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Andy Fox
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Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Liverpool. Formerly Early Career Research Associate at the ICS, London. Roman trees, architecture and environmental pollution, cats (not Roman), hockey. He/him.
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Tell me you’ve been chasing down references today without telling me you’ve been chasing down references today.
A stack of books in the Institute of Classical Studies library. To avoid precarity, the books are in fact in three stacks.
September 7, 2023 at 4:50 PM
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Back from the hols, and one of the highlights for me has to have been the Villa of Dionysos in Paphos. Obviously loved the Daphne mosaic, but the standout was the pit at the back, which it turned out on further reading was an internal fish pond!

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Mosaic of Daphne’s metamorphosis into a laurel to escape Apollo, House of Dionysos, Paphos Fish pond at the rear of the House of Dionysos, Paphos with red painted walls and niches for breeding.
August 27, 2023 at 8:23 AM
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Yo. No gifs here
A gif of Steve Carrell from the office, with the subtitles “It feels like someone took my heart and dropped it into a lake of boiling tears”
August 26, 2023 at 4:30 AM