Bettina Joy de Guzman
@ancientlyric.bsky.social
www.bettinajoydeguzman.com PhD Classics candidate, Uni of Reading. Multi-instrumentalist. Composer. President of CCA South. Classics MA. Educator. Poet. BA English, Music, Psychology. Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman
@wmarybeard.bsky.social lecture at St. Martin’s in the Field (with my old friend Andy West attending) was captivating as always. Wonderful to catch up afterwards if only briefly at The Crypt. The Q and A section, had many enthused participants of all ages and background! 🤗
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
@wmarybeard.bsky.social lecture at St. Martin’s in the Field (with my old friend Andy West attending) was captivating as always. Wonderful to catch up afterwards if only briefly at The Crypt. The Q and A section, had many enthused participants of all ages and background! 🤗
I’m a high school Latin teacher & self-funding my PhD research because neither UK nor US fund part-time online. My son (19) is in college now & I dream we can graduate at the same time, since I waited so long. Your generosity is appreciated. The muses will sing your praises 🤗
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I’m a high school Latin teacher & self-funding my PhD research because neither UK nor US fund part-time online. My son (19) is in college now & I dream we can graduate at the same time, since I waited so long. Your generosity is appreciated. The muses will sing your praises 🤗
Marton Varò (yes!!) has sculpted me into “Lady with Lute” !!! 😃🤩The 30 limited editions are only available on my Patreon. Please support my PhD research on the Ancient Greek lute and lyre (link in bio).
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Marton Varò (yes!!) has sculpted me into “Lady with Lute” !!! 😃🤩The 30 limited editions are only available on my Patreon. Please support my PhD research on the Ancient Greek lute and lyre (link in bio).
Online conference on Ancient Eurasia! Oct 18, Saturday, 9:30 am-1 pm. Friends, please boost and join us! 🤗 @corabeth.bsky.social @carlosfnorena.bsky.social @gregwoolf.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social @lucianixon.bsky.social @sarahbond.bsky.social
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October 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Online conference on Ancient Eurasia! Oct 18, Saturday, 9:30 am-1 pm. Friends, please boost and join us! 🤗 @corabeth.bsky.social @carlosfnorena.bsky.social @gregwoolf.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social @lucianixon.bsky.social @sarahbond.bsky.social
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Hymn to Calliope and Apollo: Mesomedes of Crete. Bettina Joy de Guzman (Ancient Greek lute, lyre, drum, voice). 2nd c AD. 😁🤗💕on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc!
Hymn to Calliope and Apollo: Mesomedes of Crete. Bettina Joy de Guzman (Ancient Greek lute, lyre, drum, voice). 2nd c AD. 😁🤗💕on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc!
October 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Hymn to Calliope and Apollo: Mesomedes of Crete. Bettina Joy de Guzman (Ancient Greek lute, lyre, drum, voice). 2nd c AD. 😁🤗💕on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc!
Hymn to Calliope and Apollo: Mesomedes of Crete. Bettina Joy de Guzman (Ancient Greek lute, lyre, drum, voice). 2nd c AD. 😁🤗💕on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc!
October 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Does anyone have suggestions how to fix a good book whose glue is gone? I literally don’t know what kind of glue to put, and where to get it from.
September 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Does anyone have suggestions how to fix a good book whose glue is gone? I literally don’t know what kind of glue to put, and where to get it from.
September 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
You Are Odysseus! @greekmythcomix I shared with very enthused students! Enjoy while listening to my 5 Odyssey songs!! Circe Enchanting (Greek & English)! Penelope Lamenting, Sirens Call, Odysseus in Ithaca. (Be my Patron 🤗Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGu… & all the Muses will bless you!!)
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
You Are Odysseus! @greekmythcomix I shared with very enthused students! Enjoy while listening to my 5 Odyssey songs!! Circe Enchanting (Greek & English)! Penelope Lamenting, Sirens Call, Odysseus in Ithaca. (Be my Patron 🤗Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGu… & all the Muses will bless you!!)
