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The best of times at Prince of Wales theatre with darling daughter @sarahpoynder. I've said it before & I'll say it again: Act 2 of The Book of Mormon is the funniest and by far the most Aristophanic piece of musical comedy you'll ever experience.

Proclus, born this day 412 CE, vegetarian, confirmed bachelor, was absolutely CRUCIAL in getting ancient philosophy transmitted to the Middle Ages & us. You can see site of his house on Dionisiou Areopagitou, Athens. Athene moved there from the Parthenon when her cult was closed

When politics are predictable and demoralising, let's remind ourselves how proper democratic heroes behave in a New Year Plutarch blog (mentioning @RosieWyles and @henrystead and @classicsandclas): https://t.co/WWuiZ2tert @kingsclassics

Personal Bests 2018
Film-Mike Leigh, Peterloo.
Book-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Song-Ariana Grande, God is a Woman
Speech-Emma Gonzalez, March for Our Lives
Compliment-‘a beguiling cross between Mary Beard and Mary Poppins’ (Lisa Allardyce, Observer)

For Our Prime Minister. I'm reading AN HYMN TO MAY (1764). The Goddess's companion is Bacchus:
"Yet the lib'ral God disdains
French alike and Grecian Plains
And the mirthful Spirit sends
To his freeborn BRITISH friends.
Here he comes, all fresh and gay
Doing Homage to the MAY."

For United Nations #WorldToiletDay2018 here's the shrine of Cloacina, an ancient Etruscan sewage goddess partially fused with Venus, which the Romans built over the place where their biggest sewer entered the forum.

Researching radical play by Irishman James Knowles on Roman food rioting, CAIUS GRACCHUS, censored 1815-1823. Caius tried to redistribute land to Italian poor. Mike Leigh's PETERLOO shows the Georgian class struggle Knowles really meant https://t.co/8cj9rAY8aM @classicsandclas

Please could people stop emailing me saying that they "want to reach out to" me? It gives me the creeps. What's wrong with "write to" me or "contact me" ffs.

On 23rd October 42 BCE the Roman Republic finally died east of Thessaloniki with the suicide of Brutus after 2nd Battle of Philippi. Shakespeare gave Brutus the foiled "Liberator" these resonant dying words: "Caesar, now be still: / I kill'd not thee with half so good a will."'

Tempted to buy this VATOUT & QUÉNOT lithograph of Prometheus being assaulted by Zeus's eagle, currently on Ebay Deutschland, if only because I could have sworn that in hominids, even Titans, the liver is usually on the right.