Quentin Broughall

Classicist ¤ Scholar ¤ Writer

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Readers are insatiable, unstoppable, indomitable... 📚

Holland House, London, October 1940.

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@stanley_wells @Kinza1278 Wow... 😄

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@RAMoulds @trottskyathome Ah, but we need the Bernsteins as well as the Boults. 😉

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@duxfeminafacti9 Oui. C'est moi...

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@LoveInner @BBCNews It all started with the loss of BBC Four - cultural news has died a sad death on the BBC. 😔

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@FXMC1957 Same energy... 😌

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@BrophyLevey Granted, the memoir is a little impressionistic in places... His time at the National Gallery in Dublin in the 80s was marred by a lot of struggling with the Irish bureaucracy for funds. Probably the reason he overlooked Carovaggio's Taking of Christ hiding under his very nose!

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@BrophyLevey It's a colourful reading in places, but it seems as if your father was very kind to Homan. And it's always interesting to get a different perspective on those we know so well - whether we agree with them or not!

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@BrophyLevey Not sure if you're aware, but there's quite an extensive depiction of your parents in this memoir by a former Director of the National Gallery of Ireland.

[HerodotusWave @HerodotusWave]

An antique Roman cameo, likely featuring a portrait of Drusus the Elder or his son Germanicus, dating to around 20 AD.

[Res Classicae @resclassicae]

Wall fragment with a Roman woman on a balcony, about 9 BC – AD 14. Getty Museum.

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@ShinyMcShine_ Homer Goes to College, among many strong contenders!

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@RAMoulds @alexmassie Going right up there with 'platform' and 'deplane' as horror neo-verbs.

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@edithmayhall Highly recommend https://t.co/T5fzKdX0ak as someone who understands the online-platform needs of a scholarly and public-facing academic/intellectual.

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@Kulambq Awful to see. Have you contacted Oxford City Council? There's supposed to be a Friends of Holywell committee, too, but the council should be taking the initiative to preserve these monuments.

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Writing implements: stylus, wooden writing tablet, ink wells, Roman, 1st century

[Museum @DailyClassicArt]

Vasily Polenov - "Erechtheion" (1882)

[Museum @DailyClassicArt]

Raffaello Sorbi - "Phidias sculpting the statue of Minerva" (1869)

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@LoveInner @maoguo429986 Next year... 🤫

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@FrancisMMThomas Mortimer wrote a screenplay for Brideshead, but it was never used. They just kept his name on the credits and rewrote from the novel itself - in the process actually producing one of the most faithful adaptations of any novel in television history.