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Today at 0905 on BBC Radio 4, ANTIGONE is the theme of In Our Time, with Melvyn Bragg, Oliver Taplin, Lyndsay Coo and Yours Truly. Painting by Jules-Eugène Lenepveu

Taras Shevchenko, undisputed father of Ukrainian literature, was born 9/3/1814. He was also a painter; see Dying Gladiator and Echo & Narcissus. TESTAMENT (1845):
"When I die, then make my grave
high on an ancient mound,
in my own beloved Ukraine,
in steppeland without bound"

Tonight, Cambridge Union Society, I'm opposing, with Shami Chakrabarti, the motion "This House regrets the fall of the British Empire". I'd prefer to speak in defence of the proposition that "This house regrets that the British Empire ever existed". It set such a dire example.

And this has helped me find his very tweetable (because landscape orientation) illustration of Livy 1.19, where the nymph Egeria instructs the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius, on the proper way to prescribe & perform rituals. This happened often, at night! I like her throne https://t.co/DpWxi4bO5O

For Hadrian's birthday (76 CE) here's Alemelduna Queen of the Ottadeni receiving his order to build a bridge at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in a 1931 pageant in Leazes Park, especially since a new Hadrian's Wall Branch (I'm president) of Classical Association will soon leap into action!

It's Molière's 400th birthday. Comedy today wouldn't be the same without him. A proper actor-manager, he led his cast in classics-inspired Le Misanthrope & Amphitryon (as Sosie=Mercury), & wisely said “Life's a tragedy to those who feel & a comedy to those who think.” Je l’adore

On #brailleday 2022, let's remember Didymus the Blind, 4th-c. Alexandrian Christian blinded in infancy. "He learned the letters of the alphabet by means of tablets in which they were engraved, & which he felt with his fingers" according to Sozomen's Ecclesiastical History 3.15.4

On #WrenDay one of my favourite 'clever underdog' fables of Aesop: the wren is real the king of the birds because it is cleverer than the eagle on whose back it secretly hitched a ride to the highest heaven before popping out and up (Plutarch, Political Precepts 12.806e).

Sculptor Paul Howard Manship was born Christmas Eve 1885. He is most famous for his 1934 Prometheus at the Rockerfeller Centre, but I'm partial to his athletic Atalanta and Diana too.

"It's not my time to die" said Madagascan Police Minister Serge Gelle, after a helicopter crash and a 12-hour swim. After a raft crash. Odysseus said the same as he swam for five days in Odyssey 5. But did Mr Gelle get help in the form of a magical flotation aid from Leucothoe?