@edithmayhallさんのイラストまとめ

My ten-minute take on the story of Dido and Aeneas starts at 35 minutes into this podcast from the 58th Venice Biennale's HEARTBREAK exhibition by RUYA MAPS. Prof Stephen Harrison also contributes. https://t.co/k2ClFb5sz5

For Father's Day, the Best/Worst Dads in Classical Mythology. For best, I'm torn between Priam, who risked his life to recover Hector's corpse, and Daedalus, who tried so hard to win freedom for Icarus. For worst, there are hundreds in the running, but baby-eating Cronus must win

For 16 June, setting of Joyce's ULYSSES, blog on James Barry's darker Irish use of the Odyssey to comment on politics & his tense relationship with the establishment-embracing Edmund Burke, https://t.co/m0KypHU0Ua

Blog on the oldest surviving chunk of Greek prose, written by a Greek man called Achillodoros, 'Gift of Achilles', on a tiny Ukrainian island in about 510 BCE. It's all about fear of enslavement. https://t.co/u5Z5ZUu08v

Blog on why I'm about to boycott all news until the tournament of Tory wannabes is over, and propose we saturate social media with OTHER, more edifying/important stories, e.g. about slavery: https://t.co/jD88iZWPhH …

Ancient Athenian insanity episode: Thrasyllos went mad & believed every ship docking at Peiraeus belonged to him; he registered them all in his own accounts. Once cured, he said that when deluded he had been FAR HAPPIER than at any time in his sane life (Heraclides of Pontus)

I learned the derivation of SERENDIPITY from dramatist Alain-René Lesage, born May 6 1668: Sri Lanka's Arabic name=SERENDIB. His wildly colonialist harlequinade "Arlequin roi de Serendib" (1713) adapts Euripides' IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS & folktales about finding treasure accidentally

Blog with my mixed feelings on finishing a book which I hope rewrites the history of Classics. I've been researching it for 38 years. https://t.co/tGMb1UfpXT Thanks for everything co-author @henrystead @classicsandclas @ClassCivAncHist @kingsclassics

On May 1, Labour Day, @henrystead and I will hand over final text of A People's History of Classics to the publisher. Here's James Stuart, whose drawings in The Antiquities of Athens created all our mental pictures of Greece, the son of a Scottish sailor, born into abject poverty

Image No. 6 from #APeoplesHistoryofClassics. Republican actor William Macready rabble-rouses as pro-plebeian Caius Gracchus in post-Peterloo food-riots tragedy based on Plutarch by anti-poverty agitator James Knowles. The script was brutally censored by the Lord Chamberlain