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Resources, support & solidarity - representing the working class in classics 🏺✊⚡️woke af 😤run by @misterconnor1 & @allegedlymiri info @workingclassicists .com
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Here's a look at some of the stuff we've done in a PACKED 2023!
We're entirely self-funded and depend on contributions from supporters❤️
If you can spare the price of a Christmas card (or even a Christmas snifter🥃) please do, here:
📝Published a bunch of fab new articles on the Zine
🏆Hosted and awarded the first ever Working Classicists Awards
🏛️Presented at the
@Classical_Assoc
Conference at the University of Cambridge
👀50+ hours of work on a super secret project
👕Sold out of our first T-shirt drop
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Currently loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words 😎
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This is the worst thing that’s ever happened
Brutus come sort this out
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History isn’t about making people look cool, actually.
“Spartans were losers, Romans were fascists, Knights sucked, Vikings were lame, & the Founding Fathers were evil.
…wait why doesn’t anybody want to study history anymore?”
- Modern historians
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me and who
a crab pot you can drink from with your lover .......
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Pokemon as ancient historical artifacts: a thread
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(Each post will also have a link to more info about the artifact so this counts as studying rt to save a life)
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It’s the Ides of March so here are some memes you can share to make you look ✨cultured ✨
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Hey 👋
This sucks.
Write for us instead. We’ll actually pay you, support you, and are actively searching for diverse and interesting people and content. We’ll help you edit and write, too. First-timers welcome.
Email: info
@workingclassicists
.com
The Antigone Team is very pleased to announce that we are now recruiting to expand the team in several important directions! 4 vacancies are currently online, with more to follow in coming months. Further details available here: Come join us! Pls share! 🙏
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Lots of new followers from the Musk interaction so please do bear in mind the following:
❤️🆓🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤜🏻🤛🏿🧑🦽❤️
Thanks.
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So anyway… we’re giving away a copy of this. RT, follow us, follow
@EmilyRCWilson
, and like this tweet to get your name in the hat.
Good luck! Winners chosen 11th September. UK only.
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We’re still waiting on this forbidden tome
I wonder why nobody is hoping for the lost poetry of Cicero 🤣
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Let Lizzo play the Boar Vessel 600 - 500 BC Etruscan Ceramic
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Translating Latin
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Aside from The Iliad, the Odyssey, the works of Sappho and Hesiod's Theogony (the four we have on our list already), which works of Greek poetry would you say are "essential"? (Subjective, but we're curious.)
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✨NEW ARTICLE! ✨
Tallulah Trezevant has spent some time investigating the strange connections between Classics and alt-right political accounts on X, and how they find their way onto our timelines...
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Tattoos were once a sign of otherness or criminality.
So, let’s see your tatts, fellow others and criminals!
Post your pics below.
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Here’s our take.
Latin should be available to children of all backgrounds because it is interesting and useful.
Equally, other subjects and experiences are denied state school pupils, and the government should also equal-up access to them.
Absolutely not an either/or.
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Update:
Happy Valentine’s Day from your favourite (or possibly least favourite but I hope not, or perhaps even neutral, which would be better, or maybe you never think about us at all) classics couple!
Working Classicists is truly a labor of love, and we love you all! ❤️
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I love a lot about this image, but especially finding out how Mark Antony and Cicero were pretty much next-door neighbours for nine years.
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PIKS is ridiculous but never forget the iconic line: “vspph vphdph vphcph”
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
We managed to forget our own birthday (Saturday) but we’re here to celebrate now! 🎉
Give us a follow and a RT and on Thursday we’ll pull one name from the hat to win ALL 21 of these 100% secondhand books (courtesy of
@AlexImrie23
and
@misterconnor1
). 🎁
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Big if true
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Everyones always hating on the janky wolf while Romulus and Remus are underneath looking like when both players choose Mario in Smash Bros
sorry not medieval but i can't stop thinking about the roman wolf mosaic in yorkshire
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HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY!
100% second-hand, courtesy of
@rossmcgovern
.
A must for Classicists, horror fans and, erm, wolves?
Just give us a follow and a RT and you’ll go into the draw (to be made on Oct 31st) for this lovely book.
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Listening to all 15,693 lines of the Iliad in one sitting
what the Fuck could you possibly need this much ear for
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This is the cover. We’re so back.
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GIVEAWAY!
100% second-hand!
The Penguin Book of Classical Myths. 500-odd pages of everything you could ever need to know about the myths of Greece and Rome.
Just give us a like and a RT to enter. We'll draw a name from the hat on May 3rd.
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Can you help?
We’re looking to make contact with Classics people who went on to jobs and careers outside academia, and employers who have hired people with a Classics background. If that’s you, or someone you know, please say hi.
