Gail Trimble

Classicist at Trinity College, Oxford. Commentary on Catullus 64:

[Gail Trimble @gctrimble]

@ArmandDAngour Thank you, Armand!

[Trinity College @TrinityOxford]

And it’s official! The new edition of Catullus 64 has been launched by our very own @gctrimble! What a lovely event celebrating all the hard work that went into this volume. 🎉🙌🍾

[Cambridge University Press - Classics @CambUP_Classics]

Catullus: Poem 64 by Dr Gail Trimble
New comprehensive scholarly edition of one of the most appealing, perplexing, and influential poems in Roman literature.
📚 https://t.co/te9iyFrzkj
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Catullus 64 is published online (if you have access through your university etc.): official UK print publication date 13 February https://t.co/uAWabq8dZi

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'The autonomy of the human body is always under threat, not least from sexual violence, but at the same time a bird or a tree may have sentience and memory.'

Gail Trimble (@gctrimble) on the appeal of Ovid’s universal epic

https://t.co/eWCbyCmLZA

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Commenting on a commentary for @TheTLS (also note that @gctrimble is the real me!)

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

In @TheTLS this week, there's plenty of Classics: @PeterStothard1 on roads (Roman and other), @GailTrimble on Ovid's Met, and Emily Hauser on @DaisyfDunn 's Missing Thread

[Gail Trimble @gctrimble]

@Kleisthenes2 Nelly Dean in Wuthering Heights? But I can't remember exactly how all those transitions are managed.

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@ShadiBartsch I've got a forthcoming chapter in Philip Hardie's Festschrift with an argument along perhaps similar lines: Aeneas alludes to Catullus badly, where Dido constantly alludes to Catullus well

[Gail Trimble @gctrimble]

I'm hoping this will be as good as the 'Aeneas vs. Dido' debate staged among some Oxford Classicists in 2013, in which I played Juno and most of us dressed up

[Classics for All @classicsforall]

📢 ‘Overboard’ speaker announcement!⛵

Watch in awe as @nmacsweeney, @gctrimble, @Twhittermarsh and Dr Adrian Kelly go head-to-head in a compelling and hilarious debate.

Which ‘villain’ will be thrown ‘overboard’? You decide. (Villains TBA)

Get tickets: https://t.co/x42ZMtPAj9

[Gail Trimble @gctrimble]

I'm fairly sure that in an Ovid revision class yesterday, I managed to refer to the gods in the Metamorphoses as 'the divine community'

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@miserabiliter Lace-trimmed cotta

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I met John Bramble at Ewen Bowie's retirement dinner. He was really surprised and delighted that so many students were still reading his 'Structure and ambiguity in Catullus 64', and also said that the counterculture in the West Country isn't what it was.

[Gail Trimble @gctrimble]

@AllThingsQuiz Not me, I'm afraid! But thanks for asking anyway :-)

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bugonia = begonia #latinautocorrect

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@eparpillee I love it too! We should talk.

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@miserabiliter Fowler 'Narrate and describe'

[Gail Trimble @gctrimble]

One of the very best parts of my job is giving deserved and effusive praise. I would like more opportunities to do this.

[Gail Trimble @gctrimble]

I gave my first ever conference paper in Geneva in 2007; back here for my first conference in a foreign city since 2017 to talk about Callimachus and Rome courtesy of the lovely Damien Nelis and Joe Farrell. The Reformers still here in force too

[Gail Trimble @gctrimble]

Free to good homes @SacklerLibrary: old photocopies of articles that were particularly common on undergraduate reading lists, with their typed labels and well-thumbed sugar-paper covers. In their day a much appreciated part of the Classics Lending Library (predating the Sackler)

[Oxford Classics Outreach @oxfordclassics]

Save the date!

Oxford & Cambridge #Classics Open Day 2023 will be held in #Oxford on 20th March 2023.

Further details, including booking link, to follow. @gctrimble @drarlenehh @oxoutreach https://t.co/mvOksXYaza