The Classics Department at Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School. Sharing news and anything of Classical interest to the students of MTGS and the wider world!
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6 Jul 2022
Have you seen the work of @tylermLockett ? His fantastic Orpheus Series is up as a Guest Post on greekmythcomix.com right now!
I particularly love this comparative duo of Orpheus finding, then losing, Eurydice 💔
5 Jul 2022
Guest Post: ✨ The Orpheus Series of @tylermLockett ✨
Read about the artist and see this complete series of Greek Mythology-inspired works in the new post! greekmythcomix.com/2022/07/0…
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Jeff Koons has created a temple of Apollo in an old slaughterhouse on the Greek island of Hydra. He’s crafted a #polychrome statue of the 2nd. c CE Apollo Kithara from Cyrene (#BritishMuseum). Collages of frescoes and a mosaic floor create an appropriate setting. #polychromy
ALT A brightly painted “Apollo Kithara” (2019-22) is part of the “Jeff Koons - Apollo,” show, which opened in June, 2022, on the Greek island of Hydra, at the Project Space Slaughterhouse, run by the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art. Photo credit: Eftychia Vlachou
ALT Jeff Koons’ polychrome version of the Apollo Kithara sculpture from the British Museum. Set in an old slaughterhouse on the Greek island of Hydra. Photo credit: Jeff Koons.
ALT Photo of the original 2nd c. CE Apollo Kithara from Cyrene, on display in the British Museum. The torso and kithara (a type of stringed instrument) are in amazing shape, although Apollo’s right arm is missing (it would have draped on top of his head, as seen in the Koons reconstruction). Photo credit: Chapps
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MTGS Classics retweeted
21 Jun 2022
Marble head of Hercules pulled up from Roman shipwreck site in Greece theguardian.com/world/2022/j…
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MTGS Classics retweeted
19 Jun 2022
Repeat after me: amphitheatre means theatre on both sides. It’s what happens when you have two semi-circular theatres put together - that’s why eg the Colosseum is round. It doesn’t mean outside theatre. So almost none of the
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17 Jun 2022
Inspiring. I remember following her book round the sites of Rome after graduating. theguardian.com/science/2022…
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The pics in this thread from @OptimoPrincipi are the clearest I've yet seen which show the sharply painted yet delicate eyelashes and sideburn hairs on this portrait of Caligula (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen). #polychromy #romanarchaeology
15 Jun 2022
5) This portrait is remarkable not just as a rare surviving image of Caligula - with most of his portraits destroyed after his assassination - but one that also miraculously preserves remnants of the paintwork that accented the sculpture...
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MTGS Classics retweeted
16 Jun 2022
A famous #Roman funerary relief of a butcher at work, from Ostia - in the back room is a lady whose hair & clothes identify her as wealthy & interestingly the relief suggests she is working, doing the accounts for the business. The relief dates to the 2nd century AD.
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MTGS Classics retweeted
16 Jun 2022
There is something elegiac about these finds - HS2 is both helping us to discover some of the most remarkable sites & simultaneously ensuring they will be obliterated. Smaller objects will go to museums, which is wonderful. But the rest will be bulldozed. bit.ly/3zFErgF
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MTGS Classics retweeted
13 Jun 2022
The Romans had a deity for almost everything; some of the lesser-known, more specialised #Roman gods include:
Bubona - goddess of cattle
Cardea - goddess of hinges
Devera - goddess of sacred brooms
Fornax - goddess of ovens
Libitina - goddess of funerals
#MythologyMonday
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MTGS Classics retweeted
14 Jun 2022
A 2000 year old public bathhouse from the Roman period is still used by locals in the town of Khenchela, Algeria.
#archaeohistories
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MTGS Classics retweeted
13 Jun 2022
Surprise! This absolutely beautiful jigsaw puzzle, with art by Natalie Foss, is available August 18th. It comes with a poster profiling each of the women featured, written by me! Pre order it here (or ask your local bookshop/puzzle shop to order you one!): hachette.co.uk/titles/natali…
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MTGS Classics retweeted
1 Jun 2022
Join us this June at Oxford University's Open Days. Classics admissions talks, taster lectures and the chance to meet our students on Wed 29 & Thu 30 June. Space is limited in our Faculty, so book your space now: clasoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/ox…
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MTGS Classics retweeted
18 May 2022
Lots of fascinating objects at the Feminine Power exhibition at the British Museum, opening tomorrow. Here are a few of my highlights...
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30 Apr 2022
Far too excited to find Dionysus Sailing under the foil on a bottle we're trialling for our wedding!
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National Theatre to stage The Odyssey in ‘epic’ retelling around England theguardian.com/stage/2022/a…
MTGS Classics retweeted
1 Apr 2022
ALT Original comic at https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/heracles-part-5-boyhood-or-the-teachers-of-heracles/ Greek Myth Comix
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MTGS Classics retweeted
1 Apr 2022
Rare ivory statuette thought to depict the emperor Septimius Severus, found during excavations of Rome's Temple of Peace (Templum Pacis) in 2005. The 25cm artwork is a reminder that not all sculpture was in stone but also more rarely surviving wood, ivory, silver and even gold.
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MTGS Classics retweeted
28 Mar 2022
Bad wife or avenging mother? You might be able to guess which side I fall… (Link to article!)
28 Mar 2022
"It seems that Clytemnestra seals her own fate when she values her daughter’s life equally to the life of a king." Natalie Haynes (@officialnhaynes) on the complexity of Clytemnestra. lithub.com/is-clytemnestra-a…
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