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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · 12d

Not happening

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · 12d

singing of national anthem was awful

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 14d

The latest Pasts Imperfect has @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social taking on ancient & medieval monsters 🐉. Then, a new book on art from ancient India & the Greco-Roman world, Barnard profs defend free speech, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & Joy Connolly eulogizes Michael Putnam.

Pasts Imperfect (9.25.25)

This week, historian of science, art, information, and monsters Surekha Davies discusses monster-making in the past and the present.

pasts-imperfect.ghost.io

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · 16d

Fantastic poem!

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 17d

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵

#LatinForTheDay – 22 September #Ovid

“Memnona si mater, mater ploravit Achillem,
et tangunt magnas tristia fata deas,
flebilis indignos, Elegia, solve capillos!
a, nimis ex vero nunc tibi nomen erit!—
ille tui vates operis, tua fama, Tibullus...

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · 17d

I just hope that they don’t destroy the things that make the ANU great, like its sensationally good Centre for Classical Studies, its Music School and its National Dictionary Centre.

Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · 19d

Another amazing quarter happening right now

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 20d

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.

'Rotten' Australian university culture lashed in long-running senate inquiry

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.

www.abc.net.au

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · 29d

Troy in Melbourne www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

Troy review – this fresh Australian take on Homer’s Iliad is a monumental triumph

Malthouse, MelbourneTom Wright’s production is the best thing Malthouse has produced in years: shocking, chilling, funny and often breathtakingly beautiful

www.theguardian.com

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · Sep 8

📜Australasian #Ovidian Society upcoming meeting

Join us next week, & check out the full program on our flyer!✨

DM me to join the mailing list

📌I'll be presenting this month on #Ovid Heroides 7
🗓15 Sept, 5PM AEST
📖 The Dido Project: Creative Research Practice as Critical Resistance

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Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social · Jul 22

Introducing... The Roman Mourner - a comprehensive analysis of the customs and rituals associated with mourning and death in ancient Rome.

Find out more: bit.ly/4lMdRI6

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · Sep 5

But many past faiths are also present faiths. Are you saying that I can’t call religious beliefs false? (I wouldn’t call them ‘superstitions’.)

Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · Sep 5

Can a fossil be only 2000 years old?

Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s all about the money and it always is.

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Andy Keen @keenerclassics.bsky.social · Sep 5

Given the news about Melvyn Bragg stepping down from In Our Time, now might be a good time to share this list (thanks to Paul Cartledge for the reminder!) keenerclassics.wordpress.com/classics-in-...

Classics In Our Time Podcasts

This is a list of podcasts from BBC In Our Time. I originally posted this as a Blog Post in 2017, but now updating it to a Page to make it easier to edit. Latest update: 4 September 2025 Greek…

keenerclassics.wordpress.com

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Crows will be shattered. The Advertiser had over 30 pages on the football today.

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · Sep 4

A quarter to go, but can’t see the Crows winning

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not close now

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very close!

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · Sep 2

On Apple podcasts now!

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · Sep 2

Here we go, gang! All 12 books of The Aeneid in 27 minutes. In one take. If I managed it. Let's find out...

Tune into BBC Radio 4 at 9am today 😬

Catch up any time on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · Sep 1

Now out - open access - in Classical Review. Thanks, @thedancinggrad.bsky.social for taking this one on.

Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · Sep 1

Latest review just dropped! I had the pleasure of reviewing the new English translation of the Valla commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and I unsurprisingly found it the most definitive English-language commentary on the Metamorphoses out there. Check out the review here!

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

THE DEFINITIVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE COMMENTARY ON OVID’S METAMORPHOSES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core

THE DEFINITIVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE COMMENTARY ON OVID’S METAMORPHOSES

doi.org

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · Sep 1

You’re right. It’s really, really good. I bought the Italian set. But it’s great to have it in English.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · Sep 1

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press!

#ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Book Series

Published by Edinburgh University Press The study of ancient Greek religion stands at a critical methodological juncture. While foundational frameworks like the polis-religion model have yielded...

www.npagr.info

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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Sometimes Protestant and Catholic Bibles have different numbering. But you’re right. You need to know Latin to check.