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Georgy Kantor

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2 years

@APHClarkson 'Napoleon: That's nothing. If only I had Soviet press, no one would ever know that I lost at Waterloo.' 2/2

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A remarkably distressing letter from a student at my university. I should perhaps note here that within the last week (and for a first time in 22 years in Oxford) I experienced antisemitic hate based on my surname.

Why is antisemitism so rife in UK academic settings? I have never found student life more difficult...

British campuses have seen more incidents in a month than in all of 2022, but support and understanding are in short supply, says a student at Oxford University

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@APHClarkson There used to be an old Soviet joke about Alexander, Hannibal and Napoleon meeting in the underworld. 'A.: If only I had Soviet planes, I'd have conquered India, and then the world. - H.: If only I had Soviet tanks instead of elephants, I'd have conquered Rome.' 1/2

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My mother left her walking stick, inherited from her grandmother and sentimentally very dear, in Gatwick North Terminal yesterday, near international arrivals. It has not been returned to the lost property so far. Who knows, maybe social networks help the way they're supposed to.

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@giannako @UniWestLondon @officestudents is this legal?

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There is no exemption for education/research - this means that brightest foreign researchers can no longer be brought to UK as postdocs (average salary 30-36K), presumably? This is unspeakably damaging to UK's standing as a world research centre. @UniversitiesUK @BritishAcademy_

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Salary threshold for skilled worker visas to rise to £38,700 under government plans to cut legal migration levels Follow live

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A doctoral student of mine discovered what (according to Pliny the Elder) was the most frequent topic of senatorial decrees in the first cent. AD. I'd have never ever guessed.

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A long blog on an extremely fascinating inscription from probably the first month of Tiberius' reign, recently recovered by Spanish police from the art market. May cast important new light on Tacitus' narrative of the first imperial succession.

A new document on the accession of Tiberius

An extremely fascinating inscription from the first year – indeed, probably, the first month – of the principate of Tiberius, casting new light on the Tacitean narrative of his successi…

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Devastated to hear that Barbara Levick has passed away. She was a great Roman historian, a wonderful human being and I owe her more than I can tell. The moment when I was sent to her in my second term at Oxford was one when I understood what it means to be an ancient historian,

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Drum roll: it is, allegedly, the monopoly on hedgehog skins, used as dressing cloth for garments. 'magnum fraus et ibi lucrum monopolio inuenit, de nulla re crebrioribus senatus consultis nulloque non principe adito querimoniis prouincialibus' (Plin. NH 8.135). 1/2

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A doctoral student of mine discovered what (according to Pliny the Elder) was the most frequent topic of senatorial decrees in the first cent. AD. I'd have never ever guessed.

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@charleshymas An incredibly bad set of measures all round; ban on 73% of Britons marrying a foreigner; no plan for sectors where there is a workforce shortage; immensely damaging for British universities.

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@Independent @_SeanOGrady This is borderline fascist (and I say this as someone who's been vaccinated and hopes that everyone who can will be too) and should have no place in civilised conversation. Deeply sorry to see this in The Independent.

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I'm awfully sorry to disappoint but the comparisons between current UK 'shortages' and the late Soviet Union are hysterically funny to anyone who remembers the latter. You all need to try a bit harder.

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This is the reality of what 'cuts' mean at this stage in the cycle. Killing off an immensely successful instrument of British soft power and cultural influence in this way is simply insane.

Yuan Yi Zhu

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2 years

Radio services the BBC is proposing to stop: Arabic, Persian, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Hindi, Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian, Tamil, Urdu. Language services the BBC is proposing to move to digital only are: Chinese, Gujarati, Igbo, Indonesian, Pidgin, Urdu, Yoruba.

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@JeremyVineOn5 No. I'm double-vaccinated, and all for promoting vaccines, but this crosses an important line, especially as the unvaccinated are primarily poor and/or ethnic minority. It establishes an exceptionally intrusive regime of street policing which will affect those groups.

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A great loss to the discipline. One could disagree, sometimes fundamentally, but Veyne was a towering figure in Roman history. Le Pain et le cirque is a monument of profound learning and full of brilliant observations, whatever you think of its thesis.

