In BBC4 tonight (Weds) they are repeating one of my Ultimate Rome episodes, with a 15 min intro here www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... on how we made the programmes, making pizzas stand in for the Roman empire and getting up close & personal with the past.

Mary Beard Remembers... Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit

Professor Mary Beard is known for her explorations of the ancient world, but here, she looks back on the more recent past and the making of her acclaimed four-part 2016 series Ultimate Rome.

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If you want to check out a fairly balanced (I hope) classical view of Nolan's Odyssey, try our pedants' review on Instant Classics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt-r...

Christopher Nolan's Odyssey 3: The Pedants Revolt

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"How you lose says more about you than how you win"...& "should the Brits turn the House of Lords into a House of Good Losers?". We welcome the lurking classicist Count Binface onto Instant Classics to talk about democracy, decency & how many elections he's lost! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfMv...

Classic Chats: Count Binface (Bonus episode)

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Love your translation & the kind, clever, gentle walk thru by Charlotte Higgins & Mary Beard on their Instant classics book club. As my school didn’t see fit to teach The Odyssey back in 1860 when I was there, I’m committed to completing book b4 seeing the film. 🙏 open.spotify.com/show/37LpnhQ...

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Here Tom Hiddleston (Loki, Night Manager) tells what he gained from studying classics at uni. He is both eloquent and surprising. I was a bit in trepidation as I was one of his teaches (and was a bit worried about the mark I wd get!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=i71H...

Classic Chats: Tom Hiddleston on Pompeii

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"Reading the Iliad & the Odyssey is still one..of the great privileges of my life.” Says Tom Hiddleston! Discover his student dissertation & why he thinks Classics important (“it's given me...the courage to live in the question, to tolerate uncertainty"). www.youtube.com/watch?v=i71H...

Classic Chats: Tom Hiddleston on Pompeii

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youtube.com/watch?v=i71H... Latest Instant Classics. Tom Hiddleston (Loki & more) talks about Pompeii & what he got out of studying Classics at uni. He is stunningly eloquent on that!

Classic Chats: Tom Hiddleston on Pompeii

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If you have been enjoying Charlotte and me talking about the Odyssey on Instant Classics, here's our whole back catalogue on YouTube. And next to drop is a conversation with Tom Hiddleston on his Pompeii documentary and what he got out of studying classics at uni. www.youtube.com/@InstantClas...

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Join world-renowned classicist Mary Beard and Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins for Instant Classics — the weekly podcast that proves ancient history is still relevant. To learn all abo...

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Enjoying the Odyssey? Fancy a bit more classics? Try our Instant Classics podcast. All things classical from Helen of Troy to Roman dreams. Tom Hiddleston coming up next on his Pompeii documentary. tinyurl.com/52z8jcn4 (you tube), tinyurl.com/482rusya (apple uk)

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Join world-renowned classicist Mary Beard and Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins for Instant Classics — the weekly podcast that proves ancient history is still relevant. To learn all abo...

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Here's our Booker prize longlist and us judges!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... here I talk to Uberto Pasolini about HIS adaptation of the Odyssey of a couple of years ago with R Fiennes and J Binoche. Nolan isn’t the only adaptation in town!

BONUS: Mary Beard on Homer's Odyssey

Podcast Episode · Ancient Lives with Mary Beard · 28 July · Bonus · 13min

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Y'all should watch the Mary Beard & Charlotte Higgins YouTube channel @instantclassicspod.bsky.social They have some pretty spicy takes!

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I love how mad some critics are about a classicist wilding out. my friends, we should make more adapted classic texts — I don't care if the films are good, the classicist drama ALONE will be excellent viewing

In this week's @thetls.bsky.social there's plenty of Classics: M M McCabe on ancient imprisonment, Hugo Shakeshaft on the Parthenon, Lucy Jackson on the Greek Chorus.

