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Neville Morley
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Classics & Ancient History at Exeter, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
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Autumn bounty.
A selection of different colours and sizes of pumpkins, on a tray in a greenhouse.
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band.
A female-fronted 90s indie band - bass, drums, acoustic guitar/vocals, violin.
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
The cover of Miles Davis’ Jack Johnson album, showing a group of people in a yellow vintage Rolls Royce.
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Uh huh.
Screenshot of a tweet: “i think they are lying about geographical locations. i think USA was Atlantis, and that the Peloponnesian wars Thucydides wrote about happened here. Cherokee origin stories say there was a great empire here that fell because everyone died of a sickness”
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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As seen on local Facebook page. I think this is around Act 2 of the horror movie…
Screenshot of a Facebook post: “Looking to contact Madron from the repair cafe, hoping she will be able to help with a problematic teddy bear, Can anyone help ?”
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Totally on board with weird collaborative projects. Here’s Buddy, expressing avant-garde existentialist art solidarity.
A Siamese cat in a grey jersey.
October 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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True enough.

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Screenshot: “In defiance of modern viewin habits, Fawlty Towers never feels particularly .”
September 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I am trapped underneath an elderly, very grumpy cat who is milking post-op sympathy for all it’s worth.
An elderly Siamese cat curled up on the lap of someone wearing a blue and white striped apron.
September 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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As illustrated by Ronald Searle:
Cartoon by Ronald Searle, from the Molesworth book Down With Skool, of a weak-chinned young male teacher, captioned “You may think I’m soft but I’m hard, damned hard”.
September 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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‘Classical reception’ in the US Supreme Court. Via LGM: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/when...
Screenshot of highlighted text, reading: “Jesse and I had a very brief time to make one of the biggest decisions in our marriage. His position was full support on one condition: if we did it, we had to "burn the boats." The phrase comes from a military strategy used by Alexander the Great, who, after landing on the shores of enemy territory, ordered his men to burn the ships they had come in. With the option of exit gone, there was no choice but to forge ahead, no matter the challenge. Likewise for us.”
September 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Yes, this clearly demonstrates why ubiquitous AI will enhance the lives of everyone…
A screenshot of a Facebook page, captioned “Fun fact: The Baltic Sea is a crocodile eating Finland”, with a map of the Baltic Sea showing the outline of this crocodile. Underneath, Meta’s useless AI tool offers an answer to the question “Why are crocodiles not in Baltic Sea?”
September 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Spot on as ever.
Text from a cartoon: “I’m not going to tell you it is easy moving all your playlists to a new music app - I t is fiddly, frustrating and time consuming, but so is reading these cartoons all the way to the bottom and yet here you are…”
August 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Fascinating.
Screenshot of a short thread on Ex-Twitter, that by a remarkable coincidence exactly reproduces numbers 16-19 in my ongoing thread of Thucydides opinions…
July 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I am fascinated by the economics of this: a high enough demand for (quite expensive) bouquets thar a vending machine makes sense, not enough demand or profit margin to support a normal flower stall?
A bouquet vending machine at Wroclaw railway station. Seriously, a vending machine that offers a choice of eight different flower bouquets.
July 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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I feel seen…
A cartoon by First Dog on the Moon depicting the Doomscrolling lifecycle: Everything is terrible! ➡️ Feel despair and misery ➡️ Scroll to avoid feelings ➡️ Dopamine! But also… ➡️ Everything is terrible…
July 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Quote a record that you found in your parents’ collection when you were young.
The cover of the album ‘Swing’ by The King’s Singers, showing six men in hideous green suits and bow ties, two of them wearing boaters and another in a dark trilby, apparently sitting in a cup on a saucer with two sugar cubes and a spoon.
June 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The Aki Takase and Alexander von Schlippenbach of feline jazz, chilling post-gig.
Two Siamese cats, one with dark tabby stripes and the other much paler with only one eye, cuddling one another in a grey fluffy cat basket.
June 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Sadly this gentleman has not responded to The Thucydides Bot’s query about whom he has in mind…
Screenshot of a tweet, reading: “There is nothing more depressing than looking around to find an academic specialising in Thucydides in Britain and realising that one of the most well known professors is a complete antifa shitlib. One would think that a classical education is the greatest guarantee against becoming a shitlib, but this moron is retweeting the Greens.”
May 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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One trusts that all ancient historians and classical reception people will be cheering tonight for Arminia Bielefeld, possessors of the best classically-inspired name in the Bundesliga.
The Hermannsdenkmal in the Teutoburger Wald in Germany, a bronze figure of a man in armour and a winged helmet holding a sword aloft in his right hand, wearing the blue jersey of Arminia Bielefeld and holding in his left hand a tattered, blood-stained Stuttgart jersey.
May 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Freudian slip from ‘American Thinker’ (sic)?
Screenshot from a blog by Monica Showalter, ‘Trump brings the receipts…’ (5/21/25), reading: “The media later disgraced itself by claiming Trump was promoting a distorted picture and that there were no large-scale killings of white farmers done on racial grounds, but a check with every fact-checking device I could find, including Grok, confirmed that the place was real, the killings were real, and the South African president was running a terrible country for those of the wrong race. Elon Musk, who was president, stared sternly, knowing the truth of the matter, too.”
May 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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The cruise ship terminal, Thessaloniki.
A homemade sign tied to railings in front of an impressive building, on which the word ‘Terminal’ can be seen; in the roadway in front, a row of electric scooters. The sign reads: “Tourism means worker exploitation, destruction of nature, displacement of populations. Against the interests of capital, fight for life!”
May 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Obviously the important question is whether it is cat’s or cats’. #Athens
A trestle table and chair, next to some greenery; on the floor is a container of water, on the table is a potted plant, a plastic container with nibbles, and a sign reading ‘cats table’.
May 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The Cardinal Quadrant: Progressives, Conservatives, Unifiers and Italians.

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Screenshot of a post in The Guardian’s live blog of the Conclave, headed ‘The Factions Lobbying to Shape the Conclave’ by Harriet Sherwood: “There are thought to be a number of different factions seeking to shape the outcome of the conclave. Broadly speaking, they can be characterised as progressives, conservatives, unifiers and the Italian contingent.”
May 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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And here we are, the heart of the elite conspiracy to drag our proud culture and traditions into the depths…
Broadcasting House, London.
April 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Cream slides off jam more readily than jam slides off cream.
A white cross on a green background - the flag of Deven - with the slogan 'CREAM FIRST'.
April 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM