Greta Hawes

My colleagues @horusofnekhen.bsky.social, @tibg1312.bsky.social, and I wrote a state-of-the-field-type article about disability in antiquity that was recently published and is open access. This article just gives a brief history of the subfield, with a discussion of future directions.

Just deleted mine too. Felt good?

Also, if you are a scholar of the Ancient Near East, consider sending us your stuff! It will be published in our edited collection for Nature:

www.nature.com/collections/...

This looks amazing. Looking forward to joining from a distance

Conference programme Mountains of Greece: Heritage Narratives from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Athens, 22-24 October 2025

Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025!

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...

Definitely been discussions about better manto-Pleiades alignment - would be keen to do that but will need some help!

Pinning Pliny down — MYTHLAB Greta Hawes describes a PACE internship that will add Pliny’s Natural History to MANTO

If anyone wants me, I’ll be working my way through Pliny’s Natural History and feeling inadequate

www.manto-myth.org/blog/pining-...

Now out - open access - in Classical Review. Thanks, @thedancinggrad.bsky.social for taking this one on.

Latest review just dropped! I had the pleasure of reviewing the new English translation of the Valla commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and I unsurprisingly found it the most definitive English-language commentary on the Metamorphoses out there. Check out the review here!

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Ummmm …. Can I join?!?

Write it down - everyone wants to know this. I’m currently thinking storyworlds are the secret to understanding Greek myth but oh they are difficult to explain properly on paper.

Clearing vacancies Courses available via Clearing.

Look, I know it's highly unlikely any actual teenagers getting results are On Here, but if you're in the vicinity of one thinking about engaging with Clearing, the Classics dept at Royal Holloway has places, and I think we're jolly good. As are our Humanities colleagues.

Here's your annual reminder: whether you received A-level results today, years ago, or never, there's space for you at the @openuniversity.bsky.social!

On August 29 at 6.00pm AEST, Dr. Andrew Burnett (Royal Numismatic Society) asks why the region of Lycia in south-western Asia Minor abandoned its local coinage for the imperial currency system of the western Roman Empire. On September 23 at 6:00 PM AEST, Dr. Clare Rowan (University of Warwick) will deliver a lecture for students and teachers studying Agrippina the Younger at high school (though all are warmly invited to attend). On October 23 at 6.00pm AEDT, Dr. Sam Moorhead will discuss the imperial coinage minted for Carausius and Allectus, two breakaway emperors in Roman Britain. On November 21 at 6:00 PM AEDT, Dr. Philippa Walton (University of Leicester) will discuss a remarkable assemblage of 1,444 Roman coins recovered over three decades by two divers from the River Tees at Piercebridge, northern England. Feel free to share the program attached with students or colleagues interested in the study of ancient coins: students, researchers, curators and collectors are welcome and encouraged to join NUMISMA. A selection of past lectures can be viewed on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@ACANSMQ/videos). We look forward to seeing you on August 29. To receive a registration link please contact Dr Charlotte Mann (charlotte.mann@students.mq.edu.au)

for the numismatically inclined, this term's ACANS Numismatics talks, including one by yours truly aimed at teachers in high school classrooms teaching Agrippina the Younger. Times are given in Australian time, but recordings of the series are also available at www.youtube.com/@ACANSMQ/vid...

Ouch! Much in need of a healing well then.

The Pelagios Network’s People Activity are holding a Sample Data Gathering Sprint
29 July, 12 - 1pm, Online via Zoom (register for link)
Organisers: Gabriel Bodard (London) and Jun Ogawa (Tokyo)

https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/linked-open-data-people-data-gathering-sprint

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Historic England Talk - Links This page covers all the links I talked about in my HE conference paper online

The awesome Dan Pett's talk for Historic England on digital innovation in heritage is here museologi.st/talks/he-lin... featuring work for The British Museum, The Portable Antiquities Scheme, The Fitzwilliam Museum, etc. Nearly all the resources he discusses are open source, reproducible & low cost

ISAW Seeks New Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator ISAW is seeking a new Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator. The recommended deadline for applications is July 15th, 2025.

isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-se...

“You’ve got people who’ve worked their entire lives in these disciplines, and then that knowledge is lost, which is why I think these decisions are so incredibly damaging and shortsighted.” -NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes @alisonbarnes.bsky.social

Read more: nteu.info/guardianmq

#jobAlert! Collection Curator (full-time, 4 years) at the Powerhouse Castle Hill: https://iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collection-curator-526330 #GLAM #museums

A screenshot of a CFP, message me for details!

A screenshot of a CFP, message me for details!

Only nine more days to apply to this awesome conference on religious toleration in classical antiquity, in beautiful Groningen, featuring yours truly and @renskejanssen.bsky.social!

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‪“I remember the raw, aching desire to live life again, the pain of losing yet another day, and the effort it took not to be pulled under by the sadness.”‬

‪ #PwLC‬ #LongCovid #PwME

In sport, rest is rightly understood as fundamental to recovery. But in medicine, rest is too often dismissed or overlooked as a legitimate, evidence-based response. In society, prolonged rest is rarely granted the respect it deserves. In a culture obsessed with productivity and achievement, choosing to rest is one of the most proactive and courageous acts a person can make. This cultural dismissal of rest is especially harmful to people with ME or Long Covid, who must often rest for prolonged or indefinite periods. They face not only the impact of their condition, but also repeatedly justifying their need to adapt. Amid all this, the emotional cost of rest is almost entirely overlooked. To rest in the context of chronic illness demands the endurance of immense grief.

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From
"The importance of understanding rest: How my experience of rest as an athlete clashed with my experience of rest as a patient"

www.thereforme.uk/p/the-import...

#MEcfs #LongCovid

On the "three mantras of Long DH" (Futurebuilding DH) from Johannes Burgers:
1) "go slow and build things",
2) "teamwork makes the dreamwork, but nagging helps" (people-first proj management),
3) "love your data like you love yourself" (tech changes, data doesn't; set your data free!). #ACH2025

My hot take is that Pausanias’ book is funner than Pausanias himself. I suspect the man himself was a bit of a bore. Left to his own devices he just starts digressing at length about the quality of water in different places.

Want to work with the WHG team? The Institute for Spatial History Innovation @ Pitt is hiring a full-time Research Associate to be the Digital Data Specialist & Managing Editor of World Historical Gazetteer!

Learn more & apply by July 11: bit.ly/4kAknki

@rmostern.bsky.social @docuracy.co.uk

Things mentioned by Pausanias (or, an excuse to talk about complications with sources) — MYTHLAB Greta Hawes describes work in MANTO to captured distinctions between different kinds of evidence for Greek myth found in different kinds of sources.

www.manto-myth.org/blog/things-...

Thoughts on times when it’s just sources all the way down

A humorous illustration styled like ancient Greek pottery art. On the left, the hero Theseus holds a sword in one hand and a ball of thread in the other, trailing the thread behind him. On the right, the Minotaur is knitting with the thread instead of being menacing. The scene is framed with traditional Greek geometric patterns in red on a black background.

Good one 😆