Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
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Our latest free books give-away, open to all worldwide. This time it's 8 books from the last 200 years, and 8 people will be drawn to pick their choice. Retweet this and you're in for the random draw on Sunday 11 October. Proper books these. Details to follow over next few hours!
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The Department's deadline for expressions of interest by applicants for MSCA (Marie Curie) postdoctoral fellowships is 1 June. Selected applications are given considerable support and we were remarkably successful in the last round. Details here hca.ed.ac.uk/research/fundin…
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Time for the Antigone Spring Books Give-away! 40+ books and pamphlets on offer worldwide. Just repost this message and follow us, and on Sunday 3 names will be drawn. 1st chooses 20 things, 2nd 12, 3rd gets the rest. We'll add details of the items over coming days. Good luck all!
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Do please come to the launch of The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature in Edinburgh on 20 April. A colloquium runs from 13.30 to 18.00 in Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building (programme on next slide); also online -- just write to one of the editors (1/3)
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List of offices in order of precedence in the Palaiologian court:
1. δεσπότης (despotēs)
2. σεβαστοκράτωρ (sebastokratōr)
3. καῖσαρ (kaisar)
4. πανυπερσεβαστός (panhypersebastos)
5. πρωτοβεστιάριος (prōtovestiarios)
6. μέγας δούξ (megas doux)
7. μέγας δομέστικος (megas domestikos)
8. πρωτοστράτωρ (prōtostratōr)
9. μέγας λογοθέτης (megas logothetēs)
10. μέγας στρατοπεδάρχης (megas stratopedarchēs)
11. μέγας πριμικήριος (megas primikērios)
12. μέγας κοντόσταυλος (megas kontostavlos)
13. ἐπὶ τοῦ κανικλείου (epi tou kanikleiou)
14. πρωτοσεβαστός (prōtosebastos)
15. πιγκέρνης (pinkernēs)
16. παρακοιμώμενος (parakoimōmenos)
17. παρακοιμώμενος τοῦ κοιτώνος (parakoimōmenos tou koitōnos)
18. μέγας βαϊούλος (megas vaioulos)
19. κουροπαλάτης (kouropalatēs)
20. πρωτοβεστιάριτης (prōtovestiaritēs)
21. δομέστικος τῆς τραπέζης (domestikos tēs trapezēs)
22. ἐπὶ τῆς τραπέζης (epi tēs trapezēs)
23. λογοθέτης τοῦ γενικοῦ (logothetēs tou genikou)
24. μέγας παπίας (megas papias)
25. ἔπαρχος (eparchos)
26. μέγας δρουγγάριος τῆς βίγλης (megas droungarios tēs viglēs)
27. μέγας ἑταιρειάρχης (megas hetaireiarchēs)
28. λογοθέτης τοῦ δρόμου (logothetēs tou dromou)
29. ὕπατος τῶν φιλοσόφων (hypatos tōn philosophōn)
30. μέγας χαρτουλάριος (megas chartoularios)
31. μυστικός (mystikos)
32. πρωτασηκρήτις (prōtasēkritēs)
33. ἐπὶ τοῦ στρατοῦ (epi tou stratou)
34. μέγας δρουγγάριος τοῦ στόλου (megas droungarios tou stolou)
35. δομέστικος τῶν σχολῶν (domestikos tōn scholōn)
36. πριμικήριος τῆς αὐλῆς (primikērios tēs aulēs)
37. πρωτοσπαθάριος (prōtospatharios)
38. μέγας ἄρχων (megas archōn)
39. τατάς τῆς αὐλῆς (tatas tēs aulēs)
40. μέγας τζαούσιος (megas tzaousios)
41. πραίτωρ τοῦ δήμου (praitōr tou dēmou)
42. λογοθέτης τῶν οἰκειακῶν (logothetēs tōn oikeiakōn)
43. μέγας λογαριαστής (megas logariastēs)
44. ἐπὶ τῶν δεήσεων (epi tōn deēseōn)
45. ἀρχιδιάκονος (archidiakonos)
46. σκουτέριος (skouterios)
47. πρωτοκυνηγός (prōtokynēgos)
48. ἀμηράλιος (amēralios)
49. ἀκτουάριος (aktouarios)
50. μέγας ἀδνουμιάστης (megas adnoumiastēs)
51. κοιαίστωρ (koiaistor)
52. λογοθέτης τοῦ στρατιωτικοῦ (logothetēs tou stratiōtikou)
53. πρωτοϊερακάριος (prōtoierakarios)
54. κριτής τοῦ βέλου (kritēs tou vēlou)
