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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · 6d

Great news too about the Justinian book. Is the new editor Michael Greenwood?

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · 6d

I’ll take it as positive coming from him. 😃 Thanks for pointing it out to me.

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 7d

Rance on @conorwhately.bsky.social : www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...

ByzRev 07.2025.064: Conor Whately (ed.), Military Literature in the Medieval Roman World and Beyond: (Reading Medieval Sources 8). Leiden: Brill 2024. | The Byzantine Review

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · 10d

Until we have Philip Rance’s new translation, Dennis’ translation of Maurice’s Strategikon has been re-printed.

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UWinnipeg @uwinnipeg.bsky.social · 18d

Classicist Dr. Conor Whately and psychologist Dr. Stephanie Bugden are this year's recipients of the Chancellor's Research grants.

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2025 Chancellor's Research Grants | University of Winnipeg News

This year's 2025 Chancellor’s Research Excellence Chair and Chancellor’s Emerging Research Award have been given to Dr. Conor Whately, Classics and Dr. Stephanie Bugden, Psychology.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · 23d

Oh I’m so sorry.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Aug 22

Coming soon:

www.routledge.com/Ancient-Warf...

Ancient Warfare: The Basics

Ancient Warfare: The Basics offers an engaging introduction to warfare in the ancient Mediterranean World from the mythical Trojan War, through the rise of hoplites and conquests of Alexander the Grea...

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

I’ve got about 16h. But unlike my failed attempt 7 years ago, I’ll be on the right side of the pond and I have many mental contingencies in mind. Fingers crossed 🤞

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

Wonderful!

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

Oh cool! Always seemed more of a leaser known piece. If I hadn’t seen it in 2006 in a show in London during the Byzantine congress while I was a PhD student not sure I’d have found out about it. And two trips to Berlin meant I could go see it again twice! No one else was there really. Not popular.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

And these guys playing games, and a “gambling machine” just for kicks. I could have picked more (so many great vase paintings) but selecting these have taken me long enough.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

These “cicada” brooches (because why not?),

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

This old fisherman,

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

These three Roman soldiers and this lady (and all their bling),

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

This famous family, which looks just like those cast to play them in Gladiator 2,

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

Loved my whirlwind visits to 3 of Berlin’s museums. Highlights include my favourite (maybe?) sculpture, which I’m due to write about at some point.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

After Wroclaw, I’ll be @ Leeds to the last day 10th and speaking midday-ish, well after needed disco recovery, on Agathias and military manuals. I’ll be thrilled to be done and on my way to Devon on Friday (11th) to see family, with a stop in London for beers/ciders with @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jul 7

Seeing lots of posts about Leeds IMC 2025. I’m on a bus on my way to Poland, where I’ll be, briefly, at FIEC 2025 to talk about Roman soldiers in/around the Red Sea. I started the trip in Berlin, where I spoke on rituals & ritualized behaviour among Roman soldiers in late antiquity.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Jun 25

Congrats!!

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

Incidentally, I also now picked up this here, complete with fancy backdrop.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

Oh! Was this the decision about future things you were thinking about? Great!

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

Should have added to that last set of posts my surprise at seeing a Greek depiction of Superman punching a horse at the British Museum but there you go. The lengths studios won’t go to advertise their films.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

Finally, I want to thank @sentantiq.bsky.social for being such a great keynote speaker. It was a real pleasure to meet him, and his lecture as well as his interactions with students and much more besides went down extremely well. On that note, one last pic with some “Homeric” content from the BM.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

Finally, just for fun, let’s throw in the Cyrus cylinder, as you can’t go wrong with a bit of Persian material.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

There is some amazing silverware from various hoards, like the Mildenhall dish and the Projekta casket.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

I don’t want to entirely leave out the late antique material, so here’s the famous Sutton Hoo mask, which might belong to late Roman/Byzantine foederati if you believe one recent article.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

On the subject of the Bronze Age/age of heroes/myth, I took some pics from the frescoes from Herculaneum. One is a scene from Odysseus, the other Icarus and Daedalus.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

They had some great remains of equipment too, from greaves to helmets.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

There were quite a few red and black figure paintings filled with relevant stuff, particularly from the Trojan War.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · May 22

For the first time (after several visits) checked out the contentious Parthenon reliefs. Wasn’t much warfare but @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social pointed out all the cavalry, so here some are.

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