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Catharine Edwards

@catharineedwards.bsky.social
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Prof.of Classics/Ancient History at Birkbeck. Rome and the ancient Romans, especially Seneca and Cicero.

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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
So thrilled to be in conversation with the great Robert Harris on the subject of Cicero (14th July). I can't wait!
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳 This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at workView of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Please note, dear US-based followers, my wonderful US publisher @stmartinspress.bsky.social is now taking pre-orders for 'Cicero's tongue' (its US title - aka 'Orator'): read.macmillan.com/lp/ciceros-t...
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Cicero's Tongue 9781250328465 - Macmillan
A new biography of Cicero, one of the most influential and fascinating figures in classical history.In this gripping new biography, Catharine Edwards b...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Given no one really knows what subjects to study to be resilient in the future perhaps this might free young people up to study things they enjoy says @sarahoconnorft.ft.com www.ft.com/content/0409...
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We have to stop calling some jobs ‘low skilled’
Freeing ourselves of these labels might help young people to think more creatively about the future
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Delighted to share this news!
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Just received the bound proofs of 'Orator' (out in July). Quite a thrill!
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Excited to see my new book on the Hutchinson Heinemann website: www.penguin.co.uk/books/451418...
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The beautiful Baltic:
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Stockholm’s archipelago is full of charming, classically inspired summer houses:
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
In Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Aeneid 5.709-10 ‘wherever fate pulls or hauls us, there let us go’:
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
So thrilled about Birkbeck's wonderful new Carena Institute!
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Very much looking forward to being part of a panel on Female letter writers and addressees in Graeco-Roman antiquity organised by @janjasoldo.bsky.social and @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social at the Celtic Classics Conference in Coimbra next week:
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This woman is a biscuit-crafting genius!
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A privilege to encounter the wolf and Marcus Aurelius before the Capitoline Museums opened (filming a piece on Roman decadence for ARTE):
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This Roman monument in Athens - the Tower of the Winds - resonates well with the theme of our colloquium on Seneca’s Natural Questions (winds feature prominently in Book 5):
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This movie - whose title is inspired by Seneca’s Natural Questions - is quite something, though maybe not to the taste of Seneca purists…
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Very much looking forward to taking part - with some world-leading Seneca experts - in what I am sure will be a fascinating colloquium on the Natural Questions in Athens this week: www.sia.gr/en/events.ph...
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
An amazingly rich deposit which suggests significant Iron Age links between elites in the north of England and continental Europe.
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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Hellenic Society & Roman Society Online Course 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available Professor Tim Cornell: The Origins of Rome Session 1. Wednesday 2 April. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
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The Hellenic and Roman Library > Events > Event Registration
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Thrilled to have just received the rather lovely hard copy of the new edition of my *The politics of immorality in Ancient Rome* reissued with a generous foreword by Caroline Vout and a new intro by me in the *Cambridge Classical Classics* series.
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Very honoured to be named here - and in such distinguished company! Coincidentally *The politics of immorality* has just been reissued with a generous foreword by C.Vout and new intro by me in the *Cambridge Classical Classics* series.
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Very excited that my copy of Francesca Martelli's new Cicero book has arrived. A gorgeous cover, too:
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It's graduation season @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! Many congratulations to my lovely and v brainy sister-in-law Dr Frances Wedgwood who now also has an MA in Medical Humanities!
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Enchanting - but often poignant - Tirzah Garwood exhibition at @dulwichgallery.bsky.social . Such a distinctive view of the world.
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This will be a real treat!
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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Is this England's best doorway? Leading into the tower of the Holy Trinity in Colchester, it was built in the 11th century but is constructed from Roman bricks plundered from the ruins of the ancient city of Camulodunum #AdoorableThursday
A doorway with an unusual triangular arch built from red brick at the foot of a church tower. In the background can be seen the main body of the church.
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Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra are bemused:
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