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Bobby Xinyue

@bobbyxinyue.bsky.social

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Latinist, Londoner, Luddite. Repulsively fast eater, unrepentantly slow writer. Author of ‘Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry’ (OUP, 2022). Lecturer in Roman Culture at KCL.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Aug 15

My latest contribution to the ever-growing field (or patch, more like) of Moretum Studies.

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WHO MAKES THE PESTO? LABOUR, SOCIAL STATUS AND AUTHORSHIP IN THE MORETVM | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core

WHO MAKES THE PESTO? LABOUR, SOCIAL STATUS AND AUTHORSHIP IN THE MORETVM

www.cambridge.org

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 5d

So immersive that everyone dies

pompeii-experience.com/london/

https://pompeii-experience.com/london/

Visit Pompeii in London! Discover the history, culture, and art of the ancient Roman city through well-preserved relics and artefacts.

pompeii-experience.com

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 20d

Can someone post something — anything — positive on the Liverpool List please? Just to, you know, cover the stench.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Aug 28

Here's the programme for the upcoming 'Fixed Handout 3.0' workshop on Luxorius. Get in touch if you'd like to come along. Cheers.

#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Aug 28

Waking up to the news of Man Utd losing to Grimsby is rather joyous. They come up with such exciting and varied ways to lose. They’ve basically mastered self-humiliation as an art form.

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Aug 15

My latest contribution to the ever-growing field (or patch, more like) of Moretum Studies.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

WHO MAKES THE PESTO? LABOUR, SOCIAL STATUS AND AUTHORSHIP IN THE MORETVM | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core

WHO MAKES THE PESTO? LABOUR, SOCIAL STATUS AND AUTHORSHIP IN THE MORETVM

www.cambridge.org

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Aug 12

As if the Battle of Actium wasn’t anticlimactic enough already, now imagine Roman soldiers wearing this poxy thing prancing about in Alexandria…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bolton Museum displays rare Roman sun hat following restoration

The 2,000-year-old hat, which kept soldiers cool in Ancient Egypt, is one of only three in the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is gonna be a good one.

Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Jul 23

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/book/60683

Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Jul 5

Here’s a list of hobbies you can pursue this weekend instead of posting on the Classics List:

Extreme Pickle Tasting
Toilet Paper Origami
Pizza Slice Geometry Analysis
Competitive Sock Matching
Snail Racing Commentary
Ceiling Stain Interpretation
Emergency Exit Sign Appreciation

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Jun 30

Good morning from an empty and *air-conditioned* BL reading room.

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · May 16

This is what injustice looks like: we don’t have anything from books 7-10 of Tacitus’ Annals, yet we have four books — FOUR long tedious books — of Ovid’s Ex Ponto.

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · Feb 25

Excited to announce that my book 'The Library of Ancient Wisdom' will be released 27th Feb in the UK and 12th March in the US. Pre-orders available from wherever you get your books. Details here:
www.penguin.co.uk/books/443027...

The Library of Ancient Wisdom

When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, s...

www.penguin.co.uk

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Feb 21

It’s always a bit worrying (sorry I meant ‘delightful’) when you’re learning new things from an undergrad dissertation. I genuinely had no idea that Lucian wrote an essay about the thirst snake. I even had to google what a thirst snake was. 😳

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Jan 7

I hope you’re having a FANTASTIC Tuesday, Lucy 🙄

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Jan 7

We’re now officially past the statutes of limitation on saying happy new year (cf. L. David 2020). Thank god.

youtu.be/U4rkzyGFFo0?...

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Happy New Years

YouTube video by Patty B.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Dec 31

Signing off 2024 with this picture of a bookshop I wandered into in Testaccio. The view that greeted me (the one you’re seeing now) was so calming and joyful, it was quite a shock to the system. I hope 2025 will bring you as much tranquility as this bookshop did for me. Happy new year.

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Dec 19

Treating myself to an early Christmas present: an empty library.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Dec 5

Emily Gowers has said everything there is to say about garlic.

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Nov 18

Pasta company: How easily do you think we can get people to buy our pasta by putting a very low-res image of Vesuvius on our packaging?

Me: Take my money

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Nov 17

A short video I took of the House of Augustus from my recent trip to Rome. Enjoy all its glory.

#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Nov 11

Superb cover. (Always judge a book by its cover — that’s how the saying goes, right?)

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Nov 10

👋 to my new followers. In case you’re wondering what kind of content you’re gonna get from me: 60% football (soccer), 30% on how much I loathe Ovid, 10% on my actual research — recondite Latin texts that have, alas, sadly survived.

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Dec 20

You’re taking more Callimachus away from us? You bloody Grinch, you!

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Nov 23

Proper research.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Nov 18

Good lord that cover!

Sean Hannan @seanhannan.bsky.social · Nov 17

Check out the upcoming book _Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid_ by Sarah McCallum (who happens to be my cousin)! Pre-order here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...