Dr Liz Webb
@lizwebb.bsky.social
PhD on Audience Sensory Experience in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. Writing on more Thucydides and Plutarch. Open University Visiting Fellow.
With no spoilers I LOVED the Celebrity Traitors final.
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
With no spoilers I LOVED the Celebrity Traitors final.
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I wrote about Roman curse tablets in Ancient History Magazine - available now! www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-gb/produc...
Ancient History Magazine 57
In ancient Rome, as throughout the ancient world, people's lives were structured around religious rituals and festivals, they prayed to the gods for guidance, and it was believed the gods even interce...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I wrote about Roman curse tablets in Ancient History Magazine - available now! www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-gb/produc...
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🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Polly Low, who has provided the introduction and notes to Robin Waterfield's recently published new translation of Thucydides!
🔗 tinyurl.com/826xpz6n
🔊 Listen to Polly and Robin on the 'Wondery' podcast: tinyurl.com/3xp738a3
🔗 tinyurl.com/826xpz6n
🔊 Listen to Polly and Robin on the 'Wondery' podcast: tinyurl.com/3xp738a3
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Polly Low, who has provided the introduction and notes to Robin Waterfield's recently published new translation of Thucydides!
🔗 tinyurl.com/826xpz6n
🔊 Listen to Polly and Robin on the 'Wondery' podcast: tinyurl.com/3xp738a3
🔗 tinyurl.com/826xpz6n
🔊 Listen to Polly and Robin on the 'Wondery' podcast: tinyurl.com/3xp738a3
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This jar stands at an impressive height of 75 cm. The painted decoration depicts an octopus, swimming in an abstract seascape. The jar comes from the Minoan palace at Knossos, on the island of Crete, and was created in the 15th century BCE.
October 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This jar stands at an impressive height of 75 cm. The painted decoration depicts an octopus, swimming in an abstract seascape. The jar comes from the Minoan palace at Knossos, on the island of Crete, and was created in the 15th century BCE.
The house is lovely just to visit and the events are wonderful. I went to the gin tasting and Georgian history talk last night and it was terrific. Would recommend!
Amorous or Loving?: The Highly Peculiar Tale of English and the English
Hear Sir Rupert Gavin chart English’s extraordinary path to becoming the most global language today spoken by 1.6 billion all over the world.
Wednesday 15 October
6pm - 8pm 🎟️🍷📚
tinyurl.com/snbh7sv2
Hear Sir Rupert Gavin chart English’s extraordinary path to becoming the most global language today spoken by 1.6 billion all over the world.
Wednesday 15 October
6pm - 8pm 🎟️🍷📚
tinyurl.com/snbh7sv2
October 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The house is lovely just to visit and the events are wonderful. I went to the gin tasting and Georgian history talk last night and it was terrific. Would recommend!
Enjoying an afternoon with Plutarch today
September 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Enjoying an afternoon with Plutarch today
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Here's your annual reminder: whether you received A-level results today, years ago, or never, there's space for you at the @openuniversity.bsky.social!
August 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Here's your annual reminder: whether you received A-level results today, years ago, or never, there's space for you at the @openuniversity.bsky.social!
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If you're out in Verulamium Park this summer look out for the 'Tread the Past' trail. At each of the 8 stops scan the QR code to discover the history under your feet 👣
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/tread-past?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bsky_post
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/tread-past?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bsky_post
July 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If you're out in Verulamium Park this summer look out for the 'Tread the Past' trail. At each of the 8 stops scan the QR code to discover the history under your feet 👣
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/tread-past?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bsky_post
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/tread-past?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bsky_post
Really enjoyed seeing this today. Thanks for chatting with us when we visited.
And that's a dig wrap!
Today was our last day on the Rose & Crown dig site.
Thank you to everyone who came to see the finds, our fabulous archaeology volunteers and our fantastic partners @drparchaeology @minervaarchaeology @simonknightarchitects
Watch this space for finds updates!
#archaeology
Today was our last day on the Rose & Crown dig site.
Thank you to everyone who came to see the finds, our fabulous archaeology volunteers and our fantastic partners @drparchaeology @minervaarchaeology @simonknightarchitects
Watch this space for finds updates!
#archaeology
July 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Really enjoyed seeing this today. Thanks for chatting with us when we visited.
Oxford looking good this morning
May 31, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Oxford looking good this morning
Loved discovering this today #tinyjoys
'Though it wasn’t until 411 BC he took up the oar / in the Peloponnesian War / against “man-loosening” Lysander, // our hero was not unknown / to Thucydides ... '
Litotes by Paul Muldoon
Litotes by Paul Muldoon
Litotes
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May 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Loved discovering this today #tinyjoys
Today I celebrated my PhD at the Barbican with the rest of the #OUfamily. It was an incredibly joyful atmosphere. Thanks for being there @emmabridges.bsky.social and thanks to @eltonteb.bsky.social and Eleanor Betts, my other fantastic supervisors, and @ougradsch.bsky.social for the opportunities.
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March 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Today I celebrated my PhD at the Barbican with the rest of the #OUfamily. It was an incredibly joyful atmosphere. Thanks for being there @emmabridges.bsky.social and thanks to @eltonteb.bsky.social and Eleanor Betts, my other fantastic supervisors, and @ougradsch.bsky.social for the opportunities.
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Because I'm updating them today, I'd like to remind #AncientBluesky that we have *FREELY ACCESSIBLE* Ancient Greek resources at the Open University! 🏺
First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
Getting started on ancient Greek
This free course, Getting started on ancient Greek, offers a taster of the ancient Greek world through the study of one of its most distinctive and enduring features: its language.The course ...
www.open.edu
March 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Because I'm updating them today, I'd like to remind #AncientBluesky that we have *FREELY ACCESSIBLE* Ancient Greek resources at the Open University! 🏺
First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
Triple checking my chapter proofs this evening so Thucydides is back out on the table. It’s my first post PhD thing and I had forgotten that feeling before pressing ‘send’ on the final version of something.
February 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Triple checking my chapter proofs this evening so Thucydides is back out on the table. It’s my first post PhD thing and I had forgotten that feeling before pressing ‘send’ on the final version of something.
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Handily OUP are offering a hefty discount on my book Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience as part of their #AIASCS promotion so you can currently get it for £15 (or $21 in the US) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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January 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Handily OUP are offering a hefty discount on my book Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience as part of their #AIASCS promotion so you can currently get it for £15 (or $21 in the US) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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My article in the FT on state school Classics. It’s not all bad news! Article here: www.ft.com/content/8b93...
The delights of the ancient world should be available for all
The flame of classics still burns in state schools even as the Latin scheme is axed
www.ft.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My article in the FT on state school Classics. It’s not all bad news! Article here: www.ft.com/content/8b93...