Panayiotis Christoforou
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Panayiotis Christoforou
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Ancient Historian; Greek-Cypriot/Ecuadorean, lived many places: spend most of my time thinking about Greek and Roman History
Delighted to say that my review article is now published open access: LEADERS, LANDSCAPES, POWER AND MEMORY | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/45kLjhy – a fabulous set of books on rulers and communities across the Roman empire
LEADERS, LANDSCAPES, POWER AND MEMORY | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
LEADERS, LANDSCAPES, POWER AND MEMORY
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August 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Come take the shine off the golden Trajanic sheen! There’ll be papers about expansion into Arabia, monuments, panegyric and letters about monsters! www.uc.pt/site/assets/...
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January 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Even now, you might see the tears in our performance of Hellenism, done the only way we know how.
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article/chapter:

"A focus on quantitative standardization misses some of the
phenomena discussed here, but these phenomena, including storage, skill in measurement, and information-sharing, matter in forming communities of measurement and transferring value."
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article/chapter:

"But it is surely the best guide we now have to this protean form of social and political organisation, and it is only through understanding its deep past and current instantiations that we can hope to plan for a genuinely post-imperial future."
December 6, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Now out! For all your Greek epic needs
November 28, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Do you think Trajan is too good to be true? Have you not bought into the hype of the optimus princeps? Then we have a panel for you!

Come and join us at our panel at the CCC in Coimbra next summer. Abstracts due 31 Jan 2025. Details in link!

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November 21, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Happy to have contributed a short epilogue to this volume. Out soon!
November 16, 2024 at 2:32 PM
It’s been 6 months since the publication of my first book — Imagining the Roman Emperor! It can help with weird stories about rulers and how they can be useful for historians!

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Imagining the Roman Emperor
Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Imagining the Roman Emperor
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January 30, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Excited to see the Cambridge Companion to Greek Epic announced! Edited by the amazing Emma Greensmith, the vol. promises to be a stimulating and broad contribution to this most crucial of genres. It includes a small epilogue from me!
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic
Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic
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January 30, 2024 at 8:14 AM