Robin Benn

[Robin Benn @benn_robin]

@kebayf @alastair_benn @ClareCollege Thank you !
Here’s a little squadron we assembled in the garden when my father died:

[Robin Benn @benn_robin]

I’d certainly go and see this!
The Aeneid really has all the best lines (Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes)
In the meantime, do listen to Orlando and Alastair on both Homer and Virgil:

[Engelsberg Ideas @EngelsbergIdeas]

Orlando Gibbs on why Hollywood should now adapt Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’.

🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey
https://t.co/u7PLZe8L4b

[Robin Benn @benn_robin]

@TheCiderShedPod A truly renegade production node - at least twice a week, Keri and Matthew babble into hand-held twit machines about that cool e-mail: that is well jackson #TheArchers

[Engelsberg Ideas @EngelsbergIdeas]

Orlando Gibbs on the significance of the meeting between Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's Underworld, the death knell of the Iliadic dream.

🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey
https://t.co/u7PLZe8L4b

[Robin Benn @benn_robin]

‘Tell me the tale of a man, Muse, who had so many roundabout ways / To wander…’

And, in the meantime, have a listen to this:

[Alastair Benn @alastair_benn]

In the latest @EngelsbergIdeas Podcast, we went back to Homer's strange and enchanting world, rather more interesting than Nolan's:

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

Cavafy wrote a lovely poem about what Ithaca means. More insightful than Nolan’s take. I translated it into his metre, iambic pentameters.

https://t.co/FdPSl3YHZM

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

Jean-Luc Godard and Raoul Coutard in Paris, 1960.

[Jack Dickens @jackfdickens]

Looking forward to the wave of Heathmaxxing that will soon sweep over the conservative youth of the UK.

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

Reminds me of this - years ago a correspondent to the TLS told how as a boy he cut the nose off a Brie. His French hostess said stiffly "je n'ai jamais vu quelqu'un qui coupât le nez d'un Brie d'une telle manière".
"The sharp hiss of the subjunctive", he wrote "still stings".

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

It’s like if Millwall was a country.

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Rosalind Byrne perfects the art of the silent "not a chance" ....with Buster Keaton in "Seven Chances" (1925)

[zoé @luvbellinghm]

he’s so cute trying to find his family in the stands and morgan had to help him 😭😭

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The greatest moment for Scottish Soft Power since the death of Robbie Burns

[Robin Benn @benn_robin]

@thebowlerhatman Has Windy been visiting @TheCiderShedPod , Keri?

[Alastair Benn @alastair_benn]

Western democracies play out their appetites for risk within the artificial confines of sport, an impulse that runs especially deep in the English national character.

My latest for @EngelsbergIdeas:

https://t.co/bf2eoD28Vp

[Paul Lay @_paullay]

Something of the Klaus Kinski v Werner Herzog about Tuchel and Bellingham. One of them may pull a gun on the other, but, either way, they’ll combine to produce a masterpiece.

[Robin Benn @benn_robin]

@KeriWarbis Sending relieved thoughts, Keri - thank heavens you and Mimi arrived in the nick of time ⭐️✨

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

Andrei Tarkovsky in his bed reading Madame Bovary.

[Robin Benn @benn_robin]

This is a really entertaining and thought-provoking listen - setting many of our oldest presumptions about the origins of our western beliefs in a broader and clearer context:

[Alastair Benn @alastair_benn]

I enjoyed this conversation with Tim Whitmarsh about his new book, 'Rome's Age of Revolution'. It's in the best tradition of Anglophone history-writing: wry, sceptical and elegantly written.

[Engelsberg Ideas @EngelsbergIdeas]

🎧 The EI Podcast: Christianity's debt to Rome

Tim Whitmarsh speaks to EI’s @alastair_benn about his new book, 'Rome’s Age of Revolution: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity'.

https://t.co/BctoEwMPEl