Marco Perale
@mperale.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Working class academic tweeting about Classics/Papyrology.
Gabriel Fauré, L'horizon chimérique, op. 118.3 Diane, Séléné, lune de beau métal, Qui reflète vers nous, par ta face déserte, Dans l'immortel ennui du calme sidéral, Le regret d'un soleil dont nous pleurons la perte. (text by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont) youtu.be/0Digh3RPBtQ?...
"Her [Emily Wilson's] opinion, just like every other review of The Odyssey posted online for all to see, is just that, and she’s not wrong for disliking a movie even if you disagree with her." —Josh Rosenberg, Esquire. #AncientBluesky www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Is It Okay to Not Like ‘The Odyssey’?
Celebrated translator Emily Wilson is under fire for her harsh review of Christopher Nolan’s film.
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"If, as classicists, we wish to enter the discussion [about #TheOdyssey], it should be not from the distant shelter of Homer’s poem but on the film’s own terms." —Theo Nash, @slate.com. #AncientBluesky slate.com/culture/2026...
As a Classicist, I’ve Defended Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation. I Can’t Defend Her Review of Nolan’s Movie.
Emily Wilson used baffling arguments to flay Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s poem.
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"The Tyrant and the Ostrich’s Head: Emperors at the Games in the Early Roman Empire" presented by Professor Mark Humphries. #AncientBluesky www.youtube.com/watch?v=i63P...
Professor Mark Humphries guest lecture 27th July 2026
YouTube video by Helen McVeigh
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Inside the new issue of the ‘Journal of Classics Teaching’: a conversation with the editor, Professor @susandeacy.bsky.social by Kristian Turner www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’: why a 3,000-year-old story still captivates us by Kristian Turner www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos in Glyndebourne opera house. Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Ariadne and David Butt Philip as Bacchus. In German with English subtitles. www.glyndebourne.com/events/ariad...
Ariadne auf Naxos - Glyndebourne
19 July – 29 August. Sparks fly in this uproarious tussle for centre stage. Richard Strauss' opera-within-an-opera comes to Festival 26.
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Farewell to Clemente Marconi, leading scholar on Selinunte | inItaly | Ambasciatori del Territorio - inItaly
Farewell to Clemente Marconi, leading scholar on Selinunte Professor Clemente Marconi died during the night between 22 and 23 July 2026. Born in Rome on 12 January 1966, he was an eminent archaeologis...
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‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Il Papiro di Artemidoro, Torino e i Geografi antichi (Christian Vassallo & Luigi Silvano) #papyrology youtu.be/rxgwhOBRNUs?...
Il Papiro di Artemidoro, Torino e i Geografi antichi (Christian Vassallo & Luigi Silvano – UniTo)
YouTube video by APATHES / ERC-University of Turin
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Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston review – you will cringe so hard you turn to cheese
The actor emotes his way through Vesuvius’s catastrophic eruption in a docudrama that is embarrassing and exhausting – but undeniably entertaining. Prepare to be Hiddlestoned!
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Antipater of Thessalonica on the best poetesses of ancient Greece: Praxilla; Moero; Anyte; Sappho; Erinna; Telesilla; Corinna; Nossis; Myrtis (Greek Anthology 9.26)
#Aristotle on what to fear: "Fear is sometimes defined as the anticipation of evil. It is true then that we fear all evil things, for example, disgrace, poverty, disease, lack of friends, death. There are some evils which it is right and noble to fear and base not to fear." Nicomachean Ethics 3.3.
A new papyrological book: "Household Violence in Greco-Roman Egypt: Social, Spatial, Temporal, and Material Perspectives," by Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed. #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky #Classics www.barpublishing.com/book/househo...
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"[A]t the Ain el-Sabil site, located in the Dakhla Oasis... a fully articulated residential city dating to the Byzantine period... [and] about two hundred ostraca with inscriptions in Coptic and Greek..." #Egyptology #Classics #AncientBlueSky www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/a...
A Complete Byzantine City Discovered in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt
The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities operating at the Ain el-Sabil site, located in the Dakhla Oasis, has succeeded in uncovering a fully articulated residentia...
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Great news, #AncientBlueSky, #SkyStorians, & #ClassicsBlueSky! Emily Shanahan's cover just dropped for "Penelope and Her Maids" and it is 🔥 (to match what's on the inside, obvs.) Intrigued? Head to @cornellupress.bsky.social for praise and how to pre-order: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
New critical edition with commentary of Theocritus 16 by Vittoria Vairo out on August 17: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
A #Roman clay tile, on which someone wrote out in Latin cursive the first lines of the 'Aeneid' before it was fired - well, that's one way to get some handwriting practice in! It was found in Italica (Spain), where it was written about 2000 years ago #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky
[LIVESTREAM] Today I'll be hosting Dr Jackie Murray to discuss race in the Iliad and Odyssey It's obviously a timely discussion given all the culture wars fluff about the Odyssey movie Live at 7pm UK/2pm EDT. If you miss it, it'll be recorded. #AncientBlueSky www.youtube.com/live/TmfYpfq...
Race in the Iliad and the Odyssey with Dr Jackie Murray
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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I feature in this week’s episode of Being Greek with @wmarybeard.bsky.social. Mary and I sat on the slopes of the Acropolis and chatted about the temple of Athena Nike while looking up at its lovely columns. Thanks BBC for a fun experience! #podcast #ancientbluesky 🏺🏛️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Ancient Lives with Mary Beard - Being Greek - Star of Stage and Temple - BBC Sounds
Mary Beard goes in search of Myrrhine, priestess and unlikely star of a popular sex comedy
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Book cover for my new book, coming soon! www.cambridge.org/core/books/d... @universitypress.cambridge.org #newbook #classicsbluesky #greece #archaeologybluesky 🏛️🏺
New in paperback! From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East | This book traces the transformation of the belief systems that shaped life in ancient Near Eastern communities. | Save 20% with discount code ANNEAST26 📚 https://cup.org/3SuUHwq
Jane Lightfoot, Pseudo Manetho, Apotelesmatica, p. xi on writing ‘TLG commentaries’
Epicurus. An Introduction (Cambridge 1972) by J.M. Rist. Imagine writing this in an academic book today.
