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Tom Gavin 🧈

@tomgavin.bsky.social

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Stipendiary Lecturer in Ancient History at Uni of Oxford | Roman Asia, Numismatics, Post-Classical Polis | Butter lover (he/him)

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Tom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Always strive to have the confidence of Apollonius of Tyana in writing to Vespasian after he had the temerity to demand Greece pay taxes.

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Tom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I've been studying Roman history for almost a decade, and it's only now that I've come across the claim that Roman general and dictator L. Cornelius Sulla had only one testicle (Dig. 49.16.4).

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Tom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Ordinarily I despise people who write in library books - I will make an exception here.

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Tom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The Google Maps page for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre giving some real wisdom.

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Tom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Some really solid work in one of the Oxford Classics Faculty basement rooms.

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Tom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Finished moving house and celebrated being near to an excellent (and relatively cheap!) butcher with an oxtail ragu!

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Tom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Honestly, recipe reviews have to be one of the best places in the world to find completely unhinged sentences.

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