Dr Simon Trafford

@simontrafford.bsky.social

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Curriculum Leader of Classics at a state grammar school; IB examiner; author of a few Classics related bits. Swansea University, University of Oxford alumnus. Living in Kent; working in SE London. https://swansea.academia.edu/SimonTrafford

The text of a card given to me by a student which reads, 'Thank you for always helping us be our best, always ensuring we are happy and focused. I'll miss seeing you every day.'
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan.
Flora (Proserpina) fresco.
Roberts Graves: His Life and Work by Martin Seymour-Smith.
Aeschylus' Agamemnon edited by Edith Hall.
Photo of the cover of Rex Winsbury: Pliny the Younger, A Life in Roman Letters.
A photo of the front cover of Tom Holland's book Pax.
A photo of the book entitled Alexandria: the city that changed the world by Islam Issa.
Front cover of the Journal of Hellenic Studies.
Latin homework: a fact file on Agrippina.
A photo of Lawrence Durrell's Constance.
Image shows a Camino Pilgrim Passport for the Camino Santiago.
Image showing the initial page of an article on Catullus' Journey (Carm.4) by Michael C.J. Putnam.
A photo of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg.
Roman disc depicting Sol Invictus. Silver, 3rd century AD.
Latin vocab test on which the pupil has written for vinum: wine (the most important word).
Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None'.
Photo of Education in Ancient Rome by Bonner.
New edition of Argo Hellenic Review 'Byron: the Bicentenary'.
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