Conor Whately

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Have you read this? Or do you have his email address and could you pass it on to me please?

Great news too about the Justinian book. Is the new editor Michael Greenwood?

I’ll take it as positive coming from him. 😃 Thanks for pointing it out to me.

Rance on @conorwhately.bsky.social : www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...

Until we have Philip Rance’s new translation, Dennis’ translation of Maurice’s Strategikon has been re-printed.

2025 Chancellor's Research Grants | University of Winnipeg News This year's 2025 Chancellor’s Research Excellence Chair and Chancellor’s Emerging Research Award have been given to Dr. Conor Whately, Classics and Dr. Stephanie Bugden, Psychology.

Classicist Dr. Conor Whately and psychologist Dr. Stephanie Bugden are this year's recipients of the Chancellor's Research grants.

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I’ve got about 16h. But unlike my failed attempt 7 years ago, I’ll be on the right side of the pond and I have many mental contingencies in mind. Fingers crossed 🤞

Wonderful!

Oh cool! Always seemed more of a leaser known piece. If I hadn’t seen it in 2006 in a show in London during the Byzantine congress while I was a PhD student not sure I’d have found out about it. And two trips to Berlin meant I could go see it again twice! No one else was there really. Not popular.

And these guys playing games, and a “gambling machine” just for kicks. I could have picked more (so many great vase paintings) but selecting these have taken me long enough.

These “cicada” brooches (because why not?),

This old fisherman,

These three Roman soldiers and this lady (and all their bling),

This famous family, which looks just like those cast to play them in Gladiator 2,

Loved my whirlwind visits to 3 of Berlin’s museums. Highlights include my favourite (maybe?) sculpture, which I’m due to write about at some point.

After Wroclaw, I’ll be @ Leeds to the last day 10th and speaking midday-ish, well after needed disco recovery, on Agathias and military manuals. I’ll be thrilled to be done and on my way to Devon on Friday (11th) to see family, with a stop in London for beers/ciders with @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social.

Seeing lots of posts about Leeds IMC 2025. I’m on a bus on my way to Poland, where I’ll be, briefly, at FIEC 2025 to talk about Roman soldiers in/around the Red Sea. I started the trip in Berlin, where I spoke on rituals & ritualized behaviour among Roman soldiers in late antiquity.

Congrats!!

Incidentally, I also now picked up this here, complete with fancy backdrop.

Oh! Was this the decision about future things you were thinking about? Great!

Should have added to that last set of posts my surprise at seeing a Greek depiction of Superman punching a horse at the British Museum but there you go. The lengths studios won’t go to advertise their films.

Finally, I want to thank @sentantiq.bsky.social for being such a great keynote speaker. It was a real pleasure to meet him, and his lecture as well as his interactions with students and much more besides went down extremely well. On that note, one last pic with some “Homeric” content from the BM.

Finally, just for fun, let’s throw in the Cyrus cylinder, as you can’t go wrong with a bit of Persian material.

There is some amazing silverware from various hoards, like the Mildenhall dish and the Projekta casket.

I don’t want to entirely leave out the late antique material, so here’s the famous Sutton Hoo mask, which might belong to late Roman/Byzantine foederati if you believe one recent article.

On the subject of the Bronze Age/age of heroes/myth, I took some pics from the frescoes from Herculaneum. One is a scene from Odysseus, the other Icarus and Daedalus.