Bobby Xinyue
@bobbyxinyue
Latinist, Londoner, Luddite. Repulsively fast eater, unrepentantly slow writer. Author of ‘Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry’ (OUP, 2022). Lecturer in Roman Culture at KCL.
Anticipating a flurry of undergraduate dissertation proposals on Homeric reception and Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
Here’s a calming photo of Hampstead Heath if anyone needs it, because this level of stress is unsustainable 🤢
Lucky you. All I managed to find in the fridge was this. Look at the state of it: 0.0%, lemon fake beer 🫠
We are extremists! I’ve never been so proud of our discipline. The editor probably had to ask the writer to remove the word ‘even’ before ‘classics’.
Got my hands on a copy of this — hot off the press. Her writing is absolutely gorgeous. Her earlier book, The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit, is one of my all-time favourite books. This one should be just as good.
This is such an egregious lie. I’ve read two books on this shit and I’m only halfway ☠️
Here's the programme for the upcoming 'Fixed Handout 3.0' workshop on Luxorius. Get in touch if you'd like to come along. Cheers. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
Signing off 2024 with this picture of a bookshop I wandered into in Testaccio. The view that greeted me (the one you’re seeing now) was so calming and joyful, it was quite a shock to the system. I hope 2025 will bring you as much tranquility as this bookshop did for me. Happy new year.
Pasta company: How easily do you think we can get people to buy our pasta by putting a very low-res image of Vesuvius on our packaging? Me: Take my money
A short video I took of the House of Augustus from my recent trip to Rome. Enjoy all its glory. #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky
Superb cover. (Always judge a book by its cover — that’s how the saying goes, right?)
‘Virgil is a barrel of laughs.’ Tough sell? Well, come and find out in Cuma next summer. CfP in link below. Cheers. classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp... AncientBluesky ClassicsBluesky