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Classicist (thanks to George for the pic)

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Find out on Instant Classics what Tom Hiddleston finds so important about Pompeii and what he got out of studying classics at uni. (Did you know he did??) https://t.co/ueUKeQRQbX

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@janinethechef1 This is the answer I think: @thebookerprizes on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Bluesky. Join readers in the Booker Prize Book Club on Facebook and sign up to the Booker Prizes Substack.

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Here's our Booker longlist (and us judges). Enjoy!!

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@oghersi So glad you are enjoying it!

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On Instant Classics Charlotte and I try to weigh up the pros and cons of the odyssey movie. There are pros as well as cons. So if you want a classical view ( which also thinks “film”) look here https://t.co/MTcG5Vjsba

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@DAMendelsohnNYC @KatharinaWesse2 @F_Soeren @FlintDibble @JRGhaddar well... i guess so, but we aren't actually all the same. I love such discussions!

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@DAMendelsohnNYC @KatharinaWesse2 @F_Soeren @FlintDibble @JRGhaddar I am not so sure about that, for me at least. I would love to talk to Nolan about some of his tales on this.

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@janinethechef1 Let me look into it!

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@GraduatedBen Next week we are doing an Instant Classics special short podcast on exactly that question. It will drop soon!

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@DrJPPham @Cambridge_Uni @UChicagoPress Hope you enjoy

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My #WeekendRead: @Cambridge_Uni professor emerita @wmarybeard’s new book about the θαῦμα (“wonder”) that inspired her lifelong study of ancient Greeks & Romans. “Classics changes your mind about the distant past. Not only that: it prompts you to rethink the present.” Ita vero!

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@OhLottie On Instant Classics, we are about to do a bonus episode on exactly that. Should drop next week!

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On Instant Classics we go round Pompeii with Tom Hiddleston (Loki) & find out what he got out of studying classics at uni. Some surprises in store! https://t.co/ueUKeQRimp

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Still getting ready for the Odyssey movie? Dont know the story? Here's what you need to know before you go! https://t.co/Aowk9oLUun

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Raphael is running the Great North Run..in a good cause. Give him a quid or two. https://t.co/QIkZNa1xTv

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@GarryLavin I take that point v seriously. (Not all posh boys are self confident though.. some are pretending to be! though the effect may me the same)

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A conversation with Tom Hiddleston. It’s a super powerful support for classics (which he studied): “it’s given me the courage to live in the question, to tolerate uncertainty, to understand that doubt is the driver”. If you have to defend classics, listen! https://t.co/ueUKeQRimp

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@DigitalMedia_LM I was very touched

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Listen here to Tom Hiddleston (Night Manager) explaining what classics means to him. He studied it at uni (I was one of his teachers!). He reflects on what he got out of it with amazing sharpness. I felt (undeservedly) proud! https://t.co/ueUKeQRimp

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@KingdomOfHerod yep!

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.@TWHiddleston talks to @WMaryBeard and @CHiggi ns about bringing his classically trained rigor to acting and his actor’s imagination to reading Greek and Latin. https://t.co/XpV26Tp3Az

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@GarryLavin He means that it isn’t all a search for certainty… which must be true in some sense!