Enjoying the unparalleled beauties of the eternal city

Friends persuaded me to make a Substack profile to end my writer’s block. And it worked! Check out my first post on why ancient myths and mysteries still matter, the need to go beyond academia and more

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It was a wise man who once said the quality of one’s work is best measured not by the friendly who praise it but by the enemies it attracts and how they choose to formulate their criticism

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Just survived the terrorist attack on my Faculty at Charles University. I was teaching in the building where and when it happened. Still in shock but can say this was the most dramatic Ovid class ever! Glad all my students got out safe!

Snow in Prague

My friends have a gorgeous cat with quite a character

I swear if I get another Black Friday email I’m going to close my account. Block and unsubscribe doesn’t help…

Join us for this fantastic online symposium Imagining Queer Ecologies on 1 December! I will be speaking on gender fluidity of rivers in the ancient world, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to Greece and Rome

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Dilemma

What a wonderful view of the castle from the room I was teaching in today

I’m thrilled to read such a glowing review of my book in BMCR! Nothing is more pleasing than to see one’s work recognized properly.
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Have a nice weekend and join us on Monday for an exciting discussion @NICHE_Venice presenting two books in Environmental Humanities, my own Wolves of Rome and Milinda Banerjee’s Subaltern 2.0, fucusing on Multispecies Politics in the Anthropocene
Hybrid event
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Oh gods what a week! I started a new post as researcher at Charles University in Prague, taught my first class here to a room of 70 students and had a paper accepted in Classical Quarterly.

Arrivederci, Serenissima! Ci vediamo presto:)

So many beautiful colours and lights this evening in Venezia

Discovered a new cat and shared my pizza with him 😺