Our Edinburgh University Press series Edinburgh Byzantine Studies is growing. Here are the two latest excellent additions, the monographs by Alasdair Grant and Nikoloz Aleksidze. Congrats to both!

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Hard copies of 'Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery' with Edinburgh University Press are now starting to arrive – order it via the link below or find it online in open access soon.

Edinburgh is advertising a five year post in Latin:

A reminder of this Friday's half-day workshop in celebration of our Professor of Classical Archaeology, Jim Crow, who retired last year. It's hybrid! Ctr for Late Antique, Islamic & Byzantine Studies ed.ac.uk/history-classi…

Hellenists! The department is advertising a five-year lectureship in Greek, with deadline of 7 June. Please apply / spread the word.
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Are you looking for a book publisher for your research in the ancient world?🏛️Drop me an email and I can tell you more about our proposal process and publishing with Edinburgh University Press 👉 [email protected]

Read this thread! and if you have any brilliant books you'd like to publish on later Latin literature broadly understood, do consider Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature and be in the touch with me or with Aaron Pelttari, the series editors! Edinburgh University Press Helena Heald

Michael Kulikowski and I are doing a talk this afternoon at the Munich Ancient History seminar. 'Looking at Ammianus with Fresh Eyes: The Challenges of a New English Translation'. It is at 16.15 in K001, Altbau. Do come along if you around. (Thanks to kind host John Weisweiler)

May 10 hybrid Brisbane UQ News (4pm) CAHS Research Seminar: Prof Mirko Canevaro (@EdinClassics), Honour(s) for Citizens: Egalitarianism and Social Distinction in Democratic Athens espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:fa572d8 Zoom - register [email protected]

Good news for 1st May is that Dr Ludovico Pontiggia has joined the Department as a The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow -- he has come from Classics@Cambridge and will be working on theomachy in late antique epic.

We have a Ctr for Late Antique, Islamic & Byzantine Studies seminar this afternoon from Mark Vessey (UBC): 'New Latin scriptures, or an author’s works? Reading Jerome’s Catalogue of Famous Men (De viris illustribus / De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis)'. It will be in the Meadows Lecture Theatre at 17.10. All welcome!

Many congratulations to Richard Kendall for passing his PhD viva without corrections! ‘Strategies of Cooperation: Cultural Memory in Olbia in the Early Centuries AD’. Thanks to examiners: Michael Vickers and Eberhard Sauer, and to supervisors: Andrew Erskine and Ben Russell

'Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460' with Edinburgh University Press is now available for pre-order in hardback ahead of release next month! You can get 30% off with the code NEW30. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-greek-cap…