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Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cape Town: https://humanities.uct.ac.za/school-languages-literatures/classics/jeffrey-murray

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I see the KZN winter is treating you well!

05.08.2025 09:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Launch of this volume tonight at Ike’s Books in Durban, in which I have a chapter on classical education.

05.08.2025 09:17 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Ballito Bay

05.08.2025 07:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Snow on the Drakensberg

04.08.2025 07:44 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Visiting Scholars, Summer 2025 St John's College is pleased to announce its Visiting Scholars for the Long Vacation (June–September) 2025.

This year, we are delighted to be joined by six senior academics working on a range of interdisciplinary projects encompassing Art, Classics, Philosophy, Sociology and Theology as Visiting Scholars.

www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

10.06.2025 09:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Classical authors are rarely harvested from binding waste. This lovely MS of Valerius Maximus with annotations is a pleasant exception to that rule. (Paderborn, Universitätsbibliothek, 2 in / Th 1410a)
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:h...

17.03.2025 07:24 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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Professor Henriette van der Blom wins Fellowship to explore the invention of ancient Roman speech - University of Birmingham Through research into ancient Roman public oratory, Professor van der Blom will seek to better understand the foundation of modern political speech.

Professor Henriette van der Blom wins Fellowship to explore the invention of ancient Roman speech - University of Birmingham
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/pr...

16.01.2025 19:51 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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