Ancient Greek Choir Workshop, Uni of Oxford was amazing! 😃Most of the audience were experienced choir singing, studying Greek; we sang fragments of 5 ancient songs together! Special thanks to Ewen Bowie & Georgy Kantor, Donna Han, & @lucianixon.bsky.social 🤗

So excited to once again collaborate with @dorotadutsch.bsky.social (she’s the main star) on Jan 16 @sbmuseart !! 😃 We will be presenting the Queen & Goddesses of Odyssey! After her brilliant lecture, I’ll perform Calypso, Circe, Sirens, Penelope, Athena!! I can’t wait!! 🤗 I can’t wait!!

Bird bathing in birdbath with hummingbird snacking on flowers. Enjoy! 🤗It was a lovely surprise to see while I was having breakfast and chatting with my PhD supervisor, Ian Rutherford. Happy New Year!! 🎄🎊💝

Tagalog Christmas song “Ang Pasko ay Sumapit” with Ancient Greek lyre 😃🎄🤗🎁

Prelude in C, Bach, with Ave Maria lyrics (those are in my head, they’re not on the Bach piano sheets). I’ll post the whole song on YouTube in a bit… this only allows 1 minute as y’all know

Adeste Fideles, O Come All Ye Faithful. On “Lyre of Hermes” 🤔😁🎄🎁 Adeste fideles, laeti triumphantes- venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte regem angelorum! Venite adoremus, Dominus. (Shouldn’t it be Dominum?.. 🤔)

Adeste Fideles, O Come All Ye Faithful. On “Lyre of Hermes” 🤔😁🎄🎁 Adeste fideles, laeti triumphantes- venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte regem angelorum! Venite adoremus, Dominus. (Shouldn’t it be Dominum?.. 🤔)

Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...

@wmarybeard.bsky.social lecture at St. Martin’s in the Field (with my old friend Andy West attending) was captivating as always. Wonderful to catch up afterwards if only briefly at The Crypt. The Q and A section, had many enthused participants of all ages and background! 🤗

Bettina will also be performing in the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology on Thursday, November 20 at 5 PM. This is an in-person only event and spaces are limited. Please email [email protected] to book a space.

Join us this week for two events with @ancientlyric.bsky.social. For our Wednesday research seminar on November 19 at 4 PM, she will present a paper entitled "Muse of musician?: Female lute players in art and text during the late Classical and Hellenistic periods." All are welcome.

I’m a high school Latin teacher & self-funding my PhD research because neither UK nor US fund part-time online. My son (19) is in college now & I dream we can graduate at the same time, since I waited so long. Your generosity is appreciated. The muses will sing your praises 🤗

Marton Varò (yes!!) has sculpted me into “Lady with Lute” !!! 😃🤩The 30 limited editions are only available on my Patreon. Please support my PhD research on the Ancient Greek lute and lyre (link in bio).

@josephinequinn.bsky.social @corabeth.bsky.social Thank you so much for attending Josephine and Cora Beth, and for joining our Q and A! @carlosfnorena.bsky.social Carlos was fabulous as always and gave me new things to consider!

Thank you for popping in, dear Cora Beth! It’s still going on for another 1.5 hours, my friends, so DM me if you would like a link! (You can donate later, please! 🤗)

Lovely to be able to attend some of this online conference - lots of areas new to me, and some fascinating comparative material!

Online conference on Ancient Eurasia! Oct 18, Saturday, 9:30 am-1 pm. Friends, please boost and join us! 🤗 @corabeth.bsky.social @carlosfnorena.bsky.social @gregwoolf.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social @lucianixon.bsky.social @sarahbond.bsky.social bit.ly/registration...

If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Online conference on Ancient Eurasia! Oct 18, Saturday, 9:30 am-1 pm. Friends, please boost and join us! 🤗 @corabeth.bsky.social @carlosfnorena.bsky.social @gregwoolf.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social @lucianixon.bsky.social @sarahbond.bsky.social bit.ly/registration...

bit.ly/HymnToCallio... Hymn to Calliope and Apollo: Mesomedes of Crete. Bettina Joy de Guzman (Ancient Greek lute, lyre, drum, voice). 2nd c AD. 😁🤗💕on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc!

