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            This week in Instant Classics Bookclub, we take a step back & think about the repeated adjectives used to describe characters in the Odyssey. What is their point?  Join the Bookclub here instantclassics.supportingcast.fm (& you can get an earlybird offer to our first live event on 25 Nov)
               
            
            
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                Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned?
                Podcast Episode Β· Instant Classics Β· 23/10/2025 Β· 44m
            
        
    
    
            The question for today. Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned? And what tune did he play. On Instant Classics now tinyurl.com/cv7e9m92
               
            
            
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            I would not have got them quick enough either!
               
            
            
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                                            Mary Beard on stage with cartoon of Berlusconi behind.
                                                         
                                            Mary Beard on stage with pic of three Roman Emperors behind her, plus Donald Trump.
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Thoroughly enjoyed tonightβs βEvening with Mary Beardβ. 
It turns out that quite a lot of us in Edinburgh are fascinated by the Romans!
Thank you, @wmarybeard.bsky.social for all the fun and wisdom!
               
            
            
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            Not uncommon!
               
            
            
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            hope you enjoy!
               
            
            
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            Soon I hope but I will check. Looking forward to Brisbane
               
            
            
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                Talking Classics by Professor Mary Beard | Waterstones
                Buy Talking Classics by Professor Mary Beard from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over Β£25.
            
        
    
    
            I've got a new book out in spring #TalkingClassics: about why it's still worth bothering about ancient Greece and Rome. Now till Friday 17th Oct you can preorder through Waterstones. Enter OCTOBER25 at checkout & get 25% off RRP.  #WPreorder tinyurl.com/TalkingClass...
               
            
            
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            Jack Rear's article "Mary Beard: βWeβre still making a desert & calling it peace, just like the Romansβ" in: telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fictβ¦. "The classicist on how a British Museum visit sparked her love of history & why we shouldnβt be too reverent about ancient civilisations". @jacksayspurple
               
            
            
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            Thanks for saying ππ
               
            
            
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                Cassandra: Prophet Of The Modern World?
                Podcast Episode Β· Instant Classics Β· 09/10/2025 Β· 49m
            
        
    
    
            On Instant Classics now, a deep dive into Cassandra, the Trojan prophet doomed to tell the truth but never be believed. We reflect on the story from Aeschylus to Taylor Swift & find more than meets the eye. tinyurl.com/mrymayzp
               
            
            
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            Tomorrow on Instant Classics (tinyurl.com/4s6vr4vp) we're looking at the long and complicated history of the toga. You'll never look on a toga party in thesame way again. That's FDR having a toga birthday party.
               
            
            
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                Instant Classics | Instant Classics
                
            
        
    
    
            A new episode of our Odyssey reading Book Club has dropped - discussing the rest of Book 1. From now on, I'm afraid you will actually have to JOIN the Club to listen. But there will be all sorts of other perks too. So go on! instantclassics.supportingcast.fm
               
            
            
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                Mary Beard Tickets, Tour Dates & Concerts - Fane
                Buy face value Mary Beard tickets from Fane, a primary ticket agent for Mary Beard. View tour dates, event details and more.
            
        
    
    
            Talking in Oxford on 2 Oct. Just a few tickets left. I will be kicking off with a tiny Oxford classical treasure: some ancient Roman bullets with surprising messages imprinted on them! www.fane.co.uk/mary-beard
               
            
            
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                Decoding The Parthenon
                Podcast Episode Β· Instant Classics Β· 25/09/2025 Β· 53m
            
        
    
    
            Where should you go to see the best version of the lost statue of Athena from the Parthenon? Athens? London? No: Nashville! Listen here. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
               
            
            
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                A mentorβs odyssey
                
            
        
    
    
             'The Odyssey, with its stinks and stenches, its pigsties and drugged dinner parties, its beggars and bards, is not so high-flown as the Iliad.'
A. E. Stallings (@ae_stallings): The epic of homecoming in a new translation
               
            
            
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                Decoding The Parthenon
                Podcast Episode Β· Instant Classics Β· 25/09/2025 Β· 51m
            
        
    
    
            Our new Instant Classics podcast is on the Parthenon. Not its modern controversies, but its ancient ones! Was it OTT? tinyurl.com/y9rcp6zj
               
            
            
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            We'll be dropping an Instant Classics episode about the Parthenon on Thursday...https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/instant-classics/id1831429397
               
            
            
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            Not exactly a fashionista! But v chuffed about this ππ
               
            
            
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                                            A SmartViz monitoring device installed at a university. 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsulliedβ¦
               
            
            
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                A mentorβs odyssey
                It was perhaps inevitable that the critic, editor, classicist and translator Daniel Mendelsohn would take on a translation of the Odyssey. After all, he
            
        
    
    
            It a bumper Classics issue of the @thetls.bsky.social 
 this week. Long reviews by AE Stallings on Mendelsohn's Odyssey tinyurl.com/k7uzw9cy and by Peter Thonemann on 403 BCE
               
            
            
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                Free Speech - An Ancient History
                Podcast Episode Β· Instant Classics Β· 18/09/2025 Β· 48m
            
        
    
    
            Democracy is something you have to work hard at, not just sit back and enjoy. One thing we discuss here on
Free Speech - An Ancient History. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
               
            
            
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                Free Speech - An Ancient History
                Podcast Episode Β· Instant Classics Β· 18/09/2025 Β· 48m
            
        
    
    
            Is now a good time to think harder about the death of Socrates? We wonder on Instant Classics: tinyurl.com/43b2pvvs
               
            
            
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                The Odyssey#2:
                Podcast Episode Β· Instant Classics Β· 16/09/2025 Β· 25m
            
        
    
    
            What you have been waiting for! Our Odyssey bookclub dives into the first 10 lines of Odyssey Book 1.. how a careful read of them helps unlock the whole poem. All in English but we do pick out & explain one Greek word.  tinyurl.com/4ycrzxw9
               
            
            
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