L’historien Paul Veyne, spécialiste de l’Antiquité grecque et romaine, est mort

Professeur à l’université de Provence et à l’Ecole pratique des hautes études, chercheur original et libre, il a détenu la chaire Histoire de Rome au Collège de France. Il est mort, jeudi, à l’âge...

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@AdinaValean @Ryanair Everyone? What are the measures you'll be taking (once the plane is safely out of the Belorussian airspace) in response to an act of piracy and the kidnapping of Roman Protasevich from an EU flight?

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A proud day: first book published by a former doctoral student of mine today. Many congratulations, Brad - can't wait to see the published version!

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@donshoegaze @giannako @UniWestLondon @officestudents I agree. But it would be nice if the regulator stated this publicly.

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The answer is here:

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Drum roll: it is, allegedly, the monopoly on hedgehog skins, used as dressing cloth for garments. 'magnum fraus et ibi lucrum monopolio inuenit, de nulla re crebrioribus senatus consultis nulloque non principe adito querimoniis prouincialibus' (Plin. NH 8.135). 1/2

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Ten years today since I was offered a fellowship at St John's. It's been a wonderful academic home, and I have met some of the people most important for me here. I can hardly claim to have lived up to anyone's expectations, least of all my own, but hope I've given smth in return.

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Free online course in Phoenician at Oxford!

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Arguably the most famous Roman history chair in the world, in succession to Ronald Syme, Peter Brunt, Fergus Millar, Alan Bowman and Nicholas Purcell.

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The Faculty of Classics in Oxford @oxfordclassics has just advertized the Camden chair of ancient history, in succession to Nicholas Purcell

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This is utterly scandalous @blackwelloxford . And so much for Waterstone's promises to run Blackwell's as a separate business. The ongoing self-destruction of the world's best academic bookshop and alienation of your very loyal client base is astonishing. More on Classics shortly.

Mark Almond

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#Oxford is so nostalgic for the #EuropeanUnion , it is only natural that #Blackwell 's no longer stocks foreign language books. "Try #Waterstones ". It has five French novels. Rien de #Balzac , #Maupassant , #Proust , #Stendhal ... Oxford teaches how to❤️ #EU without knowing the lingo.

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@GrahamMedley @FraserNelson @doug_no1 @TAH_Sci @juji_gatami In what sense, if any, can policy-makers then 'follow the science'? With 'modelling what you are asked to model' surely a model can be produced to support just about any policy?

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@MarinaHyde Worries about the pandemic aren't a good reason to engage in the kind of rhetoric that demonises foreigners.

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@tnewtondunn @SteveBakerHW @TimesRadio Can you imagine the logistics of this remarkably useless exercise? Who is going to check all these tests? How much effort will it detract from meaningful interventions?

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Forty books for quarantine (in honour of the etymology). I've tried to do a very impressionistic list of important books on late Republican / early imperial history (excluding any textbook-type syntheses and source editions). #workingfromhome

forty books on Roman history

The days of lockdown have inevitably caused a proliferation of book lists, and I am afraid I have fallen prey to the fashion too. So here is my choice of forty books (for the historic number of day…

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As many of you know, I don't support Boris Johnson. But here he speaks for Britain. Now follow this up with green light to Ukrainian refugees.

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This evening I went to Ukrainian church in London to pray snd join them in the Holy Mass. The Mass ended with a prayer for Peace in English and after that what a surprise Boris Johnson come and gave a talk in solidarity with Ukrainian people and lighted a candle.

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Immensely sad news of the death of Peter Parsons. A great scholar and a wonderfully kind man.

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@KirstieMAllsopp The inability of the mainstream Left to offer a coherent narrative against policies that massively increase socio-economic inequality and work in the interest of mega corporations has been depressing - and left the field to some truly bizarre fringe figures.

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@AndyBurnhamGM That'd be a silly reason. But as someone who respects you as a politician (and once voted for you for Lab leader), saddened by your reaction to good news for a lot of kids. Plenty good reasons to learn Latin, language learning in UK needs a boost, and variety at school is good.

