Save the date! On 28 & 29 June 2021 the King's Greek Play will be performed online, and will take a radical new and creative direction. /1

☀️ #OnThisDay #Caligula was elected emperor by the Senate of Rome. At first he was highly popular & his rule was liberal. But after an illness (or poisoning?), he became diabolical. His cruelty, and also financial crises & famine caused by his expenses provoqued people's hatred.

#OnThisDay in 44BC, as his ex-soldiers fill Rome, Caesar's will is read in public revealing significant gifts to large sections of the population. Much to Antony's chagrin, the reading of Caesar's will also revealed a new heir to the Caesarian name - one Gaius Octavius

We’re excited about the upcoming Virtual Oxbridge #Classics Open Day which we’re hosting on 29th March 2021 with Classics@Cambridge. Today, we’ve launched the programme👇🏼 Pupils & teachers can register until 24/3/21: join us! ⁦⁩Oxford Undergraduate Admissions Humanities Division clasoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/oxford-and-cam…

theguardian.com/world/2021/mar… A terrifying window into the last minutes of the citizens of Pompeii

🏛️ The Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome is now open to the public for the first time in years, but visiting remains impossible for most. For the time being, here's an interactive history of the site (complete with 3-D models) from Roma: experience.mausoleodiaugusto.it/en/intro #ClassicsTwitter

I have stumbled across this Youtube channel 'Odyssey' which has gathered a range of very useful historical documentaries, especially good for teachers of the classical subjects.

"Qualis artifex pereo!" ("What an artist dies in me."). #OnThisDay in AD 68, emperor Nero committed suicide. ⚱️

It's the anniversary of the very day Troy fell, 11 June 1184 BCE (Dionysius of Halicarnassus) or 1183 (Eratosthenes in his Chronographies). Either way, here (1) the Trojan Horse on a jar found on Mykonos (2) Romare Bearden's Fall of Troy (1979) conceived with African personnel

Today 1184BC Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes

Today: Edward Gibbon and his masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire bbc.in/3zuqqQo 9am BBC Radio 4

Pompey the Great arrived in Egypt & was assassinated on 28 September 48BC, aged 57 & the day before his 58th birthday. He was seeking aid from the Pharaoh, Ptolemy XIII, in his ongoing civil war with Julius Caesar. Those advising the boy king thought it safer to kill Pompey.

Nero exhibition with Sixth Form Classics students

Roman town’s remains found below Northamptonshire field on HS2 route theguardian.com/science/2022/j…

Help please: a friend has two Year 13 students whose Classics A Level teachers have been axed, along with the course, by the school. I only have GCSE resources. Has anyone readily available resources for A Level CCiv they wouldn’t mind sharing? #Classicstwitter #ClassicsTeacher

‘Exquisite’ Roman figure found on HS2 dig in Buckinghamshire theguardian.com/science/2022/j…

Where I learned Latin (some years ago). It's a terrific school.

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What better day than #WorldHeritageDay2023 to plea yet again for the British Museum to DO THE RIGHT THING and send the Parthenon Sculptures back to their homeland and the staggering The Acropolis Museum with its view of their original setting? British Committee (BCRPM)