My favourite bit so far in the build-up to the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition has been the projection of Tapestry scenes onto the White Cliffs of Dover plus a heartfelt "merci". tinyurl.com/ytm9hrzj

Lighting up the white cliffs of Dover

I have found myself surprisingly moved by the arrival in London of The Bayeux Tapestry. I have seen it in France and have studied it on the page. I was

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Pleased to see versions of the Odyssey in the Times/Waterstones bestsellers. But puzzled that it comes in the NON Fiction category. Do they know something we don't?

Cambridge classicist Dame Mary Beard and Slate film critic Dana Stevens joined us today for a great conversation about 'The Odyssey'. wnyc.org/browse/shows...

Context and a Movie: The Odyssey | WNYC

Classicist Mary Beard and film critic Dana Stevens talk about Christopher Nolan's newest film.

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Another little Odyssey-related gem! Did you know that one favourite decoration for the Roman emperor's dining room was the scene of Odysseus and his men blinding Polyphemus. The dinner party from hell? I discuss this intriguing choice in my emperor book tinyurl.com/262vbr2b

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Charlotte and I turn a classical eye on the Odyssey movie, not to quibble about archaeological detail, but to ask what more you can get out of the film (for better or worse) if you know the poem. Pedants revolt but not too pedantic!!

Christopher Nolan's Odyssey 3: The Pedants Revolt

Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 23 July · 57min

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This walk through The Odyssey with Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins is brilliant. Learning so much. Recommend. open.spotify.com/show/37LpnhQ...

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If you have not discovered the extraordinary Mary Beard yet (piles of books; lectures by a fascinating professor we all wish we could audit; series' on BBC / PBS exploring ancient Rome / Romans / Caligula etc.; podcasts, interviews) allow me to introduce her to you, as she expands your knowledge:

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The pedants revolt! After our instant reactions last time we put our classical hats on not to spot errors in the armour, but to ask what a specifically classical lens reveals in Nolan’s Odyssey podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

I'm early for an appointment & listening to Mary Beard & Charlotte Higgins' pedantic reaction to Nolan's Odyssey, partly about the film's very different moral framework, which reminds me of the poem's omissions: no hint of women war captives in the poem, either. 1/ @instantclassicspod.bsky.social

Beard's essay opens, "I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; telling her that her voice was not to be heard in public." My essay on the Odyssey, Andrew & Tristan Tate, misogyny then & now:

Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern

Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the British government, which seeks to extradite them to face a long list of charges. An...

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this is how jason looked when he dropped me off at the judging meeting. mary beard barely glanced up, she sees guys like this all the time

The pedants revolt! After our instant reactions last time we put our classical hats on not to spot errors in the armour, but to ask what a specifically classical lens reveals in Nolan’s Odyssey podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Christopher Nolan's Odyssey 3: The Pedants Revolt

Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 23 July · 57min

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Find out about the real women of Bronze Age Greece here tinyurl.com/yu5nv46b Or the podcast version (if you're outside the UK) here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ancient Lives with Mary Beard - Being Greek - The Odyssey of Gamma 58 - BBC Sounds

Mary Beard meets the real people who inspired the myths of Homer.

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podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Come and enjoy Charlotte and me talking about the Odyssey. And more in our free back catalogue (from Helen of Troy to Roman dreams). Subscribe, why don’t you…

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If you haven’t read Mary’s latest book, Talking Classics, listen to this and you might find you do. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

From Mussolini to Beyoncé: Mary Beard talks Classics - ABC listen

'Rock star' classicist Mary Beard is back in the spotlight with a new book, Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old.' Reflecting on half a century spent teaching and studying the classics, the beloved ...

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podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Hear our Instant bite at the odyssey movie. We will be coming back on the pod next week with a slightly more classical critique. But here are our first reactions.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... here Charlotte and I discus our instant reaction to Nolan’s movie on Instant Classics

I have a little essay about the Nolan Odyssey in the Times today. I enjoyed it, but wonder how much you lose when (eg) you lose Nausicaa… and the humour of the original. Hope some of you can access it! www.thetimes.com/article/ad40...

Mary Beard on The Odyssey: It’s great, but where are Homer’s jokes?

Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway are marvellous in Christopher Nolan’s stunning epic for today but he misses the original’s humour — and eroticism

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