Your day will be like... a relentless fire, spurred on by the wind, consuming all in its path. (Iliad 11.155-9) #ClassicsTwitter

Any advice for engendering study skills in 6th Formers from the very beginning? Am thinking that many won’t have learnt as many organisational skills etc due to c-19 during lockdown.

Hi British Museum and mary beard Is there any chance you could let us know how easy it is to bring Yr12 students to view the Nero exhibition before it closes please?

Mary Beard: ‘If we want to understand what we went through in the pandemic, we need the arts’ theguardian.com/books/2021/sep…

Looking forward to seeing mary beard Natalie Haynes and a vast array of experts this morning whilst watch the British Museum Nero Classics Study Day

The joys of teaching about the Ancient World…

Happy Diwali to all of you celebrating today 🪔

Phrase of the day, from the 16th century, is ‘give someone the bauble’: to play them for a sucker or fool.

Word of the morning is 'frobly-mobly': the 18th-century version of 'meh'.

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Who can pronounce the LONGEST GREEK WORD? It’s found in Aristophanes’ play Ecclesiazusai, is 78 syllables long and describes a dish of multiple meats and fish and sauce. (Thread)

If the prime minister is so classically minded, perhaps he might recall the opening of Cicero’s In Catilinam I? (Translation by Michael Grant in the Penguin classic)

Let’s sing it from the rooftops, one and all. The democratic mandate was NOT for Boris Johnson as individual, president or even mayor. That is not how parliamentary democracy works. God help us all if the prime minister doesn’t understand that!

Nope there was no chance. All dignity has gone to the wall now & it's feeling a bit Didius Julianus. We are all Cassius Dio watching Julianus flounder in his own ineptitude. 'Yet at times we would be overcome by laughter'

“One man alone can only govern an empty city” - Haemon, in Sophocles' Antigone Me for The New Statesman on what Boris Johnson would have learned from Greek tragedy, had he actually read any. For those who say a classics degree is pointless, take that newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…

One more Spartan girl for you ahead of today's BBC Radio 4 show on Spartan women. This one is superfit: running fast with beautiful balance (her fingers are splayed on her right hand - perfect running style). She's looking behind her to check where the competition is, I think...

It’s official, we are Ofsted Outstanding… in all areas! 🤩 🌟 Visit our website 👉 bit.ly/42D6Q25, to read for yourself the glowing comments from Inspectors! Thank you to everyone within the Xaverian community who has contributed to this outcome! 💙 💛

Great chance for a Classics & Ancient History taster day Lady Margaret Hall in June - apply by 19 May. lmh.ox.ac.uk/events/classic… Peter Wright @NCCHistory Runshaw Classics Xaverian Classics Dept. Aspire Liverpool