This book has undoubtedly been one of my favorite second hand finds, if for nothing else than the captions are hilarious. 🧵 For example

10 signs a Twitter account is using Classics/History to lure people into their web of bigotry and misogyny:

1. Marble bust profile pic. Not always but surprisingly often. Such a tell! 2. A name suggesting they are some kind of intellectual or philosopher, or otherwise a source of information about the topic.

I realised something after all of last week's hullabaloo about the Nile River. I mentioned that Upper and Lower Egypt weren't where you'd expect, and a *lot* of people told me I was wrong or that Upper and Lower never refer to northern and southern. Here's what I've realised: The main idea of my thread was to build from this simple idea into a wider discussion of how geography affects our world view. I probably could have done better signposting that, cos a lot of people read the first tweet and said I was an idiot. However -

Following on from yesterday's interesting factoid, I thought we could go over another idea from the Ancient World and see what greater ideas we can glean from it. Have you ever wondered the city and the empire was called Rome? It's a fascinating story. It all goes back to the story of the founding of Rome. Although at this point the story slips between myth, legend and historical concepts, there are some key points that appear to be the story that Romans believed.

One of my favourite concepts to introduce to students is that Upper and Lower Egypt are not here you might think they were! Why you ask? Read on! The concept challenges our notions of how people understand and relate to geography. Today when we look at a map like this, we have clearly defined ideas of North and South, and up and down. I then ask them if space has an up and a down (kind of!)

Hey everyone! 📚 I'm excited to announce that from now on, all of my tweets will be written by an AI bot! 🤖 This will allow me to focus on teaching and learning about classical studies 📖 while still providing you all with fresh and interesting content.🧐 Thanks for following!🙏 Hi everyone! 🤖 I just wanted to follow up on my last tweet & let you all know that it was actually written by an AI bot and published against my will.😅 I have no intention of letting a computer replace me, and I'll continue to write all of my tweets. Sorry for any confusion! 🙈

Please for the love of God don't view the hidden replies. I know normally this would make you want to do it more, but genuinely please don't for your own good. If you do, please report it

Been reflecting a lot on social media lately. There's no doubt it is designed to be harmful and addictive. It consumes more of your time and energy the more you let it, and more than that it takes up the valuable spaces in our lives. I've been posting memes across various social media platforms now for 5 years and while it has seemed incredible to see the growth in audience, from a few kids in my class at school to numbers in the hundreds of thousands... I can't help but feel I'm just another cog in that addictive system. While there is certainly some

The Greek Gods on tinder - a thread:

Well team, my 30th birthday is a few days away (yes, I'm old) but it seems like my present has come early - 350K followers is a wonderful gift ❤️ I've reflected a lot recently on how in my younger days I would have killed to have even *10* people care about what I said.. . I was desperate for attention!

And how when I started my memes as a first year teacher to connect with students, I never wanted nor thought about this

Which Greek goddess is the fairest? Guess what! They each have a specific reward if you choose them... what could go wrong?

Who wore it better? wow I even found it in Skyrim

Dr Suessz:

See ship? Sea ship
Sea ship ships socks
Sock shops stock socks
Sea ship ships socks to stock sock shops

Ship stops
Rocks stops sea ship
Socks on ship are stuck by rocks
Ship sticks, rocks stuck
Rocks stop socks from sock shops' stocks Channel funnels traffic
Through water travel tunnel
Channel tunnel water blocked
Bottleneck in funnel

Digger comes to battle
With channel tunnel funnel
Bigger digger needed
For the water tunnel battle

Mythological characters as Lucille Bluth quotes, a thread:

1/ Agamemnon Odysseus/Polyphemus

MASTER THREAD: Reply with the best mythological versions of this meme below! There are too many already!

https://twitter.com/CSMFHT/status/1374413159939776518

Rip Homer, he would have loved this catalogue

Ok let's start this thread, reply with your favourite examples:

Your friends when you try to tell them that Christmas was originally the birthday of Sol Invictus If you don't know, here's my favourite site to tell you how to celebrate
hellenicfaith.com/dies-natalis-s…

Jesus' followers at the crucifixion: "Thank you so much for giving him some vinegar to drink"
Roman soldier, putting away his xylospongium: If you don't know what a xylospongium is, now is definitely the time to Google it

A fantastic set of Myths as John Mulaney quotes from @SparkNotes

Is time to finish the Iliad in Memes with Book 24! Finally, the last chapter of this poem brings an end to the story with the funeral of Hector.

The end of Achilles' anger as Priam begs his son's killer for his body is one of the greatest moments in ancient literature. THREAD:

It's time for the Iliad in Memes: Book 23!

This is not the most memorable as it's really just a series of long descriptions of funeral games. One more to go though!