Time to write out some Leavers' prizes. I couldn't really see how it could not be @DAMendelsohnNYC 's Odyssey (although were there a nice Ahl Virgil edition. ). I am hoping that this @PenguinUKBooks translation will replace the Rieu for @OCR_Classics at some point.

RT @ClassicsNorth: Made possible by an incredible team of experts at all stages of learning about classics @KathrynTempest #TwistedTransfer….

We already used his essay on Aeneid, so not even a new name to learn.

A year's wait is almost up. I loved @DAMendelsohnNYC's Cavafy and use his essay on Virgil in class, so have very high hopes for this.

Marking mocks and have enjoyed hearing the stoic Sage described as "The Stoic Influencer". That sounds about right.

Every year when we embark on Seneca in @OCR_Classics, we think of @lizgloyn and are grateful!.

Reading @wmarybeard's Emperor of Rome. How have I got until today without knowing Augustus had a pet goat he took with him on sea voyages!?.Greek anthology IX. 224

We plan to read some Juvenal as part of the A-level Classics Soc (so it doesn't need to be expurgated). Does anyone have a good translation with explanatory notes they would recommend?.

"I suppose we live in the shallows of one another's personalities and cannot really see into the depths beneath" (Lawrence Durrell's Balthazar). @DurrellSociety always something moving in Durrell.

An absolute absence of consensus about responsibility in Aeneid IV today (except that Juno and Venus are malevolent). Attempts to push more blame towards Dido came in for significant resistance. I do like having engaged (and engaging) students who disagree with me and each other.

RT @chapps: The impossibly elegant, swan-necked portrait of a Flavian lady named the 'Fonseca Bust'. Looking behind her tower of curls reve….

I have today loaned my copy of @DAMendelsohnNYC 's Cavafy to the news head of English with all my favourites picked out. I think that makes 5 loans and 4 gift purchases. I just keep coming back to it.

I have a student wanting to EPQ on this text and just looking at the contents this will be the gift that keeps on giving.

One missing word; a whole world of incest. Sometimes marking has gems to lift the soul.

Really enjoyed @ArmandDAngour.on Symposium. I have always felt that Alcibiades at the end shows the success of Socrates in climbing the metaphysical ladder so that he is unmoved by the sexy Alcibiades; nice to hear a different reading.

Just came back to a card from one of last year's students. She and I differed on whether the Aeneid was better than Homer and had lovely arguments. Intelligent students with their own ideas always make me happy.

Lovely to see the A-Level taking people in so many varied directions. The Circe episode is a disturbing one with women as the danger to masculinity followed by Odysseus asserting patriarchal power through waving his "sword" and sex at knifepoint.

A superb effort!.

And did extra Latin for fun! Chapeau.

And did extra Latin for fun! Chapeau!.