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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ancient History Seminars return Thurs 4.30pm, convened by Gabriel Bodard & Alessandra Rocchetti shorturl.at/QVBrW With a theme of Ancient magic & religion topics include: Privately Worshipping the Emperor: Colleges, Identity & Emperor Worship; Charaktêres & voces magicae in Curse Tablets; & more!

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.

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Julene Abad Del Vecchio @julesadv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just watched Nolan's Odyssey (many, many thoughts), but the musical note that rings out when Od. plucks the bow string at the beginning and at the end, foreshadowing the simile in Od.21 (..."a note like a swallow's") was music to my eyes, and a finely Homeric ring composition move

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Cuts "disproportionately concentrated in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS), where 85% of all staff placed at risk of redundancy (445 out of 523 FTE) are based" . www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Please sign this petition against the proposed job cuts at Exeter: c.org/K8dswVFGNd

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.

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Julene Abad Del Vecchio @julesadv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"After all, what is a university? Clearly not the students; they pass through like mayflies [...]. Academic staff? They too are ephemeral, and a drain on our income streams. Our buildings are... award-winning, and we need more of them, but we also need to be ready to float free of ties"

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What's happening at the University of Exeter is a disaster for both the region and the country. The way the sector is set up, it is *inevitable* and *unstoppable* that this will continuously happen everywhere. We need to stop, get out a blank sheet of paper and start again.

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🎙️ Tune in *today* to hear our very own Prof. Polly Low on ‘In Our Time’, chatting to Misha Glenny about The Delian League. 👩‍🏫 Prof. Low appears as an expert panelist alongside Dr Leah Lazar (Manchester) and Prof. Paul Cartledge (Cambridge). 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Roy Gibson @gibsonroyk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The Durham/Glasgow Learning from Ancient Letters project is looking for teachers to develop materials for UK schools related to ancient letters. Tell us what might be useful and help us test out materials we create! Contact andrew.morrison@glasgow.ac.uk. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

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University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan - Research in the School of Humanities - Classics Research - Learning from Ancient Letters

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I’ve just learned that Michael Putnam has died. What a giant to pass from the earth. What an impact he made while here. I learned so much from him in graduate school.

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Julene Abad Del Vecchio @julesadv.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Oh, this is terrible news. An extraordinary reader of Latin literature.

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Julene Abad Del Vecchio @julesadv.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

No, I don't want your generative summary, I don't want your overview, your simplification, your AI assistant, your AI research tool, your Co-Pilot chat, for the love of all that is holy please let me read my stuff in peace

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ALT: a man wearing a shirt that says schitts creek on the bottom

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

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Julene Abad Del Vecchio @julesadv.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Indeed, e.g.: "‘Beyond’ headlines should not be used by individual departments, societies or other component parts of Warwick for day-to-day communications" "Do not use ‘Beyond’ conventionally. It should always be used as a subject noun or abstract noun."

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Tone Of Voice - Warwick University

Find out about our key pillars and traits and how to write in our tone of voice — the Voice of Beyond.

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Valerie Hope @valmhope.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Publication day! Just in time for essential summer reading (preferably by a pool with a cool drink). @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

New issue of Classical Philology Vol. 120, No. 3 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2025/... @chicagojournals.bsky.social

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Elephant hawk moth in the garden!!!!🦋💕 I’ve always wanted to see one in person - the pink is SO vivid

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Peveril of the Peak, Manchester, painting by Yvette Earl. #WomensArt #NorthernArt.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It's going to be a warm few days in the UK. BL Harley 3469; Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise); 1582; Germany; f.33v

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Innes M. Keighren @inneskeighren.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Do I know anyone who has used the Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari (and would be happy to offer some pointers on so doing)? Grazie mille!

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Julene Abad Del Vecchio @julesadv.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

José Luis Calvo's, I think: it is a prose translation, but it opens with the invocation in verse.

