Pythika @Pythika

'My words should and can be brief lest by dwelling on your great deeds I treat them unworthily.' Joined February 2014

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Pythika @Pythika

2 days ago

We found a sprite-hat in the garden

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North East Heritage Library @neheritagelib

4 days ago

If we win, we return the body of Cuthbert to its rightful resting place

Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV

4 days ago

8th century ass match

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Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos

3 weeks ago

Mysterious Celtic La Tène sword found deposited in a well at the sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea, in the Peloponnese

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Tuhin (तुहिन/তুহিন) @tuhintranslates

3 weeks ago

Victoria Moul. "Like the eagle of Zeus, one softened wing / Over his head as he sleeps, as I sing."

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Helen Castor @hrcastor

3 weeks ago

While watching the leopards of Congo and waiting for the lions of England, why not find out why England’s three lions are actually leopards and the story of Henry of Bolingbroke’s cheetah Link ⬇️

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Classics for All North @ClassicsNorth

4 weeks ago

This year's class have just sat their ICCG exam to gain a recognised qualification in ancient languages. There are still places available in our next Beginners' course - starts September. Find out more at classicsforallnorth.org.uk/liverpool-gree…

Classics for All North @ClassicsNorth

2 months ago

Parents of Y9-13 state-school pupils on Merseyside! Find out how they can learn Classical Greek with us for free at classicsforallnorth.org.uk/liverpool-gree…

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Pythika @Pythika

3 weeks ago

Exquisite stitching from May Morris @LeverArtGallery I do embroidery - badly! - but this beautiful work inspires me to do better.

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Democritus Sr @DemocritusSr

4 weeks ago

Robert Frost reads “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

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Daniel Mendelsohn @DAMendelsohnNYC

2 months ago

Friends in the #UK! I’ll be talking about the joys and challenges of #translation and #Homer’s #Odyssey at the @hayfestival on Wednesday 27 May, in conversation with the excellent @chris_power ! Ticket info below: hayfestival.com/p-25290-daniel…

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Pythika @Pythika

2 months ago

@CapelLofft No Middlemarch? Ridiculous.

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Pythika @Pythika

2 months ago

Nothing beats the novels we read as teenagers and return to throughout our lives: Middlemarch, War & Peace, all of Austen, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, the Magic Mountain. What do you still love?

Simon Schama @simon_schama

2 months ago

Am aboard the Pequod ( for the 4th time I think) Moby Dick the second greatest novel ever written and a whole universe of writing to live in .. As an antidote to the flat- footed prose of the media, trailing their stale opinions behind them and the fanatical drivel of the

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npj @TiltingatM3

2 months ago

Really entrancing spatial-visual guide to the Iliad’s action > Of the 360 named characters, 232 are warriors killed or wounded, yet the poet is remarkable in his ability to keep his characters on the battlefield straight (the instances of Homer's nodding are strikingly rare).

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Pythika @Pythika

2 months ago

@PaulMcKenna4 I suppose we have to ask why public life is so degraded and why good people shun it.

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Pythika @Pythika

2 months ago

@DLVLK Exactly. How to be good is easy if you don't think that hard. I despair.

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Pythika @Pythika

2 months ago

Good for the King. I can't bear this Jew-hatred and I don't understand why so many on the left overlook it or somehow think it's not the racism they affect to deplore. King Charles III visits victims of Golders Green stabbings - BBC News

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Paul McKenna @PaulMcKenna4

2 months ago

Another one of the Classicists who served 👇

Paul Embery @PaulEmbery

2 months ago

Denis Healey, one of six formidable candidates in Labour's 1976 leadership election, was a grammar school boy from Yorkshire who achieved a double first in classics at Oxford, served in the second world war (including as beachmaster at the Battle of Anzio), was mentioned in

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Daniel Mendelsohn @DAMendelsohnNYC

2 months ago

Night thoughts on “polytropos,” 1: The syntax of the Greek suggests that the relative clause (“who greatly wandered…”) that follows this adjective is intended as a gloss on it. Hence the translation of p should be a word(s) that describes his route as well as his personality.