Oliver Clarke
@astroclassicist.bsky.social
Curatorial Assistant, Greek Coins, Ashmolean Museum. Previously, DPhil at New College, Oxford on Hellenistic Cities and Kings in Asia Minor. Quizzer, rower, lapsed Brummie.
My central piece of evidence in regrettsbly making a case for decline is the BBC website, every day new horrors.
December 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
My central piece of evidence in regrettsbly making a case for decline is the BBC website, every day new horrors.
*incredibly* lucky that I get to look at these objects and ask what the hell might be going on
December 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
*incredibly* lucky that I get to look at these objects and ask what the hell might be going on
Only if it is revealed after 50 years that every inch of it is bugged, but that the magnate never cared to do anything with the gossip, he just liked knowing everything
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Only if it is revealed after 50 years that every inch of it is bugged, but that the magnate never cared to do anything with the gossip, he just liked knowing everything
The journal article argues that there is actually a reference to it in a monastic source: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Cerne Giant in Its Early Medieval Context | Speculum: Vol 99, No 1
Abstract The recent dating of the Cerne Abbas Giant came as a surprise. This huge, naked figure was cut into a Dorset hillside not, as many have supposed, in prehistory, nor in the early modern period...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The journal article argues that there is actually a reference to it in a monastic source: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
This is why the Cerne Abbqs giant is so weird - it seems to be Anglo-Saxon! www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/cern...
www.history.ox.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This is why the Cerne Abbqs giant is so weird - it seems to be Anglo-Saxon! www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/cern...
Must tell you in more detail at some point about the multiple cases I know of where Oxford classicists regularly pour libations for the dead
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Must tell you in more detail at some point about the multiple cases I know of where Oxford classicists regularly pour libations for the dead
"da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo" - British budgets, 2010 - ???
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo" - British budgets, 2010 - ???
Lousy Soctobermber Weather
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Lousy Soctobermber Weather
November 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Yeah, the first years I've taught so far have been incredibly engaged, and getting through much more reading than the cohorts who got wrecked by lockdowns when they were to 16-18
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Yeah, the first years I've taught so far have been incredibly engaged, and getting through much more reading than the cohorts who got wrecked by lockdowns when they were to 16-18
Literally do not understand why, if you had that kind of money, you don't just buy something like this and live happily ever after, www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1... (the Effective Altruists' great white elephant)
Check out this 27 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
27 bedroom detached house for sale in Wytham, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 for £5,950,000. Marketed by Savills, Summertown
www.rightmove.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Literally do not understand why, if you had that kind of money, you don't just buy something like this and live happily ever after, www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1... (the Effective Altruists' great white elephant)
Some very lovely places in Park Town with enormous price tags (and also some lovely but tiny places in Jericho with price tags which would make their inhabitants 50 years ago faint)
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Some very lovely places in Park Town with enormous price tags (and also some lovely but tiny places in Jericho with price tags which would make their inhabitants 50 years ago faint)
My current game is looking at the places in Oxford I definitely cannot afford and working out which senior academics they belong to from the decor and/or books that are visible.
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My current game is looking at the places in Oxford I definitely cannot afford and working out which senior academics they belong to from the decor and/or books that are visible.
RotS is an utterly flawed mess of a film, but I will one day sit down to watch it again in a moment of weakness.
I will rewatch AotC in the same spirit that I watch the Holiday Special.
I intend to never think of RoS, except for the phrases "Jar of Snokes" and "vital plot revealed in Fortnite"
I will rewatch AotC in the same spirit that I watch the Holiday Special.
I intend to never think of RoS, except for the phrases "Jar of Snokes" and "vital plot revealed in Fortnite"
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
RotS is an utterly flawed mess of a film, but I will one day sit down to watch it again in a moment of weakness.
I will rewatch AotC in the same spirit that I watch the Holiday Special.
I intend to never think of RoS, except for the phrases "Jar of Snokes" and "vital plot revealed in Fortnite"
I will rewatch AotC in the same spirit that I watch the Holiday Special.
I intend to never think of RoS, except for the phrases "Jar of Snokes" and "vital plot revealed in Fortnite"
Have wondered at what point in the process he and others realised 'if we can just get everyone to Scarif in a vaguely plausible way in the first half, we know we can knit the heist and battle together well enough that people will forget the "vaguely"'
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Have wondered at what point in the process he and others realised 'if we can just get everyone to Scarif in a vaguely plausible way in the first half, we know we can knit the heist and battle together well enough that people will forget the "vaguely"'
It's also, in my experience, an online phenomenon - everyone of a certain age I talk about what it has been like for my generation in person has enormous sympathy/can barely believe what it's like now
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It's also, in my experience, an online phenomenon - everyone of a certain age I talk about what it has been like for my generation in person has enormous sympathy/can barely believe what it's like now
I had gone several months without thinking about the Holiday Special, damn you
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I had gone several months without thinking about the Holiday Special, damn you