This is the other side of my favourite Medea pot in Cleveland: Telephus holding a frankly sinister baby Orestes and threatening to kill him. It’s like he hasn’t seen the Omen *hides*

Look at this gorgeous cameo of Artemis, hair back, expression unemotional, ready to kill again. Oh wait, am I doing that thing where I describe myself instead of the artwork?

We’re BACK! Tune your sets to BBC Radio 4 for 9am on Thursday 30th July. The BBC Sounds podcast will go up the same day. Series 12 Episode 1 is Alexandria: The Science, with guests Islam Issa and @adamrutherford.bsky.social! 🔬📚 #NatalieHaynesStandsUpfortheClassics

Here is Nike in her victory chariot - sending all her luck to the amazing Arthur Fery today! 🎾

Has anyone ever felt like a chipmunk was spying on them?

Penelope: weaponised by men as the gold standard for wives since BCE. I hopped inside her marriage to Odysseus in a series of letters in my Women’s Prize shortlisted book, A Thousand Ships (2019). Here’s just the beginning… #TheOdyssey #AThousandShips #Penelope

Did you mean to say Stone Blind cuteness, Build a Bear? 😉🐍

The Odyssey! I have read, translated and compressed it into a handy half hour podcast for you. Here’s your quick guide on BBC Sounds. Infidelity and monsters aplenty… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

If only there’d been some sort of clue…

Today’s Tom Gauld - read safe out there 😎

Did you know Agatha Christie wrote a Helen of Troy? Throwback to this video on different versions of Helen, many more of which are in my book Pandora’s Jar. We have a new one to look forward to in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey… m.youtube.com/watch?v=fdoF...

From our Oxford correspondent: spotted in Blackwell's Bookshop Oxford (a Captivating Read!) and Daunt Books Summertown! 📗☀️

You guys! Number 1 bestseller on multiple lists this week! Thank you all for downloading the Kindle edition of No Friend to This House 🥰🗡️ Jason would be SO displeased…

Sending all good wishes to any other couples getting married in New York this weekend (this gorgeous pair are having their reception at the Met)

Happy paperback day, Hallie!

What insult would you slingshot?

Here’s the Kobo link! www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

99p on Kobo too.

My Medea and all the women of this story are 99p on Kindle today! Grab your chance if you’re a Kindle reader, or just like a backup version alongside your indie bookshop copy 📗 Think you know the quest for the Golden Fleece? Think again. No Friend to This House 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Friend-This-...

A second ibex near a tree! But this one has worn his jester hat

The first of a very short series which we shall call Ibex near a Tree. Here is an ibex, looking somewhat surprised to be near a tree. What will tomorrow bring? (Info card below.)

Did someone make this for themselves or as a gift? Was it a novelty present for a bride on her hen weekend on the Rhine? I cannot shake the sense that the mouth has a cigarette in it. Info card below.

Zendaya’s commitment to Ovid’s Metamorphoses is amazing! Here she is channelling Arachne in this John Galliano 1997 dress 🕷️🏺

Delighted to be Book of the Week at Browns Books! Thank you very much, I hope lots of your school and library customers enjoy the discount 🥰

SW London currently two degrees hotter than Athens so this is the perfect book to read today while my servant (husband) brings me cooling drinks. ‘Pandora’s Jar: Women in Greek Myths’ by the excellent @nataliehaynes.bsky.social

I love how this is ornate but somehow not grand, like it’s a regular person’s most prized possession, rather than one of dozens of fancy things belonging to a rich person

This is incredible! If you’d like to learn more about Pompeii and how the Vesuvius eruption really went down, you can listen to me, Dr Sophie Hay and Prof Llewelyn Morgan in this episode of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Indie booksellers, you are always so good to me - thank you so much for all your hard work over the past 10 days! I’m thrilled to be one of your bestsellers- it never, ever gets old. Thanks for the love you’ve shown No Friend to This House - she means so much to me, and you’ve done her proud again.

This is such a disappointing decision by Exeter: I was recommending them as a beacon of classics and the humanities to a would-be student only last week, because they have so many brilliant scholars doing great work. I hope they rethink.

Further sea monster joy, this time with Jonah midway through exiting the whale. I cannot lie: these sculptures made me grin for an entire day at a time. Look at its giant sea monster feet! It’s sinuous curves! Its readiness for eating passing men!

Rich Guy: So I want a sculpture of Jonah and the Whale? Sculptor: Sure, sure. RG: It needs to be realistic, you know? Like, Jonah should look really alarmed and the whale should look really convincing. S: No problem.

Thank you, @ffmaddingcrowd.bsky.social! Summer in Colchis by the Black Sea, what could be more relaxing? 😉🗡️

From my Roman coin collection, a silver Denarius dating to 73 BC. The obverse side (heads) depicts the goddess Diana. The reverse side (tails) depicts a hunting dog.

This dog could sniff out wrongdoers from any distance, and then force them to confess with his stern brow. Greco-Roman period, Cleveland Museum of Art, information below.

The Quest for the Purple Fleece?! A snippet from my heatwave show at Hay this year, looking at the different versions of the Golden Fleece myth, and Medea… Off now to listen to The Cure 💜 📗 No Friend to This House, out now in all good bookshops

Still can't believe this is real! 🥰 Thanks so much for sharing your photos of No Friend to This House on the London Underground this week, it has been so special. Ancient wrongs are being righted, these voices are being heard - and I'm hoping modern women feel seen in this book too.

I came across an exceedingly characteristic hippo recently too bsky.app/profile/dokt...

Sometimes, a hippopotamus must simply answer the call of the wild

I've had a great Indie Bookshop Week, meeting so many brilliant, knowledgeable booksellers across the country. Thank you for everything you do 📗 The indie-exclusive sprayed edge No Friend came out this week - if you've yet to celebrate the indies, here's your sign 🌿🗡️ #IndependentBookshopWeek

Our winner is Alison (@thelastlaurel), whose revenge on those who underestimated her was getting a classics degree in her sixties 💪 Revenge looks good on you, Alison!

Join my female rage cult, we have sheep & Greek dictionaries 🎤🐏 Full prophet vibes at the London launch gig! Huge thanks to How To Academy, to the Emmanuel Centre for having us, and to all of you who came. What a brilliant crowd to welcome the paperback of No Friend to This House into the world 💚

No Friend to This House, a Guardian best book to read in June! Woohoo!! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

When you write a book about the Golden Ram, ancient sheep find you wherever you go. Here is a gorgeous cup in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 🐏 Info below. #NoFriendToThisHouse

Out today! No Friend To This House from @nataliehaynes.bsky.social #booksky #choosebookshops

🌿🗡️ I won’t deign to perform spells to make a man like Jason love me once more. 📗 OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK 📗 No Friend to This House is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes.

Small, but full of rage. You too, huh…? 🦁 Info below. (Something about three lions on the shirt? - Matilda)

I’m thrilled so many of you are supporting indies this week- I’ve loved meeting the booksellers on my tour so far. But some of you have been buying online & I wanted to say a big thank you to you too, because you have propelled NFTTH to be an Amazon bestseller in this, her paperback release week! 🗡️📗

Such a good night in Bristol! St George's was packed, and you all brought amazing energy. Thank you so much for coming. A big thank you to How To Academy and @bookhaus.bsky.social 💚📚 So #IndependentBookshopWeek and #NoFriendToThisHouse week continues!

He’s not completely wrong, but all the points for the Last Crusade ref

Everyone, this is Ed, who made (and hand-embroidered) his own Colchian chiton and wore it to the event in Manchester last night. He let me take pics so you could all see it! Details below.