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ALT A person dressed in Roman dress smiling at the camera with a fabric sign with gold hand painted quote from Sappho “someone will remember us I say, even in another time” Sappho 620-570BCE in a crowd at Edinburgh Pride
ALT The back of the person dressed in Roman dress with gold laurel leaves around their head holding the other side of the sign reading “we have always been here” with gold Ancient Greek pattern in a crowd of Edinburgh Pride
ALT An ancient statue of a hedgehog. A line pointing at his head says “hed”, the line pointing at his body says “gehog”.
ALT A copy of Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey
ALT tweet with a picture of mars from @latinedisce saying "Latin will be the official language of the colonies on Mars with the capital Elonia."
ALT Lizzo photoshopped to appear as if she is holding a Etruscan ceramic boar vessel
ALT Shortbread pastry with cuneiform design
ALT Baked shortbread pastry with cuneiform design
ALT Tattoo of a dog scratching it’s head - design from a Spartan dish.
ALT A photo of a couple sitting at a table, hugging. A large painting of a violin is behind them.
ALT Archaeological map of the Palatine Hill showing the names of occupants of different houses, with Mark Antony's and Cicero's houses less than ten metres apart.
ALT A book cover for A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology showing a classical painting with a superimposed periodic tabel element styled square with athena's head and name on it.
ALT A collection of 21 books with the following titles: Roman Literary Culture. The Later Roman Empire. Roman Lives. Lives of the Caesars. The Legacy of the Ancient World. Horace and Me. The Gold of Troy. A History of my Times. The Roman Empire. Tacitus on Britain and Germany. Early Greece. The Ancient World. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Romans. Classical Literary Criticism. The Greek View of Life. From the Gracchi to Nero. Cleopatra The Great. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History. The Faber Pocket Guide To Greek and Roman Drama. Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic. The Trojan Women and other Plays.
ALT A mosaic of a black wolf that looks like a horse with a head that has pointy ears and an oddly human face with sharp teeth
ALT Cover of “The Werewolf in the Ancient World” by Daniel Ogden.
ALT Album art for the Mountain Goats album Jenny of Thebes
ALT The red and white cover of the Penguin Book of Classical Myths by Jenny March.
ALT The contents list of the Penguin Book of Classical Myths.
ALT Page 128 from the book, including an image of a relief showing Prometheus creating the first humans with Athene.
ALT Two pages from the book showing the constellations and their Classical links.
ALT Poliwhirl
ALT The Roussolakkos Vase (1370 - 1200 BC). A pottery vase with a spherical base and two handles. It is decorated with a geometric swirl pattern.
ALT Logo inspired by the Classic Ramones design, replacing RAMONES with ROMANS, and the names of the band-members with VIRGIL, OVID, CATULLUS and HORACE.
ALT The shirt being modelled.
ALT Ptolemaic roundel from a mosaic floor decorated with a dog and a gilded askos, from Alexandria, Egypt, c. 200-150 BC
ALT A copy of Aristophanes Nubes with the title edited to say Nudes.
ALT Stacks of the book A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology by Working Classicists
ALT An aged red hardback book titled “Everyday Things in Classical Greece” by Marjorie and C H B Quennell. The cover has an embossed depiction of Greek Red Figure paintings and a meander decorating the border.
ALT The chapter page of Everyday Things in Ancient Greece. It lists Chapters One to Four.
ALT Psyduck
ALT Attic Red Figure shard. A red figure on a black background clutches their head with their hand.
ALT Front cover of A People’s History of Classics by Edith Hall and Henry Stead.
ALT Tauros
ALT A Cypriot Terracotta bull with horns and a handle.
ALT Article from the Times entitled “We should cheer the decline of humanities degrees. Students facing £70,000 debt want courses that lead to well-paid jobs.”
ALT Mask of Agamemnon with false lashes, fake nails, lipstick, and a wig. I dunno why.
ALT A statue of Dionysus holding a birthday cake with balloons
ALT Cover of The Dragon in the West by Daniel Ogden
ALT Cover of The Poetry of Sappho, trans Jim Powell.
ALT A pile of gifts including books by Robert Harris and Natalie Haynes, Asterix comics, a Playmobil chariot, LimeCrime makeup palette, badges, DVD box sets, and more.
ALT “A posh accent doesn’t make a good actor, says Peter Capaldi”
ALT “He said that “this business is full of people who are not the real thing, who sound like good actors because of their posh accents”
ALT “They seem to know how to move through the world recognising which battle to fight, where to press their attentions, but it can make the acting smooth, which to me is tedious. I like more neurosis.”
ALT Lechonk
ALT A red african slipware askos wineskin that vaguely resembles a pig.
ALT Rowlet
ALT A red figure pottery glaux with an owl painted on the front.
ALT Entei
ALT The Macmillan aryballos. A jar with a lion's head.