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Julene Abad Del Vecchio @julesadv.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A nifty, hungry feline in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Bibliothèque municipale des Annonciades, Ms. 45.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW. (Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

University of Manchester's Whitworth Park student residences, known as 'the Toblerones', 1976 (MMU archive).

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It's one of the greatest things I have ever seen.

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Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Dissertation season is starting 😬 so we are repeating our researcher training event: An Intro to Essential Resources for #Classics & #Archaeology Research 🏺 🗓️ 23 April, 2pm (London, BST) 📍 Online via Zoom Share, especially w/ UG & PG students! Info+Register: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...

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An introduction to essential resources for Classics and Archaeology research

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Julene Abad Del Vecchio @julesadv.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“…GenAI training is the absolute opposite of this. Your work is not being read in search of ideas or emotions or experiences that will be unique to reading that author and that text; on the contrary, any such uniqueness is to be filtered out or ground down into homogeneous sludge”

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The Roman Society @theromansoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

New 5-week course 'The Origins of Rome' by Professor Tim Cornell Starts Wednesday 2 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time) with online recordings available. More information and registration at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Image: 'Aeneas fleeing from Troy' painted by Pompeo Batoni.

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The Hellenic and Roman Library > Events > Event Registration

The Origins of Rome

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Fog in Manchester turns day into night, 1.30pm in Oxford Street, November 17, 1953. (Mirrorpix/Manchester Evening News).

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

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Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I will not post much on this topic, but I'm the Head of Ancient History and Religion at Cardiff University. Our staff and students are nothing short of amazing. Those who know me will know that I'm doing all I can.

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... New Catullus 64 accessible online

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Catullus: Poem 64

Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - Catullus: Poem 64

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Julene Abad Del Vecchio @julesadv.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am very sorry sorry to hear that - his work on Flavian literature in particular has been transformative.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Im sorry to hear of the loss of Fred Ahl today. A lion in the field of Roman literature, he as also a devoted teacher of undergraduates both in Latin and in translation. My own work in Latin lit was impacted at the early age of 18 by his teaching, in particular my love of Seneca.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 27/01/2025

"Nichts gehört der Vergangenheit an. Alles ist Gegenwart und kann wieder Zukunft werden." - Fritz Bauer, hessischer Generalstaatsanwalt und Ankläger im Auschwitz-Prozess #NieWiederIstJetzt, heute.

Foto eines Berges sicher tausender Brillen, das nach der Befreiung des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz dort aufgenommen wurde.

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Prof. Owen Hodkinson (he/him) @owenhodkinson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This episode has been released today! Listen to me with host @k8lister.bsky.social on the history of love letters and erotic letters, primarily in antiquity but looking at modern developments too. The episode is titled "The Origins of Sexting": listener discretion is advised!

Title page for the Betwixt the Sheets history podcast

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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Delighted to share Honor Faughnan's new article exploring the impact of the Aratean tradition on late Republican and Augustan poetry. This article stems from her undergraduate research at Galway Classics—a fantastic achievement! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Esther Meijer @esthermeijer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hello! My new article is now out in Arethusa: '(Re)Producing The Egyptian: Arboricultural Cultivation Of The Roman State In Lucan’s Civil War'. I consider the epic's tree imagery as metaphor for the Roman state, pointing to the protagonists' attempts at cultivation & propagation.

Screenshot. Text reads: (Re)Producing The Egyptian: Arboricultural Cultivation Of The Roman State In Lucan’s Civil War. Esther Meijer. Abstract: This article examines the changing relationship between Rome and Egypt in Lucan’s Civil War. It applies philological and ideological analyses to the epic’s destabilisation and restabilisation of the body politic of the Roman state as discernible from two interrelated sets of imagery: firstly, the language of arboriculture and propagation as evoked by Virgil’s Georgics and Theocritus’s 17th Idyll; and, secondly, the mortuary treatments applied to Pompey’s body parts. Key to the restabilisation of the res publica is Caesar’s interpretation of Pompey’s remains, which reproduces Egypt as “Other” in relation to Rome while acknowledging its now enduring presence within the empire.

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