Akiko
@acarot.bsky.social
Cat Mum 🐱🐱 | BA (Hons) Classical Studies | Now studying MA at the Open University
This is totally utterly shocking - Ancient History is part of the cut 😱 My son won’t be applying to his local university…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is totally utterly shocking - Ancient History is part of the cut 😱 My son won’t be applying to his local university…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Another great book by Mary Beard. So fascinating I’m thinking I might get a poster of Alma Tadema’s Elagabalus’ banquet🌹
Hey! Check out “Twelve Caesars“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨
www.audible.co.uk/pd/069123182...
Hey! Check out “Twelve Caesars“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨
www.audible.co.uk/pd/069123182...
Twelve Caesars
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of pow...
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January 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Another great book by Mary Beard. So fascinating I’m thinking I might get a poster of Alma Tadema’s Elagabalus’ banquet🌹
Hey! Check out “Twelve Caesars“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨
www.audible.co.uk/pd/069123182...
Hey! Check out “Twelve Caesars“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨
www.audible.co.uk/pd/069123182...
It’s a hippopotamus by the River Nile 🦛 … really??🤔
January 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It’s a hippopotamus by the River Nile 🦛 … really??🤔
Really enjoyed this there are quite a few references to what I’ve been studying this year with the Open University A340
Hey! Check out “Emperor of Rome“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BVG54JM...
Hey! Check out “Emperor of Rome“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BVG54JM...
Emperor of Rome
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the ...
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January 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Really enjoyed this there are quite a few references to what I’ve been studying this year with the Open University A340
Hey! Check out “Emperor of Rome“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BVG54JM...
Hey! Check out “Emperor of Rome“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BVG54JM...
Ordered 🥳 looking forward to it!
ANNOUNCING...
A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉
📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social
👇 Read more...
A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉
📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social
👇 Read more...
January 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Ordered 🥳 looking forward to it!
Trying to find out what Trajan said to Pliny 🐱 🐾
December 31, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Trying to find out what Trajan said to Pliny 🐱 🐾
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GIVEAWAY time! You could win this stunning tote, 2025 Poirot calendar and World of Christie mag!
To enter -
- Follow me
- RP (not QP please)
- comment #Magnifique
Ends 30th Nov. UK only. Also running on my Twitter/X & IG accounts (links in bio). One winner across all 3 platforms notified by DM. 📚💙
To enter -
- Follow me
- RP (not QP please)
- comment #Magnifique
Ends 30th Nov. UK only. Also running on my Twitter/X & IG accounts (links in bio). One winner across all 3 platforms notified by DM. 📚💙
November 22, 2024 at 9:23 AM
GIVEAWAY time! You could win this stunning tote, 2025 Poirot calendar and World of Christie mag!
To enter -
- Follow me
- RP (not QP please)
- comment #Magnifique
Ends 30th Nov. UK only. Also running on my Twitter/X & IG accounts (links in bio). One winner across all 3 platforms notified by DM. 📚💙
To enter -
- Follow me
- RP (not QP please)
- comment #Magnifique
Ends 30th Nov. UK only. Also running on my Twitter/X & IG accounts (links in bio). One winner across all 3 platforms notified by DM. 📚💙
I thought the Greeks liked cattle & sheep more than chickens but I didn’t realise chickens didn’t even exist in the Bronze Age (from Rome: An Empire’s Story by Greg Woolf)
August 3, 2024 at 11:54 AM
I thought the Greeks liked cattle & sheep more than chickens but I didn’t realise chickens didn’t even exist in the Bronze Age (from Rome: An Empire’s Story by Greg Woolf)
Arrived this morning it’s gorgeous 😍 #SingOMuseZine
April 12, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Arrived this morning it’s gorgeous 😍 #SingOMuseZine
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I recently learned the teaching of ancient languages at Cardiff University is under threat: Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew & Sanskrit
SIGN AND SHARE this petition created by ancient history and archaeology students 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
1/7
www.change.org/p/reverse-ca...
I recently learned the teaching of ancient languages at Cardiff University is under threat: Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew & Sanskrit
SIGN AND SHARE this petition created by ancient history and archaeology students 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
1/7
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Sign the Petition
Ancient Languages are being removed from the School of History, Archaeology, and Religion (SHARE) at Cardiff University. This is an affront to our classical education. We should be working to bring th...
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March 13, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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I recently learned the teaching of ancient languages at Cardiff University is under threat: Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew & Sanskrit
SIGN AND SHARE this petition created by ancient history and archaeology students 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
1/7
www.change.org/p/reverse-ca...
