Dr Simon Trafford
@simontrafford.bsky.social
Curriculum Leader of Classics at a state grammar school; IB examiner; author of a few Classics related bits. Swansea University, University of Oxford alumnus. Living in Kent; working in SE London. https://swansea.academia.edu/SimonTrafford
A well-preserved Roman road is among the finds uncovered by archaeologists in a city centre. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Roman road discovered in Manchester city centre - BBC News
Archaeologists say the dig uncovered one of the best Roman finds in the city in more than 20 years.
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Revised plans for an office block in the City of London have been approved, after a Roman basilica was found beneath the site. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Office plans amended after Roman basilica found in City of London - BBC News
The development will include an exhibition showcasing the 2,000-year-old basilica.
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Archaeologists in South Moravia in the Czech Republic uncovered a rare Roman military discovery—a fragment of a bronze wrist purse that is the oldest such discovery ever made in the Czech Republic. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 archaeologymag.com/2025/06/roma...
Rare 1,800-year-old Roman soldier’s wrist purse unearthed in Czech Republic reveals life on the empire’s frontier
Rare Roman wrist purse fragment found in Czech Republic reveals insights into soldiers' lives during the Marcomannic Wars.
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Archaeologists announced that their nearly two decade-long excavations have produced concrete proof that the School of Homer at the site of Agios Athanasios was indeed a site where the Trojan War hero was worshipped. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 news-artnet-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/news.art...
Lost Cult Site Dedicated to Odysseus Discovered on Ithaca
For more than a century, archeologists have looked for proof that a complex in Ithaca was related to Odysseus, now they have found it.
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Archaeologists uncover significant remnants of the ancient Roman city of Metlosedum, now modern-day Melun, in a recent excavation revealing the urban sophistication and strategic importance of the site in the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 arkeonews.net/archaeologis...
Archaeologists Uncover Large Roman-Era Complex Beneath Modern Melun - Arkeonews
Archaeologists have uncovered significant remnants of the ancient Roman city of Metlosedum, now modern-day Melun
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Excavations in the locality of Cupa, in southeastern Italy, have uncovered remains of the ancient walls and numerous materials from the brutal siege the Romans inflicted on the city, which was an ally of Hannibal during the Second Punic War. #ClassicsBluesky🏺 www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/06/o...
Over 170 Meters of Wall and 450 Lead Projectiles from the Roman Siege Discovered in an Italian City Allied with Hannibal
Archaeological excavations in the locality of Cupa, in the municipality of Ugento in the southeastern tip of Italy, have uncovered remains of the ancient Messapian walls and numerous materials from th...
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'Greek inscription and mosaic floors uncovered at ancient city of Olympos' neoskosmos.com/en/2025/06/2... #ClassicsBluesky
Greek inscription and mosaic floors uncovered at ancient city of Olympos - Neos Kosmos
Archaeologists have uncovered mosaic floors and Greek inscriptions at the ancient city of Olympos, located in the Antalya region of Turkey.
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A marble votive altar decorated with a row of women for #EpigraphyTuesday. A #Greek inscription from Delos, dedicated to Hestia (Vesta). Dating to the Hellenistic period, 100BC-100. 📷British Museum (1890,0113.1) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology
Starts 9th July!! New online course: Ancient Rome in 50 Monuments, by Dr Paul Roberts. Each Wednesday from 9th July to 6th August 2025, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available Information and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
Archaeological excavations on Via Alessandrina, just a few meters from Trajan’s Forum, uncovered an imposing marble head depicting a male face with pronounced features, abundant hair, and an intense expression. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/06/l...
Large Marble Head from the Impressive Porticus Trisigmentata Discovered in Trajan’s Forum
Archaeological excavations on Via Alessandrina, just a few meters from Trajan’s Forum, uncovered an imposing marble head depicting a male face with pronounced features, abundant hair, and an intense e...
labrujulaverde.com
I have been teaching Suburani for 3 years now and I didn't know until reading this introduction to Seneca's Letters to Lucilius in Book 3 that Seneca's Lucilius is the father of our Suburani Lucilius from Books 1&2! Mind blown. 🤯 #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
Got a few minutes to lament those extra seasons of Rome we never got? You'll weep like Tiro as Pullo wields the blade on Cicero. youtu.be/1cIVJD1cmbk?...
