For anyone considering applying for a PGCE in Latin / Classics, the article below offers guidance for UK courses. #Classics #pgce cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/10/…

You know, I've been working in Classics all my adult life. I completed a PhD in Latin literature when I was 24. I've written hundreds of thousands of words for blogs, and won awards for outreach. But this is the first time anything I've written has made it into an actual book.

GET IT, GET IT, GET IT (I also wrote one little entry myself!)

A pretty damning first five years of Brexit, quantified here rather neatly.

Thank you so much to the 1338 people who have read the You Are Odysseus preview so far! If you haven’t yet: YAOLJB.Wordpress.com NOW! 5 years in the writing, full book coming this year! See what other people are saying about it at the link!

i’m so excited & grateful to have been a part of this project - very much looking forward to seeing everyone’s hard work in print next month!

Mary Beard has endorsed a book that I have contributed to. I think I can retire here. Thanks again INACTIVE - workingclassicists.bsky.social for the opportunity, support and sheer hard work 💕🏺🎉

These bodies come to an end; But that vast embodied Self is ageless, fathomless, eternal. - Bhagavad Gita, 2.18

Words cannot express how much I hate this casting decision

Does anyone know where I can watch Seneca - On the Creation of Earthquakes (2023)??? It looks wild and whacky but I simply cannot find it anywhere online and DVDs seem to be around £30 - bizarre!

mubi: here are movies me: that's great, can i watch one mubi: are you fucking stupid. no

The Death of Icarus, by Alexandre Cabanel, French (1823-1889)

I’m running a half marathon! Unlike the original Ancient Greek marathon runner Pheidippides, I’m hoping to not collapse and die when I finish! Check out my JustGiving page and please donate to FORCE Cancer Charity if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/oliver-ma…

This year, I have been striding for Palestinians in aid of Medical Aid for Palestinians. Starting on Nakba Day, I have completed 107km in one month and virtually covered the distance from Occupied East Jerusalem to Gaza. You can still donate here: medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/oliver-mayn…

"Dissent for me, not for thee"

Televised Roman-style decimation was not on my political bingo card for 2025 ngl

I like to imagine if there is an afterlife, Diogenes is having a jolly good chuckle right now

Ralph Fiennes should have been cast as Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun reboot