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Leonardo Costantini

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Lecturer in Classics at @Bristoluni, interested in manuscripts, literature, movies and (good) TV-series. Opinions are my own.

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The author's copies of the GCA 3 have arrived!

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The study of Greek metre has so long been dogged by mind-melting jargon and swamped with tedious technicalities. But it need not be thus: we can step outside and see metrical species in their natural habitat. Come take a saunter among the poetic fauna! antigonejournal.com/2022/07/field-…


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CONFERENCE UK subject meeting for classicists and ancient historians, organised with CUCD @cucdbulletin 🗓️16 December, 9:45am - 6pm 📍Senate House ⤵️Details and booking: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/uk-subj…


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Petition to support the undergraduate teaching of Classical subjects at Lampeter...petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/2464… Please circulate widely!


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Call for Applications: The Basel Fellowships in Latin Literature 2025/26 Full details at: tinyurl.com/3fm3at67

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Looking forward to the conference ‘Cicero: orator et poeta’ I’m organising with Stefan Tilg in Freiburg on 12-13 May 2025: altphil.uni-freiburg.de/termine/cicero… Delighted to have @sicsicsinefine and @doctor_episcopa as speakers and other brilliant colleagues!


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The best (and longest running) medieval PGR conference is back and bigger than ever! Keep your eyes peeled for plenary speaker and workshop announcements over the coming weeks 👀

We are so delighted to announce the call for papers for this year’s @BristolCMS PGR conference! 🎉🎉🎉 This year’s theme is ‘Memory and Legacy’. Find the cfp here: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/pgr-conference… #medievaltwitter #cfp

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The TLL podcast has now reached its 10th episode, with Kathleen Coleman on negotiator! Have a listen and let us know what you think. We are still experimenting and plan to bring out more material soon 🗃️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tll…


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Great review for one of our Elements in Publishing and Book Culture. Well done, @SamuNiskanen

'This volume of Cambridge Elements deserves nothing but praise. Keeping with the aim of the series, it offers a concise and insightful guide to the relationship between authors and popes from the fourth to the eleventh century.' - Paolo Sachet, Jahrbuch für…

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Lukas Dorfbauer and I produced an editio princeps (three years in the making), which I’m delighted to see published in the latest issue of the Revue d'Histoire des Textes: brepols.net/products/IS-97…

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Today we inaugurate the five-year AHRC-funded project ;The Last Historians of Rome' with a public lecture by Michael Kulikowski (@PennState), 'Government, Bureaucracy, and the Writing of History', 5.10 GMT, Teviot Lecture Theatre or online (Teams details below). You can ... (1)


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#LAM24 Serious research into laughter @SabenaJ @ArtfulDoctor

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A zodiac horse! Found in a 15th century Italian treatise on the health of horses. BL Add MS 15097 #MedievalMonday and #manuscriptmonday

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Rare witness in Carolingian minuscule of the commentary on Donatus' Ars minor by the 9th-c grammarian Rémy of Auxerre (@UniHalle, AB 50 B 12/k, 1) #fragmentology fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-psvi

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A. Rohrwacher's La Chimera (2023) is a powerful and touching film which manages to capture the brutality of tomb robbing in central Italy. Every time this happens, it's as if a page of the history of humanity is torn out forever.

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Frammento di manoscritti in scrittura beneventana, XI secolo, già noto e registrato in BMB, usato come guardie posteriori di un incunabolo. Ambrogio, Commento al Vangelo di Luca 🔍✏️📖

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Mi sono messa in testa di fare la pergamena per scopi didattici… e l’ho fatta! 💛🤩🧡 #pergamena #vellum #parchment seguendo la ricetta di Teofilo!

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Brexit, the gift that keeps giving… 🤦🏻‍♀️

UK universities have embarked on fresh round of cost-cutting, targeting departments and projects previously seen as off limits, as impact of decline in international student numbers becomes clearer, writes @TWilliamsTHE timeshighereducation.com/news/new-cuts-…



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Donald Russell would have turned 104 today. Here is to him and to St John's Classics!

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It's our 20th anniversary and #HiSoN is coming home to @UoBArtsMatter with founder Prof. Nils Langer and the brilliant @JoannaKopaczyk . Don't miss out and submit your abstract by 𝟭𝟱 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 @linguistlist hison2025.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

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Apart from the grotesquely disproportionate penalties for trivial sums, and the confusing small print, this is a ridiculous use of court time. The railways in Britain are a disaster in multiple ways. Total overhaul of services and regulation required. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o…


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