Xaverian Classics Dept.

Teaching Ancient History and Classical Civilisation to Sixth Form students in Manchester UK

[Xaverian College @xaveriansfc]

It’s official, we are Ofsted Outstanding… in all areas! 🤩 🌟

Visit our website 👉 https://t.co/481g77iKUw, to read for yourself the glowing comments from Inspectors!

Thank you to everyone within the Xaverian community who has contributed to this outcome! 💙 💛

[Classics for All North @ClassicsNorth]

Great chance for a Classics & Ancient History taster day @lmhoxford in June - apply by 19 May. https://t.co/lut29SP41L @alcibiadesisace @NCCHistory @RunshawClassics @XavsClassics @LiverpoolAspire

[Natalie Haynes @officialnhaynes]

One more Spartan girl for you ahead of today's @BBCRadio4 show on Spartan women. This one is superfit: running fast with beautiful balance (her fingers are splayed on her right hand - perfect running style). She's looking behind her to check where the competition is, I think...

[Rachel Cunliffe @RMCunliffe]

“One man alone can only govern an empty city” - Haemon, in Sophocles' Antigone

Me for @NewStatesman on what Boris Johnson would have learned from Greek tragedy, had he actually read any.

For those who say a classics degree is pointless, take that

https://t.co/xciLkQ0dM8

[LJ Trafford @TraffordLj]

Nope there was no chance.
All dignity has gone to the wall now & it's feeling a bit Didius Julianus. We are all Cassius Dio watching Julianus flounder in his own ineptitude.
'Yet at times we would be overcome by laughter'

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

Let’s sing it from the rooftops, one and all. The democratic mandate was NOT for Boris Johnson as individual, president or even mayor. That is not how parliamentary democracy works. God help us all if the prime minister doesn’t understand that!

[Natalie Haynes @officialnhaynes]

If the prime minister is so classically minded, perhaps he might recall the opening of Cicero’s In Catilinam I?

(Translation by Michael Grant in the Penguin classic)

[Natalie Haynes @officialnhaynes]

Who can pronounce the LONGEST GREEK WORD?
It’s found in Aristophanes’ play Ecclesiazusai, is 78 syllables long and describes a dish of multiple meats and fish and sauce. (Thread)

[Xaverian Classics Dept. @XavsClassics]

https://t.co/JYSfiIG6Fk

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the morning is 'frobly-mobly': the 18th-century version of 'meh'.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Phrase of the day, from the 16th century, is ‘give someone the bauble’: to play them for a sucker or fool.

[Xaverian Classics Dept. @XavsClassics]

@PaulFound17 I always think of singing ‘Catalina’ to the tune of ‘Caterina’ by Perry Como…

[Xaverian Classics Dept. @XavsClassics]

Happy Diwali to all of you celebrating today 🪔

[Xaverian Classics Dept. @XavsClassics]

The joys of teaching about the Ancient World…

[Xaverian Classics Dept. @XavsClassics]

Looking forward to seeing @wmarybeard @officialnhaynes and a vast array of experts this morning whilst watch the @britishmuseum Nero Classics Study Day

[Xaverian Classics Dept. @XavsClassics]

@britishmuseum @wmarybeard We received details of when we can visit! We are so excited and pleased! Thank you so much! We are preparing by joining the education day online tomorrow!

[Xaverian Classics Dept. @XavsClassics]

Hi @britishmuseum and @wmarybeard Is there any chance you could let us know how easy it is to bring Yr12 students to view the Nero exhibition before it closes please?

[Xaverian Classics Dept. @XavsClassics]

@britishmuseum @wmarybeard Wonderful! We were told differently over the phone! Hopefully we can arrange the visit! Thank you very much for this news!

[Xaverian Classics Dept. @XavsClassics]

Mary Beard: ‘If we want to understand what we went through in the pandemic, we need the arts’ https://t.co/S029kbL4iU

[Xaverian Classics Dept. @XavsClassics]

@wmarybeard @britishmuseum It would be such a shame if we couldn’t go as everything about this exhibition is perfect for OCR Ancient History! Thank you!