Carla Suthren
@CarlaInCologne
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Currently Carla in Verona. Early Modernist/Classicist, in theory working on a book. She/her
Joined March 2015
Currently writing about the way the idea of the 'barbarian' (anyone who isn't Greek) is politically weaponised in Euripides' Hecuba to justify violence. Feels horribly topical.
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RT @implausibleblog: BBC News, "4.3 million 18-24 year olds have not registered to voted.. That's enough to change the result of the electi…
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RT @MiddleEastEye: The UK government has revoked the student visa of Dana Abuqamar, a Palestinian law student and leader of the Friends of…
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RT @SadiqKhan: The Government must publicly call for an urgent ceasefire & implore Israel to end this heart-rending attack on Rafah. A ful…
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@torcheculs I do love Juliet's 'Gallop apace' speech...There's a chapter in Heather James' book 'Ovid and the Liberty of Speech' on Juliet, which I seem to remember does some interesting things with textual history (as well as Ovid, obv)
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RT @amnesty: More than 30,000 people have now been killed in Israel’s onslaught on the occupied Gaza Strip. Don’t get used to this, take ac…
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RT @LeftieStats: 🚨 NEW: 7 in 10 Brits back a ceasefire in Gaza, says new polling - including 80% of Labour voters. ✅ Support: 68% ❌ Oppose…
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RT @APGRD: 📢✨ MONDAY! 2pm BST: #AnneCarson’s #Euripides & the Combustion of Thought - join us for the livestream of the University of Oxfor…
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RT @MHRABooks: 📢📢📢 A new volume in our 'Tudor and Stuart Translations' series will be out this Autumn! 'George Gascoigne and Francis Kinw…
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RT @BarnfieldConf23: Camilla Caporicci (UniPG), @CiambellaFabio (Sapienza) and myself @CristianoRagni (UniVR) are happy to share the CfP fo…
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@RFMacLellan Also the earliest known translation of a Greek tragedy into English, by anyone! @elenaspnll :)
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@rhetorician @MrDanielBuck I also hate this take, and I can't believe that in 2022 the same lazy stereotypes about single parent families are still being peddled.
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@Phillip_Rabbits You've just reminded me of my favourite Howard St cuddly octopus! I miss him!
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RT @Skenejournal: Pubblication announcement! The volume 'Shakespeare and the Mediterranean: Romeo and Juliet' edited by Silvia Bigliazzi an…
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