DSFC Classics & Philosophy

Durham Sixth Form Centre Classics & Philosophy Dept.

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@RoyalMail why would I be charged £15 of insufficient postage paid on a 2.82kg box with a 3kg postage label. How do I contact somebody to challenge this?

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I'm reading Varro on Agriculture and came across this passage on pig sacrifice. I'm wondering if this is why the pig is in the Aeneas/Numa panel of the Ara Pacis.
@wmarybeard @DrMCNicholls

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Setting work for Year 12 just digging into Imperial Image and Odyssey. Without planning it that way it's a double @wmarybeard: masculine self-assertion as kyrios in Odyssey 1 and some work on military triumphs too.

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@MostlyPrint I really like his Foreign Office, even though the humour has not all aged well.

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Time to write out some Leavers' prizes. I couldn't really see how it could not be @DAMendelsohnNYC 's Odyssey (although were there a nice Ahl Virgil edition...). I am hoping that this @PenguinUKBooks translation will replace the Rieu for @OCR_Classics at some point.

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Made possible by an incredible team of experts at all stages of learning about classics @KathrynTempest #TwistedTransfers @litandphil @classicsforall @DeveralCapps @DSFCOfficial @QESFC @rgs_classics @DurhamHighSch @TeessideHigh @Dunelmia @classicsforall

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@DAMendelsohnNYC That would be brilliant

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@DAMendelsohnNYC's notes to his Odyssey are really good. The focus he has put on self-control notes has formed the basis of a revision exercise looking for instances of this control in Od and for its absence in others. I'd put money on his notes being cited in the A-Level.

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We already used his essay on Aeneid, so not even a new name to learn.

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A year's wait is almost up. I loved @DAMendelsohnNYC's Cavafy and use his essay on Virgil in class, so have very high hopes for this.

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@UChicagoPress @DAMendelsohnNYC But sadly not open to UK. I'll have to buy one if transatlantic trade is still allowed by then.

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Marking mocks and have enjoyed hearing the stoic Sage described as "The Stoic Influencer". That sounds about right.

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@AntigoneJournal @grok @elonmusk Alternative, and less combative, reading would be that referring to a historical figure you do not believe to be a living god as "our Lord" is uncomfortable and feels dishonest, so rather than seek to change an established dating system, you rephrase it. "Less honest"? No.

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Every year when we embark on Seneca in @OCR_Classics, we think of @lizgloyn and are grateful!

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Reading @wmarybeard's Emperor of Rome. How have I got until today without knowing Augustus had a pet goat he took with him on sea voyages!?
Greek anthology IX. 224

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@LEJenksBrown I'm quite looking forward to it myself.

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@blueraspbaby5 "Start in the middle" is the advice on books she received and gives. It's the proem to the Odyssey.

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@Durham_Classics Tickets bought.

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@p_historians @DocCrom @antmoose @chapps @AncientRomeLive @roamintheempire They had some gall I think.

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@Lindsay_Powell Romanes eunt domus