4 Blockbuster speakers on topics bringing connections in ancient cultures into focus in the way Classics should be studied! Qin, Tang, Han, India, Greece, & Rome! Students welcome also! ccasouth.org has all details, abstracts, bios. Check it out! Thx, @ancientlyric.bsky.social for leading this!

One of my musical inspirations for the book! This is wonderful ❤️

Does anyone have suggestions how to fix a good book whose glue is gone? I literally don’t know what kind of glue to put, and where to get it from.

Oct 18, 2025  9:30 am-1 pm California Classical Association - South virtual Conference Hosted by UC Santa Barbara CONNECTIVITIES & COLLECTIVITIES IN ANCIENT EURASIA   Anthony Barbieri-Low - UCSB Nicholas Bartos - UCLA Jinyu Liu - Emory University Carlos F. Noreña - UC Berkeley

Friends in UK/ those with friends in UK, please share widely! 🤗 @corabeth.bsky.social @lucianixon.bsky.social @armanddangour.bsky.social @gregwoolf.bsky.social @lejenksbrown.bsky.social @emilylhauser.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ancient-gr... Oxford University, Nov 24 Monday, 5- 6:30 pm, Kendrew Barn. Ancient Greek Choir Workshop: Come & sing the melodious hymns & lyrics written by Mesomedes, Athenaios, & Seikilos! Led by Bettina Joy de Guzman 🤗

JOB: FSU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Music Theory (tenure track)! I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions. societymusictheory.org/resources/jo...

My son (18) made me a birthday breakfast. !!😃🎂

It’s my birthday tomorrow! One of my students gave me a birthday card with QR code & this is what it was!! 😃🤗 I feel so loved & blessed. If you want to make my day, please join my Patreon and help my studies in sharing ancient music & lectures about the ancient world! Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman

On Spotify, etc! 😃 “διογενὲς Λαερτιάδη… ὣς φάτ᾽ Ἀθηναίη… “Son of Laertes, Zeus-sprung… stop!” So spoke Athena… Odysseus in Ithaca:Scroll 24.542 . Music & all instruments Bettina Joy de Guzman. written for Reading Greek Tragedy Online, CHS, Harvard U thanks to @sentantiq.bsky.social, Paul O’Mahony

Oh my gosh!! This will be such an amazing and fun “activity book”!!

Music at very end - excerpt from ‘Odysseus in Ithaca: Scroll 23.542’ by the amazing @ancientlyric.bsky.social

Seriously cool. 😎

Joel P. Christensen Becomes Provost With a Mission to Safeguard Knowledge | CUNY Graduate Center www.gc.cuny.edu/news/joel-p-...

www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2... My name wasn’t included on the program, but my music was played at @sbmuseart.bsky.social during Scent Studio, ancient perfume presentation by @dorotadutsch.bsky.social It was a really pleasure interacting with SBMuseArt people and public!

DAPHNIS AND CHLOE AND OTHER LOVERS - Department of Art and Art History: University of Hawaii at Manoa hawaii.edu/art/daphnis-...

Teaching Fellowship in Twentieth-Century British History- University of Oxford - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC497/t...

Thread of all my currently published books! (1/x): First: "Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragons, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible" (2017) and "Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study" (2014)

The narrowing of what we imagine as "the liberal arts" to a subset of humanities subjects (literature, philosophy, art, etc.) should be rejected. The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences. That's the vision we should defend.

Spotify! 😁

You know that pose in Ancient Greek ceramics, like Archaic or even earlier, with the “goddesses” holding out their arms like wings? Maybe - hear me out- maybe they were standing in a gorgeous Crete beach like this and just loving existence and wishing they could fly. 😁🤗

Photo of gorgeous beach taken by my son in Crete. Photo of me holding a tiny lyre photoshopped by David Pino. 😊

On YouTube, Amazon today. Spotify, Apple etc tomorrow! 😃 Mesomedes of Crete, Greek lyric poet & composer for Emperor Hadrian, 2nd century AD. Bettina Joy de Guzman.

“The ancient city likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Part 1 of τυχερό αστέρι

«Τυχερό αστέρι». (Birds were singing along! 😃) Fell in love with this song, and thought I’d try it on my Greek baglamas. I have and play 60 different instruments- always learning and growing. Same with languages. 😁