Daisy Dunn

Daisy Dunn

Show notes

Daisy Dunn discusses six things with Ivan which she thinks should be better known.

Daisy is a classicist and critic and author of, mostly recently, In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny, Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome, and Homer: A Ladybird Expert Book. Find out more about Daisy at www.daisydunn.co.uk.

  1. Hesiod http://www.impossibleobjectsmarfa.com/fragments-2/early-greek-philosophy and https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/01/18/hesiod-doggish-translation/
  2. Spelt http://thespeltbakers.ca/what-is-spelt/
  3. The Warburg Institute Library https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/library-collections/library
  4. Rodin at the V&A http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O135954/the-young-mother-relief-rodin-auguste/ and https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/auguste-rodin
  5. Henry Green https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Henry-Green/Loving/141101
  6. Shorthand https://www.troab.co.uk/history-of-shorthand

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