Gavin Kelly
@GavinKellyLatin
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Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Joined July 2018
Dreadful move on the part of the @uOttawa : closing admissions in Greek & Roman Honours programme (after having already closed down MA in Late Antiquity. The death-knell of Latin and Greek, taught there since 1848. O temporal! O mores!
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@ArmandDAngour I had a go at this a few years back into Glaswegian. Very hard to do without sounding homophobic (which I’m not - I was very pleased with Furi-arse etc though).
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brilliant translation of Catullus 16
@ArmandDAngour I had a go at this a few years back into Glaswegian. Very hard to do without sounding homophobic (which I’m not - I was very pleased with Furi-arse etc though).
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First blogpost of the year, on 'Translating Ammianus Marcellinus. Book 14'! Three examples of progress in translation.👇
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... on my Ausonius blog (which has the advantage that you can comment if you have a critique...) https://t.co/PlTmJreDK9 Enjoy!
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It is available both on the new blog of the Last Historians of Rome AHRC project, which has the advantage that you can also read Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen's summary of their brilliant book on Aurelius Victor for @AntigoneJournal
https://t.co/rLLaJ6a7bH and also ...
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First blogpost of the year, on 'Translating Ammianus Marcellinus. Book 14'! Three examples of progress in translation.👇
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while Dr Justin Stover (@OxGTLC) has been promoted to Professor of Medieval Latin. Another Latinist, Dr Janja Soldo, has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Finally, Dr Alex Imrie @AlexImrie23 has been promoted to Teaching Fellow in Acnient History. Congratulations to all!
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August brings a number of promotions in the Department. Two of these are to personal chairs: Dr Benedikt Eckhardt, who has stood down from his role as Head of Department after three years' service, becomes Professor of the History of the Ancient Mediterranean World...
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A quick plug for the Fringe: for the next week, the Hopkins School in New Haven is performing a dramatisation of the Latin textbook Ecce Romani, starting today at 10! They'll be very glad to see Latin fans in the audience (& meet them after). Details here
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Poignant memorial service today @Peterhouse_Cam for famed Sinologist Dr Michael Loewe (1922-2025), followed by presentation @heffersbookshop for his last book, published in May by @BloomsburyAcad, which I co-edited with Prof Michael Nylan (@UCBerkeley)
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Now for our latest books give-away: 38 Classics books to be raffled off for free. Just RT this message, follow us, and we will make the draw on Monday 9 June. 1st name gets 20 books, 2nd 12, 3rd 6. Open to all, good luck! (Will post details and photos of each book this evening.)
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and a version of my chapter can be found here: https://t.co/y4PxbF4H44 (3/3)
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It arises from a chapter in this book by Roy Gibson and Chris Whitton.... https://t.co/xl6KvH34rD (2/3)
cambridge.org
Cambridge Core - European Literature - The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
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I enjoyed being interviewed by Anthony Kaldellis on his brilliant podcast Byzantium and friends about the periodisation of Latin literature (and a little about Greek), especially in Late Antiquity. https://t.co/WOliB0xcGU (1/3)
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The sublime opening "Hymn to Venus" of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura recast as a Homeric hymn to Aphrodite by the teenage HAJ Munro when a schoolboy at Shrewsbury in the 1830s.
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The programme for the Classical Association conference hosted by @StA_Classics is out: on 11 July our brilliant colleague Prof. Lucy Grig is giving one of the keynote lectures
ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Meet Professor Grig, Professor Halliwell, and Dr Hauser…
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The first PhD student I have ever supervised who submitted in less than three years (and remarkable for other reasons too).
Congratulations to Dr Delila Jordan for passing her PhD without corrections: "Servius' Commentary on Vergil's Eclogues: Introduction and Commentary on praefatio and Eclogues 1-3". Many thanks to the examiners, Fabio Stok and Calum Maciver. +
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Not sure how many folks still use this platform, but I hope you will share notice of a new scheme designed to spur interest in Classics in the state sector, with help from friends at Glasgow Academy. Places in N5 Latin, Higher and Adv Higher Classical Studies classes available!
We're proud to introduce a new initiative to spur uptake of Latin and Classical Studies in Scottish state schools. SATCS is an unprecendented collaboration between state & independent sectors, offering virtual access to N5, Higher & Adv Higher courses at Glasgow Acad.
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Today! but NB that the venue has changed to the Adam House Basement Theatre
On Wednesday 5 February at 5.10 in G.16, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Dr Christina Leopold (Zurich) will speak on 'Colossal statues in Olympia: Archaeological evidence of the statue setting' (8)
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