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At my first school they read at the end of term: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report...
The "whatsoevers" made it.
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A fantastic set of results in the ICCG for our Beginners' class of '26 at the Liverpool Greek Academy! Congratulations to all!
Read more and find out how you can join this year's cohort, here: classicsforallnorth.org.uk/n…
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Once again, students at the Liverpool Greek Academy have achieved fantastic A-level results, and greatly increased the proportion of state-school Classical Greek A-level! Congratulations!!! We will miss you!
Blog-post here: Liverpool Greek Academy | Classics for All North
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What the design proves is that the Minoans were discrete drinkers who when drinking wine (especially on Zoom meetings) wanted to make it look as though they were just having a cup of tea
Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me
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ALT My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup has a black slip background decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif painted in white, red and orange colours. This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, after the Kamares Cave in central Crete where this kind of pottery was first found. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops mainly at Phaistos and Knossos. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.
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Today is Lammas, an Anglo-Saxon harvest festival celebrated on 1 August. The name comes from the Old English word 'hlafmæsse', 'loaf-mass', so it's a festival of bread - perhaps a day for blessing loaves of bread made from the first wheat of the harvest.
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The 7th century church of St Paul’s at Jarrow. The home of Bede and once home too to Wilfrid, Ceolfrith and St Cuthbert. 🕯️
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One aspect of Nolan’s Odyssey I’ve not seen noted is his use of mediaeval/Venetian castles rather than Classical or Bronze Age citadels — Methone for Sparta and the Acrocorinth for Mycenae. These are much more visually striking, and some of the most underrated sites in Greece.
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You know what? Whatever you think of @odysseymovie, lovers of #literature, #Homer, #Classics, the #Odyssey & #Iliad shd be rejoicing. If you’d told me 5 years ago that the entire planet would be talking abt this 2,700-year-old Greek text, I’d have laughed. So let’s be grateful.
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Booking for the inaugural Heneb Wrexham Roman Conference, 2-4 October now open. See heneb.org.uk/event/arcc2026-…
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Mysterious Celtic La Tène sword found deposited in a well at the sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea, in the Peloponnese
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Victoria Moul. "Like the eagle of Zeus, one softened wing / Over his head as he sleeps, as I sing."
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While watching the leopards of Congo and waiting for the lions of England, why not find out why England’s three lions are actually leopards and the story of Henry of Bolingbroke’s cheetah
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This year's class have just sat their ICCG exam to gain a recognised qualification in ancient languages. There are still places available in our next Beginners' course - starts September. Find out more at classicsforallnorth.org.uk/l…
Parents of Y9-13 state-school pupils on Merseyside! Find out how they can learn Classical Greek with us for free at classicsforallnorth.org.uk/l…
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Robert Frost reads “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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Friends in the #UK! I’ll be talking about the joys and challenges of #translation and #Homer’s #Odyssey at the @hayfestival on Wednesday 27 May, in conversation with the excellent @chris_power ! Ticket info below:
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Another one of the Classicists who served
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Denis Healey, one of six formidable candidates in Labour's 1976 leadership election, was a grammar school boy from Yorkshire who achieved a double first in classics at Oxford, served in the second world war (including as beachmaster at the Battle of Anzio), was mentioned in dispatches, demobbed as a major, spoke several foreign languages, and was a gifted amateur painter and pianist and all-round aficionado of the arts. My piece examining the decline in calibre of British parliamentarians. paulembery.com/p/titans-and-…
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Night thoughts on “polytropos,” 1:
The syntax of the Greek suggests that the relative clause (“who greatly wandered…”) that follows this adjective is intended as a gloss on it. Hence the translation of p should be a word(s) that describes his route as well as his personality.