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A useful thread on Sergei Sumlenny, a Putin propagandist who has now re-invented himself as a 'German' ultra-hawk, calling for punishing all Russians w/o exception, nuclear war (it sounds like), and denouncing Russian anti-war opposition. /1

Артемий Леонов 🦁

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A sequel thread about @Sumlenny , his past, and possible motives. I didn't plan to write this, but since the original thread went viral I received a lot of information on Sergei that changed my perspective on him. Things may be far worse than I thought

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@APHClarkson Given the scale of semi-institutionalised brutality by and towards soldiers themselves, cruelty towards the 'enemy' is sadly entirely unsurprising.

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1 year

It is an honour to be re-elected and to continue to represent Congregation members as a Curator of @bodleianlibs for another four years.

St John's College

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It's excellent to see that @GeorgyKantor has been reappointed as a Curator of @bodleianlibs - along with @Helen_Gittos @BalliolHistory . Historians are, of course, excellent custodians of both the past and the future!

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This is most depressing. An entirely wrong and short-sighted decision for Brookes, and a worrying sign for British universities as a whole.

Oxford Clarion

@OxfordClarion

4 months

Oxford Brookes has confirmed the closure of its Music and Mathematics courses, and job losses in other departments. It says alternative suggestions from staff could not “achieve the level of savings required by the University in the necessary timeframe”.

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Profoundly sad news, which I cannot quite comprehend yet, and an enormous loss to our discipline. Stephen has been a profound influence on how I understand Asia Minor and Roman history and I admired him hugely as a scholar and a human being.

British Institute at Ankara

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4 months

The BIAA is deeply saddened by the passing of Prof Stephen Mitchell FBA, and sends its condolences to his family at this difficult time. Our message of condolence can be read here:

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This is fascinating, and a splendid case of antiquarian research still enriching archaeology.

North Leigh Roman Villa's secrets revealed in guide book

The document details the North Leigh Roman Villa, which had a total of 60 rooms.

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2 years

My grandma Victoria would have been a 100 today. She taught me how to read, taught me numbers, taught me to enjoy libraries, and simply gave me her love. I loved her very much.

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1 year

Back to the class for me: started learning Palmyrene Aramaic with David Taylor today. One of the most enjoyable things I've done in a long while.

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Demitted as chair of Ancient History sub-faculty. Phew...!

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Collected articles of Andrew Lintott are out with Brill, assembled and edited by my colleagues Alison Rosenblitt and Ed Bispham - a must for a Roman institutional historian. Proud to contribute an introduction to the legal history section (pp. 287-91).

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3 years

Got vaccinated and had a long walk with my best friend. Things are getting better. Happy first day of spring, everyone!

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CUP just sent me a complimentary copy of a book I've reviewed for them. Now I've read the ms. twice and done quite detailed notes, but I was already paid for that. Most civilised, and contrasts extremely favourably with the 'digital first' approach of a certain other uni press.

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If I were a monk in Umberto Eco, I would hide the Historia Augusta instead of the second book of Poetics.

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@red_loeb @danielwaweru I'm actually reasonably sure that where culprits are identifiable, appropriate disciplinary action is being taken. But broader cultural awareness would be good.

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@MarinaHyde All of whom, likely, had essential reasons to travel. By comparison, in a normal year in 3 months it would have been 9-10 million international tourists, 30 million Brits returning from abroad, and further mlns of international students, business trips and family visits.

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A lovely essay by Anthony Grafton on his teacher, Arnaldo Momigliano, postwar erudite scholars, and the milieu of the Warburg Institute. 1/3

Tell Me a Story

Who was Arnaldo Dante Momigliano, other than perhaps one of the greatest shapers of how we understand history? A former pupil investigates.

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Roman parallels apart, I'm very wary of making predictions of how this will end. Like most observers of the situation with any understanding of history, I expected the growth of Prigozhin's private army to be one of the most dangerous factors, 1/

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This is beyond horrendous. Descent into evil.

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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today, at a newly opened exhibition displaying the helmets of Armenian soldiers killed in last year's Second Karabakh War

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Fully vaccinated and a pint in the best possible company by the river in lovely weather! Very happy.