Any help would be MUCH appreciated.
Please RT
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Poliwhirl: Roussolakkos Vase (1370 - 1200BC)
He swirl 🍥
More info:
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GIVEAWAY!
Brand new, Ramones-inspired t-shirt!
Go old-skool. I mean, REALLY old-skool. Ancient-skool.
As usual: give us a RT and a follow, and the first name drawn on May 20th wins.
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Right.
We haven’t launched yet, so keep your hair on, but we are looking for contributors.
If you’re able to write about Classical Studies and it’s links to video games, music, films, politics, culture...
Or if you can art. Or something. Anything. DMs are now open or email us
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How it feels to enter the hall after the lecture has already started
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Okay, who is your Classical crush? I mean, despite them being awful.
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Hullo
You might have noticed (or not noticed) us being a bit quieter at the mo.
Our wee team of two has been hit with some rough stuff (family illness/mental health) and we don’t have much time on our hands rn.
We’ll still publish articles etc and be back properly soon xx
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When I say I’ve got that dog in me this is what I mean
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✨NEW ARTICLE!✨
A dangerous movement in Classics is using a Trojan horse of respectability and free-speech to promote much uglier ideas.
Emily Waller Singeisen held her nose and dived in...
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Alright, no one asked for this but we're doing it anyway.
Here's a thread of Classics/Ancient History/Mythology-themed games with live demos during Steam Next Fest, and how to follow them for more info
🧵🖥️🏛️
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Why even interact with us when this is the best you can do?
There are PLENTY of places that exclusively platform privileged and privately educated white writers. Plenty.
We can’t even hope to redress the balance on our own. But we’re going to try 🤷
So don’t be a clown 🤡
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Who would be the *worst* dinner party guest from antiquity?
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Hooray for 6k! You know what that means… time for another giveaway!
Everyday Things In Classical Greece by Majorie & C. H. B. Quennell.
To win this 100% second-hand hardback: Give this a RT, give us a follow, and reply with the chapter you’re looking up first
Ends May 31 📚
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Psyduck: Attic Red Figure Shard (430BC)
Stressed beyond belief. Head in hands.
More info:
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Good afternoon and welcome to the day we launch the Working Classicists Discord server ‼️
We’ve got channels for textbook requests, recommendations, resources, networking, career advice, language skills, memes, teacher support and more!
Like this Tweet for an invite 💌
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Something we often have to tell people is that the ancient world isn't always done well on the silver screen.
But which films, TV shows or other media get it at least a *little bit* right.
We'll start off with "I, Claudius". Add your suggestions below.
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GIVEAWAY!
Well, this is a bit nice. The delightful
@henrystead
has given us a spanking new copy of A People’s History of Classics which means one of our followers is going to get a great freebie.
Just give us a RT and a follow. We’ll draw a name from that hat on 21/01.
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We think Brad Pitt was actually a pretty decent Achilles in Troy. Who would you have cast - and who would be your Patroclus?
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GIVEAWAY!
An 1892 edition of Aristophanes’s “The Frogs”!
This is NOT a translation.
Charming wee annotations throughout.
Just give us a follow and a RT and we’ll put your name in the hat.
Draw will be made on March 1st. 🤞🏻
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How often do YOU think about the Roman Empire?👀
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Our co-founder George has worked his absolute arse off for this. Working (more than) full time as a Classics and Latin teacher, running Working Classicists’ website, volunteering for other projects, he really is an inspiration to us all ❤️
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Tauros: Cypriot terracotta bull (1450 - 1200BC)
Moo, if you even care
More info:
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If it’s about wages, then the cart is very much before the horse. Maybe a piece about how underpaid many jobs in the arts are would be more constructive.
And let’s pass over the blithe acceptance of £70,000 tuition fees.
This is cheap, wilfully-ignorant and stupid.
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GAGamemnon when he slew Tantalus or something idk
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Funny how pretty much all of the big popular classicist authors pride themselves on their feminism and their allyship with the working classes and could raise money for Ukraine for months, but when you search their account there’s not one mention of the genocide in Palestine 🤔
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GIVEAWAY!
1877 School Atlas of the Ancient World.
A bit tattered on the outside but absolutely *gorgeous* maps from across the Greek and Roman worlds.
Just give us a RT and a follow, and we’ll draw a winner on April 1.
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🎈🍾ITS OUR BIRTHDAY!!! 🍾🎈
Working Classicists has been going for a whole year - and we had no idea what would happen when we launched…
Thanks to all you lovely folk, and our talented writers for helping us build an inclusive network for Classicists all over the world! 🥳
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GIVEAWAY!
