Alexandra Sills
@belovedofoizys.bsky.social
Ancient Historian in the UK.🇵🇸 📖'Gladiators in the Greek World' Host of @AncientHistory101.org ADHD + ClusterC. Sweary. Expect typos. Birkbeck and Leicester alum www.ancientalexandra.co.uk https://linktr.ee/alexandrasills
Featuring Ben Paites, Senior Curator at @colmuseums.bsky.social, Kate Sumnall, Curator of Archaeology at @londonmuseum.bsky.social and Lexi Diggins, archaeologist and guest curator at @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social... Ancient History 101 presents: BOUDICA Part 1: Prelude to Destruction
Nobody, and I mean this, nobody is more excited about Fat Bear Week than my husband.
This has been such a joy to put together, and I'm really proud of what we all created. Part 1 is Prelude to Destruction - and introduction to Iron Age Britain, the development of Roman interactions, who Boudica was and what on Earth could make her so angry...
Ancient History 101 Podcast@ancienthistory101.org · 2d agoStay tuned: tomorrow is (part 1 of) the Grand Finale of Series/Season 1! We've cooked up a real treat, with something not attempted in podcasting until now: A roundtable on Boudica with a museum curator or archaeologist from each of the 3 cities Boudica destroyed - Colchester, London and St Albans!
I'm gathering good roasts for a thing....what are the best clean/not punching down ones you know? Or your kids know? Kids often know best on these matters. Every joker who replies with a picture of some roast lamb will be stopped. Perhaps not today. But one day. I mean insults and you know that.
This time last year I was in Ephesus. Today I am very much not in Ephesus...😭
Insomnia has struck. I do not do well when sleep deprived😬
This week we have one of our significant ancient events episodes! @belovedofoizys.bsky.social chats about the conflicting and astounding accounts of what happened to the body of Marcus Licinius Crassus after he was killed...
My laptop is getting fixed so I spent the morning watching a (fictionalised) TV movie about how Agatha Christie met Max Mallowan. It was fine. I *was* confused as to why Leonard and Katherine Woolley were portrayed as horny old goats, surely the reality would make a better plotline?
Thucydides wants us to think that Athens was completely ignorant of Sicily and had no idea what they were walking into, but is he fudging the truth? @roelkonijn.bsky.social explains all in our Sicilian Expedition episode, out now
Gladiators in the Greek World is apparently already in 3 university libraries and one community college. That blows my mind a little.
Don't get me wrong, I'm as disappointed in Pink and Ed Sheeran as anyone, but the person I really feel let down by is Deborah Lipstadt. What a fucking hypocrite.
Morning. Currently halfway through Gladiators in the Greek World by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social, which is giving me many thoughts.
I was required to go to Legoland yesterday, so I intend to spend my day in silence, lying on a sofa under a weighted blanket, with the curtains drawn. It's not going to happen, but it's what I want.
Also if I had a penny for expert guests who want to emphasise how attractive Alcibiades was, I'd have 2 pennies. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice. #supersexyAlcibiades www.ancienthistory101.org/p/the-sicili...
The Sicilian Expedition - Ancient History 101
with Roel Konijnendijk
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When the Athenians were deliberating over whether to send an expedition to Sicily, they made a pros and cons list. And according to Thucydides, one prominent Athenian was all pros, and another was 100% cons... Our full Sicilian Expedition episode with @roelkonijn.bsky.social is out now!
Perhaps of interest to some: on Thursday I'll be interviewed by Giles Brown on Talk Radio Europe, talking about my book. I believe the show is available on Spotify for those outside of Spain! I may post a link when it's uploaded there.
It is amazing how much you can get done when your hurricane of a 10yo is at school.
✨New Episode - You Are Odysseus with GreekMythComix✨ We chat with Laura Jenkinson-Brown about her amazing book ‘You Are Odysseus’ which shakes up Homer’s epic poem by placing the reader in the centre of the story and all its complexities.
FB tells me that it is exactly 9 years since two friends convinced me to enroll at Birkbeck after we drank limoncello and watched Gladiator during a holiday in Campania. They are now namechecked in the acknowledgements of my book.
After his wonderful episode discussing the Thirty Tyrants, @roelkonijn.bsky.social has returned to give us a crash course in the Sicilian Expedition this week! Crack open your copy of Thucydides, we're going sailing...
My transcript software thinks the best eels are B-Ocean.
My first cartoon for adults for a while, on the Dover business
Was dedicating their life to the goddess Vesta a calling for young Roman women, or were Vestal Virgins selected from a pool of girls who couldn't fully understand what they were committing their lives to? Our full episode of the Vestal Virgins with Peta Greenfield explains all...
My daughter has been back at school for approximately 6 hours and I already have 9 (nine. NINE.) emails from her school.
Moira Rose: And So It Begins Again
ALT: Moira Rose: And So It Begins Again
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Now that the weather is cooler and 10yo is back at school, I have taken my first ADHD pill in over a month. I COULD TAKE OVER THE WORLD
Question: do I bother replying? And does anyone want to help draft a reply that is less expletive-filled than my initial, kneejerk response?
Alexandra Sills@belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 3w agoSomeone just emailed me asking if I want to flip my @ancienthistory101.org format - instead of interviewing an expert, do I want to interview their (AI) Aristotle?
