this issue appearing today.) Roman History mary beard Following Hadrian The Cultural Tutor

One of my favourites.