Vee Em Cee

Ancient Mediterranean, esp. Roman imperial literature & culture; unrepentant semicolon abuser; never speaks for employer; she/her. Mostly retweets, honestly.

[Durrell Society @DurrellSociety]

I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together: the city which used us as its flora — precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own: beloved Alexandria!

Lawrence Durrell
Alexandria Quartet

[Dr Daisy Dunn @DaisyfDunn]

Please consider signing this if you object to the unauthorised use of authors' books to train AI. Five of my books have been used in this way without my permission. It's a disgrace.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

Democrats need to take a page from the Kendrick Lamar school of winning

1. Make clear your visible hatred for your opponent
2. Attack your enemy and their friends
3. Bring up the crimes again and again
4. Collab with talented allies
5. Keep coming out with hits

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“Nero shrugged his shoulders when he heard
the future that Apollo prophesied.”

– Cavafy’s poem, “The Deadline”, here in a version by Ian Parks, is taken from an episode in Suetonius.

#poetry #cavafy

[Dev Machette @DevMachette_]

this type of content from an official government account is disgusting, concerning and weird and truly not enough of you are saying this is disgusting, concerning and weird

[token_communities @ancient_tokens]

when you are a stickler for accuracy and just HAVE to depict all 30 piglets that the Lavinium sow gave birth to on your gem....

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

The entire USAID site has now been taken down, and historical datasets disappeared.

[token_communities @ancient_tokens]

Save ancient history at Cardiff- a petition led by the students affected. You all know what to do

https://t.co/VXlHlPehtO

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

Look, I just think more people ought to at least try out natural intelligence first

[🎃REAL ESPOOKY TOON🦇 @realvicktoon]

can i just say the victim-blaming grok shit under the neil gaiman allegation tweets are fucking disgusting proof that this ai shit is harmfully biased

[evil flat-chested wench @troytheboyy]

incarcerated youth firefighters = child slave labor

[Dan Conway @MagisterConway]

I just stumbled upon a blog which has a family tree of all the noble families of the Late Republic, including intermarriages, which the author has been updating for TEN YEARS. This is the work of a madman. I mean just LOOK at it

https://t.co/nw53xfgxUs

[21group @21percentgroup]

100s of jobs to go at @CanterburyCCUni

As usual, the wrong people are sacked

The over paid middle & senior management pick who to get rid of -- not addressing the terrible management at the university

And the VC gives himself a pay rise for taking "tough decisions"

[rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist]

Shaping Roman landscape: ecocritical approaches to architecture and wall painting in early imperial Italy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://t.co/FewVUou00k

[Asian & Asian American Classical Caucus @AznClassics]

🚨 #CallForPapers 🚨 We're accepting abstracts for our 2026 #AIASCS panel, "Yellow Gold: Ornamentalism, Antiquity, and the Asiatic Female," organized by @toriflee and Melissa Mueller. Abstracts due Friday 3/7. For more info: https://t.co/SNWljxOSZj

[Alicia E. Stallings @ae_stallings]

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

--John Harrington

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Ulysses 31 (1981). A manga retelling of Greek mythology, loosely based on the Odyssey.

26 episodes in all, and yes they do find the Kingdom of Hades and return home in the end!

The Japanese original has a different theme tune to the European release; Denny Crockett and Ike Egan composed the version in this video.

[Anthony Majanlahti @antmoose]

For #EpigraphyTuesday something not related to Christmas Eve, because I'm sick of the whole holiday already: a beautiful late #JulioClaudian #inscription from #Pompeii, now in #Naples, with its own tiny history of a nobleman's downfall.

[Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur]

Vote on the TLL Latin Word of the Year 2024! Until Dec. 19. The five finalists were published this year in the TLL and don't appear in another standard dictionary of ancient Latin.
⭐️reteiaclor ⭐️retotatototato ⭐️retroactim⭐️revaleo⭐️revolumen
https://t.co/v62vN9cQQz