The marvellous
@JLDraycott
has gifted us some lovely books, which we are now gifting to you!
Dragons! Sappho! Fun!
Just give us a follow and RT and we’ll draw a name from the hat on March 24th. Good luck! 🤞🏻🍀
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🎄Got an advent calendar?🎄
Well, it’s not as good as this one.
Our
#SolidaritySaturnalia
12-days-of-gifts giveaway goes LIVE tomorrow!
Items will be picked at random and posted to 12 lucky Working Classicists!
RT with the hashtag above, follow us, and win some nifty gifts!
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Capaldi is so right for this.
When people ask us “why Classics? Why not something else?” our answer is always that the state of Classics is a great litmus test for other subjects and jobs (like acting) and how the class divide is permitted to trample talent with privilege.
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Lechonk: Tunisian red slipware askos (200 - 300AD)
Roman wine skin or pig with a purpose?
More info:
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Good morning! Looks like we may break that 1000 follower barrier today! So exciting to see all the support and solidarity so far 😭
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The issue is equal opportunity. State kids should have the same choices as private.
And perhaps others get more out of Latin? Some will find a lifelong love in the subject, others will only find occasional use for it. Much like any other subject.
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We’re currently canvassing for a later article:
What we’re the worst examples of snobbery you have encountered in Classics?
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Really sick of men being objectified by Medusa tbh
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Necessary viewing
Look, I know this week has been tough so here's a chihuahua dressed as a centurion being pulled by a sausage dog.
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Quick statement:
We as an organisation have always and will always stand with the people of Palestine, now and until this conflict is resolved.
🏴🤝🇵🇸
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Rowlet: Athenian pottery owl glaux (475 - 425BC)
Probably wise but doesn't look it. Awkward at any function.
More info:
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Which characters from mythology/drama deserve a retelling of their story?
The Iliad told from Hector’s POV would be electric, we reckon.
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We’ve been overwhelmed with submissions over the last few days - all of them compelling, well-researched, and informative.
Opening your doors to diverse perspectives and insights yields amazing results.
Classics Twitter will be eating well every week for a while 🍽️ 👀
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Thank you all, from the bottom of our cold, dead hearts, for the support you’ve shown today. It’s been a lot of work, and we’ve been pretty nervous about it all - but today has been an exciting whirlwind and full of solidarity. Thank you. We went out for that drink.
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Entei: The Macmillan aryballos (640BC)
Powerful. Iconic. Intimidating.
More info:
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Happy Easter! Possibly the most religiously insensitive day to be at a Roman museum specifically, but classicists gonna classicist I guess
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Here’s a rough description of what we’re aiming for. Liable to change, as all good things do. But this is the original ethos behind our movement.
#WorkingClassicist
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Jason Isaacs joins extraordinary project using Ancient Greek plays to help veterans
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Roman conquest of the beer aisle in Morrisons. 🍻
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🥳 It’s our birthday! We’ve been doing this for 3 years now! 🎈
Stay tuned - we’ll be giving away some presents later! 🎁
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We're making a list of famous Classicists who did not attend private school.
We're struggling!
Please add suggestions in the replies.
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Hey new folk 👋
Just popping in to introduce ourselves. Working Classicists is pretty much just the two of us (aside from our lovely contributors).
‘We’ being George and Miri. A state-school Classics teacher and a video games journalist. We’re very friendly. Come say hi! ☕️
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Happy Valentine’s Day from your favourite (or possibly least favourite but I hope not, or perhaps even neutral, which would be better, or maybe you never think about us at all) classics couple!
Working Classicists is truly a labor of love, and we love you all! ❤️
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So many of our talented, passionate, and creative friends have their beautiful artwork on display in this new zine
So… we’re giving away a free copy!
Follow us, follow
@singomusezine
, and like and RT this tweet for a chance to win.
UK/EU only. Draw: 6 April 10am GMT.
⚡️🌿🏺
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GIVEAWAY!
100% second-hand copy of The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation.
Spells and curses for all occasions!
Ideal for out-of-time necromancers who left their copy in the 2nd century.
Give us a RT and a follow, and we’ll put your name in the hat. Draw on October 1st.
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Over on our Discord we’ve launched our low-key ancient book club and our first read is Euripides’ Medea!🗡️ No timings, just dip into each sections post as you read it to discuss! Or if you’ve already read and just want to join in the chat. Comment if you need a link💬
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Turns out all three of us at Working Classicists got a classically-themed tattoo this weekend. Coincidence, or maybe something more auspicious 🤔
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Arboliva: Gold myrtle wreath (400 - 300BC)
Purely there for decoration
More info:
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