Jane Mason

Co-founder of The Classical Anthology website; Head of Classics at St James Senior Girls School, London

[Jane Mason @classicalanthol]

Creative GCSE Tacitus set text revision by an artistic student. This is why I love teaching!

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

iacet ingens litore truncus
avulsumque umeris caput et sine nomine corpus.

He lies, a huge trunk, on the shore,
head severed from the neck, a corpse without a name.

Virgil on Priam’s death, a moment of deep pathos (Aeneid 2).

[Legonium @tutubuslatinus]

Ecce. Puella librum legit. Feles quoque librum legit. Altera feles, quae fessa est, non legit sed supra puellam dormit. Puella ergo se movere non potest.

[Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79]

On this day in 1763 possibly one of the most important inscriptions in #Pompeii was found outside the Herculaneum Gate. It was to be one of 5 similar inscriptions dating to ~AD 76 found outside the gates of the city & was the first formal identification that the site was Pompeii.

[Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79]

Bound together through grief and by holding hands, these 5th/4th century BC women once processed and danced inside a tomb found in Ruvo di Puglia. The rhythm of their movement & their coloured garments is just beautiful and looks almost abstract.
#FrescoFriday
@MANNapoli

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

Someone kindly sent me an image of the Nuncio's actual credentials, which are of course in Latin - and curiously (😉) omit Charles III's title of Defender of the Faith...

[Jane Mason @classicalanthol]

@miserabiliter Wow, thank you! It belonged to my old headmistress who died recently aged 101. She loved old English. We're trying to work out why she had this.

[Jane Mason @classicalanthol]

Can anyone help decipher this? Uffington white horse, text from Beowulf or that period, maybe related to Reading University.

[Jane Mason @classicalanthol]

@Fergus_Walsh @MagisterConway Ooh, I want 2 things. Templates for these-
1. Sorting game where you put all the grammar endings in the right order
2. Duolingo type set up where there's a sentence then you drag and drop the bits of the translation into the right order ( with a couple of red herrings).

[Natalie Haynes @officialnhaynes]

Naturally, I have been casting The Muppet Iliad, and here are my choices…

We start with Gonzo as Homer, and Rizzo as Rizzo, of course.

[INACTIVE - workingclassicists.bsky.social @WorkClassicists]

The remarkable @BelovedofOizys is back to tell you that when we see gladiators they should be a bit less @russellcrowe, and a bit more @tomhanks...

https://t.co/kuHfTMykIn

[Jane Mason @classicalanthol]

@GeorginaF_Homer The sisters of strong and defiant women. They show the alternative option.

[Jane Mason @classicalanthol]

@duxfeminafacti9 The London Mithraeum and the amphitheatre. Both free, but you need to book the Mithraeum

[Legonium @tutubuslatinus]

Automatum non sum : I am not a robot

[Natalie Haynes @officialnhaynes]

Hahaha! Nicely done, @PrivateEyeNews

[Jane Mason @classicalanthol]

I'd love a mug like these!

[Angela O'Brien @GrecianGirly]

Minoan cups! Kamares ware found at Knossos, Crete and dating to the Proto-Palatial period (1900-1700 BCE). Heraklion Museum, Crete. Photo source: The Kosmos Society https://t.co/9Vmj6zGPG0

[Classical Studies Memes @CSMFHT]

#IdesOfMusk

[Dr Danny Bate @DannyBate4]

In the Middle English dialect of the south of England, fricative sounds like /f/ at the start of words became voiced – so /f/ became /v/, and a fox was a "vox".

A couple of these voiced variants have even made it into the standard language. It's why a female fox is a 'vixen'.