Dr Daisy Dunn

Author, Classicist. I am more active on Instagram these days: daisydunnauthor

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

'A complete history of the Mediterranean world with the women added back in, as they always should have been' – NY Times. My book is out in UK *paperback* on 22nd May. I'd be so grateful if you'd help me spread the word/pre-order/ogle the regal purple https://t.co/lNEIKRUA5D

[Siruela @edicionesiruela]

📙 BAJO LA SOMBRA DEL VESUBIO (4ª ed.), de @DaisyfDunn, entreteje las cartas de Plinio el Joven con extractos de los libros de Plinio el Viejo dos de las mentes más brillantes de la Antigüedad clásica. 🌋 Un fascinante viaje por la Roma del siglo I d. C.

https://t.co/NrSJcsgbIp

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

@AmandaPCraig @AshmoleanMuseum Oh thank you so much, Amanda! I'm so glad Aphrodite's getting her own show (I imagine she'd have wanted nothing less!).

[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

Why artists love Aphrodite https://t.co/qrEHmgCsU6 A gorgeous piece @DaisyfDunn and @AshmoleanMuseum Aphrodite exhibition is clearly a must-see.

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

Ancient #Traitors? Or women dancing around a tree in Cyprus, 600–400 BC?
(Terracotta statuette in the @britishmuseum)

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

Ancient #Traitors? Or women dancing around a tree in Cyprus, 600–400 BC?
(Terracotta statuette in the @britishmuseum)

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

Trump the Roman Emperor again. This sounds curiously like Roman largesse https://t.co/rqDCwFF3v9

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

@alecrogers1968 I shall listen...

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

The excellent new issue of Literary Review contains my review of Christopher Nolan's #Odyssey. I liked it more than Emily Wilson did (but is it possible to like it any less?)

[Literary Review @Lit_Review]

Out now! Literary Review's August 2026 issue, featuring

Emma Smith on New World imports
Ian Thomson on Mario Vargas Llosa
Seamus Perry on Sylvia Plath
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon on biological warfare
Simon Garfield on pens

and much, much more: https://t.co/NiwfkHZAuz

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

@alecrogers1968 @Lit_Review Thank you very much, that's really kind. Such a good issue - lots of coverage of the ancient world.

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

There aren't enough aggressive subtitles these days:

[HistoryExtra @HistoryExtra]

On the podcast | In the final episode of our Odyssey Sunday Series, Daisy Dunn reflects on the poem's cultural afterlife – and its chaotic sequel

🎧 Listen now on the HistoryExtra app, or wherever you get your podcasts

[Peter Stothard @PeterStothard1]

Classics gets to the front of an excellent Literary Review this month. Good to be there with Pericles, Llewelyn Morgan, Cicero, King Juba, Emily Wilson and with Daisy Dunn who explains a bit of the Odyssey film I had failed to grasp.

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

@LeandadeLisle Goodness! How amazing. I've love to have been there (but would have been eager to get that wig on him by carriages...).

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

An astonishing read: https://t.co/HWSQjoJI2Z

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

@janinethechef1 @thetimes It's a great list - I've only read two so far, though, so I clearly have some catching up to do.

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

Found this an interesting list of holiday reads by indie booksellers in @thetimes https://t.co/rhrEUBsBQr

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

@GuyFraser @thebookseller Not yet!

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

'The #Odyssey, after some 156,000 years of trying, finally achieved the Paperback Non-fiction No. 1, and the blind poet also notched his inaugural appearance in the top 50. No doubt they will be celebrating with oceans of kykeon in Ithaka this week' – @thebookseller Excellent

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

'There was no such thing as "Periclean" #Greece, Athens, or democracy' – this is an interesting read by Paul Cartledge, whose new biography of #Pericles is published today (I read the book earlier in the summer and I recommend it highly) https://t.co/qnfDnXJpoq

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

@emilykmichael @HistoryExtra Oh thank you very much! That's very kind. I'm so glad you're enjoying the podcast.

[Literary Review @Lit_Review]

It's Booker Prize longlist day! Enjoy a selection of our reviews of the longlisted books, free for 24 hours:

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