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Retweeted LA Review of Books ():

Emily Wilson is not breaking norms of behavior as the first woman to translate Homer's "Odyssey" into English; she is fulfilling them. https://t.co/Pls1lHtHoG https://t.co/AqqWeLK0a2

Retweeted Yoni Appelbaum ():

"Law enforced too harshly becomes cruelty, and Creon’s law is not good just because it is the law." applies the lessons of 'Antigone' to Trump's family-separation policy: https://t.co/HQjMxLz9dt

Retweeted Marina Amaral ():

Known as the Plastico di Roma Imperiale, the plaster model was commissioned by Mussolini in 1933 and depicts Rome in the 4th century AD at the time of Constantine I. It now sits in the Museum of Roman Civilization.

Retweeted Marina Amaral ():

Archeologist spends over 35 years building enormous scale model of Ancient Rome. Scale 1:250. Most of it is based on the Forma Urbis, a huge marble topographical plan made during the empire of Septimius Severus. https://t.co/CVmoOgwktJ

Retweeted CNN ():

Archaeologists working at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, uncovered the remains of a 30-year-old man who appears to have survived the initial eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., only to be killed when he was struck by a large slab of stone https://t.co/CgQFTssa6x https://t.co/C4JEvAERMn

Retweeted Roman Society ():

"Libraries are so much more than the books that are in them" - discusses the importance of the Hellenic and Roman Library https://t.co/aRwEiL2blD

Retweeted Emma Kerr ():

Something like one third of all college students and half of all high school students use Quizlet. With the rise of GoogleDocs and other crowdsourcing resources online, can we really expect test answers to stay under lock and key? Should we want them to? https://t.co/4l7llCOxAc

Retweeted Victoria Pelham ():

The miles of manuscripts in the Vatican Secret Archives have been impossible to transcribe at length—until now, writes https://t.co/AeMaF1Ime7

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Argentinian artist Marta Minujín's monumental replica of the Greek Parthenon created with 100,000 copies of banned books, to symbolizes the resistance to political repression https://t.co/UVZpVYZX8d

Retweeted Lark Benobi 🎢 ():

Who would think: "Sausages and sneezes both have small but significant parts to play in Homer’s Odyssey." https://t.co/0h1BK4iyLO via

Retweeted LA Review of Books ():

"Austerity Measures" anthologizes recent Greek poetry. Not all of it is political, but "all of the poets here show us that something is at stake." https://t.co/pPN2tJRyZe https://t.co/3UabYmxrrc

Retweeted Lyman Stone ():

This article is a ringing endorsement of the liberal arts model in childhood education generally, and Classical Latin education specifically, and it doesn't even mention any of those things. https://t.co/8ioJWiib5L

Our table at this year’s Spring Insight featured new research and recently developed courses, including Prof. Dunn’s “CLASS 60: Science & Medicine in Ancient Greece.” Thanks to everyone who shared their knowledge of and enthusiasm for Classics with prospective UCSB students.

Retweeted The Chronicle of Higher Education ():

High schools often set up underprivileged students for academic failure. Colleges must work to change that. https://t.co/rYViMUES48

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Retweeted Aeon ():

Nationalist ideologies in Lebanon, Britain and Ireland encouraged historians to embrace the idea of an ancient – and imagined – Phoenician nation https://t.co/lsQlqAOdgd https://t.co/XnRbYzvCDY

Retweeted The Chronicle of Higher Education ():

Universities that do the most scientific research tend to be well known for their work. What about those that do the most humanities research? https://t.co/hOEsgOzuxL

Retweeted The TLS ():

Do classicists have a moral responsibility to critique fascist appropriations of ancient history? https://t.co/v3fwePCN1Z

Don’t blame Herodotus Do classicists have a moral responsibility to critique fascist appropriations of ancient history? Are there right and wrong “receptions” of classical antiquity? Martin Winkler, a leading scholar on the relationship between cinema and the Greco-Roman past, takes for granted that there are. Yet hi...

Retweeted The New Yorker ():

The classics scholar and translator Emily Wilson’s presence on Twitter is quietly revolutionary, a new kind of experience for readers, poets, translators, and really anyone who likes to watch knowledge take shape in an open format, its seams exposed: https://t.co/ocWVTpM59Y https://t.co/6PvobhohP6

Retweeted Emma Kerr ():

On the all-male, all-white presenters lineup at a history conference held at Stanford: "It just seems to me it would be really hard to even randomly invite a bunch of historians and get this outcome." https://t.co/elstoc7UwP

Retweeted LA Review of Books ():

At first glance, ancient Greek myths and literature seem full of powerful women, but these women often are also masculinized or demonized and cast out of society. https://t.co/4zQxBuMMId https://t.co/kNuxsEXKfy

Retweeted Eosafricana ():

March 2nd, Brown University: a student-led symposium on the life and legacy of John Wesley Gilbert, pioneering African American archaeologist. Details: https://t.co/KW101UV8rZ

Retweeted The TLS ():

How classical inheritance moulds our shared identity https://t.co/42CHv8EP1o

Bearing gifts In February 2012, as Greece was negotiating its second bailout loan, I interviewed a retired commander of the Hellenic Air Force whose pension austerity policies had cut by half. He was incensed that Greece’s European partners saw their loans to the country in uncompromisingly financial terms. “...

Retweeted LA Review of Books ():

Homer wrote the Odyssey as a harbinger of the changing times which would result in the development of Greek rationalism. https://t.co/ihNJFn49bV https://t.co/Lwutuk50VF

Retweeted 41 Strange ():

Storyboards Martin Scorsese drew when he was 11-yrs old for a Roman epic: "The Eternal City" https://t.co/pvldD75JHy

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Retweeted LA Review of Books ():

"The humanities have deep civilization-shaping influence in spite of — perhaps even because of — the way they appear minimal, unobtrusive, unimportant." Elaine Scarry: https://t.co/ureS9hhVdM https://t.co/HtBIihFlMw

Retweeted Lapham's Quarterly ():

Augustus’ propaganda promised a better world. What did Caesar’s offer? https://t.co/aqRpp31TjZ https://t.co/WQBnMDJT1V

Lapham's Quarterly on Twitter “Augustus’ propaganda promised a better world. What did Caesar’s offer? https://t.co/aqRpp31TjZ”