@drdragases
Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
I'll be in my office.
Titel and Abstract page of "A ladies' man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor'. Abstract: This article investigates the Emperor Julian’s relations with three of his female relatives: with his mother Basilina, with the wife of his cousin Constantius II, Eusebia, and with his own wife, Helena the Younger, also the sister of Constantius II. I argue that the relationships with these women not only shaped Julian’s agency and ultimately his ability to become Roman emperor, but that he also carefully incorporated these relationships into his imperial self-image, even or particularly after their death. By casting a light especially on Julian’s mother and on his wife, widely ignored by modern scholarship on Julian, the article invites us to consider the power that flowed through ancient men’s domestic ties created by women, and on imperial men’s acute awareness of this power.
Proofs!
Soon available in open access at the Bullettin of the Institute of Classical Studies - as soon as I have sorted out image permissions with the Soprintendenza in Rome...
Truly horrific.
BESTE NIEUWS VAN DE WEEK
ALLEMAAL PINTJES DRINKEN IN SCHOON CAFE
EN PRACHTFILKMES ZIEN MEE MINDER PLATTE COMMERCE
Grtz,
Pedro
The successful candidate will be a cross-disciplinary historian of infectious disease and historical epidemiologist whose research advances understanding of pandemics and epidemic disease across time, including how environmental and climatic forces shape patterns of transmission, vulnerability, societal response, and resilience. The appointment will foster a long-term program of scholarship and training at the interface of history, epidemiology, environmental science, and clinical infectious diseases.
JOB: Associate Professor/Professor, History of Medicine, McMaster University
Cross-appointed with Division of Infectious Diseases
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Grazie mille, consiglio molto utile!
Spain reminds fellow Europeans why there’s an EU to begin with.
Één ambassadeur in het bijzonder!
Desalniettemin:
"What do Augustus' Res Gestae, Crimean Gothic, and tulips have in common?"
After a minor writer's block, I think I have the opening sentence of my fourth chapter.
Since many seem keen to explain to me the finer points of a moral war & bring historical examples of just wars, let me pitch the book I edited on history of war in ancient Iran.
Ah yes, crucial detail: I'm the posterboy for leftwing academic who can't drive...
Was definitely leaning to September!
(Tagging @hellebore.bsky.social for obvious reasons)
Bluesky hivement (sopratutto per gli amici Italiani)! Still haven't organized summer holidays. Currently contemplating visiting northern Sardegna, since their are direct flights to Olbia and Alghero. Are 2 weeks enough to just spend time north or should I include westcoast & fly back from Cagliari?
Last day to submit a proposal!
Philip ❤
Absoluut!
In Bruges.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Zonet bijscholing gegeven voor leerkrachten secundair onderwijs bij de KULAK over 'De wereld van Clovis' ( @ertsberg.bsky.social ).
Ze waren blijkbaar voorbereid.
Classics at the University of Iowa is fighting to keep its Latin and Greek courses. Please sign the petition: c.org/HLyPwxbKP2
This was Ike as President (his first major speech, in fact), but just gonna say: Eisenhower not beating the allegations of being the United States' greatest general on this one.
Fitting that we got one verifiable Military Genius and he was the Divine Spirit of Logistics and Diplomacy guy.
If you are not in arms control you would not know how well constructed the JCPOA (Iran deal) was. An absolutely beauty of an arms control agreement. Negotiated by 2 ministers who had doctorates in nuclear physics. Technically and politically so well designed.
And the US just wiped its ass with it.
Let's find out tomorrow!
I almost made a new meme for tomorrow's class...
... Until I realized my students were not even born when LOTR came out, so will have to shelve it.
*Reading sources for my seminar tomorrow*
"Year 414 – Athaulf married Placidia at Narbonne. The Prophecy of Daniel was thereby thought to be fulfilled. The prophecy says that the daughter of the king of the south would be united with the king of the north."
*My brain*
Ik ben eigenlijk echt heel kwaad over de besparingen bij De Lijn. En ik snap niet waarom we daar niet allemaal wat bozer om zijn. Ik ga het even – for the sake of the argument – anecdotisch toelichten. Mijn moeder van 84 woont in een plattelandsgemeente waar amper bussen rijden.
