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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 11h
Tomorrow on Instant Classics (tinyurl.com/4s6vr4vp) we're looking at the long and complicated history of the toga. You'll never look on a toga party in thesame way again. That's FDR having a toga birthday party.
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 7d
A new episode of our Odyssey reading Book Club has dropped - discussing the rest of Book 1. From now on, I'm afraid you will actually have to JOIN the Club to listen. But there will be all sorts of other perks too. So go on! instantclassics.supportingcast.fm
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 10d
Talking in Oxford on 2 Oct. Just a few tickets left. I will be kicking off with a tiny Oxford classical treasure: some ancient Roman bullets with surprising messages imprinted on them! www.fane.co.uk/mary-beard
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 11d
Really kind of Mary Beard to give me this generous shout-out in her @thetls.bsky.social blog this week … www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Don’t mess with a librarian
I have been off to Oxford to celebrate the skills, inspiration, charisma and resilience of librarians. First was the presentation of the Royal Society of
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 11d
Where should you go to see the best version of the lost statue of Athena from the Parthenon? Athens? London? No: Nashville! Listen here. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
Decoding The Parthenon
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 25/09/2025 · 53m
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Lenart J. Kucic @ljkucic.bsky.social · 16d
This is becoming one of my favourite podcasts: Instant Classics by Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins. Check the latest episode on free speech in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Instant Classics podcast | Listen online for free
Join world-renowned classicist Mary Beard and Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins for Instant Classics — the weekly podcast that proves ancient history is still relevant. Ancient stories, ...
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 13d
'The Odyssey, with its stinks and stenches, its pigsties and drugged dinner parties, its beggars and bards, is not so high-flown as the Iliad.'

A. E. Stallings (@ae_stallings): The epic of homecoming in a new translation
A mentor’s odyssey
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 13d
Our new Instant Classics podcast is on the Parthenon. Not its modern controversies, but its ancient ones! Was it OTT? tinyurl.com/y9rcp6zj
Decoding The Parthenon
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 25/09/2025 · 51m
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 14d
We'll be dropping an Instant Classics episode about the Parthenon on Thursday...https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/instant-classics/id1831429397
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 17d
Not exactly a fashionista! But v chuffed about this 👇👇
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 20d
Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…
A SmartViz monitoring device installed at a university.
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 19d
It a bumper Classics issue of the @thetls.bsky.social
this week. Long reviews by AE Stallings on Mendelsohn's Odyssey tinyurl.com/k7uzw9cy and by Peter Thonemann on 403 BCE
A mentor’s odyssey
It was perhaps inevitable that the critic, editor, classicist and translator Daniel Mendelsohn would take on a translation of the Odyssey. After all, he
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 19d
Democracy is something you have to work hard at, not just sit back and enjoy. One thing we discuss here on
Free Speech - An Ancient History. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
Free Speech - An Ancient History
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 18/09/2025 · 48m
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 20d
Is now a good time to think harder about the death of Socrates? We wonder on Instant Classics: tinyurl.com/43b2pvvs
Free Speech - An Ancient History
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 18/09/2025 · 48m
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 21d
What you have been waiting for! Our Odyssey bookclub dives into the first 10 lines of Odyssey Book 1.. how a careful read of them helps unlock the whole poem. All in English but we do pick out & explain one Greek word. tinyurl.com/4ycrzxw9
The Odyssey#2:
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 16/09/2025 · 25m
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 25d
On Tuesday our Instant Classics Odyssey Readalong really gets down to it -- with the start of Book 1 (and what some of the words really mean). We'll be reading the Odyssey together over several months (not sure how long). For an intro before that, try here: tinyurl.com/p2cr66xu
The Odyssey#1: Journey Begins
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 02/09/2025 · 17m
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 25d
On Tuesday our Instant Classics Odyssey Readalong really gets down to it -- with the start of Book 1 (and what some of the words really mean). We'll be reading the Odyssey together over several months (not sure how long). For an intro before that, try here: tinyurl.com/p2cr66xu
The Odyssey#1: Journey Begins
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 02/09/2025 · 17m
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 26d
I have done hobbyist research all my life!
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 27d
Todays new podcast . On sappho the first western poet of desire . Charlotte & I enjoy an occasional bit of disagreement ! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Sep 6
This year we're going to do #WorldBeardDay the way it should be done. 🤩

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A portrait of the god in human form that is Prof Mary Beard. The background has been enhanced to be orange and her hair has been given a blue tinge.
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Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social · Sep 2
Just signed up for the #instantClassics Podcast book club exploring some great Greek and Roman texts with the dream classics team of Dame @wmarybeard.bsky.social and @charlottehiggo.bsky.social

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · Sep 2
Thank you!
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · Aug 31
Blimey I went OTT on the replies!
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · Aug 30
Thanks so much for saying. M
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