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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 13d

My colleagues @horusofnekhen.bsky.social, @tibg1312.bsky.social, and I wrote a state-of-the-field-type article about disability in antiquity that was recently published and is open access. This article just gives a brief history of the subfield, with a discussion of future directions.

DISABILITY IN ANTIQUITY | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core

DISABILITY IN ANTIQUITY

resolve.cambridge.org

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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · 21d

Just deleted mine too. Felt good?

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 23d

Also, if you are a scholar of the Ancient Near East, consider sending us your stuff! It will be published in our edited collection for Nature:

www.nature.com/collections/...

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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · 26d

This looks amazing. Looking forward to joining from a distance

Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · 26d

Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025!

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...

Conference programme

Mountains of Greece: Heritage Narratives from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Athens, 22-24 October 2025

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · 26d

Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025!

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...

Conference programme

Mountains of Greece: Heritage Narratives from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Athens, 22-24 October 2025

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · 27d

Definitely been discussions about better manto-Pleiades alignment - would be keen to do that but will need some help!

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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · 27d

If anyone wants me, I’ll be working my way through Pliny’s Natural History and feeling inadequate

www.manto-myth.org/blog/pining-...

Pinning Pliny down — MYTHLAB

Greta Hawes describes a PACE internship that will add Pliny’s Natural History to MANTO

www.manto-myth.org

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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · Sep 1

Now out - open access - in Classical Review. Thanks, @thedancinggrad.bsky.social for taking this one on.

Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · Sep 1

Latest review just dropped! I had the pleasure of reviewing the new English translation of the Valla commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and I unsurprisingly found it the most definitive English-language commentary on the Metamorphoses out there. Check out the review here!

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

THE DEFINITIVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE COMMENTARY ON OVID’S METAMORPHOSES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core

THE DEFINITIVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE COMMENTARY ON OVID’S METAMORPHOSES

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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · Sep 1

Latest review just dropped! I had the pleasure of reviewing the new English translation of the Valla commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and I unsurprisingly found it the most definitive English-language commentary on the Metamorphoses out there. Check out the review here!

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

THE DEFINITIVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE COMMENTARY ON OVID’S METAMORPHOSES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core

THE DEFINITIVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE COMMENTARY ON OVID’S METAMORPHOSES

doi.org

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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · Aug 30

Ummmm …. Can I join?!?

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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · Aug 20

Write it down - everyone wants to know this. I’m currently thinking storyworlds are the secret to understanding Greek myth but oh they are difficult to explain properly on paper.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · Aug 14

Look, I know it's highly unlikely any actual teenagers getting results are On Here, but if you're in the vicinity of one thinking about engaging with Clearing, the Classics dept at Royal Holloway has places, and I think we're jolly good. As are our Humanities colleagues.

Clearing vacancies

Courses available via Clearing.

www.royalholloway.ac.uk

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Dr Christine Plastow @chrissieplastow.bsky.social · Aug 14

Here's your annual reminder: whether you received A-level results today, years ago, or never, there's space for you at the @openuniversity.bsky.social!

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · Aug 4

for the numismatically inclined, this term's ACANS Numismatics talks, including one by yours truly aimed at teachers in high school classrooms teaching Agrippina the Younger. Times are given in Australian time, but recordings of the series are also available at www.youtube.com/@ACANSMQ/vid...

On August 29 at 6.00pm AEST, Dr. Andrew Burnett (Royal Numismatic Society) asks why the region of Lycia in south-western Asia Minor abandoned its local coinage for the imperial currency system of the western Roman Empire.

On September 23 at 6:00 PM AEST, Dr. Clare Rowan (University of Warwick) will deliver a lecture for students and teachers studying Agrippina the Younger at high school (though all are warmly invited to attend).

On October 23 at 6.00pm AEDT, Dr. Sam Moorhead will discuss the imperial coinage minted for Carausius and Allectus, two breakaway emperors in Roman Britain.

On November 21 at 6:00 PM AEDT, Dr. Philippa Walton (University of Leicester) will discuss a remarkable assemblage of 1,444 Roman coins recovered over three decades by two divers from the River Tees at Piercebridge, northern England.

Feel free to share the program attached with students or colleagues interested in the study of ancient coins: students, researchers, curators and collectors are welcome and encouraged to join NUMISMA. A selection of past lectures can be viewed on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@ACANSMQ/videos). We look forward to seeing you on August 29.

To receive a registration link please contact Dr Charlotte Mann (charlotte.mann@students.mq.edu.au)

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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ouch! Much in need of a healing well then.

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Pelagios Network’s People Activity are holding a Sample Data Gathering Sprint
29 July, 12 - 1pm, Online via Zoom (register for link)
Organisers: Gabriel Bodard (London) and Jun Ogawa (Tokyo)

https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/linked-open-data-people-data-gathering-sprint

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jul 13

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Jul 11

The awesome Dan Pett's talk for Historic England on digital innovation in heritage is here museologi.st/talks/he-lin... featuring work for The British Museum, The Portable Antiquities Scheme, The Fitzwilliam Museum, etc. Nearly all the resources he discusses are open source, reproducible & low cost

Historic England Talk - Links

This page covers all the links I talked about in my HE conference paper online

museologi.st

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Jul 7

isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-se...

ISAW Seeks New Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator

ISAW is seeking a new Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator. The recommended deadline for applications is July 15th, 2025.

isaw.nyu.edu

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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · Jun 13

“You’ve got people who’ve worked their entire lives in these disciplines, and then that knowledge is lost, which is why I think these decisions are so incredibly damaging and shortsighted.” -NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes @alisonbarnes.bsky.social

Read more: nteu.info/guardianmq

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 25

#JobAlert! Collection Curator (full-time, 4 years) at the Powerhouse Castle Hill: https://iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collection-curator-526330 #glam #museums

Find your next role in the public sector I Work for NSW

iworkfor.nsw.gov.au

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Inger Kuin @ingerkuin.bsky.social · Jun 21

Only nine more days to apply to this awesome conference on religious toleration in classical antiquity, in beautiful Groningen, featuring yours truly and @renskejanssen.bsky.social!

A screenshot of a CFP, message me for details!

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · Jun 13

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‪“I remember the raw, aching desire to live life again, the pain of losing yet another day, and the effort it took not to be pulled under by the sadness.”‬

‪ #PwLC‬ #LongCovid #PwME

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · Jun 15

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From
"The importance of understanding rest: How my experience of rest as an athlete clashed with my experience of rest as a patient"

www.thereforme.uk/p/the-import...

#MEcfs #LongCovid

In sport, rest is rightly understood as fundamental to recovery. But in medicine, rest is too often dismissed or overlooked as a legitimate, evidence-based response. In society, prolonged rest is rarely granted the respect it deserves. In a culture obsessed with productivity and achievement, choosing to rest is one of the most proactive and courageous acts a person can make.

This cultural dismissal of rest is especially harmful to people with ME or Long Covid, who must often rest for prolonged or indefinite periods. They face not only the impact of their condition, but also repeatedly justifying their need to adapt. Amid all this, the emotional cost of rest is almost entirely overlooked. To rest in the context of chronic illness demands the endurance of immense grief.

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