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Bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE: OUT NOW. Posts by N and team. https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · Mar 7

No one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo. This part of his quest has been forgotten, by everyone but me...

No Friend to This House
A novel by Natalie Haynes
Pre-order now for Sep 2025: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/nata...
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#NoFriendToThisHouse @picadorbooks.bsky.social

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 2h

I have a whole episode to introduce you to him!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Series 3, Cicero

Natalie Haynes stands up for the Roman orator, Cicero.

www.bbc.co.uk

Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 2h

She even sent these cool Odyssey postcards to keep him company! Everyone go check out her work. Thanks, Mia!

Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 2h

Look. At. Him.

This incredible felted Chrysomallos, the Golden Ram, was made by textile artist Mia Eccleston (www.instagram.com/_miaeccleston_)! I love him so much - who better to sit with my copies of No Friend to This House.

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 6h

Armando made me laugh A LOT doing this yesterday…

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Strong Message Here, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition (with Natalie Haynes)

Natalie Haynes joins Armando to repeatedly discuss repetition, repetitiously.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you so much!

Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 17h

A Trojan horse on Traitors! This calls for a classicist. Here's my Aeneid in 28 minutes, so you can find out more about the myth...

Listen on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 1d

The classic ‘hold my purse, I have to punch someone’ pose. No wonder they think it’s Hera.

Met Museum, info below.

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 2d

I’m excited to be in Kent next week, for Canterbury Festival! This is one of your last chances to see the No Friend to This House show, where I’ll be standing up for the Argo, the Golden Fleece, and our girl Medea…

👉 canterburyfestival.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

Natalie Haynes: No Friend To This House - Canterbury Festival

Natalie Haynes is a writer, broadcaster, classicist, and comedian who has been described as ‘the modern embodiment of the best of Homer'

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 2d

WW2 looting? Or it fancied going to Mardi Gras…

Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible journey. This Roman tombstone has travelled further than the man it commemorates. It seems to have come to New Orleans probably through post WW2 looting.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

www.theguardian.com

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 2d

I’m just going to say it: I think two horses would have been easier to draw.

The Met Museum, info below.

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 3d

Sail with the Argo on an epic quest (and a love story steeped in vengeance) in No Friend to This House, out now:
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/nata...

No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes

Find out more about No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes

www.panmacmillan.com

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 3d

All aboard - and watch out for sirens…
The Fate of Ophelia music video, Taylor Swift, 2025 | Jason & the Argonauts, Edmund Dulac, 1918 | Athenian red-figure clay vase, 425-375 BCE, Jatta National Archaeological Museum 🌊

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 3d

Hampstead! I snuck some signatures into No Friend to This House in your local Waterstones… 👀📚

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for reading!

Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 4d

Tiny golden ram! I yearn for it…

Rolf Oldejans @rolfoldejans.bsky.social · Sep 28

A golden ram and a stone lion, found in a tomb at the archaeological site of Gonur Depe (2400-1600 BC) in Turkmenistan.

The finger in the background shows how small these figures are, demonstrating the extraordinary skill of the craftsmen.

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 4d

I’m on BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House today! The show starts at 9, but I’m not on straight away. Tune your sets, or stream on Sounds…

Catch up after broadcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 4d

Bonus owl footage from our mother/daughter Athene day! Look at the face on Jangles 🦉

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 5d

How cool are these?! Thank you to the readers who gave me this excellent comic and beautiful rose on tour!
(The comic can be found on Etsy, if you want to read it!)

Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 6d

Literally a spectacled owl!

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 6d

#YouCannotHaveMyOwl 🦉

I took my mum to eleven tour shows; she took me to meet OWLS

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 6d

Kylix, circa 510 BCE, British Museum.
Info: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

kylix | British Museum

Pottery: red-figured kylix. Outline of hair incised. Interior: Within a thin red circle, dancing girl and fluteplayer. A youth (wreathed, mantle on left shoulder, phorbeia over mouth) steps in time to...

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 6d

The life of a showgirl is not all racy costumes and elaborate headdresses. Sometimes you also have to convince a man that wearing a strap across his mouth will help him play the flute better. #phorbeia

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 7d

Full length video: youtu.be/s6wCEYbAPV0?...

Medea’s Speech: The Natalie Haynes Translation ❤️‍🔥🏛️

YouTube video by Natalie Haynes

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