Exeter ClassicsSoc

Welcome to the @UniofExeter Classics Society twitter, providing Classics related updates amongst a plethora of witty banter.

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

IT’S THE DAY OF THE FINAL NIGHT! We’ve already sold a great many tickets so if you’re planning on coming, please do buy online below or turn up at 7pm sharp outside the M&D Room to secure yours! Can’t wait to see you all 💁‍♀️

https://t.co/VwpSYlfyHi

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

After a thrilling opening night, we are ready once again to go for round two! Doors open at 7pm this evening for the second performance of Lysistrata 🎭

Tickets still available online and on the door!

https://t.co/B47ZwhAE11

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

TONIGHT IS THE OPENING NIGHT!
19:00 doors open for a 19:30 start. Be prompt! 🎭
Tickets still available online and on the door! 🏛
https://t.co/6TiDufmCid

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

Tickets are now on sale for the annual Classics Society Play! This year will be an adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.

THURSDAY 5TH MARCH: https://t.co/6TiDufEdGN

FRIDAY 6TH MARCH: https://t.co/B47ZwhAE11

SATURDAY 7TH MARCH: https://t.co/VwpSYlfyHi

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

The stash for term 2 is now available to browse! All the main information is on the Facebook page 🥳 Please contact Lottie for any questions! 🤩 Sales taking place next Monday (1-3) and Thursday (11-1) at the dh2 desk! 🌿🏛 Here’s an example of what’s on sale

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

Here are the dates of our socials for the rest of the term! This will change when we have a set date for the ball, the rest are subject to change but it’s unlikely 🌿🏛 •BA bar rush-04/02 • Valentines social-13/02 • The play social-27/02 • Centurion - 10/03 • Ball w/c 23/03

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

On Sunday, team Caligulads won their first intramural netball game of the year, 15-8! 🏀 Thank you to new and returning players who joined us! #intramural #caligulads #exetersport

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

Our first netball game of the year is taking place at 6:40 at the covered courts. For those who don't know where that is, head to the astro and one of us will be waiting nearby! #caligulads 🏀

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

Thank you everyone who attended our Intramural Sports taster session this afternoon! Sign ups will be happening soon, the first two sessions are free of charge so you can see whether it's your thing, no pressure if not!

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

Auditions are taking place for this year's play on Sunday October 6th!
These auditions are relaxed, friendly and no previous acting experience is needed 😊.
Please contact our General Secretary, Robbie, for more details!
💚✨🌿

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

Thank you so much to everyone who attended the highlight of the social calendar, the toga social! 🌿
Myself and all of the committee are excited for the year ahead and have plenty planned ✨. #classics #togasocial #classicsatexeter #exeteruni

[Katharine Earnshaw @Earnshaw_K]

@ExeterClassics @UoEClassicsSoc
#classicsball!
(Fulfilling the wishes of the instructional stick for a Twitter selfie - also wondering if @nicholsone99 and I should start an 80s pop duo...)

[Neville Morley @NevilleMorley]

It’s really quite impressive... Creative activity for the mid-point of the @UoEClassicsSoc quiz is making a classical outfit out of newspaper. Everyone else has made wings, head full of snakes, crowns etc.

[Exeter Classics @ExeterClassics]

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the amazing women among our students and staff. 💪

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

@UoEWellbeing As a student librarian who’s on shift at the moment, I haven’t found one 😢

[Exeter Classics Postgraduate Seminars (ExeWip) @ExeWip]

We are so pleased to announce our first research seminar of 2019! @BGMPullan will presenting his paper “Nature (Un-)Tamed: Ecocritical perspectives on the pseudo-Virgilian Aetna” at 5:30pm this Friday, 8th March in the Leventis Room, Amory Building. See you all there!

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

Absolutely honoured to announce that the President of the Exeter Classics Society is the Exeter Guild President from July 2019-July 2020!

[Exeter Guild @ExeterGuild]

...and finally for tonight; your Guild President for 2019-20 - Patrick Hoyle #ExeterVote

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

Deadline blues? This may just help.... @NevilleMorley

[Neville Morley @NevilleMorley]

@HarvardUPLondon @sapphicapuella Whatcha doin’? Verb construin’?
Noun declinin’? Hear ya cryin’.
Can you look through LSJ?
Would you still know what it says?
Father, father, father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me
Questioning
Where is the Loeb?

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

And the winner is @LemonaMarshall!!! Thank you to all who came and helped us debate the impact of the ancients in our celebration of LGBT History Month 2019! #classicsloveislove #pridemonth

[Exeter ClassicsSoc @UoEClassicsSoc]

“It’s not queerness, it’s just abuse” on Nero’s castration of Sporus #Debate2019