Great online exhibition on censorship of #LGBTQ + literature & the fight back against raids on Gay's The Word.

Delighted our wonderful Durham Classics and Ancient History has been ranked 6th in the world. Will always be #1 for me, though!

Delighted that my version of Iphis & Ianthe from Ovid’s Met. is published today on lesbiantiquity.lgbt #QueerClassics #Ovid

A great thread of some of the many in #Classics who are working to make our discipline more diverse, inclusive, & equal. So many positives here!

Durham looking mistily lovely this morning.

Happy bunny day, if you celebrate.

The North East of England is the best place I have ever lived - it’s a shame that it’s not better known than it is.

This looks great! I was really happy to be able to make a pop up Kama Sutra part of my exhibition of #Phi books Bodleian Libraries - does Cambridge University Library have one of those?!

Weather still a bit unsure but so pleased to see definite signs of spring in the garden.

Out of office (or OOO, as my fabulous PS friend calls it) on. Looking forward to a nice break, rest & recuperation, & family time. Part of me wants to try writing a new chapter for the book, but it can wait.

It was a delight to celebrate last week with the honorand, contributors, and my co-editor the publication of an edited volume on elegy in honour of my PhD supervisor, Stephen Heyworth. wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/essays-on…

The JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School has 364 followers on Twitter (‘X’, if you must 😂). Can you help us hit 500 followers by April? Yep, 500! We’re an ambitious bunch!

#JACTDurhamLatin
#JACTDurhamGreek
#JACTDurhamHomericHero

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows sententiae antiquae mary beard Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE Prof. Michael Scott

Actually, USS, I am not sure you *do* want to hear from me about what I think about you ...

There are few things I hate more than doing 'life admin'. But today I have done 5 things that fall into that category, and it does feel good to have got them out of the way. Maybe I'll go all the way and do the 6th and final thing I think I have to do ...

Happy birthday, A. E. Housman, botd in 1859. I’m reworking essays on him today but will make time to re-read some of my favourite poems too.

Home from Oxford & while I was away, spring has definitely sprung!

I love beautiful Oxford & it’s home to some of my favourite people (who I will miss), but, oh, the joy of following road signs home to “The North”.

Just tried to get into the Bodleian using a National Trust membership card instead of Bod card. Oops.

Great to see a new Ovidian translation out on #Lesbiantiquity on the day after Ovid's birthday.

I know it’s wrong of me but I can’t help but be amused at various conversations of strangers that I’ve overheard while in Oxford. A lot of earnest & idealistic research students. I remember my cohort was rather more jaded & cynical …