Rome (2004): HBO's Untold 5 Season Story
YouTube video by Little Wars TV
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16 Must-Read Books About Greek Mythology and Other Folklore: From feminist retellings of classic tales to modernized takes. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.marieclaire.com/culture/book...
16 Books That Put a Modern Day Twist on Ancient Mythology
All the gods and goddesses you know and love, but with a scandalous or feminist twist.
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Archaeologists have pieced together thousands of fragments of 2,000-year-old wall plaster to reveal remarkable frescoes that decorated a luxurious Roman villa. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huge archaeological puzzle reveals Roman London frescoes - BBC News
Thousands of fragments of plaster are pieced together to reveal frescos from a Roman London villa.
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The Pompeii Archaeological Park has recreated an ancient perfume garden—right down to its antique roses. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 news.artnet.com/art-world/po...
A 2,000-Year-Old Pompeii Garden Springs Back to Life
Pompeii Archaeological Park has unveiled the restored Garden of Hercules , freshly planted with violets, ruscus plants, and antique roses.
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For the first time this year, Labour is making up some ground in the polling average - now back to where they were before the locals. Reform lead by 4.7%, down from a 7.7% peak. RFM: 28.7% (+14.0) LAB: 24.0% (-10.7) CON: 17.8% (-6.5) LDM: 13.8% (+1.3) electionmaps.uk/polling
Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · last yr.Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 27% (-2) LAB: 24% (+1) CON: 17% (=) LDM: 15% (=) GRN: 10% (=) SNP: 3% (=) Via @yougov.co.uk, 15-16 Jun. Changes w/ 8-9 Jun.
A hoard of 13 silver coins found in a field was probably lost in the wake of the Roman invasion of Britain in AD43, according to a historian. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Downham Market coin hoard 'probably lost by a Roman invader' - BBC News
The discovery is "a drum roll of Roman coins from the late republic through to the early empire".
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New online course!! Ancient Rome in 50 Monuments, by Dr Paul Roberts. Each Wednesday from 9th July to 6th August 2025, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available Information and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky #Romans🏺
This Thursday's #imageoftheweek is this fascinating Pompeiian fresco depicting Narcissus gazing at his own reflection - which only appears as a disembodied head. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky
#FrescoFriday The Tomb of the Diver can be found in what was the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia (Paestum to the Romans). Discovered in June 1968, the tomb contains five different frescoes. Thought to date to roughly 500-470BC. #Archaeology #History #Art. #AncientBlueSky🏺
#FrescoFriday Detail of a Roman fresco showing scene of dressing a priestess or bride. Found in the palaestra of the Forum Baths at Herculaneum. Dated back to 1st century CE. 📷https://feminaeromanae.org #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky
#FrescoFriday of Venus Pompeiana with a statue of Eros, with flying cupids surrounding them. On the facade of the House of Venus and the Four Gods (IX. 7. 1). 1st century CE. 📷Sergey Sosnovskiy/ ancientrome.ru #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology #Pompeii
One of my Y11 form leavers has just given me this lovely card. Honestly, I am completely overwhelmed. I'm so pleased I have played a positive role in their school life (I genuinely had no idea!). It is moments like this that make being a teacher so worthwhile. #Edusky
School funding and capital cash rise (a bit), Ofsted budget boost, school library scheme and a schools white paper to come in the autumn Here's what schools need to know about today's spending review schoolsweek.co.uk/spending-rev...
Spending review 2025: What's in it for schools?
School funding and capital cash rise (a bit), Ofsted boost, library funding and a schools white paper
schoolsweek.co.uk
Pompeii, Hercules' Garden House inaugurated. Philologically reconstructed garden www.finestresullarte.info/en/museums/p...
Pompeii, Hercules' Garden House inaugurated. Philologically reconstructed garden
In the Pompeii Archaeological Park, the House of Hercules' Garden, also known as the perfumer's house because of the probable production and marketing of perfumes that took place there, has been inaug...
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Labour promised people we would rebuild Britain – and that’s what we’re doing | Keir Starmer
Labour promised people we would rebuild Britain – and that’s what we’re doing | Keir Starmer
This week’s spending review marks a new stage in the mission of national renewal, built on the foundations laid last year
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