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A story in the Sunday Times on one of our Classics candidates @StJohnsOx . Well done, Milly! We can't wait. @sjc_access @oxfordclassics #OxOutreach

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Russian Supreme Court has ordered closure of Memorial International, Russia's oldest and best civil rights group, which was also doing decades of crucial historical work on Soviet repressions and their victims. A decision that will live on infamy. /1

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My colleague Amin Benaissa has published twelve new slave sale contracts from Roman Oxyrhynchus, massively adding to our evidence for Roman provincial slave trade. Particularly interesting contracts coming from outside Egypt. /1

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. LXXXVI

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/oxyrhynchus-papyri-vol-lxxxvi-9780856982491/

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Really pleased to be part of this volume, out today: the most comprehensive discussion of law in Roman provinces ever attempted, with contributions from many brilliant scholars. Many congratulations to the editors!

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Me in the @guardian writing about one of the gems of our art collection @StJohnsOx for the excellent Great British Art Tour series with @artukdotorg .

The Great British Art Tour: a portrait of Britain's first black queen?

With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights and hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: St John’s College, Oxford’s...

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A few very quick thoughts on the newly found epitaph of Venerius Secundio, a freed public slave from Pompeii who put up 'Greek and Latin spectacles for four days'.

A new find from Pompeii

A few quick comments on the rather remarkable new find from Pompeii, the tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio, as reported today in The Guardian. The press attention has inevitably focussed mostly on t…

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RIP Fergus Millar. It was a great inspiration and privilege to know him.

In memoriam Fergus Millar

When I opened my email this morning, I learnt the immensely sad news that Sir Fergus Millar passed away last night. I was very privileged to know him and it is hard to imagine the study of ancient …

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2 years

Putin's address is utterly unhinged. It's terrifying from a person in charge of the nuclear arsenal.

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This is a catastrophic and disgraceful decision @RoehamptonUni - a remarkable Classics department having an international reputation well beyond the meagre resources allocated to it. A blow to the world of learning and to humane education in this country.

Kathryn Tempest

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An update @FriendsClassics @ClassicsAtRisk - Council has signed off all the original proposals for systematic restructuring, including the closure of Classics and other programmes. VRs are being finalised. Next stage = “appointment roles to roles” process 😢

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Blogging about the last publication by one of my own teachers, on the easternmost Latin inscription known: why we should treat inscriptions as monuments, take topography into account, and read non-Anglophone publications.

Latin inscription from Azerbaijan

Last Wednesday, my old tutor from my first degree in Moscow, Alexandr Smyshliaev, to whom I owe a great deal in my own intellectual formation, died before his time. He was a genuinely original and …

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It is a tremendous disappointment that the new Global Talent Visa will be limited to STEM subjects, and that press releases from UK universities ignore that.

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It was great fun to give a lecture about Mommsen to graduate students in our 'Modern Approaches to Ancient History' series, but still rather terrifying to have Oswyn Murray (my old college tutor) in the audience.

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Have written a bit of advice for my students on digital resources in Classics, and some elementary things on study skills: hardly any revelations, but in case it's useful for someone else, or will save someone time producing similar. #workingfromhome

digital resources advice for students

I thought I’ll share below, with some adjustments to eliminate purely local and personal elements, the advice sheet on Classics digital resources that I have written for my undergraduates. It…

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New name for the Sackler Library after 21 years.

Sackler: relationship review | University of Oxford

Oxford University has undertaken a review of its relationship with the Sackler family and their trusts, including the way their benefactions to the University are recognised.

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Come and teach Ancient Greek History at Oxford! A permanent post (tutorial fellowship) at University College just advertised. As usual, don't be put off by 'Associate Professorship' lingo: applications from early career scholars more than welcome! FPs:

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Cassius Dio (Roman History 73.9) for today day in the news: 'Perennis, who commanded the Praetorians after Paternus, met his death as the result of a mutiny of the soldiers. For, inasmuch as Commodus had given himself up to chariot-racing and licentiousness and... 1/8

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I agree; will try to write a longer blog about it, but the usual 'in real life I'll look things up' is no answer at all: in the era of Google and ChatGPT, if you don't have knowledge in your head that allows you to add value to the search, there will be no reason to employ you...

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Bring back traditional exams. Three hours; four essays; closed book. You, your pen, and your mind staring the examiner down. I don't accept the ridiculous argument that "in real life you can look things up". In real life you'd look like an idiot if you looked basic things up.

