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Christian Rollinger
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Ancient History @unitrier.bsky.social | 🇱🇺 in 🇩🇪 | 🐈🐈 | Roman & Hellenistic monarchies & courts | late antiquity | Roman republic | 🏛🏺& video games | memes | not a classicist | https://bitly.cx/PLDno
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It increasingly feels like I'm only writing 'commissioned' pieces anymore, that fit a certain theme and publication, but occasionally, I get to write more freely and to just try things out...

Very happy with this chapter on Theodosios III, son of Maurice, out now: doi.org/10.1515/9783...
#notmyemperor: Theodosios (III), the Son of Maurice, and a Heraclian Disinformation Effort
#notmyemperor: Theodosios (III), the Son of Maurice, and a Heraclian Disinformation Effort was published in Fake News in Ancient Greece on page 269.
doi.org
I really, really, *really* hate how Tolkien is being appropriated by the political right and billionaire edgelords. Tolkien hated Nazis and was at the very least uneasy with the greed he associated with capitalism.
November 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Good grief, who has time for a 40 gb update
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Ancient Egypt in Video Games is now available for pre-order!

The website says a March publication, but my schedule from the publisher says Jan (🤞). The hb version is pretty pricey, but a ppb version will hopefully be down the line!

Check out details here:

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Ancient Egypt in Video Games
This volume is the first to focus on the presentation of Ancient Egypt in video games. The contributions examine diverse topics concerning how Egyptian history, culture, monuments, and the land itself...
www.degruyterbrill.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Heute findet in Luxemburg etwas statt, was nicht in allen westlichen Ländern mehr selbstverständlich erscheint: ein freiwilliger, friedlicher und geordneter Übergang von einem Staatsoberhaupt zum nächsten.

www.wort.lu/politik/luxe...
Luxemburg hat einen neuen Großherzog
Erbgroßherzog Guillaume hat seinen Eid in der Chamber abgelegt und tritt damit offiziell die Nachfolge von Großherzog Henri an.
www.wort.lu
October 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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May 2026 👀

My monograph "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" will be out next year in @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's IMAGINES series!

Many thanks to @ubisoft.com for the #ImmortalsFenyxRising art ⚡

More information (soon!) on www.bloomsbury.com/uk/character...
October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Soooo... there is a thing called the Manchester Game Centre, which, I think, was originally called the Manchester Game Studies Network. I linked to a review on their blog on my uni URL, my CV, everything...

A colleague texted me to say to check the link on my uni url, just to be sure.
September 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Will anyone ask the Dodos if they even WANT to come back to this time in our planet's history?
September 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Wer ist noch so alles NICHT beim Historikertag?
September 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Zigarettengespräch von Studis überhört. Man diskutiert die Probleme beim Einsatz von ChatGPT usw., erkennt durchaus, dass es Handlungsbedarf gibt. Eine Studentin verspricht, das jetzt gar nicht mehr zu machen, KI-Copy-Paste, man müsse ernst bleiben.

Sie tippt das jetzt ab, wegen der Wasserzeichen.
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Don‘t think I can go back to normal conferences after this - tra otium e negotium.
September 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
What. the. shit.
September 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I'm writing a chapter on late antique emperors and kissing and I really, really want to call it "A kiss with a fist is better than none" but it has to be in French. 😭
a monkey is sitting on a rock next to a cat in the woods .
ALT: a monkey is sitting on a rock next to a cat in the woods .
media.tenor.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Haven‘t heard about Greenland in a while. Is that still a thing?
August 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
How is what's happening now politically not the Earth Alliance plot line of Babylon 5, S2-4?

Seriously. What meaningful differences are there?
August 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln)

„Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“
1/2
August 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
What's our thinking about authors recording audiobook versions of their books themselves, rather than leaving it to professionals?
August 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Da der Historikertag nächsten Monat ansteht und von 76 Sektionen gerade einmal 3 althistorisch sind... mich würde interessieren: Empfinden Althistorikerinnen und Althistoriker den VHD und HT tatsächlich auch als "für sie"? Fühlt man sich zugehörig? Sehen das die anderen Epochen auch so?
August 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
An der Supermarktkasse. Ältere Dame kauft gesund ein, junger (19?) Kassierer sichtlich überfordert, hat in seinem Leben noch kein Gemüse gesehen.

Hebt Wirsing fragend hoch; "Wirsing, junger Mann."

Hebt Knollensellerie fragend hoch; "Sellerie, junger Mann."

"Staudensel-", "Knolle, junger Mann."
August 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Slightly diminish a band:

Radiohat.
August 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I finally submitted a manuscript today that has been bothering me since before Covid. At last, done and dusted.
August 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
So BF 6 releases in October, and then Pax 117 in November. Not going to get a lot of work done for the last quarter....
August 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Es kann doch nicht sein, dass ich der einzige bin, dem nicht bewusst war, dass die U.S.S. Enterprise (D) eine spezielle Sektion hatte, die als Aquarium für nautische Crewmitglieder gedacht war: zwei Delphine und zwei Wale, alles Navigatoren? Alles canon seit 1996. Wtf.
July 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I hate it with a white-hot fury.
Edited volume style guide: endnotes, full first reference citation, author-title rather than author-date.
July 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.

Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
July 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
July 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM