Andy Keen

A partial floor mosaic, with a column behind and various other museum exhibits in Corinium museum, Cirencester UK

A large snail in the grass by a Roman wall

Today, Chedworth Roman villa (and its snails) and Corinium museum, with 28 students and 4 staff! #classicsbluesky

Off on a residential school trip tomorrow morning, visiting Chedworth, @coriniummuseum.bsky.social, @britishmuseum.bsky.social, @bignorvilla.bsky.social, @romanpalace.bsky.social, and @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social! #ClassicsBlueSky

“The 1st half introduces the characters of Dido, Aeneas, and the mischievous gods through song, music, and visual projections. The 2nd half features a full performance of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, re-imagined with traditional harpsichord and continuo.” www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bri...

YouTube video by John Kimon Metamorpheus, with Oliver Taplin and Tony Harrison

youtu.be/WgV0SG3sqs4?...

Sad news. A brilliant poet and playwright. And he and Oliver Taplin made the best documentary ever about Orpheus about twenty years ago…

Fact Check: Fake Bob Dylan Quote About Speaking Kindly While You're Alive Was NOT Response To Charlie Kirk's Death -- Foreign Spam Network | Lead Stories Did singer Bob Dylan just "ignite a firestorm" with a single sentence about Charlie Kirk and was that sentence "If...

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Fact Check: Fake Bob Dylan Quote About Speaking Kindly While You're Alive Was NOT Response To Charlie Kirk's Death -- Foreign Spam Network | Lead Stories Did singer Bob Dylan just "ignite a firestorm" with a single sentence about Charlie Kirk and was that sentence "If...

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Fact Check: Fake Bob Dylan Quote About Speaking Kindly While You're Alive Was NOT Response To Charlie Kirk's Death -- Foreign Spam Network | Lead Stories Did singer Bob Dylan just "ignite a firestorm" with a single sentence about Charlie Kirk and was that sentence "If...

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Fact Check: Fake Bob Dylan Quote About Speaking Kindly While You're Alive Was NOT Response To Charlie Kirk's Death -- Foreign Spam Network | Lead Stories Did singer Bob Dylan just "ignite a firestorm" with a single sentence about Charlie Kirk and was that sentence "If...

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Fact Check: Fake Bob Dylan Quote About Speaking Kindly While You're Alive Was NOT Response To Charlie Kirk's Death -- Foreign Spam Network | Lead Stories Did singer Bob Dylan just "ignite a firestorm" with a single sentence about Charlie Kirk and was that sentence "If...

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

YouTube video by The Rest Is History Tom Finally Convinces Dominic To Go To Chatham High Street

Podcast on Chatham High Street made me think of you, @bandages.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=NO2r...

Tomorrow, Islam Issa, Janina Ramirez, Greg Jenner, and David Olusoga! #GloucesterHistoryFestival

Today at the #GloucesterHistoryFestival I shall mainly be focusing on Lyse Doucet and cider… (I didn’t get a ticket for Alice Roberts 😔)…

Rather excited to be going to Gloucester today for the #GloucesterHistoryFestival with talks today and tomorrow.

YouTube video by Arhangel Gavril Bogovesnik Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang

Heaven 17: We Don’t Need this Fascist Groove Thang youtu.be/lV5dbcOmw6I?...

YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

Woody Guthrie: All You Fascists Bound to Lose youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?... (or the Billy Bragg and Wilco cover youtu.be/dWBeGK96pVQ?...)

And it is such a brilliant, funny, informative talk. Love Natalie Haynes! #ancientbluesky

It’s so wonderful and affirming that the place is full for this! If you write great books and say funny stuff, people will come and watch!

A stage at Komedia Bath. There is a microphone at the front. The screen at the back of the stage saying “Natalie Haynes No Friend to This House. Post-show book signing in foyer” and a picture of the book front cover

Here now!

A train table (one of the ones that drops down from the seat in front) with a Costa caramel latte can, a bottle of water, and a hardback copy of No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes

On my way to Bath to see @nataliehaynes.bsky.social

Thanks - yes, sad times! Isn’t it great. 😊

Classics In Our Time Podcasts This is a list of podcasts from BBC In Our Time. I originally posted this as a Blog Post in 2017, but now updating it to a Page to make it easier to edit. Latest update: 4 September 2025 Greek…

Given the news about Melvyn Bragg stepping down from In Our Time, now might be a good time to share this list (thanks to Paul Cartledge for the reminder!) keenerclassics.wordpress.com/classics-in-...

Blair joins White House meeting with Trump on post-war Gaza The talks come as Israel prepares to seize Gaza City as a step towards full control of the territory.

“auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.” - Tacitus www.bbc.com/news/article...

I hear “might be blessing (or blessed in a?) temple…”

New podcast from two women with a shared intellectual project: classics from the ancient world to now…theatre, architecture, history, film, you name it

Are you sure this isn’t a piece of ginger?

A beer pump. Black sign with “PLINY THE ELDERFLOWER” on it.

A pint of amber coloured ale on a table

An excellent @coriniummuseum.bsky.social beer!

ὠς γὰρ σ’ ἴδω βρόχε᾽, ὤς με φώνασ’ οὐδὲν ἔτ᾽ εἴκει,
ἀλλὰ κὰμ μὲν γλῶσσα ἔαγε, λέπτον δ’ αὔτικα χρῷ πῦρ ὑπαδεδρόμακεν.

“For whenever I look at you, my voice can say nothing;
my tongue breaks, and a thin fire races under my skin.”

Great sentiment but not actually written by Sappho as far as I can tell…

Struggling. Home/Block - residential locations??? So… “Which 2011 song by Adele describes a return to her past self and surroundings after heartbreak, emphasizing emotional roots and familiarity?”

Answer:
“Hometown Glory”