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  1. I saw the legendary Mary Beard last night at Melbourne Recital Centre.

    I even got my question read out / answered (quite the thrill for me). I asked about her reaction to the recent meme of men being asked how often they "think about the Roman Empire?" - it struck me as a weirdly gendered phenomenon. Having her unpack this was interesting.

    #MaryBeard #TheRomanEmpire #MyRomanEmpireIsTheRomanEmpire #Melbourne #Rome #AncientRome #Books #Rome #RomanEmpire #History #Ancients

  2. I saw the legendary Mary Beard last night at Melbourne Recital Centre.

    I even got my question read out / answered (quite the thrill for me). I asked about her reaction to the recent meme of men being asked how often they "think about the Roman Empire?" - it struck me as a weirdly gendered phenomenon. Having her unpack this was interesting.

    #MaryBeard #TheRomanEmpire #MyRomanEmpireIsTheRomanEmpire #Melbourne #Rome #AncientRome #Books #Rome #RomanEmpire #History #Ancients

  3. I saw the legendary Mary Beard last night at Melbourne Recital Centre.

    I even got my question read out / answered (quite the thrill for me). I asked about her reaction to the recent meme of men being asked how often they "think about the Roman Empire?" - it struck me as a weirdly gendered phenomenon. Having her unpack this was interesting.

    #MaryBeard #TheRomanEmpire #MyRomanEmpireIsTheRomanEmpire #Melbourne #Rome #AncientRome #Books #Rome #RomanEmpire #History #Ancients

  4. I saw the legendary Mary Beard last night at Melbourne Recital Centre.

    I even got my question read out / answered (quite the thrill for me). I asked about her reaction to the recent meme of men being asked how often they "think about the Roman Empire?" - it struck me as a weirdly gendered phenomenon. Having her unpack this was interesting.

    #MaryBeard #TheRomanEmpire #MyRomanEmpireIsTheRomanEmpire #Melbourne #Rome #AncientRome #Books #Rome #RomanEmpire #History #Ancients

  5. @billyjoebowers

    I remember why!
    Alta Vista was the search engine of the day.

    Then Google popped up, and it was super effective. And for a long while, 6-12 months it was only something folks in the know used.

    So by "googling" it, you were one of the #digerati

    The in crowd.

    #ancients #InformationSuperHighway

  6. Anciients Return to the Peak of Progressive Metal on New Album!
    It’s been a rough handful of years for British Columbia-based extremity-laced progressive rockers, Anciients. When the quartet unleashed their Voice of the Void album in 2016, the world appeared to be their oyster and things seemed ripe for the picking. They were coming off the success of their Heart of Oak debut...
    comiccrusaders.com/anciients-r
    #ancients #music #metal

  7. Swift's #satire uses a literal epic battle between books to explore the debates of his time among authors and critics Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the #Ancients who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the #Moderns. The battle continues today between #paperbooks and #digitalbooks

  8. Swift's #satire uses a literal epic battle between books to explore the debates of his time among authors and critics Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the #Ancients who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the #Moderns. The battle continues today between #paperbooks and #digitalbooks

  9. @billyjoebowers

    I remember why!
    Alta Vista was the search engine of the day.

    Then Google popped up, and it was super effective. And for a long while, 6-12 months it was only something folks in the know used.

    So by "googling" it, you were one of the #digerati

    The in crowd.

    #ancients #InformationSuperHighway

  10. @billyjoebowers

    I remember why!
    Alta Vista was the search engine of the day.

    Then Google popped up, and it was super effective. And for a long while, 6-12 months it was only something folks in the know used.

    So by "googling" it, you were one of the #digerati

    The in crowd.

    #ancients #InformationSuperHighway