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Ivo Volt

@ivovolt.bsky.social
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Classicist, academic publisher, editor, translator. Lecturer in Classics @ University of Tartu, Editor-in-chief of @unitartupress.bsky.social, board member of @aeup-eu.bsky.social

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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Part of the summer haul from @universitypress.cambridge.org - I hope this great book by @opietasanimi.com will also help me finish my talk on Cicero's own poetry!
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
About twenty fonts were considered but I decided for this.
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Association of European University Presses @aeup-eu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Academies of Sciences play a key role in sustaining high-quality, mission-driven publishing. Their role is discussed in a panel discussion with Piret Lukkanen (Estonian Academy Publishers) and Herwig Stöger (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, @oeaw.bsky.social) chaired by @ivovolt.bsky.social.
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Association of European University Presses @aeup-eu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We’re excited to announce that the programme for the 4th AEUP Conference, “Sustaining the Flow: Keeping the Pages Turning in Scholarly Publishing,” is now available online! www.aeup.eu/conferences/... Register today! #AEUP2025 #conference #publishing #academicpublishing #scholcomm #openaccess
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2025 4th AEUP Conference – AEUP
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
13-15 June 2025, Tartu, Estonia. Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean: Movements of People, Objects and Ideas caemc.ut.ee/icaem-2025/
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
So who of the cardinals had the best Latin pronunciation when giving the oath? youtu.be/wBuainsjik8?... #conclave
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Entrance into the Conclave – May 7, 2025
YouTube video by Vatican News
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Inside the quest to digitally unroll ancient scrolls burnt by Vesuvius www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Inside the quest to digitally unroll ancient scrolls burnt by Vesuvius
Mission to decipher Herculaneum scrolls using high-resolution scanning and artificial intelligence scales up rapidly.
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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Lecture by @robertamazza.bsky.social at the Weston Library in Oxford about the Sappho papyrus preserving the so-called Brothers Poem. facesandvoices.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/t... youtu.be/ljUzE8zVgek?...
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The Unsettling Story of the Brothers Poem Papyrus
On January 22, I had the pleasure to give a lecture at the Weston Library in Oxford for the Friends of the Bodleian about the fate of one of the papyri at the centre of my recent book, Stolen Fragm…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
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Association of European University Presses @aeup-eu.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you haven’t submitted your proposal yet, now is the time! We invite contributions exploring the many dimensions of sustainability in scholarly publishing. Submission deadline: 15 March 2025. Full Call for Papers: www.aeup.eu/conferences/... #AEUP2025 #scholarlypublishing #institutionalpublishing
Yellow post-it with a reminder to take care of yourself and submit a proposal for AEUP Conference.
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
CfP: Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean: Movements of People, Objects and Ideas, 13–14 June 2025 caemc.ut.ee/icaem-2025/
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ICAEM 2025: Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean: Movements of People, Objects and Ideas – RESEARCH CENTER OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AND MEDITERRANEAN CULTURES (CAEMC)
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
CfP is open for the 4th AEUP (@aeup-eu.bsky.social) Conference "Sustaining the Flow: Keeping the Pages Turning in Scholarly Publishing", which will take place on 22–23 May 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Deadline: 15 March 2025. www.aeup.eu/conferences/...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Vote on the TLL Latin Word of the Year 2024! Until Dec. 19. The five finalists were published this year in the TLL and don't appear in another standard dictionary of ancient Latin. ⭐️reteiaclor ⭐️retotatototato ⭐️retroactim⭐️revaleo⭐️revolumen parerga.hypotheses.org/3516
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Latin Word of the Year 2024
With the Vox Anni contest now in its third season, the Thesaurus linguae Latinae community is excited to share with you the contestants for Latin Word of the Year 2024. (Learn more about the previous ...
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
When you switch from reading Vergil to reading Ennius... #classics #Latin #Vergil #Aeneid #Ennius
Winnie the Pooh meme: first picture showing regular Winnie quoting the Latin phrase "Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris...", second picture showing Winnie in tuxedo, quoting "At tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit..."
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I wish I had a large wall map of Ancient Greece, with place names written in Ancient Greek. There has to be one available!
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Btw, the banner picture in my profile is a photo I took on 4 April 2023 at the end of the mole/breakwater on the island of #Naxos in Greece. I recommend walking to the end of it if you're able to! I know I want to go back!
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My weekend plans include no X but a lot of #Xenophon: editing the translation of Memorabilia done by my former teacher and supervisor, and preparing worksheets for Anabasis for my students.
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Moving away from X. Hope to meet old and new friends here, classicists and other.
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
How I spend my vacation: three sonnets by Petrarch translated into Estonian so far
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Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
Could my first post here be about my current crush? #Gorgonzola – my new love 💕
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