Oct 18, 2025
9:30 am-1 pm
California Classical Association - South virtual Conference
Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
CONNECTIVITIES & COLLECTIVITIES
IN ANCIENT EURASIA
Anthony Barbieri-Low - UCSB
Nicholas Bartos - UCLA
Jinyu Liu - Emory University
Carlos F. Noreña - UC Berkeley
9:30 am-1 pm
California Classical Association - South virtual Conference
Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
CONNECTIVITIES & COLLECTIVITIES
IN ANCIENT EURASIA
Anthony Barbieri-Low - UCSB
Nicholas Bartos - UCLA
Jinyu Liu - Emory University
Carlos F. Noreña - UC Berkeley
September 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Oct 18, 2025
9:30 am-1 pm
California Classical Association - South virtual Conference
Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
CONNECTIVITIES & COLLECTIVITIES
IN ANCIENT EURASIA
Anthony Barbieri-Low - UCSB
Nicholas Bartos - UCLA
Jinyu Liu - Emory University
Carlos F. Noreña - UC Berkeley
9:30 am-1 pm
California Classical Association - South virtual Conference
Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
CONNECTIVITIES & COLLECTIVITIES
IN ANCIENT EURASIA
Anthony Barbieri-Low - UCSB
Nicholas Bartos - UCLA
Jinyu Liu - Emory University
Carlos F. Noreña - UC Berkeley
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Oxford University, Nov 24 Monday, 5- 6:30 pm, Kendrew Barn.
Ancient Greek Choir Workshop:
Come & sing the melodious hymns & lyrics written by Mesomedes, Athenaios, & Seikilos! Led by Bettina Joy de Guzman 🤗
Oxford University, Nov 24 Monday, 5- 6:30 pm, Kendrew Barn.
Ancient Greek Choir Workshop:
Come & sing the melodious hymns & lyrics written by Mesomedes, Athenaios, & Seikilos! Led by Bettina Joy de Guzman 🤗
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Oxford University, Nov 24 Monday, 5- 6:30 pm, Kendrew Barn.
Ancient Greek Choir Workshop:
Come & sing the melodious hymns & lyrics written by Mesomedes, Athenaios, & Seikilos! Led by Bettina Joy de Guzman 🤗
Oxford University, Nov 24 Monday, 5- 6:30 pm, Kendrew Barn.
Ancient Greek Choir Workshop:
Come & sing the melodious hymns & lyrics written by Mesomedes, Athenaios, & Seikilos! Led by Bettina Joy de Guzman 🤗
My son (18) made me a birthday breakfast. !!😃🎂
September 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My son (18) made me a birthday breakfast. !!😃🎂
It’s my birthday tomorrow! One of my students gave me a birthday card with QR code & this is what it was!! 😃🤗
I feel so loved & blessed. If you want to make my day, please join my Patreon and help my studies in sharing ancient music & lectures about the ancient world! Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman
I feel so loved & blessed. If you want to make my day, please join my Patreon and help my studies in sharing ancient music & lectures about the ancient world! Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It’s my birthday tomorrow! One of my students gave me a birthday card with QR code & this is what it was!! 😃🤗
I feel so loved & blessed. If you want to make my day, please join my Patreon and help my studies in sharing ancient music & lectures about the ancient world! Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman
I feel so loved & blessed. If you want to make my day, please join my Patreon and help my studies in sharing ancient music & lectures about the ancient world! Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman
So there I was in this gorgeous beach and we are taking tons of pictures of each other, and I keep thinking daaaaang I left my lyre in the Villaaaaa but thankfully there us photoshop. 😁
July 18, 2025 at 7:14 AM
So there I was in this gorgeous beach and we are taking tons of pictures of each other, and I keep thinking daaaaang I left my lyre in the Villaaaaa but thankfully there us photoshop. 😁
On YouTube, Amazon today. Spotify, Apple etc tomorrow! 😃 Mesomedes of Crete, Greek lyric poet & composer for Emperor Hadrian, 2nd century AD. Bettina Joy de Guzman.
July 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
On YouTube, Amazon today. Spotify, Apple etc tomorrow! 😃 Mesomedes of Crete, Greek lyric poet & composer for Emperor Hadrian, 2nd century AD. Bettina Joy de Guzman.
Part 1 of τυχερό αστέρι
July 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Part 1 of τυχερό αστέρι
«Τυχερό αστέρι». (Birds were singing along! 😃) Fell in love with this song, and thought I’d try it on my Greek baglamas. I have and play 60 different instruments- always learning and growing. Same with languages. 😁
July 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
«Τυχερό αστέρι». (Birds were singing along! 😃) Fell in love with this song, and thought I’d try it on my Greek baglamas. I have and play 60 different instruments- always learning and growing. Same with languages. 😁
Getty Villa: Griffin Warrior of Pylos & Origins of Mycenaean Kingship (1700–1070 BCE)! 😃 Excavations unearthed exciting evidence of wealth & political importance in Bronze Age sites from Homer’s epics & interactions with Minoan Crete! Archaeologists Sharon Stocker & Jack Davis (Uni of Cincinnati).
