UQ Classics and Ancient History

The RD Milns Museum's Wondrous Machines online exhibition is now complete. The online exhibition combines the exhibition text with mechanism images, object images and animations. The exhibition can be accessed via this link …ntiquitiesonlineexhibitions.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

David Pritchard, research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Nantes, recently had this article reflecting on war and peace in democracies in the Ouest-France newspaper on Remembrance Day.

Congrats to ancient history MPhil Student Rory McLennan, who won best poster visuals at the recent HPI research forum!

Seminars this week: Oskar Fletcher (MPhil student, UQ) Apollo Karneios in the Peloponnese Paige Maunder (MPhil student, UQ): Families of the Frontier: Women and Children at Vindolanda October 21 4pm Michie Building (09), Room 536 or d.keenanjones@uq.edu.au for the zoom link

My legal Latin to date has tended to be from Cicero, but it's good to know our state supreme court library has a copy of Lewis and Short for emergencies.

Tomorrow: Dr Kyriaki Psaraki (Hellenic Ministry of Culture archaeologist responsible for Kythera) and Giorgos Didymiotis (filmmaker) present their award-winning film on the Archaeology of Kythera October 14 4pm Michie (09), Room 536 Contact d.keenanjones@uq.edu.au for Zoom link

Another wicker basket from the same room (no. 16) in the new Regio V excavations where two beds & other furniture have been recovered as plaster casts from the voids these organic materials left in the soil 😊👍

#job deadlines! Oct 17 to apply for #jobs x2 (FT; until Dec 2024) @HASSUQ @UQ_ClassAncient in ancient history/classical languages - Lecturer uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcareer… & Associate Lecturer uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcareer…

Just now realising that Aeneas is the only person in Aeneid book 4 who denies that he and Dido were ever married. Every other character - Anna, Dido, Juno, Venus, Rumour, Iarbas, and Mercury - treats the relationship as if it is a marriage. /1

Charlotte Mann behind the scenes prepping our model of Hero of Alexandria’s mobile automaton. Attend our opening event this Friday 7 October to see the final product. Follow the link on our website to register: ow.ly/8X4050L0rpj

Tragically, our first great post-pandemic tourist season has been marred by irresponsible tourists. A statue from the @Musei_Vaticani was smashed by a visitor yesterday.😱😭

... today’s update from Regio V @pompeii_sites : excavation of the beds & and the other furniture continues with more stunning details. 👍 What an incredible amount of new data from one small bedroom!

It’s beginning to look a lot like an exhibition opening! Don’t forget to register for the opening event of Wondrous Machines this Friday 7 October. Follow the link on our website to register: ow.ly/a0jm50L0rmT

CAH Progress Review: Josephine Carroll-Walden: More Than Just Rome's Fashion Police 4pm 16/09 (Today!) Michie (09)- 536 Seminars are also on Zoom. Send an email to Duncan Keenan-Jones (d.keenanjones@uq.edu.au) for the link.

Next week: Roman Republican legend Professor Emeritus Nathan Rosenstein (Ohio State University) Controlling Political Competition: Lessons from Republican Rome? Wed 21/09 5pm 01-E215 – Forgan Smith Building, Learning Theatre The University of Queensland hpi.uq.edu.au/event/session/…

If you're in St Andrews @univofstandrews on Friday (September 16th, 4pm BST, in person only), I'm presenting @StA_Classics on "Classical Fantasies & the Queerness of Mid-Century Muscle Culture" events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/alastai… @GlobalOfficeStA

The exquisite Hindsgavl Dagger. A masterpiece of Neolithic flint knapping, c. 1900-1700 BC. Found on the island of Fænø, Denmark. Photo my own. #Archaeology

A well-preserved road made of oak logs dating to the 1200s has been uncovered by archaeologists in the center of Berlin. archaeology.org/issues/484-220…

Sept 8 Brisbane (in person, 6pm) @CahsUq Student Seminar 2022 - presentations on the late Roman military, diabetes in the ancient world, & Etruscan woman. Register: cahsstudentseminar20-event.getqpay.com