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Helena Heald
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Award-winning Commissioning Editor for Ancient History & Classical Studies
@edinburghup.bsky.social ~ she/her ~ various kinds of nerd 🎮🎲📚 ~ views my own etc.

Let's talk books: helena.heald@eup.ed.ac.uk
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All set up at the 2025 Leventis Conference! 👋Stop by for book chat and some great discounts on @edinburghup.bsky.social books. Lovely to be at a conference hosted by our pals at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 😊
A table with Edinburgh University Press branding, with many different books displayed on it.
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Quick shout out to some fantastic recent @edinburghup.bsky.social Ancient History & Classical Studies books that are free to read for life, not just for #OpenAccessWeek 🤓

All of these and more are free to read here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/browse/books...
A messy desk with 7 books on it. The top row is Diverse Slaveries: Slaving Strategies and Experiences of Slavery in Classical Athens by Jason Douglas Porter, Theocritus and Things: Material Agency in the Idylls by Lilah Grace Canevaro and Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460 by Alasdair C. Grant, and the bottom row is Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire Volume 1: History, Law, Literature edited by Pedro López Barja, Carla Masi Doria & Ulrike Roth, Slavery and Honour in the Ancient Greek World edited by David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro & Douglas Cairns, The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor by Justin Stover & George Woudhuysen, and Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World edited by Yannis Stouraitis.
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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New book from Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia! What impact did Achaemenid models of kingship have on Alexander the Great and his successors? Stephen Harrison explores different ideologies of empire in the ancient Near-East. Out now from @edinburghup.bsky.social
Cover of a hardback book: Kingship and Empire under the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and the Seleucids by Stephen Harrison. The cover shows the title and an ancient mosaic of a chariot scene, and the book is on a desk.
October 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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But wait, there's more! New on the @edinburghup.bsky.social bookshelf: Myth and History in Ancient Persia by Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee, "another radiant entry in Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia"
Photo of a hardback book, Myth and History in Ancient Persia by Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee. The cover shows a carved figure holding a lion.
July 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Happy Friday! May I interest you in a free book? SLAVERY AND HONOUR IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD is out now in Open Access! This edited collection from David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns explores the complexities of honour and dishonour in ancient Greek slavery.
A photo of a hardback book, Slavery and Honour in the Ancient Greek World, edited by David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns. The cover includes an ancient vase painting of a shackled humanoid figure.
July 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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(bonus seagull queueing politely for dinner)
A photo of a baby seagull waiting at a counter in a restaurant.
July 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The books are hidden away and sleeping while the ceilidh is on but I'll be BACK tomorrow morning for more books and more book chat ✨ #CA2025
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July 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Hello #CA2025 👋
A photo of the Edinburgh University Press book stall, Helena Heald stands behind it.
July 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Also great to catch up with Late Roman Italy editor Jeroen Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social. The collection is available now in paperback!
July 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Hello Leeds! Drop by for some book chat at the @edinburghup.bsky.social stand👋 #IMC2025
A book stall full of Edinburgh University Press books.
July 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Lovely clutch of paperbacks out this month! Featuring:
🚶Sasanian settlement patterns
♀️Feminist epistemological frameworks
⚔️ Toxic masculinity
🏘️Byzantine social structure
Photo of a stack of four books on a desk, their spines facing outwards so their titles can be read: Socioeconomic Transformation in the Sasanian Empire, Believing Ancient Women, Toxic Masculinity in the Ancient World and Social Stratification in Late Byzantium
June 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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☀️New book day! Out this month from our Leventis Studies series: Rereading Plato's Republic, edited by Mary Margaret McCabe and Simon Trépanier. More: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-rereadi...
Photo of a hardback book, Rereading Plato's Republic, edited by Mary Margaret McCabe and Simon Trépanier
May 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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☀️ The sun is shining and our March books are here! @edinburghup.bsky.social
Two hardback books on a desk: Rethinking Hellenistic Historiography by Lisa Irene Hau and Diverse Slaveries by Jason Douglas Porter.
March 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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New this week! Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory, edited by Edward Harris and Alberto Esu, has chapters from a fantastic range of scholars working on law and oratory in Athens 🧑‍⚖️ More: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-keeping...
Photo of a book, Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory: Law, Character and Rhetoric, a black hardback book against a plant in the background.
January 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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I will now be picturing myself inside this reconstructed pithos for a bit, but will be back on email next week 🏺
A large half jar embedded in a wall with a sign above it reading "picture yourself inside this reconstructed pithos"
January 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Had a fantastic time at my first AIA-SCS! Thank you to all the lovely and interesting folks who stopped by for a chat (and all the Philly recommendations!).
A snowy city scene with a historic building in the distance.
January 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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All set up at AIA/SCS, come say hi 👋
A selfie with the Edinburgh University Press booth - a table covered in books. Edinburgh University Press conference booth, a table covered in books and a big banner.
January 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM