So, a New Year's give-away! A silver denarius from the rule of Marcus Aurelius. Minted in AD 171, it must have passed through all manner of hands... (2 images of the coin are followed by what a better example looks like.) To enter, just RT this message and be sure to follow us!

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

Mi Mortadelo x Disco Elysium ya está terminado 👀

Our second Summer Loeb Draw! All five volumes of Plautus' comedies, containing 21 plays edited by one of the great Classicists of our age. To enter, just retweet this message and we'll draw a random follower from the list on Friday 21 June! Anyone can enter, so good luck to all.

Ok, Loeb give-away number 3: all 5 volumes of the lovely Greek Anthology, Propertius on the thrills & spills of love, Lucan on civil chaos, Cicero on the meaning of life, & Gellius on trivia worth knowing. Draw will be on Wed 3 July. Just retweet & follow us to be in the running!

On to Loeb Give-away IV: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Hesiod & the Homeric Hymns, Cicero on the gods, Catullus & Tibullus on love and loss, Ovid lustily on the same (sometimes roleplaying as famous women), and Marcus Aurelius' tutor on all sorts. Just RT this before draw on 11 July!

Os traigo un sorteo de una edición coleccionista de Blasphemous 2! Genial metroidvania y personalmente el MEJOR juego que se ha hecho en España. Para participar: (hasta el 19 de julio) - Seguir a Selecta Play ya The Game Kitchen. - Dar RT. - Residir en España. #publicidad

OK, our final -and biggest- Loeb give-away for the summer: 31 of them by the looks of it! Sophocles, Euripides, Cicero, Sallust, Suetonius, and the dirtiest poet of all, Martial in 3 vols. Draw 10pm Thurs BST: just RT and follow us before then! And vote below for 1 or 2 winners!

Up next on #UniversityChallenge, our Imperial team will be playing Manchester in the first round. Tune in on Monday 16th September to see how they do!

Haven’t done one of these in a while! Well done Imperial College London and good show The University of Manchester. #universitychallenge Amol Rajan Roger Tilling #quizzymonday #bbcquiznight #quiznight #caricature #speeddrawing

Max Verstappen: "I have a quick question! I dont see any British press. They had to run to the airport? Or they didn't know where the press conference is?" YOU LITTLE MEANCE

It's a new year and a new episode of #UniversityChallenge! 🚨 Join us in wishing luck to the team as they take on the formidable Wadham College tonight at 20.30 on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer 📺

With rounds on mathematics, musical theatre and sushi...what a match! 🍣🎭 Congratulations to #OurImperial team on their latest #UniversityChallenge win, and respectful commiserations to @WadhamOxford 💙 We can't wait to see who we are up against next! 👀

General of the Shang Dynasty (1600 –1046 BC), which ruled China’s Central Plain during the Bronze Age

OK: the interest is clear, so here we go! The All-of-Cicero Give-away could win you the complete works of Tully, in Latin, in 1 vol (printed 1850, since rebound & sturdy). Just retweet this message, make sure you follow us, and a winner will be picked at random on Friday evening!

Thanks to a couple of generous readers, we now have some further examples of egregiously deaccessioned books to give away: these things belong in the hands of people who will actually cherish them. There are six items. As usual, just retweet this message to enter the raffle;

Now for our latest books give-away: 38 Classics books to be raffled off for free. Just RT this message, follow us, and we will make the draw on Monday 9 June. 1st name gets 20 books, 2nd 12, 3rd 6. Open to all, good luck! (Will post details and photos of each book this evening.)

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"The oligarchs of 411 BC maintained that they wanted to restore the long-lost greatness of Athens and the legendary, mythologized 'ancestral constitution', supposed to be entirely free of the radicalism and chaos of contemporary democratic politics." Hmm. antigonejournal.com/2021/12/atheni…

Automáticamente yo cada vez que leo que alguien dice que Estados Unidos invade países para salvaguardar la democracia de esos países...