@Macquarie_Uni Dept of History & Archaeology. Author 'Between Rome & Persia' (2008), ‘Rome & Persia at War' (2020) & ‘The Case That Stopped a Nation’ (2021) 📚
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Joined January 2010
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I am absolutely thrilled to discover this morning that my book, The Case that Stopped a Nation, has been shortlisted in the non-fiction section of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for 2022.
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We are delighted to announce the creation of our new podcast channel 'First Nations Conversations'!
Our new podcast series explores the histories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resilience, survival, and resistance
Keep an eye out for our first episode!
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Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
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ANU trying to avoid public scrutiny by pushing the media out of their restructure/job cut gatherings.
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Excessive, frivolous spending on non-core business led to financial mess at ANU, it appears. Why on earth a university with expertise out the wazoo needs $$ consultants is beyond me. Don’t even get me started on the lavish spending on + by executives. canberratimes.com.au/story/8…
An article I’ve just published in The Conversation. “Which Roman Emperor was most like Donald Trump?”
theconversation.com/which-ro…
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I wrote a book about a group of Parthian royalty who lived at the court of the Roman emperor in the first century CE. Today, finally, it is an object in the world.
You can read the open access PDF here and it would mean the world to me if you did!
ucpress.edu/books/the-arsaci…
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Fun tariff fact of the week via @peteredwell on BBC Worldservice Newshour bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172zss… (at 30 minutes in): tariffs in Ancient Rome on luxuries like pepper & incense funded about 30% of Rome's military expenditures.
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Frequently Roman inscriptions on stone and coins feature abbreviations intended to shorten the long titles of political offices. This readable shorthand for information was known as a SPQR code.
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The LNP don't like their own words repeated back to them, which is why they're infuriated by this ad.
Which is also why you should share it.
An article I wrote for The Conversation about tariffs and Ancient Rome has just published.
@Macquarie_Uni
@mq_dha
theconversation.com/ancient-…
Here’s an article about Rome’s inflation crisis that I just published in The Conversation. There were a lot of editorial changes so please be gentle!
theconversation.com/skyrocke…
Truly remarkable. Sasanian silver found in Scotland.
theguardian.com/science/arti…
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New in Reflections: Mirela Ivanova @_mirelaivanova_ and Benjamin Anderson @BunyaminAnders on 'The Politics of Byzantine Studies: Between Nations and Empires'.
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance… @unishefhistory @CornellHistory
Join me tonight at 9.30pm on ABC 774 Victorian Evenings when I chat with David Astle about the Delphic Oracle.
abc.net.au/listen/programs/m…
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My book is now available for download as an open access book (free PDF).
brill.com/display/title/6988…
