Ancient Historian in the UK.🇵🇸
📖'Gladiators in the Greek World' coming summer '26.
Host of @AncientHistory101.org
ADHD + ClusterC. Sweary.
Expect typos.
Birkbeck and Leicester alum
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Alexandra Sills
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I need to record today, so of course the red kites have chosen today to be particularly gobby.
So Crowe has a point, but I don't know if Crowe realises that if not for a genocide, the sequel would be even worse.
Crowe refused to shoot sex scenes with Nielsen because it would ruin the character. I'm not sure if Mescal actually filmed scenes with Malawy, but they were definitely in the script. I fully believe that if Malawy wasn't Palestinian, those scenes would be in the final edit.
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Crowe isn't wrong, of course, but I managed to get my hands on a script of the sequel and they DID cut sex scenes between Lucius and a woman who wasn't his wife. Not because Lucius was grieving, but because the actress was Palestinian.
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Sometimes I can't help but wonder if the Taskmaster art department actually chooses their themes just to make me happy.
I fancy Greg, I love history, tadaa: 😍
Linkedin is a very strange place. See: guy taking a swing at Big Bang Theory for anti-intellectualism in an article he got AI to write...
I was wonderimg what the commotion was outside my window. It's funny, I never thought of birds as expressive, but I could *tell* that starling was thinking "I have got way too many children."
Aaaaaaaah my book has been sent to the printers today! I still can't quite believe that I will be able to hold a copy of my own book in my hands in a matter of weeks!!!
Alexandra Sills
Alexandra Sills
Alexandra Sills
I'm so grateful to @debscavator.bsky.social for this episode, and proud that @ancienthistory101.org is covering topics like this so early in our run. We structure every episode for students as well as enthusiasts, so please do listen and recommend episodes like this to get the conversation going.
