Starts Wed 14 May! 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy! Weekly sessions, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... (Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Join me for weekly discussions of myth and what it means and does starting in mid May!

On Tuesday evening i attended this really interesting lecture at the Swedish Institute at AGRS series about Spontaneity of Athena by Prof Susan Deacy whose initial theories were presented. I'm really glad that past year i have been able to attend lectures like this and have been noting them here

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Susan Deacy new editor of the Journal of Classics Teaching

Register now for our 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy! Weekly sessions, starting Wed 14 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... (Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

For #WorldAutismDay... a new blog post on what it is to experience what we research as autistic academics myth-autism.blogspot.com/2025/04/on-w...

👸Hera👸 Susan Deacy (susandeacy.bsky.social) wrote the entry on Hera for our book! Susan is an Emerita Professor of Classics and offers bespoke autism and classical sessions for professionals (including teachers) and autistic children. Do get in touch if you need her services! #APTOGMAuthors

Today I have been supporting some friends who are protesting against the planned closure of the oldest university in Wales.

New issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 67, No. 1 (2024) academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6... @ics.bsky.social @katherineharloe.bsky.social @susandeacy.bsky.social @mostlyvoids.bsky.social @reitzammer.bsky.social @elliemackinroberts.net

"Howl for the history in these stones" - Kathy Miles www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cofiwch 1822! Back in the '80s while studying Welsh history, I became intrigued by St David's College in Lampeter, the oldest HE institution in Wales which was founded before most of those in England...

Am arwr! 👏👏👏 Michael Sheen is a true hero. Just what the #SaveLampeter campaign needs - a celebrity who cares about Welsh culture, heritage and tradition. Please step forward if you are that person - the oldest college in Wales needs 👉 YOU 👈 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wherever you are in the world, please read and if possible sign the petition to the Senedd and let your contacts know about this call to save something beautiful petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

Campuses all over the place – Carmarthen, Lampeter, Cardiff, Wuhan, Birmingham, Swansea, London Unsustainable With huge salary, Vice Chancellor Medwin Hughes ran University Wales TSD from 2011 to 2023 He got out in nick of time - crucial skill for a VC www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/2477740...

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David has announced a plan to END ALL UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING at its historical Lampeter campus by September 2025! Petition closes on February 28, 2025 Learn more and sign here: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24... (via @saveancientstudies.bsky.social)

@mchshe.bsky.social Hi Michael were you aware that the oldest University campus in Wales may soon no longer be welcoming undergraduates? Please support us in trying to preserve 200 years of unique academic excellence in Lampeter petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

A big thank you to Andrew Motion for his support for the oldest college in Wales www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/former-...

Wherever you are in the world, please read and if possible sign the petition to the Senedd and let your contacts know about this call to save something beautiful petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

Lovely to meet‬⁩ for the first time on Zoom today! I showed off my 4th century BC lute replica, baglamas, & Cretan Lyra, & just had a fun discussion about my dissertation outline! 😃Thank you, Susan! @susandeacy.bsky.social

Here's my final posting from month as a fellow in Durham and I think its my favourite :) susandeacyadventurespalacegreen.blogspot.com/2024/03/on-h...

On my most classically-rich day to date with the 19th-century papers I'm in Durham to research: susandeacyadventurespalacegreen.blogspot.com/2024/03/on-m...

Gearing up to share what I've been doing in Durham this past month classics tomorrow at the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies:) www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Latest blog post on what I'm up to in the North East: this time with me creating an Athena reception: susandeacyadventurespalacegreen.blogspot.com/2024/02/meek...

Here's the link to a post on my more usual (autism and myth) blog to explain what I'm up to on a new (adventures in Durham) one! myth-autism.blogspot.com/2024/02/what...

'Or else we do Greek Grammar...': latest posting in my Adventures in the Palace Green blog on finding a letter so relevant to my project that it seemed too good to be true susandeacyadventurespalacegreen.blogspot.com/2024/02/or-e...

New blog post on me getting to Durham's Special Collections and reading letters to Isabella Headlam including on basket hunting and life at Eton susandeacyadventurespalacegreen.blogspot.com/2024/02/on-r...