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Finally got my author's copy of this. An article I find less cringeworthy in retrospect than some others I have written.

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Spring is coming to St John's.

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We should of course wait for a proper publication of the results, but if this is reported correctly, we might have another third-century Roman 'usurper' just confirmed (from a couple of rather peculiar gold coins dismissed as forgeries for three centuries).

History First

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Coins long dismissed as crude and eccentric forgeries are genuine and prove the existence of a forgotten #Roman 'emperor' Sponsian who ruled a breakaway state in the province of Dacia during the 260s, according to a study

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@AsBrexit @OliviaUtley I supported the first lockdown, like most, but that doesn't cancel the insanity and irrationality of many rules. If we ever need them again, it might be good to have a more rational and humane version.

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@skepticalzebra As an ancient historian I feel obliged to say that he wasn't talking about public health at all, but about 'public safety'. It was an argument for officials operating outside normal legal framework in emergency (like Cicero himself executing Catilinarian conspirators).

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Have just seen the news of the passing of J.N. Adams on the Liverpool list. Doing 'Vulgar Latin' classes with him was one of the best learning experiences of my life. Unbearably sad.

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4 years

A wonderful collection of tributes to the great Roman historian Fergus Millar, whose work has been foundational for many of us, is now up on the website @oxfordclassics .

Professor Sir Fergus Millar (1935-2019): A collection of tributes

www.classics.ox.ac.uk

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@andrewsillett I don't particularly blame the city - indeed everyone in the position of authority has been excellent. But these things are happening, and need to be taken with seriousness they deserve.

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@calvinrobinson @OxfordRoyale It's a private summer school for foreign language students aged 13-18. Nothing to do with the University, and certainly not 'academia'.

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How on earth could it occur to anyone that threatening to withdraw a Professor Emeritus title and library access for criticising the university management on twitter is remotely acceptable?

Peter Armstrong

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More dignity and respect from @uniofleicester 'If [your] social media activity continues in the same manner as I have outlined, the University will recommend to Council that the title of Professor Emeritus conferred in you by Council be removed. (Continues)

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A splendid offer (free of charge) from the Oxford Centre of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages - Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Applications for languages classes beginning in Trinity Term 2024 (Judeo-Provençal, Karaim, Kivruli, Advanced Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic) have now closed. Further information on classes in the 2024-25...

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Sad news on the Liverpool list of the death of Jane Gardner, a major figure in the study of Roman law and Roman family.

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

2 years

Wishing everyone health, peace, happiness, and less trouble with seeing family and friends in 2022. Have a very happy New Year!

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

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Very sad news. He was a very great scholar, and also a link to the long gone cosmopolitan world of the Ottoman Constantinople. One of my fondest memories is him talking to my small son in Russian, the kind of Russian that one can only hear now on pre-1917 newsreels.

Ath. Markopoulos

@AMarkopoulos1

3 years

A great loss: Cyril Mango passed away

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

2 years

Impressive news from Tajikistan: new Bactrian inscriptions found in the Almosi gorge, including one in Greek alphabet with the name of Vima Taktu, the second Kushan ruler (ca. AD 80-90).

Таджикские ученые расшифровывают древние надписи, обнаруженные в ущелье Алмоси (видео) - Новости...

Avesta.Tj | 11.11.2022 | Учитывая природный ландшафт Таджикистана, у археологов не всегда есть возможность выявления новых памятников, особенно находящихся в труднодоступных горных местностях. Но, по...

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

1 year

See also Tiberius apologising to the Senate for the use of the word 'monopolium' and generally referring monopolies to the Senate (Suet. Tib. 71 and 30), and cf. a brief discussion in R.J.A. Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton 1984), 415-16. 2/2

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

3 years

This is exceptionally sad news. Knowing Peter Rhodes has been a privilege and a profound inspiration. Here he is in Nagoya in 2018, the last occasion when I had a chance to spend much time in his company. A great loss for our discipline.

Durham Classics and Ancient History

@Durham_Classics

3 years

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Peter J. Rhodes, FBA. Professor Rhodes was a titan in the department, from his appointment in 1965 up until, and beyond, his retirement in 2005.

