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Tim Whitmarsh
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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Apr 14
A feast of Classics events in Cambridge in May!
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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Apr 14
Fun fact. In the movie The Return, Odysseus is wrecked and washed ashore on Ithaca. That blurs his arrival on Ithaca into his arrival on Scheria. Now, the Ithacan shore scene in the movie is shot on Rovinia Beach, Corfu — which Corfiot lore identifies as his 'real' landing point on Scheria.

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Feb 27
Love the spredges!

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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · Feb 26
My department in Exeter is advertising a two year post to cover teaching in early Christianity, broadly conceived. Closing date 19th March 2025. Please spread the word!

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Lecturer in Theology and Religion (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
Recruiting now: Lecturer in Theology and Religion (Education and Scholarship) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Feb 24
Hello David!

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Feb 23
Wow!

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Feb 23
Yes, definitely! I've still got my Twitter account but have barely used it for years

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Feb 23
HI Greg!

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Dec 23
Yes, thanks: I meant immigrants, and that they were de facto likely to be subelite

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Dec 23
I guess even if the wrong sort were thought by some to be ‘overbreeding’ (like you I can’t think of examples of that kind of discourse for antiquity) that was balanced out by high infant/child mortality rates esp among the non-elite

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Oct 9
Oxonians: just over 2 weeks till you get to see Natalie Haynes! Snap up your tickets now!

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Sep 28
Indo-European Studies and Classics at UCLA are looking to fill an open rank position in Classical Linguistics. Apply! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08812
Professor, Classical Linguistics, Literature and Culture (open-rank)
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Sep 26
I know that piece! The staurogram one, no?

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Sep 25
Want to be the next A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge? Of course you do!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43044/

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Sep 23
Yes, I love 'Silius'! It's very Asterix

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Sep 23
And yes it is lots of different names stuck together (and yes it is one single person).

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Sep 23
... Rutilianus Rufinus Silius Valens Valerius Niger Claudius Fuscus Saxa Amyntianus Sosius Priscus.

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Sep 23
I'm pleased to be writing about the bearer of my favourite Roman name: Quintus Pompeius Senecio Roscius Murena Coelius Sextus Julius Frontinus Silius Decianus Gaius Julius Eurycles Herculaneus Lucius Vibullius Pius Augustanus Alpinus Bellicius Sollers Julius Aper Ducenius Proculus ...

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Sep 23
He only drinks water, but he has to sample everything. As my son said when we moved house over the summer, 'imagine how long it would have taken without Jacques to help: we'd have had to have sniffed everything ourselves.'

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Sep 23
He’s 90% fluff

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Sep 22
This is my first post on BlueSky. Am I doing it right?

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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · Sep 22
Fancy a Friday-night treat? Douglas Cairns' brand new article on emotions in classical literature — a tour de force — is now free on the Oxford Classical Dictionary website. We're planning to follow up with a linked series on individual emotions.
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