Today's blog post where I say more about what I'll be doing in the special archives in my month in Durhamas a Barker Fellow researching elite young men's classical learning in the Long 19th Century susandeacyadventurespalacegreen.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-...

New blog post just published explaining why I didn't get to the collections I'm Durham today and sharing what I'm doing instead susandeacyadventurespalacegreen.blogspot.com/2024/02/why-...

Excited to announce that I'm at Durham for a month's stay as a Residential Research Library Barker Fellow to explore Classics and elite education in the Long 19th Century and to chart what I find out in a new blog 😀 susandeacyadventurespalacegreen.blogspot.com?m=1&fbclid=I...

Theoretical Approaches to Ancient Greek Religion: Ben Cassell and I are coordinating a panel for the Cardiff Celtic Classics Conference in July on this topic and we'd love to hear from potential speakers by the 19 Feb deadline! Email [email protected] and/or [email protected] for info

Does anyone have a favourite blogging platform? I've tended to use Blogger in the past but am open to something different for a new project..!

Looking forward with co-moderator @katherineharloe.bsky.social to this conversation with our excellent panel feat. @gregwoolf.bsky.social , Verity Platt, @susandeacy.bsky.social and Rosa Andújar 👏🙌

What I'll be up to in Leicester on 30th Nov: talking autism, Hercules & Medusa at the Univ & explaining how the poster image (with hats off to @drdanstewart1.bsky.social and S/O Graham Shipley) expresses a crossroads I'm heading for :) It's possible to join online as well as in person. All welcome!

Here's my Versace Medusa because today it's 30th October which means #InternationalDayOfMedusa 🐍🐍🐍I've not managed to work out hashtags on BlueSky but maybe we can get some Medusa action going!?

Where I'll be on Thursday, listening to Debasish Lahiri and @carolawrence.bsky.social imagining Roman Britain ics.sas.ac.uk/events/imagi...

I have news: my book of Herculean lessons for autistic children will be out soon and details are up on the publisher's website :) www.wuw.pl/product-eng-...

Here's me getting ready to talk autism, Hercules and Medusa at Antiquity Today online at Warsaw :) www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/antiquity-to...

@kathryntempest.bsky.social welcome to this place! :)

@ebrhale.bsky.social - good to see you over here :)

Everything right now seems to take me towards Medusa including Hera's Terrible Trap by Stella Tarakson which I've been live-blogging while reading: myth-autism.blogspot.com/2023/09/live...

Every day is Medusa but a few years back @kyatic.bsky.social and I declared 30 October #InternationalDayOfMedusa and inspired by the Medusas I'm seeing can we do the same this year over in bluesky by which time I'll aim to have worked out hashtagging over here?

Thought I'd have a little read of this book before getting up today and, well, have finally made myself stop for a bit at least though keeping going can be justified as it is deeply classical

I've replied to this post already incl with a photo trying to convey the impact on me of @armanddangour.bsky.social's case for quare as HOW above the WHY I'd always been trying to make sense of. Now I am quoting the post too to share as widely as I can that Armand has shaken me in a prob good way 😵‍💫😃

Last year a lovely group of young people at the Reading YAC warmly recommended Stella Tarakson's Hopeless Heroes to me and I'm reading it now and blogging as I go. Here's vol 1: Here Comes Hercules :) myth-autism.blogspot.com/2023/09/here...

Is it me or do the stylised players in the itv Rugby World Cup opening titles kind of look like figures on Greek vases?

Thanks for the welcomes! ❤️ Joining here feels like walking into a conference opening reception finding the anxiety of new places replaced with excitement at finding the room full of people I love

Everyone say hello to THE Helen King. After introducing @susandeacy.bsky.social yesterday, I seem destined to do this for all of the most influential people in my career! Helen is the reason we exist at all! AncientBluesky ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Ooh thank you! I'm happy to be here ☺️

I'm hoping to send off two conference abstracts today and am currently finding writing c.200 words a bit of a challenge but also somehow thrilling