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

4 years

Saw Donald Russell today, who was telling stories about his time at Bletchley: 'It taught me three important lessons. To do my work quickly and on time. To work in a team. And to not expect credit for what I've done.' Rare skills, especially in academia...

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

3 years

Amazing news: 198 (and counting) entries for our Classics and Ancient History essay competition @StJohnsOx @sjc_access . This is, by some margin, a record in its eleven years. Hope many will join for the study afternoon in April; we'll circulate details shortly. #OxOutreach

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

3 years

Stained glass by my father (St Jerome with his lion) opened yesterday in a Moscow hospital.

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

2 years

Stopping provision of Western cultural information in Russia (latest news is Coursera making all content inaccessible) and study of Russian culture and history (Dostoevsky course dropped in Italy etc.) only helps Putin and his nefarious propaganda of civilisational war.

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

2 years

The cat has been found now - thank you all who reacted!

Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

2 years

Our cat, just arrived to us from other owners (political expats from Russia who can't keep it) seems to have squeezed through the kitchen window at night, and escaped. Help appreciated - North Oxford.

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

3 years

Very sad news. It's hard to imagine not going to one of David's Greek plays again, or not having his wise input on language teaching.

New College, Oxford

@NewCollegeOx

3 years

We are sad to announce the death yesterday of David Raeburn, sometime Rodewald Lector in Classical Languages, an inspiring teacher and loyal friend. Our sympathy goes out to his family, friends and pupils. At 9 tonight at Compline, he will be prayed for:

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

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@ijmonks @theJeremyVine @BBCRadio2 Do you really want to live in a country where the leaders aren't under an obligation to be interrogated publicly? ('Talking with the people' in pre-screened encounters with party activists, or away from the gaze of the public at large isn't a replacement for that.)

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

4 years

@APHClarkson There has been a lot of rather ugly middle-class smugness about this. All, of course, reliant on the working class still going to work in deliveries, supermarkets, Royal Mail etc.

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

2 years

Magnolia in North Oxford a few days ago.

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

2 years

For #IWD , my grandmother, Tatiana Kantor, born in a peasant family, first to go to University, gained her PhD 10 years late because of Stalin's purge of genetics, did first Soviet experiments in interspecies hybridisation. Here on her strawberry hybrids:

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

3 years

Oxford snow!

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

11 months

Extremely welcome news about Classics in schools, emphasizing the important work of @classicforall . As the incoming Schools Liaison Officer @oxfordclassics I'm absolutely delighted that we'll be further developing our collaboration with them.

Classics for All

@classicsforall

11 months

We are delighted by news in today's @thetimes that Latin is now the fourth most taught language in primary schools! 📜 This heartening statistic reflects the efforts of Classics for All's work supporting Latin and classics in state schools. Read here:

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

3 years

This is utterly brilliant news: a new Chair in Ancient Scientific and Technological Thought at Exeter.

Uni of Exeter Alumni

@Exalumni

3 years

The A. G. Leventis Foundation, which has supported research at Exeter for almost 25 years, has made a gift of £1.2 million to endow a new Chair within the @ExeterClassics department.

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

5 months

Various treasures from @StJohnsOxLib , including our papyrus (P.Oxy. XIV 1676), the wonderfully passive-aggressive letter from Flavius Herculanus to Aplonarion, who did not come to his son's birthday.

Oxford Libraries Trainees

@OxLibTrainees

5 months

On the fifth day of #Libmas , my library sent to me - five old things! 1) A papyrus dating from 3 AD from @StJohnsLibOx , in which the recipient is asked why they didn't attend the sender's son's birthday party !

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Georgy Kantor

@GeorgyKantor

5 years

Our wonderful St John's papyrus (P.Oxy. XIV 1676): a rather passive-agressive ancient letter, giving a real glimpse into private life in Roman Egypt. Multiple areas of interest: gender history, expression of emotion, slavery and manumission, spread of literacy.

St John's College

@StJohnsOx

5 years

The Library’s oldest item is a papyrus from 3rd-century CE Egypt. In a letter Herculanus regrets that Aplonarion and her husband hadn’t been at his son’s birthday party: “No doubt you had something better to do”. He hopes they are happy and will visit soon.

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