Barnaby Taylor

Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oxford. hæc comice dicta cave ne male capias.

[Barnaby Taylor @miserabiliter]

The first temple of Apollo at Delphi was made of branches of laurel; the second of beeswax and feathers; the third of bronze, and was destroyed by the gods when the sweetness of the singing made people forget who they are

[Barnaby Taylor @miserabiliter]

@PotnaSelana Uncool tweet, think for a second

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@getty_a96716 @nguyenhdi ‘Safe sex’ in Soranus: it’s safer to prevent conception than destroy a foetus

[Barnaby Taylor @miserabiliter]

@getty_a96716 @nguyenhdi Generally I share what I take to be Di’s view that this is a little cringey. There are informal elements to his language of course but these translations seem to me to point to the wrong style and register, not least because they are obvious clichés

[Barnaby Taylor @miserabiliter]

@nguyenhdi @moriah_bridges @zenahitz @andrewsillett @ArmandDAngour I would ask the learned Ovidian and translator @sapphicapuella

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@BSullivanart @OrielOxford The great Juliane!

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

On the same theme I think this is the novel (or trilogy of novels) I've most thoroughly enjoyed reading this year. Completely gripping, full of atmosphere, funny, painfully sharp and realistic about people

[Barnaby Taylor @miserabiliter]

@AntigoneJournal @DrMichaelBonner One of the great modern translators of Homer, of course

[Contemplator Caeli @ptsdboy]

making me pay $60 for an OCT only to discover it’s a print to order should be punishable by public flaying

[James B @piercepenniless]

So good so good so good. Worth dropping everything to read it. https://t.co/8Nn6myVtdS

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

“This is one of the deep motives for literature, or for art of any sort: that one is defeating the formlessness of the world. One is cheering oneself up [and] instructing oneself by giving a form to something that is, perhaps, alarmingly formless.”

—Iris Murdoch on literature

[Zojka 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇱 @_Zojka]

In Britain, supporting the British economy is illegal

[Exeter College, Oxford @ExeterCollegeOx]

Join us today as Professor Christopher Peacocke, Exeter College alumnus and Honorary Fellow, explores how music expresses emotion and why it holds such distinctive power as an artform.

🗓 Today | 🕕 6.00pm
📍 Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
🎟 All are welcome

[Kali @Kali_de_Armas]

reading Plato for the first time and i'm dying laughing cause whenever someone is all, "Socrates, what is justice?" he starts saying shit like, "is a horse not a horse?" or "what's bigger, a city or a man?" and then the guy he's talking to is like "oh fuuuck🤯"

[Kristian Niemietz @K_Niemietz]

Look at Comrade Wordsworth over here.

[Robin Ward @CanonRobinWard]

Eleanor Crook’s rather astounding memorial to the late Queen, in the Palace of Westminster.

[Natasha Porter OBE @NPorter_]

Only 9% of people in prison have 5+ GCSEs and only 2% have passed 2+ A levels. About 2/3 of adults in prison are functionally illiterate.

Academic attainment is one of the most powerful protective factors.

[Barnaby Taylor @miserabiliter]

Reading Petrarch’s bonkers 12th Eclogue, in which the dastardly Edward III (‘Arthicus’) spots Philip of Valois (‘Pan’) sleeping under a tree, and hatches a not-so-subtle plan to smash his head in. Thence the Hundred Years’ War.

[Smallest Violin @XiaoVilin99]

There are provincial museums full of Victorian tea sets covered in hand-painted, simpering field mice in smocks and bonnets which are less kitsch and played out than this.

[Sebastian Payne @SebastianEPayne]

Pour a big one for all the lads who have spent the last 24 hours furiously arguing that Polanski had a point