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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Jul 29

A868 - doing MA next!

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Jul 28

My summer reading 📚

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Jan 28

This is totally utterly shocking - Ancient History is part of the cut 😱 My son won’t be applying to his local university…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs

Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

www.bbc.co.uk

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Jan 27

Another great book by Mary Beard. So fascinating I’m thinking I might get a poster of Alma Tadema’s Elagabalus’ banquet🌹

Hey! Check out “Twelve Caesars“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨
www.audible.co.uk/pd/069123182...

Twelve Caesars

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of pow...

www.audible.co.uk

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Jan 24

Ordered from Contubernales delivered by Amazon UK today. How does it work?? I was expecting a delivery from US sometime in Feb. Arrived before the publication date!

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Jan 18

It’s a hippopotamus by the River Nile 🦛 … really??🤔

Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Jan 8

Really enjoyed this there are quite a few references to what I’ve been studying this year with the Open University A340

Hey! Check out “Emperor of Rome“ I just gave it 5 stars 🌟✨
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BVG54JM...

Emperor of Rome

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the ...

www.audible.co.uk

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Jan 3

Ordered 🥳 looking forward to it!

Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · Jan 2

ANNOUNCING...

A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉

📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social
👇 Read more...

A book cover for A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology showing a classical painting with a superimposed periodic tabel element styled square with athena's head and name on it.

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Dec 31

Trying to find out what Trajan said to Pliny 🐱 🐾

Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Nov 22

#Magnifique

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Sue Thomas @brownflopsy.bsky.social · Nov 22

GIVEAWAY time! You could win this stunning tote, 2025 Poirot calendar and World of Christie mag!
To enter -
- Follow me
- RP (not QP please)
- comment #Magnifique
Ends 30th Nov. UK only. Also running on my Twitter/X & IG accounts (links in bio). One winner across all 3 platforms notified by DM. 📚💙

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Oct 14

I was there too loved it!

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Oct 14

This is from my Metamorphoses notes. I didn’t know how a hoopoe looked like and I had to look it up. ‘he still looks armed’ indeed.

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Aug 3

I thought the Greeks liked cattle & sheep more than chickens but I didn’t realise chickens didn’t even exist in the Bronze Age (from Rome: An Empire’s Story by Greg Woolf)

Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Apr 12

Arrived this morning it’s gorgeous 😍 #SingOMuseZine

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Mar 13

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I recently learned the teaching of ancient languages at Cardiff University is under threat: Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew & Sanskrit

SIGN AND SHARE this petition created by ancient history and archaeology students 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
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www.change.org/p/reverse-ca...

Sign the Petition

Ancient Languages are being removed from the School of History, Archaeology, and Religion (SHARE) at Cardiff University. This is an affront to our classical education. We should be working to bring th...

www.change.org

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Mar 13

I was encouraging my Yr11 son to go to Cardiff University because you can learn ancient languages there. If there is no chance to learn Greek/Latin with Ancient History degree, we have to look somewhere else for him to study and he’s going to have to move away from home 😭

chng.it/kbw4thg4yf

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Mar 7

Just found a controversial statement by Sappho 🤯

Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Mar 5

Yup there must be issues. Facebook & Threads not working for me but strangely Instagram is working. Came here to check if everyone else is experiencing the same 😂

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · Mar 4

This was a bit of a 'blink and you missed it' failure from the British Museum, but @clairemillington.bsky.social summarises why sometimes you should just leave the pop culture references alone: clairemillington.com/2024/03/04/b...

Behind the tweets at the British Museum

Why is the Roman Empire like a carrot? Cause men need vegetables five times a day. That joke’s not particularly good but it is mine, and riffs on the now well-known meme that men, and particularly men...

clairemillington.com

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Stephanie McCarter @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social · Feb 26

I'm glad to see this review I wrote of Emily Wilson's Iliad translation out now, via the Penn Gazette. I had so much fun writing this (and could have written several thousand words more)! thepenngazette.com/shattering-v...

Shattering Violence, Shimmering Prizes

Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Iliad brings the strange and brutal beauty of Homer’s world into the English-speaking now.

thepenngazette.com

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Feb 22

Indeed. I also like her choice of metre. It’s so rhythmical when read aloud.

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Feb 21

Comparing translations is very interesting 🤔

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Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Feb 12

Nice feeling when I can read the inscription 🔍

Akiko @acarot.bsky.social · Feb 11

Lots of readings but I’m enjoying the course. Nice studying something you’re interested isn’t it. Hope you’re enjoying your course too.

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