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Sep 11, 2023 89 tweets 19 min read
Have to put together a list of my 100 favourite songs (as evidenced by live performance) for the last 100 years. This is my 2010 winner:
Four a day keeps the doctor away, so 2016:
Jul 28, 2023 15 tweets 6 min read
OK then: our latest Classics books give-away! Just RT this message, and on Sunday 6 August we will draw *three* names from our followers: the first picks 25 books; the second 15; the third the rest (unless they don't want some, which will be raffled off at random!)
Book details: Image There's all sorts here, on Greek and Latin literature and language, Greco-Roman history, philosophy archaeology, palaeography, modern dramatic productions, and, er, an Oxford Mods exam paper from 1915.


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Jul 6, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
As you may know, we're running 3 raffles of Classics books & ephemera for our stalwart Twitter followers this week. Here are the details, if you want to be in the mix:
1) The Latin draw will be made on Friday at 10pm BST. Just RT a message on this thread: 2) The Greek draw will be made on Saturday at 10pm BST. Any RT of this thread before then will count:
Jul 5, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
And here's the 3rd draw: a gaggle of books etc. that covers several aspects of Classics & beyond!
If you'd like to be in the hat for this or the other 2 raffles, just RT a message in each thread (& follow us!), and we'll pick a name out at the end of the week.
Scroll on for more: Where to begin? There's Wilkinson's Greek Sculpture (London, 1936), which has 100+ plates (owned by the archaeologist Frank Stubbings); there's Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1850s), plus two romantic reconstructions of Greek and Roman dress from 1882...
Jul 4, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
OK, here's the second draw, this time of things in/about Greek. (All three raffles will be drawn at the end of the week, and you can of course enter all three just by RTing each!)
Scroll down to read more about what's on offer: Image It's another mix! There's Thomas Hutchinson's edition of Xenophon's Anabasis (Glasgow, 1817), which has a fine fold-out map; there's a heavily annotated interleaved copy of Plato's Republic (ed. Stallbaum, 2 vols, Gotha, 1858) - the annotator is (later Canon) J. Sculthorpe-Jones. ImageImage
Jul 3, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Over the next few days we will be running three raffles for the fun of it: one of Latin things, one of Greek things, and one of other Classics things of interest. The first one's Latin. RT this message (& follow us!) and you're in the draw!
Read on for more about what's on offer: Image OK, a smorgasbord here. There's a leaf of the Froben Latin Bible, with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra (Basel, 1498). This bit's on the Book of Nahum. Then there's two pairs of Valpy's Delphin editions (1822), which contain Propertius and Martial, commented on from myriad angles.
Feb 8, 2022 7 tweets 5 min read
In the 4th Antigone Competition, contestants brought to life a Greek or Roman author to reflect on the Covid-19 chaos. We received a stunning field of brilliant entries, and are now delighted to announce the winner and share the best of the runners-up: 👏🙌antigonejournal.com/2022/02/covid-… After some long and hard discussions with @amayor and @CatharineEdwa (thank you both!), we eventually awarded the £250 prize to Finn Jarvis of @TrinityOxford @oxfordclassics, for a pitch-perfect Platonic dialogue that was hitherto unknown: the Boris. Er, #partygate @BorisJohnson