Dr Esther Meijer

Hello! My new article is now out in Arethusa: '(Re)Producing The Egyptian: Arboricultural Cultivation Of The Roman State In Lucan’s Civil War'. I consider the epic's tree imagery as metaphor for the Roman state, pointing to the protagonists' attempts at cultivation & propagation.

@sapphicapuella To my great relief we have lots of them here in Fife too :)

More beautiful bluebells. Truly the best time of year here in gorgeous #NorthEast

Unpaid internships ‘locking out’ young working-class people from careers Research by Sutton Trust found that middle-class graduates made more use of internships as stepping stones even in cases where the internships paid nothing or below the minimum wage theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

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Hello! My new article is now out in Arethusa: '(Re)Producing The Egyptian: Arboricultural Cultivation Of The Roman State In Lucan’s Civil War'. I consider the epic's tree imagery as metaphor for the Roman state, pointing to the protagonists' attempts at cultivation & propagation.

@Hosmeriana I am a sucker for fizz so this sounds great

@hypsipyle I’ve also used fizzy orange vitamin c tablets and then it’s a bit like medicinal Fanta

I know it’s a risk they’ll take my ILR away but lemsip really is a sign of the rot deep at the heart of the English national character

@Hosmeriana This is a great tip I’m taking notes

@hypsipyle I mix it with my expensive pukka lemon and manuka honey tea and that makes it drinkable but unpleasant

This may be the most important #ReflectingRealities report from @clpe1 yet. Please read, and reflect—everyone involved with children and their books has a role to play in ensuring books are representative of their lives.

@NoreenMasud I have! I have used it for lectures and seminars on displacement of prisoners of war in the context of flat landscapes in Latin literature 😊 both for UK summer schools in Classics and for an honours module I designed for the School of Classics at Uni of St Andrews

A REQUEST: if you have cited or used either my critical or creative work - or put it on a reading list - or used it to inform your practice of any kind in any way - the weirder the better - pls let me know, for eminently guessable Reasons

Hate to do it but money is very tight and I would appreciate any traction you can give my shop! I will be working all outstanding orders over the weekend so any order placed between now and Sunday will be dispatched on Monday 🫶

@matilda_jt such a mood

And fixed-term academics are among those who most need these opportunities for professional development!

there are lots of things about fixed-term contracts in HE that send me into a rage, and not least among them is how difficult it makes applying for most kinds of research funding

@ConsMW Rude :p

In Athens, I gave a paper in which I attempted to trace fragments of Republican tragedy via Cicero, Lucretius, and Seneca to Valerius Flaccus, thinking about murmura, ships, sea storms, and theatre acoustics - it was great fun!

Have had an awful time at the Tragedy in Flavian Epic conference in Athens this week 🌞🍦🏛️🐈‍⬛

@Hosmeriana @forarthistory @walkergallery I BOW TO U

@hypsipyle @forarthistory @walkergallery MAYBE

Loved giving a chaotic curator’s view of the nineteenth-century art collection as part of @forarthistory Art History Festival at @walkergallery today!

@LeniaKouneni Thank you Lenia!

@hypsipyle Such good news!

Some tables have turned in unexpected ways, and I am so pleased to be at St Andrews again this upcoming academic year. This time I have brought posters.

@anna_coopey 😊😊 I’ll be in the same office, name plate and all!

@VsevolodKhusid 😊😊