Natalie Haynes

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Bestselling author, broadcaster & classicist.

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It's NHSUftC DAY! Tune your sets to BBC Radio 4 for 9:30am, for our brand new episode: Hesiod ✍️📜🧑‍🌾 We're going to Ancient Greece to meet this farmer poet with the help of my wonderful guests, poet A.E. Stallings & Prof Edith Hall. I hope you enjoy the show! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

To everyone who has enjoyed Egypt week and our Cleopatra show, I suggest you go and read Jane’s excellent book, Cleopatra’s Daughter! Here is my copy, complete with tabs. You can learn all about Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleo and Mark Antony…

Want to know more about the fabled city of Alexandria, after Monday’s Cleopatra show? Well, you can - read this fascinating and scholarly history by the brilliant Islam Issa (please note that I wanted this book enough to buy it with my own money and not glom a free copy from his publisher)

A rare image of Cleopatra and one which (perhaps) looks like she actually looked - coin portraits were often idealised and standardised, but this has the look of a real person. I remember newspaper columns discussing how she didn’t conform to the writer’s idea of [1/2]

It’s TODAY! Time to meet brilliant politician, ruthless leader and massive brain-box Cleopatra, with the help of Dr Jane Draycott and Prof Llewelyn Morgan 📻👑 Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 9:30am, and listen again afterwards on BBC Sounds… Series 10 is GO! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It’s me! Hi! Tune into BBC Radio 4, ready for Saturday Live at 9 👋📻 I’ll be in the studio with Nikki Bedi! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Joanne Harris, Jack Garratt, Natalie Haynes, Adam Kaywww.bbc.co.uk Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people.

🧵 It’s election day here in the UK, so here is a coin from the first century BCE, depicting an election during the Roman Republic. On the back of the coin you can see a really clear image of a man dropping his voting tablet into a cista, or basket. Numismatists have identified

Can you guess what object from the British Museum I chose, when asked by The Times? www.thetimes.com/article/f61f...

Our experts choose their hidden gem in the British Museum — what’s your favourite?www.thetimes.com Stephen Fry, Mary Beard, Dominic Sandbrook make their pick, from golden belt buckles to red Roman socks

S10 IN THE BAG! Double the episodes! It was a dream to record the last 2 at the Radio Theatre with so many of you, & brilliant guests, Dan, Llewelyn, and Andre. THANK YOU ALL for 10 years of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics! (If you were there, let’s keep some surprises for the others! 🤫)

Flatpack Zeus!

So thrilled to be leading a second cultural retreat with Travelgems this year! Join me and historian guide Ioanna Kalypso Glypti in Cyprus and Greece, to learn about the Greek goddesses on location. Info & booking here: travelgems.com/cultural-ret... [1/2]

I love a zeugma - a figure of speech where a word (usually a verb) takes two different meanings with two (or more) parts of a sentence. It comes from the Greek zeugnumi - to yoke together. Dickens was good at them (She went straight home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair), and [1/2]

Happy father's day to all the great dads and kids of great dads! For everyone else, this is your annual reminder that Kronos was so threatened by the idea of his children's future success that he swallowed them whole the moment they were born. Only when Rhea switched her youngest son - Zeus -

Zeus and his offspring (Clytemnestra, Helen, Castor, Polydeuces). Leda out of shot, hopefully sneaking off to a life of freedom with a handsome man who doesn't have feathers

This is really the only way I will ever know where anything is happening in Parthia or Germania, according to Tacitus www.openculture.com/2024/06/the-...

The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Mapswww.openculture.com Sasha Trubetskoy, formerly an undergrad at U. Open Culture, openculture.com

A committed performance of the opening of the Ajax, where Odysseus is tracking the footprints of the man who has slaughtered Greek cattle and cowherds, as he tries to uncover the culprit #GoslingSophocles

I am back in the UK safe and sound, thanks to Hygieia and Athene (and the warrior doctors and nurses they inspire)! This photo was my last day in Melbourne - my friends took me to the beach, so I didn't miss seeing the sea 💙

🎟️ Early Ticket Link! 🎟️ As you know, I was meant to be recording two episodes of NHSUftC at Hay this weekend, but I couldn’t get back from Australia in time. I’m gutted to be missing everyone *waves at Hay* But… that means we will now be doing FOUR episodes at the radio theatre in June! (1/2)

Oooh!! Fabulous giveaway by Picador ends tomorrow night, enter here ⚡️🧡 www.panmacmillan.com/divine-might...

Nature is healing 😉

Ohhhh, the little hand outline 💔 www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Drawings depicting gladiators among latest discoveries at Pompeiiwww.theguardian.com Charcoal graffiti believed to have been sketched by children among latest discoveries at ancient Roman city

Oh wow! Hello, Calliope 💁🏻‍♀️ (Thanks to Sophie for sending!) arkeonews.net/a-mosaic-flo...

A mosaic floor from the 2nd century BC depicting the muse Kalliope was discovered in ancient city of Side, southern Türkiyearkeonews.net During the excavations carried out in the ancient city of Side, a mosaic floor from the second century BC, depicting...

Nothing can keep me away from @hayfestival.bsky.social! Zooming into @robinince.bsky.social ’s show any minute! 🫶💻

🧵 Just a note to say thanks so much for all your messages and well-wishes - it helped me to feel connected to myself when I really needed it. I’m out of hospital, and though I won’t be running races any time soon, I did manage a short walk in the sunshine today. Thank you for bearing with us - some

I’m gutted to be missing my @hayfestival.bsky.social event this year, but the good news is you’ve lucked out with Daisy Dunn instead! She is totally excellent, and you’ll get to hang out with the ancient women of The Missing Thread 🪡 www.hayfestival.com/p-21983-dais...

Daisy Dunn - Hay Festivalwww.hayfestival.com Daisy Dunn inverts this tradition and puts the women of history at the centre of the narrative.

☀️ A message from Natalie! ‘Operation a success, recovering now - thank you for all your well-wishes, they’ve meant the world to a woman half a world away ❤️’

I know Natalie will be so chuffed to have made it onto the indie bestsellers list this week! Thanks, book buyers and booksellers 🧡 📚 Excellent news to send her! www.litalist.com/shelf/view-b...

Tour update: Natalie is currently too ill to travel, & is so sorry not to be able to make it to New Zealand for her Auckland & Christchurch events. We will let you know when travel is an option again. Thank you all for your kind messages, which have been passed on. See pic of determined classicist!

Natalie’s social media henchgoddess here! 👋 Just wanted to share how brilliant it is that Divine Might made the Times Bestsellers list on Saturday! Amazing work, everyone ⚡️⚡️ Thanks for all your kind wishes after tonight’s cancelled show. We will share updates when we have them

Due to circumstances beyond our control, tonight’s show in Melbourne is cancelled. Huge apologies to those of you who were looking forward to it. We’re hoping to restart the tour later, but we don’t yet know if that will be possible. More news as we get it