55. μέγας διερμηνευτής (megas diermēneutēs)
56. λογοθέτης τῶν ἀγελῶν (logothetēs tōn agelōn)
57. δικαιοφύλαξ (dikaiophylax)
58. ἀκόλουθος (akolouthos)
59. ὀρφανοτρόφος (orphanotrophos)
60. πρωτονοτάριος (prōtonotarios)
61. κριτής τοῦ φωσσάτου (kritēs tou phossatou)
62. δομέστικος τῶν τειχέων (domestikos tōn teicheōn)
63. πρωταλλαγάτωρ (prōtallagatōr)
64. βεστιαρίου (vestiariou)
65. στρατοπεδάρχης τῶν μονοκαβάλλων (stratopedarchēs tōn monokavalōn)
66. στρατοπεδάρχης τῶν τζαγγρατόρων (stratopedarchēs tōn tzanggratorōn)
67. στρατοπεδάρχης τῶν μουρτάτων (stratopedarchēs tōn mourtatōn)
68. στρατοπεδάρχης τῶν τζακώνων (stratopedarchēs tōn tzakōnōn)
69. ἐπὶ τῶν ἀναμνήσεων (epi tōn anamneseon)
70. προκαθήμενος τοῦ κοιτώνος (prokathēmenos tou koitōnos)
71. προκαθήμενος τοῦ βεστιαρίου (prokathēmenos tou vestiariou)
72. δομέστικος τῶν θεμάτων (domestikos tōn thematōn)
73. πρωτοκόμης (prōtokomēs)
74. δομέστικος τῶν ἀνατολικῶν θεμάτων (domestikos tōn anatolikōn thematōn)
75. δομέστικος τῶν δυτικῶν θεμάτων (domestikos tōn dytikōn thematōn)
76. προκαθήμενος τῶν μεγάλων παλατίων (prokathēmenos tōn megalōn palatiōn)
77. προκαθήμενος τῶν Βλαχερνῶν παλατίων (prokathēmenos tōn Blachernōn palatiōn)
78. λογαριαστής τῆς αὐλῆς (logariastēs tēs aulēs)
79. μέγας δοικητής (megas doikētēs)
80. νομοφύλαξ (nomophylax)
81. βεστιάριος (vestiarios)
82. ἑταιρειάρχης (hetaireiarchēs)
83. ἄρχων τοῦ ἀλλαγίου (archōn tou allagiou)
84. μέγας μυρταΐτης (megas myrtaites)
85. κριτής τοῦ σεκρέτου (kritēs tou sekretou)
86. ῥαβδοῦχοι (ravdouchoi)
87. καβαλλάριοι (kavallarioi)
88. σεβαστός (sebastos)
89. προκαθήμενος κάστρου / πόλεως (prokathēmenos kastrou / poleōs)
90. δρουγγάριος στόλου (droungarios stolou)
91. κόμης (komēs)
Do please come to the launch of The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature in Edinburgh on 20 April. A colloquium runs from 13.30 to 18.00 in Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building (programme on next slide); also online -- just write to one of the editors (1/3)
Here is the programme, with contact details. Please come, even if only for a bit or for a drink at the end. (2/3)
You can find the contents here. There's a lot of it... (3/3) assets.cambridge.org/9781108…
The Last Historians of Rome project is holding an afternoon conference on Livy in Late Antiquity at the University of Nottingham, on Wednesday 18 March. Write to George Woudhuysen (details on poster) if you want to attend in person or online. Will be great to see you there!
In Warsaw for a conference to discuss Aurelius Victor and Stover and Woudhuysen's book: grand surroundings...
Gavin Kelly retweeted
Letter 152 of Jerome - an English translation. Old and tired, Jerome doesn't want to write any more polemic.
roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025…
I have published a letter from the 17th-century classicist Johann Georg Graevius to his French colleague Adrien de Valois on the blog of the Last Historians of Rome project. It shows how Graevius procured annotations by Friedrich Lindenbrog for Valois' Ammianus edition... +
...of 1681, and he offers some emendations to the text, with mixed success. See here: lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk…
Gavin Kelly retweeted
Dreadful move on the part of the @uOttawa : closing admissions in Greek & Roman Honours programme (after having already closed down MA in Late Antiquity. The death-knell of Latin and Greek, taught there since 1848. O temporal! O mores!
Gavin Kelly retweeted
I had a go at this a few years back into Glaswegian. Very hard to do without sounding homophobic (which I’m not - I was very pleased with Furi-arse etc though).
