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Fact for #Valentine2020. The ancient Greeks would have put a liver not a heart on romantic cards as they thought it was the organ of eros. That's why Euripides' Medea threatens to stab her cheating husband and his new woman through the liver.

Blog on Poussin's amazing painting of the heartwarming classical myth of three disabled divinities who formed a mutual self-help committee: lame Hephaestus, blind Orion and very small Cedalion. https://t.co/mWqKrgxr4F

Henry Fuseli was born 7 February 1741. He put the authentic creepiness into Homer. I've long been haunted by his sad, disabled Hephaestus, his armpits supported by AI robotic maids, and his terrifying 'Tiresias revealing the future to Odysseus' on the edges of Hades.

Not too sure about Italian cover for Aristotle's Way. Too like Homer Simpson, who, unlike his daughter Lisa, is no virtue ethicist.

Busy Day Today! First judges' meeting for Theatre Book Prize 2020 https://t.co/1Rth3kCZPk and then 1800 panel on Parthenon Sculptures at KCL organised by @JTasioulas https://t.co/5CnR8VbxqZ @BCRPM

That is quite a compliment from the undisputed Ruler of Classics Twitterland! Some of the pictures that prompted the phrase below! https://t.co/6C7zjxdTla

My favourite Georgian painter, genial George Romney, was a Boxing Day baby (1734). Most famous for painting fellow working-class north-westerner Emma Hamilton as Greek witches (Circe, Calpyso) he also drew scenes from Aeschylus' tragedies.

Irritated by self-appointed moral police-persons online and the entire political class on TV, but stimulated by a great essay in @aeonmag, here's my guide How to Virtue Signal like a Roman https://t.co/Ma5ZEe7Er5

Really thrilled by the cover of the forthcoming A People's History of Classics, which can be pre-ordered (publication now definitely March 31st 2020) and the price tag is not so terrible as I feared at £29.99. WE DID IT @henrystead !!!!!

Off to talk Homeric females to Classical Civilisation students at La Sainte Union School in Hampstead. Greek island idylls just the thing for a cold November day. @ClassCivAncHist @kingsclassics