Bettina Joy de Guzman
@ancientlyric
www.bettinajoydeguzman.com PhD Classics candidate, Uni of Reading. Multi-instrumentalist. Composer. President of CCA South. Classics MA. Educator. Poet. BA English, Music, Psychology. Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman
Helen of Sparta: Odyssey 15. Lines 172-178. Helen prophesies to Telemachus that Odysseus will return with vengeance!! youtu.be/EERAMfn7biA?...
Odyssey a Day! 🤗The whole video is here: Odyssey 1. Lines 1-10. Ancient Greek. Lyre. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Odyssey a Day youtu.be/FmhPnu3lD38
Odyssey 1.1-10 ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα. Ancient Greek. Lyre. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Odyssey a Day! I’ll be singing a few Odyssey lines a day, like I did for Iliad a Day! youtu.be/wsHDAOkUsdg
Women in the #odyssey Penelope, Calypso, Circe, Sirens, Athena- each a direct quote of each character from Odyssey! On Spotify, etc. I’m working on 6th song where HELEN prophesies book 15. 🤗 Stay tuned. All instruments performed, sung, composed by #bettinajoydeguzman
May the Fourth be with you! Grogu is playing Ancient Greek lyre replica (with some help from Bettina Joy de Guzman)!
Alicia Stallings. Poetry, migrant women, Briseis, music and women in Iliad. Bettina Joy de Guzman. youtu.be/fa9ypsEv4Dw
Briseis & the Women, Grieving: Iliad 19. Ancient 3-string lute, lyre, frame drum, voice. Performed & composed by Bettina Joy de Guzman. Art: Brittany Beverung Lute and Lyre made by @Luthieros
Τυχερό αστέρι (I forgot the words haha 😝) on my Forbidden Baglamas. My favorite hills near University of California in Irvine, walking around with my high school best friend,& bring the littlest lute I own to feel music in nature. 😁😊. #oc #oclifestyle #irvine #uci #bettinajoydeguzman
Spotify, Apple, Amazon, etc!! 😃 Calypso, Immortal: Odyssey 5.203-209. Bettina Joy de Guzman open.spotify.com/track/4DDkqj...
youtu.be/XrARU2VHFPM?... Calypso, Immortal: Odyssey 5.293-209. Ancient Greek with lyre. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman This is out on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, etc tomorrow!! 😃
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?.. 🤔)
@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! 🤗
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).
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!
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.
You Are Odysseus! @greekmythcomix I shared with very enthused students! Enjoy while listening to my 5 Odyssey songs!! Circe Enchanting (Greek & English)! Penelope Lamenting, Sirens Call, Odysseus in Ithaca. (Be my Patron 🤗Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGu… & all the Muses will bless you!!)
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
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 🤗
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
