Shoni Lavie-Driver
@ShoniBLD
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Postdoc (JRF) in Classics at New College, Oxford. Language in Roman Judaea-Palaestina - PhD on Caesarea, and now Jerusalem!
Joined November 2018
For anyone who would like to read my PhD on Language in Roman Caesarea Maritima, a copy can be requested here
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Two good Dutch words: stiekem 'secretly' < שתיקה 'silence'; smoes 'excuse' < שמועת 'rumours'
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Tower of Hercules, La Coruña. Built in the 1st century, it is the oldest Roman lighthouse still in operation in the world.
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Pre-incarnate Christ giving the Tablets of the Law to Moses, Abbey of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, France (12th century)
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Church of St George (Rotunda) Thessaloniki - the mosaics never fail to take my breath away
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Quite an astonishing find at Nicaea.
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In a frescoed tomb at Iznik’s Hisardere Necropolis, a rare Good Shepherd image of Jesus offers a new glimpse into Early Christian faith in Anatolia
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✨From the archives: St Mary’s, Breamore in Hampshire, is one of the most complete late Anglo-Saxon churches we have — a building that’s held its ground for over a millennium. Here I photographed it with the Elizabethan Breamore House behind it, two eras folded into one view.
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Move over Univ., Balliol, Merton: could New College be Oxford's oldest?
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The AI takeover is happening (from Leonid Kulikov's recent paper 'Κένταυρος, Κέρβερος and Their Possible Etymological Relatives')
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En las montañas del norte de #Corcega se encuentra San Michele de Murato, erigida en el s. XII el el románico de Pisa imperante entonces en la época. Su decoración principal viene de las piedras verdes y blancas de su exterior. Cuenta con una nave única y figuras alegóricas.
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Fun fact: the Old English word for a pearl was meregrot, or “sea pebble.” The Anglo-Saxons took Latin margarīta (“pearl”) and bent it into the native words mere (“sea”) + grot (“pebble”), so it was simultaneously a loanword and pure native English.
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Slightly dates the book by suggesting getting a friendly Chinese waiter to read the poem out for you
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Dios bendiga los prólogos de Cátedra, uno de los últimos reductos de la alta cultura literaria hispánica.
es verdad eso de que en cátedra te compras el estudio y te regalan la obra
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