One critic complained that listening to an 'early music' performance was 'as about as interesting as eating an entire meal of plain yoghurt'. But just look at the style of these musicians! Great hair all round
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‘Renault does not spare her readers the mess and bloodiness of war. She describes sinews tearing, bones grating, last breaths whistling in the throats of the dying.’ Dr Daisy Dunn on Mary Renault’s Last of the Wine in Slightly Foxed Issue 73

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Damn right we are spectator.co.uk/article/women-…

‘They know the formula: two guys chat as though they’re sharing crisps in a pub while feeding us news and opinion.’

✍️ Daisy Dunn

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'Silicon Valley hotshots view death as just another hurdle that might be overcome with the right investment.'

✍️ Daisy Dunn spectator.co.uk/article/the-ri…

This eve!

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius wiped out a population in a suffocating cloud of ash, but, as historian Dr Daisy Dunn explores, the buildings and remains buried beneath the debris provide a remarkable window into life in ancient Rome…

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The history of everyday objects makes for a gripping listen | ✍️ Dr Daisy Dunn

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'For Lane Fox, Homeric poetry is ‘beyond us’ today and without equal anywhere in the world.'

✍️ Daisy Dunn

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In the face of nature we are all too human | Dr Daisy Dunn

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Revealing our 10th Anniversary programme!
Event #1: 7 Sept 7pm
A Virtual Evening with Dr Daisy Dunn
Free to attend and all very welcome. DM for link
Why not have a read of 'Catullus' Bedspread' or 'A Life of Pliny' as Daisy would love to answer your questions!
#classics #bookclub

✒️ 'As Boris Johnson has found, the classical world is full of inspiring options for baby names... Though best tread carefully'

Read Daisy Dunn's guidance here ⬇️
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Laura Cummings’s On Chapel Sands was a surprise hit. Her new book, a biography-cum-memoir about The Goldfinch artist, Carel Fabritius, sounds wonderful.

Daisy Dunn says the “book that often borders on the sublime in its sentiment and beauty”.

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A goldfinch at my table this morning. Such thanks to Dr Daisy Dunn Times Culture Johanna Thomas-Corr

“A masterful blend of subtle politics and carnal colour.”

Thank you, ⁦Dr Daisy Dunn⁩, for giving #Pax such a generous first review! telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

'Each of the once-great cities Pangonis examines in her book has been worn down over the centuries by natural disaster, human endeavour, or both' – my review of a new history of the Mediterranean for Telegraph Books W&N
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A wonderful evening at ⁦Opera Holland Park⁩ seeing Rigoletto with a 1920’s Oxford twist, which worked brilliantly. Thanks ⁦James Clutton⁩

Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy by Robin Waterfield - review by Daisy Dunn literaryreview.co.uk/was-he-apollos… via Literary Review

'The programme sits comfortably within that peculiarly British corner of the landscape that champions The Archers, the Proms, Rich Tea biscuits and knitted dog coats.'

✍️ Daisy Dunn

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'Depending on whom you read, Plato was celibate or libidinous, power-hungry or servile, normal or a little bit weird, with a ravenous appetite for olives.'

Dr Daisy Dunn on untangling the life of Plato.

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