Tom Gavin 🧈
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Tom Gavin 🧈
@tomgavin.bsky.social
Studying DPhil in Ancient History at Uni of Oxford | Roman Asia, Numismatics, Post-Classical Polis | Butter lover (he/him)
Always strive to have the confidence of Apollonius of Tyana in writing to Vespasian after he had the temerity to demand Greece pay taxes.
August 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I've been studying Roman history for almost a decade, and it's only now that I've come across the claim that Roman general and dictator L. Cornelius Sulla had only one testicle (Dig. 49.16.4).
June 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Ordinarily I despise people who write in library books - I will make an exception here.
February 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Google Maps page for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre giving some real wisdom.
January 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Some really solid work in one of the Oxford Classics Faculty basement rooms.
December 13, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Finished moving house and celebrated being near to an excellent (and relatively cheap!) butcher with an oxtail ragu!
September 23, 2023 at 7:25 PM
Honestly, recipe reviews have to be one of the best places in the world to find completely unhinged sentences.
September 23, 2023 at 3:21 PM