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Did a "Byzantine Emperor's" style pork belly, an 800 plus year old recipe, marinated in vinegar, honey, garum and garlic with fresh herbs from the garden, served with saffron butter rice, a dish fit for an emperor indeed, i can verify it! 😁😁😁

I am THRILLED to announce janus-project.org a new initiative for the study of language and text between Greco-Roman and East Asian Classics which 劉可歆 Cynthia Liu and I have been dreaming up. Friends and classicist colleagues, please share!

1st century BC mosaic disc portrays the symbols and names of each of the nine muses and their mother Mnemosyne surrounding the central figure of Apollo’s lyre. 🏛 Archaeological Museum of Elis, Greece #ClassicsTwitter #MosaicMonday

"He who saves his Country does not violate any Law," as recently tweeted by POTUS. But that is what Cicero claimed after 63 BC, and he was sent into exile nonetheless

Will remember to teach this on Tuesday. Thank you, dear Mary! 🤗

Thank you, Goliath for this great cover. 🤗 Odysseus in Ithaca: Scroll 24.542. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Athena tells Odysseus to stop fighting. youtu.be/Nf9PVkG3p4A

Came home tired from work, looked outside at the backyard- wow the flowers! The blue sky! Felt like springtime so I stepped outside. No filter- it’s really that bright right now in SoCal. 🤗

My dear friend Greg Woolf lecturing at UC Berkeley for Sather Classical lectures series! 😊Can’t be there in person, so doing this by Zoom: A Sather Lecture by Greg Woolf Zoom Link: berkeley.zoom.us/j/98041557469 mary beard He mentions your book, Mary! 😃

State Convention, CAJCL I lectured about ancient stringed instruments - more than 100 people participated as I asked them questions about music & myth & stringed instruments! 😃 Also, my students won 3rd place in State Finals for Grammar/History/Culture competition! 🎉

An amazing opening night at Bowers Museum for World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi! 😃 Tianlong Jiao (Chief Curator) gave a fascinating lecture, introduced by my longtime friend Sean O’Harrow (President & CEO). Bowers Museum

Spotify,YouTube, etc!! 😃😃Finally!!! Achilles, Patroclus, and Briseis: Iliad 19 and 23. (Bettina Joy de Guzman) 23.13 χαῖρέ μοι ὦ Πάτροκλε καὶ εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοισι: Πάντα γὰρ ἤδη τοι τελέω τὰ πάροιθεν ὑπέστην “Hail Patroclus, even in the house of Hades…”

open.spotify.com/track/6JYjwWKC… written upon request by Madeline Miller, for New York Public Library/ WNYC/ Get Lit/ All of It, for her interview regarding The Song of Achilles. I was thrilled!

I told David Pino, album cover artist, to get inspiration from the Agia Triada sarcophagus in Southeast Crete, which shows us the first Greek lyre. The one “Briseis” is holding is a replica that I have played, made by Luthieros, Seikilo Cultural Center, Thessaloniki. Luthieros Music Instruments | Ancient Greek lyre