Excited to see my new book on the Hutchinson Heinemann website:
www.penguin.co.uk/books/451418...

The beautiful Baltic:

Stockholm’s archipelago is full of charming, classically inspired summer houses:

In Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Aeneid 5.709-10 ‘wherever fate pulls or hauls us, there let us go’:

Very much looking forward to being part of a panel on Female letter writers and addressees in Graeco-Roman antiquity organised by @janjasoldo.bsky.social and @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social at the Celtic Classics Conference in Coimbra next week:

A privilege to encounter the wolf and Marcus Aurelius before the Capitoline Museums opened (filming a piece on Roman decadence for ARTE):

This Roman monument in Athens - the Tower of the Winds - resonates well with the theme of our colloquium on Seneca’s Natural Questions (winds feature prominently in Book 5):

Very much looking forward to taking part - with some world-leading Seneca experts - in what I am sure will be a fascinating colloquium on the Natural Questions in Athens this week:
www.sia.gr/en/events.ph...

Thrilled to have just received the rather lovely hard copy of the new edition of my *The politics of immorality in Ancient Rome* reissued with a generous foreword by Caroline Vout and a new intro by me in the *Cambridge Classical Classics* series.

Very excited that my copy of Francesca Martelli's new Cicero book has arrived. A gorgeous cover, too:

It's graduation season @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! Many congratulations to my lovely and v brainy sister-in-law Dr Frances Wedgwood who now also has an MA in Medical Humanities!

Enchanting - but often poignant - Tirzah Garwood exhibition at @dulwichgallery.bsky.social . Such a distinctive view of the world.

Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra are bemused: