BMS Classics

Classics Department at Bedford Modern School. Retweets do not necessarily imply endorsement. All views my own.

[Bedford Modern @BedfordModern]

A replica of the @Harvard exhibition ‘Black Classicists’ is currently set up in the BMS Library, highlighting 19th and 20th-century scholars and their achievements in the field of Classics. It is open to all BMS students and groups from @BedfordSchool and @thebedfordsixth.

[BMS Classics @BMS_classics]

Very interesting article! 🏺 https://t.co/nZfaZBv3yU

[Eduardo García-Molina @eduardo_garcmol]

POV: You’re Orpheus and you just looked back

[Eduardo García-Molina @eduardo_garcmol]

It's not rex anymore, it's...

[The Latin Programme @LatinProgramme]

Latin word of the day: sedeo, sedere, sedi, sessus - sit, remain, encamp

#LatinWordOfTheDay #LatinVocab #OnlineLearning

[The Latin Programme @LatinProgramme]

Latin word of the day: vigilo, vigilare, vigilavi, vigilatus - provide for, watch out for, be vigilant

#LatinWordOfTheDay #LatinVocab

[Dr Cora Beth Fraser @drcorabeth]

Me in the Digital Loeb Classical Library.

[Bellatrix ⚜️ Florentina @dodecafonia]

Bernardi pupa in scamno, non in sella sedet.🤔

[Legonium @tutubuslatinus]

On this day - December 23 - Romans held the Larentalia, a festival in honour of Acca Larentia. Acca was deified for assisting in the upbringing of Romulus and Remus, whom her husband found being suckled by a wolf.

[Maria Tatiana 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @ColorsAndStones]

2020
How it started How it's going

[The Classics Library @StephenJenkin]

Augustus, when Antonia the Younger, wife of Drusus, returns from her villa overseas.

[Legonium @tutubuslatinus]

cum sim femina prima in hoc officio, non tamen ero ultima. nam quaeque puella hac nocte spectans videt hanc esse nationem occasionum.

[Classical Mythology @ClassicalMyths]

Beautiful illustrations by Jim Tierney for a 75th Anniversary edition of Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017).

[Sarah @Sarah404BC]

#Greek Mythology Inspires Illustrator When Drawing Life In During The Pandemic #Covid

https://t.co/f0MyKr0b5n

[Eduardo García-Molina @eduardo_garcmol]

Chiasmus:
The repetition of any group of verse elements in reverse order.

What normal people see: A-B-B-A

What I see:

[Legonium @tutubuslatinus]

I don’t usually repost memes, but ....

[The Classics Library @StephenJenkin]

Aeneas gets a frosty welcome from Dido in the Underworld.

[The Latin Programme @LatinProgramme]

Latin word of the day: quando? - when?

#LatinVocab #LatinVocabulary

[The Latin Programme @LatinProgramme]

Latin word of the day: amo, amare, amavi, amatus - love

#LatinVocab #LatinVocabulary