June 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Getty Villa: Griffin Warrior of Pylos & Origins of Mycenaean Kingship (1700–1070 BCE)! 😃 Excavations unearthed exciting evidence of wealth & political importance in Bronze Age sites from Homer’s epics & interactions with Minoan Crete! Archaeologists Sharon Stocker & Jack Davis (Uni of Cincinnati).
i told David Pino, the album cover artist, to get inspiration from the Agia Triada sarcophagus in Southeast Crete, which shows us the first Greek lyre. The one “Briseis” is holding is a replica that I have played, made by Luthieros, Seikilo Cultural Center in Thessaloniki.
June 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
i told David Pino, the album cover artist, to get inspiration from the Agia Triada sarcophagus in Southeast Crete, which shows us the first Greek lyre. The one “Briseis” is holding is a replica that I have played, made by Luthieros, Seikilo Cultural Center in Thessaloniki.
Written & performed upon request by Madeline Miller, for her NY Public Library/ WNYC/ Get Lit/ All of It interview regarding The Song of Achilles. I was thrilled! Took 4 yrs to record because… life… loss… so. Dedicated to all my dear ones who have loved, lost, & continue to remember.
June 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Written & performed upon request by Madeline Miller, for her NY Public Library/ WNYC/ Get Lit/ All of It interview regarding The Song of Achilles. I was thrilled! Took 4 yrs to record because… life… loss… so. Dedicated to all my dear ones who have loved, lost, & continue to remember.
Spotify,YouTube, etc!! 😃😃Finally!!!
Achilles, Patroclus, and Briseis:
Iliad 19 and 23. (Bettina Joy de Guzman.)
23.13
χαῖρέ μοι ὦ Πάτροκλε καὶ εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοισι:
Πάντα γὰρ ἤδη τοι τελέω τὰ πάροιθεν ὑπέστην
“Hail Patroclus, even in the house of Hades…
Achilles, Patroclus, and Briseis:
Iliad 19 and 23. (Bettina Joy de Guzman.)
23.13
χαῖρέ μοι ὦ Πάτροκλε καὶ εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοισι:
Πάντα γὰρ ἤδη τοι τελέω τὰ πάροιθεν ὑπέστην
“Hail Patroclus, even in the house of Hades…
June 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Spotify,YouTube, etc!! 😃😃Finally!!!
Achilles, Patroclus, and Briseis:
Iliad 19 and 23. (Bettina Joy de Guzman.)
23.13
χαῖρέ μοι ὦ Πάτροκλε καὶ εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοισι:
Πάντα γὰρ ἤδη τοι τελέω τὰ πάροιθεν ὑπέστην
“Hail Patroclus, even in the house of Hades…
Achilles, Patroclus, and Briseis:
Iliad 19 and 23. (Bettina Joy de Guzman.)
23.13
χαῖρέ μοι ὦ Πάτροκλε καὶ εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοισι:
Πάντα γὰρ ἤδη τοι τελέω τὰ πάροιθεν ὑπέστην
“Hail Patroclus, even in the house of Hades…
Ethos Arts’ wondrous exhibition of Marton Varo’s sculptures. Pleasure to meet the lovely gallery owner, Georgeanne Ireland, as well. 😊 Newport Beach, SoCal. Music: Harp Meanderings by Bettina Joy de Guzman. 🤗
June 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Ethos Arts’ wondrous exhibition of Marton Varo’s sculptures. Pleasure to meet the lovely gallery owner, Georgeanne Ireland, as well. 😊 Newport Beach, SoCal. Music: Harp Meanderings by Bettina Joy de Guzman. 🤗
Ethos Arts’ wondrous exhibition of Marton Varo’s sculptures. Pleasure to meet the lovely gallery owner, Georgeanne Ireland, as well. 😊 Newport Beach, SoCal.
June 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Ethos Arts’ wondrous exhibition of Marton Varo’s sculptures. Pleasure to meet the lovely gallery owner, Georgeanne Ireland, as well. 😊 Newport Beach, SoCal.
6 more days of the semester!! I am already missing my graduating students 🥲but it’s also that time of year when former students visit from their universities and it’s wonderful to hear their stories! 😊
May 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
6 more days of the semester!! I am already missing my graduating students 🥲but it’s also that time of year when former students visit from their universities and it’s wonderful to hear their stories! 😊