Change of plans! Listen to me discuss the Egyptologist and prolific British Museum “collector” E.A. Wallis Budge with John Roderick on the Omnibus Project today!

Plot twist! @rosejudson.bsky.social’s guest appearance on the Omnibus Podcast is out today! Please give it a listen (and follow that show if you already don’t—it has a great back catalogue). BoAT 43 will now air Sunday. #podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Hi there! We’ll be back in your feed on Boxing Day (26 December) with a new episode to carry you through Betwixtmas! We hope you’re enjoying the holidays! #podcasts #booksky

But I can see you Your bronze helm shining in the sun And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong After the boys of Sumer have gone

Re-upping for the people who quite sensibly stay off social media during the weekend: Watch as multiple "AI" fail a simple factual query!

Have a lot of cooking, cleaning, and wrapping to do over the festive period? Our podcast can keep you company. Join an ordinary reader on her journey through ancient literature, starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh and moving forward through time. #booksky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Still find it amusing that one of the hardest hitting parts of the Illiad is Achilles getting lectured by a talking horse.

Have a lot of cooking, cleaning, and wrapping to do over the festive period? Our podcast can keep you company. Join an ordinary reader on her journey through ancient literature, starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh and moving forward through time. #booksky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

A rattle from ancient Mesopotamia, shaped like a pie crust or shell from the late third or early second millennium BCE. X-ray images show three pellets inside. Quite a number of rattles have been unearthed in the region, some even shaped like animals. 📷 Dr K Wagensonner

us after the episode mix is locked

New episode! The Ramayana is one of two great Sanskrit-language epics that were written down around 350 BCE (but likely composed much earlier for oral performance). Get stuck into a great big sprawling story featuring battles, magic, court intrigue, love, and one amazing monkey... #booksky

Management tips from Queen Kaikeyi: "a person who feels appreciated will do more than is expected of them".

Doing my morning lower back stretches and thinking about how, in The Ramayana, the scheming queen rewards her scheming, hunchbacked lady servant by offering to adorn her hump with liquid gold.

Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

New episode! I absolutely adore Hanuman the monkey god, whose overthinking and heroics embody "feel the fear and do it anyway". #podcasts #booksky #classics

New episode! The Ramayana is one of two great Sanskrit-language epics that were written down around 350 BCE (but likely composed much earlier for oral performance). Get stuck into a great big sprawling story featuring battles, magic, court intrigue, love, and one amazing monkey... #booksky

Good morning

When @kenjennings.bsky.social closes a door, our host @rosejudson.bsky.social squirms in through a window. Rose recorded an episode of the Omnibus Project with John Roderick tonight. The topic? E.A. Wallis Budge, who haunted the first several episodes of our show. It was a delight to talk to John...

my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️

don't think it's the quantity of alpha that's unreal, here, Marc

This, FTR, is our favourite Socrates meme. #classicsky #booksky

As someone who spent ten years in grad school (and did defend + graduate) I’m always so weirded out by people who think being smart about one thing makes them smart about everything when what being highly educated did to me was saddle me with the crushing certainty that I’m not smart about anything

Socrates would approve (unless this teacher also eats sauces on their meals, or desserts)

NEW EPISODE! We wrap up our epic exploration of Plato's Republic with a look at pre-Socratic philosophy, the life of Socrates, and that time Plato tried and failed to become a political consultant. Transcript here: #booksky #podcasts booksofalltime.co.uk/2025/11/09/e...

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

Rather excited to make more people hate Budge, TBH.

NEW EPISODE! We wrap up our epic exploration of Plato's Republic with a look at pre-Socratic philosophy, the life of Socrates, and that time Plato tried and failed to become a political consultant. Transcript here: #booksky #podcasts booksofalltime.co.uk/2025/11/09/e...

Hello! New episode on Plato and Socrates out this coming Sunday, Nov. 9th. We apologise for the extended break between episodes—in addition to handling family responsibilities, Rose has been preparing for her first guest-hosting stint! More on Sunday. Thanks for listening! #podcasts #booksky

Next episode Monday! #dayjob #freelancelife

tbf, Plato thought that teaching geometry to the spoiled failson of a tyrant would turn the guy into a philosopher-king

No way Plato could have predicted people would pay $14.95/month to voluntarily go back in the cave

“The wise warrior avoids the battle.” -- Sun Tzu

That's basically our entire project here at BoAT. Take our...uh, take on Plato, for instance. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

im a big fan of reading the canon for the opposite reason of marble statues guys. Instead of "inheriting the wisdom of the ancients" it kinda just shows you how sometimes (but not always) rlly old dead people are dumber than dogshit. There's no one steering this ship so we may as well man the helm

dactylic hexameter gets everybody on the floor

real Aristophanes heads know

they brek-ek-ek-ek upon us

just thinking about a ruling class that's been fed censored art and taught to believe it is superior to all the others for no reason

NEW EPISODE! #icymi, our second (of three) episodes on Plato's Republic dropped last night. It covers the back half of Republic, exploring Plato's theory of forms and the famous allegory of the cave. Available now wherever you get podcasts! #philosophy #booksky #podcasts

NEW EPISODE! #icymi, our second (of three) episodes on Plato's Republic dropped last night. It covers the back half of Republic, exploring Plato's theory of forms and the famous allegory of the cave. Available now wherever you get podcasts! #philosophy #booksky #podcasts

this is a good podcast episode, but it's not THE good podcast episode, if you know what I mean #philosophy #booksky

NEW EPISODE! We continue our trilogy on Plato's Republic with an episode exploring the latter half of the work, which includes philosophical ideas like universal forms, the nature of knowledge, and the Good (capital G), as well as Plato's dissection of the five types of states... #booksky #podcasts