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Mashed turnip is traditional on Burns Night, but 25/01 is Govert Flink's birthday too. He painted Plutarch's tale of Republican People's Tribune Curius Dentatus telling the Samnites who tried to bribe him that he preferred turnips to gold. "Turnips" in ancient Greek=gongulides.

The Prometheus statue outside the Rockefeller Center in NYC by Paul Manship, born Christmas Eve 1885 in Minnesota, is famous. But his obsession with Greek art also produced a far less familiar Atalanta, Actaeon, Europa and many other Art Deco 'classical' sculptures.

Please can anyone explain why, according to the website of the Rhakotis Book Prize 2020 https://t.co/ikad8kk4JT via @Braleebatch A People's History of Classics was announced winner on Dec. 8. But it's the first I or @henrystead have heard of it!

On UN Human Rights Day the deity to worship is the ancient Greek Dike (Justice) who the astronomer-poet Aratus says once urged Golden Age rulers to act kindly. She withdrew when humans became cruel and was turned into the constellation Parthenos (Virgo). Let's try to get her back

Anselm Feuerbach was born 12th September 1829. His ancient- Greek-themed paintings of Iphigenia Lonely in Tauris (=Sevastopol), Plato's Symposium Gets Rowdy, Medea Is Not Happy and Battle of the Teutonic-Looking Amazons are on the covers of more Classics book than can be counted.

Blog on an often-overlooked early tragic masterpiece, derived from one of the greatest moments of ancient Greek literature in Iliad book 23, by Jacques-Louis David, who was born August 30th, 1748. https://t.co/2Zi1LXL4Ko

On this very day 70 years ago, lawyer and judge Edith Spurlock Sampson became the first black U.S. delegate appointed to the United Nations.

@melanie_ashton @rmavirumquecano There was a famous and very republican play by Irish radical James Sheridan Knowles around the time of the post-Napoleonic-War Famine you could use as a libretto. There's an article about it second to bottom of middle column online here: https://t.co/qIABF1N43c

Stars strangely allied on July 15ths for visual culture and classics when it's the birthday not only of Inigo Jones and Rembrandt van Rijn but of Jan Cossiers in 1600. His Prometheus and Narcissus really get under the emotional skin of Greek mythology.

Published today: a labour of love. Expensive but I can help if emailed. Strange we need reminding that Aristophanes was funny. Great pieces by @PDJSwallow, Nick Lowe, Ralph Rosen, Pierre Destrée, Dimitrios Kanellakis, Athina Papachrysostomou, @hydeandgoseek, Magdalena Zira...