I recently learned the teaching of ancient languages at Cardiff University is under threat: Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew & Sanskrit
SIGN AND SHARE this petition created by ancient history and archaeology students 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
1/7
www.change.org/p/reverse-ca...
I was encouraging my Yr11 son to go to Cardiff University because you can learn ancient languages there. If there is no chance to learn Greek/Latin with Ancient History degree, we have to look somewhere else for him to study and he’s going to have to move away from home 😭
chng.it/kbw4thg4yf
chng.it/kbw4thg4yf
March 13, 2024 at 7:47 PM
I was encouraging my Yr11 son to go to Cardiff University because you can learn ancient languages there. If there is no chance to learn Greek/Latin with Ancient History degree, we have to look somewhere else for him to study and he’s going to have to move away from home 😭
chng.it/kbw4thg4yf
chng.it/kbw4thg4yf
Just found a controversial statement by Sappho 🤯
March 7, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Just found a controversial statement by Sappho 🤯
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This was a bit of a 'blink and you missed it' failure from the British Museum, but @clairemillington.bsky.social summarises why sometimes you should just leave the pop culture references alone: clairemillington.com/2024/03/04/b...
Behind the tweets at the British Museum
Why is the Roman Empire like a carrot? Cause men need vegetables five times a day. That joke’s not particularly good but it is mine, and riffs on the now well-known meme that men, and particularly men...
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March 4, 2024 at 1:30 PM
This was a bit of a 'blink and you missed it' failure from the British Museum, but @clairemillington.bsky.social summarises why sometimes you should just leave the pop culture references alone: clairemillington.com/2024/03/04/b...
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I'm glad to see this review I wrote of Emily Wilson's Iliad translation out now, via the Penn Gazette. I had so much fun writing this (and could have written several thousand words more)! thepenngazette.com/shattering-v...
Shattering Violence, Shimmering Prizes
Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Iliad brings the strange and brutal beauty of Homer’s world into the English-speaking now.
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February 26, 2024 at 2:54 PM
I'm glad to see this review I wrote of Emily Wilson's Iliad translation out now, via the Penn Gazette. I had so much fun writing this (and could have written several thousand words more)! thepenngazette.com/shattering-v...
Comparing translations is very interesting 🤔
February 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Comparing translations is very interesting 🤔
Nice feeling when I can read the inscription 🔍
February 12, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Nice feeling when I can read the inscription 🔍
I love it when the extracts I’m reading next for my Open University module are from the books I’ve already read 📚
February 9, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I love it when the extracts I’m reading next for my Open University module are from the books I’ve already read 📚
Just finished reading A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story. It ends with a quote from Horace! 👀 I didn’t notice it when I first read it in Japanese over 30 years ago
February 4, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Just finished reading A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story. It ends with a quote from Horace! 👀 I didn’t notice it when I first read it in Japanese over 30 years ago
Happy new year 🥳 fireworks were so loud that he was not impressed 🙉
January 1, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Happy new year 🥳 fireworks were so loud that he was not impressed 🙉
Antilochus can’t die yet in Book 4 of the Iliad 🤔
December 31, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Antilochus can’t die yet in Book 4 of the Iliad 🤔
Philoctetes is here! 🐱🏹
December 29, 2023 at 8:54 PM
Philoctetes is here! 🐱🏹
Finally I counted the catalogue of ships in Book 2 of the Iliad - definitely 29 contingents 1186 ships!
December 29, 2023 at 12:07 AM
Finally I counted the catalogue of ships in Book 2 of the Iliad - definitely 29 contingents 1186 ships!
Loving Wilson’s translation of the Iliad. This insult to Agamemnon by Achilles has never sounded so brilliant 😂👍 οἰνοβαρές, κυνὸς ὄμματʼ ἔχων, κραδίην δʼ ἐλάφοιο - heavy with wine, with the eyes of a dog and the heart of a deer. (Iliad 1.225)
December 27, 2023 at 12:20 PM
Loving Wilson’s translation of the Iliad. This insult to Agamemnon by Achilles has never sounded so brilliant 😂👍 οἰνοβαρές, κυνὸς ὄμματʼ ἔχων, κραδίην δʼ ἐλάφοιο - heavy with wine, with the eyes of a dog and the heart of a deer. (Iliad 1.225)
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You can watch Juliet Stevenson and Tobias Menzies performing passages from my Iliad, and me talking to the brilliant Edith Hall, here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Film: The Iliad
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December 22, 2023 at 10:48 PM
You can watch Juliet Stevenson and Tobias Menzies performing passages from my Iliad, and me talking to the brilliant Edith Hall, here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...