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Magistra Telford

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Salvete! I am hoping to use Twitter to keep my Latin students informed regarding any new and interesting insights into the Classical World.

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Joined July 2016
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@edithmayhall@edithmayhall18 Feb 2020
Exciting news. Our PM may have a bust of Pericles in his office, but if you want the truth from real sources about the great Athenian general there'll be an IN OUR TIME on him, which I'll be participating in, on Thursday 26th March.
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@edithmayhall@edithmayhall3 Jan 2020
I'm not the biggest fan of Cicero, born 3 Jan. 106 BCE, but have been greatly helped twice in my life by this from 1st speech v. Catiline: “I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity [invidia] earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but honour.”
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#SCS2020 Does this outfit say "I could have fed this whole room with stags I killed?" Is this elegant and functional enough to wear to the @MRECC_Classics reception? #ClassicsTwitter
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The online application for @holy_cross's four-year full-tuition Bean and Fitzgerald Classics Scholarships is now live: holycross.edu/academics/prog…
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Legonium@tutubuslatinus2 Dec 2019
On this day - December 3 - the women of Rome gathered to honour Bona Dea. The ‘Good Goddess’ was a mortal woman, made divine after being murdered by Faustus, either an abusive father or spouse. In just two days, Faustus himself will be honoured with feasts.
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In Latin, fanny pack is called Sacculus. "Sacculus" is little bag, and "culus" is rear end. When I saw Catullus in the underworld, he told me that is what was full of cobwebs in his dinner party poem. Maybe start translating that accurately from now on. #ClassicsTwitter
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Legonium@tutubuslatinus13 Sep 2019
Every year on September 13 the Romans held a festival in honour of Minerva, goddess of wisdom, trade guilds and craft. ⬆️ This was first posted back in September 17, just before tweets went to 280 characters.
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@edithmayhall@edithmayhall12 Sep 2019
There is a mouse scuttling around my office at King's College London. Mice are quite important in some ancient Greek Literature e.g. Aesop and Apollo had a title God of Mice (Smintheus) in the Iliad. But I'm still not impressed
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Legonium@tutubuslatinus12 Sep 2019
On this day - September 13 - many Romans must have gone to bed tired. There was a festival for the goddess Minerva, another festival for Juno, and a feast honouring Jupiter, king of the gods. And, if that wasn’t enough, today was the first day of the Ludi Romani (Romans Games).
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For #WorldEmojiDay, here is a summary of my relationship with Dido #ClassicsTwitter 1. 😇 I am pious Aeneas. 2. 🚢😡 I am on a boat. Juno is mad. 3. 😡🌬️💲🧝‍♀️⛈️ Juno buys a storm from Aeolus using a woman as currency. 4. 😭 Now I am drowning, and drowning in tears
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#RomeOnThisDay · AD 68 · Nero commits suicide to avoid a much less dignified death at the hands of the Senate. #MeetRome @DariusAryaDigs Want to learn more about Ancient Rome? Why not visit ancientromelive.org
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Today 68AD Galba becomes emperor. He was the first emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors and the last emperor born in the First Century BC.
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Happy Vestalia - This #Roman festival ran from 7th-15th June in honour of the Goddess Vesta, responsible for the hearth & the sacred fire of Rome. On the 7th June the penus Vestae was opened so that women could make offerings in exchange for their families to be blessed.
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CANI@ClassAssocNI10 Jun 2019
#OnThisDay (or 11th) in 332BC, Alexander the Great died in Babylon at 32, leaving generals to fight over his empire
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#RomeOnThisDay · 20 BC · Birth of Sejanus, ambitious soldier, prefect of the Praetorian Guard, friend and confidant of Imperator Tiberius. #MeetRome @DariusAryaDigs There is much more to learn about Ancient Rome via ancientromelive.org
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Legonium@tutubuslatinus3 Jun 2019
On this day - June 4 - Romans held a festival honouring Hercules Custos - Hercules the Great Custodian. Ovid mentions a temple at the west end of the Circus Flaminius, but it is yet to be identified. It remains a mystery just what Hercules was guarding, or against whom...
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I made a meme to represent my pious decision-making process when I was breaking up with Dido. #AeneasGoogling #ClassicsTwitter #RelationshipGoals
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CANI@ClassAssocNI24 May 2019
Happy 2033rd Birthday to Germanicus, born in Rome #OnThisDay in 15BC to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor
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One week until the AP Latin exam. Review question: Which is my most inspirational speech? A) when I am shipwrecked and still manage to speak in hexameter B) when I contemplate killing Helen C) when I break up with Dido instead of just ghosting her #AeneasGoogling #Aeneid
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Dr Jo Ball@DrJEBall9 May 2019
In the #Roman world, prophetic "sacred chickens" were consulted over political & military affairs, judged by if they ate offered feed. In 249BC, Publius Claudius Pulcher attacked the Carthaginian fleet against the advice of the chickens; he lost & was ruined #FolkloreThursday
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