Hartmut Leppin

Job offer in Syriac studies: uni-frankfurt.de/48794849/FB08_…

25. März: "Achsenzeit und Spätantike. Zum Verhältnis zweier Epochenbezeichnungen". Vortrag von Fellow @hartmut_leppin in der @stabiberlin blog.sbb.berlin/termin/achsenz…

Omar El Manfalouty has been awarded the ZAZH Prize for his dissertation "Freedom Rediscovered – Political Autonomy and Self-Determination in Josephus, Tacitus, and Early Christian Martyr Texts". The chair team warmly congratulates him on this achievement.

The second Frankfurt-Jena Summer Course for Syriac Language and Literature will be hosted at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena from 21 to 24 July, 2025, see drive.google.com/file/d/1IQ7zIM… for more information.

Public games shaped urban life in the Roman Empire up into late antiquity. This new study by Marius Kalfelis is the first to examine the legal texts pertaining to gladiator battles and animal fighting (munera), as well as athletic competitions (agones). 👉 degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Was macht die abrahamitischen Religionen so besonders? Fellow @hartmut_leppin rezensiert "Die religiöse Verwandlung der Welt" von Andreas Merkt zeitung.faz.net/faz/feuilleton…

"It witnesses immense erudition and is a genuinely inspiring read." --BMCR

New #publication: Claudia Rapp, Elitekultur und christliche Religiosität in Spätantike und Byzanz. V & R 2024, 84 pp, based on a lecture given when awarded the "Karl-Christ-Preis für Alte Geschichte" for outstanding research. vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/s… @imafo_oeaw @oeaw

@DanBatovici Congratulations. This sounds great.

Coming up next week: our first of 3 themed seminars on #Syriac studies: "Astronomy and Geography in Cyprus in the 7th century AD. New data from Syriac sources" by Emilie Villey. Weds 28th, 1-2pm, in person PG20 or online (durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…) #AncMedTwitter #ClassicsTwitter

Welcome to the first Centre for Classical Studies seminar for Semester 1 2024! Professor Hartmut Leppin from the Goethe University, Frankfurt, will be talking on 'The Emperor Maurice: From Failure to Holiness'. ⏰3:15pm, 21 February 📍RSSS 1.23 tinyurl.com/53ctsrmn

"The book is a treasure house of detail, fulfilling the author’s aim ‘to show how Christians met the expectations and challenges of their environment.’ ...It is beautifully produced..." --Classics For All

The Early Christians by Hartmut Leppin. Reveals the diversity and strangeness of early Christianity as seen by non-Christian contemporaries and by the modern world. 📚 cup.org/47DvAdd #ancienthistory

#BlackCatholicHistoryMonth Yesterday (11-3) was the feast day #blackcatholic saint St. Martin de Porres - Slave Descent, But Always Free! Born: December 9, 1579 Died: November 3, 1639 Canonized: May 6, 1962 Patron of black & mixed-raced people, Peru, barbers, public health 🧵

DeVore on Leppin, Paradoxe der Parrhesie: eine antike Wortgeschichte bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.10.3…

A Frankfurt conference entitled "The Polycentricity of Late Antiquity" starts on Wednesday (11 October). Take a look at the program: geschichte.uni-frankfurt.de/143204771.pdf.

„Durch seine Sprachkunst und Beobachtungsfreude haben seine Memoiren einen ungewöhnlichen Reiz, auch für Leser, denen sein Fachgebiet ferner liegt.“ @hartmut_leppin (@goetheuni) hat die Autobiografie des #Spätantike-Spezialisten #PeterBrown besprochen. ➡️ faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

@sebamoraga It is planned for September.

@hartmut_leppin when can we expect its publication?

Proofs done

This morning I received the first copy of my book on Theoderic in English translation. Now is the time to thank my translator John Dillon, Heather Gold and YUP for a wonderful collaboration.