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Greta Hawes
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Mythologist, MANTOneer, MEep, Macquarier, needlewoman, gardener. Secretly just wants to be a cowgirl.
A round up of Pliny's Natural History in MANTO: www.manto-myth.org/blog/plinys-...
Pliny’s Art — MYTHLAB
Greta Hawes recaps recent work adding Pliny’s Natural History to MANTO
www.manto-myth.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
MANTO intern Claud Kappely on capturing Pliny's legendary locations: www.manto-myth.org/blog/locatin...
Locating Legends: Pliny’s Take on Myth — MYTHLAB
Claud Kappely discusses her PACE internship working on Pliny’s Natural History .
www.manto-myth.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
MANTO intern Claudia Kappely on Pliny’s legendary locations

www.manto-myth.org/blog/locatin...
Locating Legends: Pliny’s Take on Myth — MYTHLAB
Claud Kappely discusses her PACE internship working on Pliny’s Natural History .
www.manto-myth.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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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
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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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/...
September 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This looks amazing. Looking forward to joining from a distance
September 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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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
September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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
September 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Now out - open access - in Classical Review. Thanks, @thedancinggrad.bsky.social for taking this one on.
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
September 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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
September 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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
August 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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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!
August 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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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...
August 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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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
July 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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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.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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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
July 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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“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
June 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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#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
June 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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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!
June 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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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
June 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"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
June 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM