Sophie Ploeg

@sploeg.bsky.social

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Art Historian. Ancient Rome. Early Modern. Ex artist. Also spaniels, tech and books. 🇬🇧🇳🇱 https://www.sophieploeg.com

Album cover Dvorak Symphony no 9
Classical Association Conference 2026
Screenshot of a story of a mature student and how she succeeded at a later age.
Eu students before Brexit represented 27% of the student population but the intake in the 2026-2027 academic year is 5%
Classical Association conference 2026
Amsterdam memorial plaques
Amsterdam memorial Plaques
Book cover of Joan Smith’s Unfortunately she was a Nymphomaniac
title page of George Eliot's Middlemarch, 1871.
Persian Ironwood tree
Screenshot of bbc news app
Books: Zuchtriegel, Vom Zauber des Untergangs. Goldsworthy, Augustus
Dog in field
Book uncut pages
Saint Chapelle, Paris
Roman funerary portrait of Gratidia Chrite (Vatican Museum). c. 10bce-10ce.
Lawn garden
Page from Tatum’s book ‘A Noble Ruin’
Roman tomb figures, Strasbourg
Roman tomb reconstruction, Strasbourg
Roman tomb, Strasbourg
Close up of portrait bust of Louis XIV
Books
Books on Ancient Rome
Peonies
Peonies in bud
S J Parris, Prophecy book cover
Rabirii portrait Rome
Rose
Funerary relief, Rome, 1st century ce, Vatican Museum.
Golden Helmet of Coțofenești, 5th century bce. Romania
Severn view UK
Leiden
Roman military face mask
Tombstone of Flavia Augustina and Family (RIB 685), York, mid-3rd century CE, now in the Yorkshire Museum (YORYM: 1998.18). Image from York Museums Trust (Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0). (Warwick Classics blog)
Eirene Allen’s new book on Women in Homer, Wilson’s Iliad, verity’s Iliad and Odyssey, and a Dutch version of the Iliad
Sarah Perry, Melmoth
Mummy portrait of a young woman, Antinoöpolis, Middle Egypt, 2nd century, Louvre, Paris.