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The Department's deadline for expressions of interest by applicants for MSCA (Marie Curie) postdoctoral fellowships is 1 June. Selected applications are given considerable support and we were remarkably successful in the last round. Details here hca.ed.ac.uk/research/fundin…
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Many congratulations to @GavinKellyLatin and the team on the production of this mighty brace of tomes. A 200-page bibliography, in small print, serves as a strong indicator that it is not here to mess about...
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You can find the contents here. There's a lot of it... (3/3) assets.cambridge.org/9781108…
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Here is the programme, with contact details. Please come, even if only for a bit or for a drink at the end. (2/3)
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Do please come to the launch of The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature in Edinburgh on 20 April. A colloquium runs from 13.30 to 18.00 in Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building (programme on next slide); also online -- just write to one of the editors (1/3)
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We are delighted to inform you that Issue 1 of JLAIBS Vol. 5 is now out!
It features 5 exciting articles by Margaret Mullett (freely accessible for 1 month), Richard Hobbs and Sabine Klein, Nik Matheou, Cameron Barnes, and Ofer Pogorelsky.
@EdinClassics
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New issue is out: @jlaibs 5/1 (2026).
Check out for Margaret Mullett's article which is freely accessible for one month!
@EdinburghUP @EdinUniCAHSSres @EdinClassics @SPBSUK
We are delighted to inform you that Issue 1 of JLAIBS Vol. 5 is now out!
It features 5 exciting articles by Margaret Mullett (freely accessible for 1 month), Richard Hobbs and Sabine Klein, Nik Matheou, Cameron Barnes, and Ofer Pogorelsky.
@EdinClassics
euppublishing.com/toc/jlaibs…
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The Last Historians of Rome project is holding an afternoon conference on Livy in Late Antiquity at the University of Nottingham, on Wednesday 18 March. Write to George Woudhuysen (details on poster) if you want to attend in person or online. Will be great to see you there!
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Should you be in Warsaw next week, do come along!
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13 Dec 2025
I have published a letter from the 17th-century classicist Johann Georg Graevius to his French colleague Adrien de Valois on the blog of the Last Historians of Rome project. It shows how Graevius procured annotations by Friedrich Lindenbrog for Valois' Ammianus edition...
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12 Dec 2025
Many congratulations to our colleague Jesse Hill!
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11 Oct 2025
Great to present a paper at @EdinClassics yesterday evening!
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The second issue of JLAIBS 4 (2025) is now available, featuring a number of exciting articles by Dimiter Angelov, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Aliya Abdukadir Ali and Anne-Laurence Caudano.
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News from the Last Historians of Rome project!
1 Sep 2025
First blogpost of the year, on 'Translating Ammianus Marcellinus. Book 14'! Three examples of progress in translation.👇
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14 Aug 2025
Thank you! Edinburgh is the best alma mater I could hope for
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Remarkable double whammy by our alumnus Antonio Iacoviello! Congratulations!
13 Aug 2025
Delighted to share I’ve been awarded both a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship.
My project explores crowns in ancient Greece as material agents and symbols across multiple domains. Can’t wait to get started!
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13 Aug 2025
Delighted to share I’ve been awarded both a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship.
My project explores crowns in ancient Greece as material agents and symbols across multiple domains. Can’t wait to get started!
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4 Aug 2025
A dramatisation of ecce romani! What a wonderful idea
4 Aug 2025
A quick plug for the Fringe: for the next week, the Hopkins School in New Haven is performing a dramatisation of the Latin textbook Ecce Romani, starting today at 10! They'll be very glad to see Latin fans in the audience (& meet them after). Details here edfringe.com/tickets/whats-o…
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4 Aug 2025
Sextus est puer molestus... raeda in fossam cadit etc. etc.
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A quick plug for the Fringe: for the next week, the Hopkins School in New Haven is performing a dramatisation of the Latin textbook Ecce Romani, starting today at 10! They'll be very glad to see Latin fans in the audience (& meet them after). Details here edfringe.com/tickets/whats-o…
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