Tweets from the Classics Department at Hurstpierpoint College. Head of Department- Clementine Faulkner
Hurstpierpoint, England
Joined January 2017
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I was honoured to kick off @Hurst_Classics big Roman Afternoon today with my talk 'Mysteries of Ancient Rome' to year 7. It was great to hear kids laugh over Zoom as I concluded my presentation with my infamous sponge-stick routine. Please send pictures of the rest of the day? 😁
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Y'all, I made a timeline of authors for my Greek and Roman lit survey class and I'm quite proud of it. Was it supposed to be done for last class and wasn't because I got way too into it? Technically, yes. But I maintain it's worth it.
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#OvidNotCovid episode 1! The first in my new series of short videos on Ovid's Heroides. Today we cover the first poem, a letter from the long-suffering Penelope to her husband Odysseus/Ulysses, who is off somewhere with too few consonants to be safe... 1/4
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Excited to be returning to @Hurst_Classics today for their Roman Afternoon! This time I'm talking about my new #TimeTravelDiaries set in Roman London & also sharing some writing tips! ☺️
P.S. I am now taking school bookings for October... More info here: romanmysteries.com/schools
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Broadway Musicals in #Latin
feles
liber Mormonis
miseri
scelesta
sonum musicae
tabernula atrocitatum
cantans in pluvia
mater mea
crinis
olim/semel(?)
oppidum lotii
via quadragesima secunda
color purpureus
locarium
Sicagum
arvina
in silvam
violinista in tecto
phantasma melodramae
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On this day - April 4 - Romans began the seven day Megalensia, honouring Magna Mater, The Great Mother. There was a long public holiday, with theatre, feasts and games at the Circus Maximus. Followers processed through the streets, carrying an image of the goddess.
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Stunning 10-Foot Statue of Roman Emperor Found Under Ancient Fountain in Turkey - gizmodo.com/stunning-10-foot…
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The conspirators included most famously Brutus (x2), Cassius and Casca. The famed orator Cicero was not included in their plot, although wrote later that he wished he had been invited to that "feast... on the Ides of March"
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Caesar: The Ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar, but not gone.
On this day in 44BC, Julius Caesar was killed by his fellow senators, not in the senate house as is commonly mistaken, but in a theatre constructed by his old rival, Pompey.
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Happy #IWD19 everyone. There are loads of great books out there to celebrate with...A few months ago I updated my Women and Power (with an extra bit thinking about MeToo, consent etc). Amazing to think that first ed. came out late 2017, but was sent to press actually pre #MeToo – at Rome, Lazio
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"Although they are
only breath, words
which I command
are immortal"
Sappho (translated by Mary Barnard)
Happy #InternationalWomensDay
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Today is #InternationalWomensDay, so here is a small selection of women who are in the Lego Classicists Family:
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Excited to announce our Classical Reading Competition! Do contact for information and pieces. Our amazing Mrs Miller has a great event planned for you!
theclassicslibrary.com/susse…
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And while we are on the subject of horse saddles and harnesses etc... let us take a moment to enjoy the discovery in #Herculaneum of the rope pads designed to protect the hoof of a horse – I give you hipposandals!
Image: @pompeii_sites/@MuseoBoscoreale via @PlanetPompeii
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Images come courtesy of these sources:
Image 1: nationalgeographic.it/mondo-…
Image 2&8: turismoitalianews.it/ultimis…
agi.it/cronaca/pompei_cavall…
Image 3: @Cesab1967
Image 4: anteprima24.it/uncategorized…
Images 5,6&7: napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca…
Good & detailed info (Italian): agi.it/cronaca/pompei_cavall…
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Details of the military four-horned saddle and bronze fittings of the harness found on the skeleton of the horse found at the Roman suburban villa at Civita Giuliana near #Pompeii.
