Where did it all go wrong? How can we make it better? @billt (pictured) asks important questions to open the splendidly named Wuthering Bytes conference in Hebden Bridge.

Time to take another look at Xenophon’s Socrates - my blog post for OUP Academic, to go with the newly published Memories of Socrates, Martin Hammond’s translation of the Memorabilia and Apology, with introduction and notes by me: https://blog.oup.com/2023/04/xenophons-kinder-socrates/

Tomorrow! 'Plato’s longue durée:
the politics of time in the later dialogues' at the @cambridge_cpt seminar. Will fulfil my ambition to talk about Atlantis in this seminar...

#introduction

Two decades in #LibTech (currently NYPL) and #MuseTech. #AthenianHistory enthusiast (and PhD). For some reason I spent the pandemic learning more about the ancient Athenian Calendar than I ever I thought I would.

Some projects:
https://pypi.org/project/heniautos/
https://pypi.org/project/juliandate/
https://pypi.org/project/akrophonobolos/
https://github.com/seanredmond/parker_and_dubberstein
https://github.com/seanredmond/attic-demes

@armb Yes, I like the format very much. I’ve another paper coming out on in an edited book hosted on the same platform later this year, also #OpenAccess. I wish more English-language platforms had as good a format.

The busway from Trumpington to Addenbrooke's Hospital at sunset tonight.

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4696) Friday 3rd February 2023.

#photography #Cambridge #CambridgeUK

Newly published: 'Ambiguities of Despotic Power in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia', in 'Transgresser pour mieux régner', Cahiers Mondes Anciens Vol. 17. Very pleased to be in such good company and to be published in this excellent open access format. https://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/4723

Then the following week I'll be at the Cambridge seminar (chez @cambridge_cpt) talking about 'Plato's Longue Durée: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues', taking in Atlantis, Magnesia and Plato's critical engagement with historiography. I'm hoping to get the paper on the seminar web site even if the session itself is delayed... #history #politicalthought #plato #cambridge
https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar/lent

Two seminar outings for new-ish research this term - one for Plato, one for Xenophon. (And both of course subject to UCU strike dates). First up is '“The Work of the Free”: Xenophon and the Politics of Liberality' at the Institute for Historical Research History of Political Ideas seminar, on February 15th. I'll be arguing for a greater emphasis on the link between liberty and liberality in Xenophon's thought.

#history #politicalthought #xenophon #london
https://www.history.ac.uk/events/work-free-xenophon-and-politics-liberality

Perhaps appropriately for the 4th day of a New Year, Antony Gormley's DAZE IV beneath a near full moon over the University’s Sidgwick Site tonight.

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4666) Wednesday 4th January 2023.

#photography #CambridgeUK #cambridge #antonygormley

Very saddened to hear of Professor Amélie Kuhrt’s passing @UCLHistory . Her book on the Persian Empire was instrumental to my doctoral thesis. What an inspiration.

Today I will mostly be wearing this…

#AlanRankineRIP

@billt Am wearing Vivienne Westwood in my photo, if that counts? Sad occasion, also wearing an old Anglomania dress in memoriam.

Sometimes ancient political thought seems like a very niche interest - I just googled 'Xenophon Persian politeia' to see if there was any bibliography I'd missed... Of the five items returned, one was the Wikipedia entry for Xenophon, and the rest were my previous publications on the topic...

Only a few days left to visit 'Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest' at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK - closes on Jan 8 2023. I went back for a second look just before Christmas - it's a remarkable show, combining the situationist spectacle and activism of Powell and Edelstyn's 'Big Bang 2' with a remarkable assembly of defaced and replacement coins and notes created in political conflict. #histodons #politics #art #cambridge

Only a month until publication of my book, “Sport: Antiquity and Its Legacy.” It’s part of a series written for a broad audience that traces the influence of the ancient Greeks & Romans on many topics. My book tackles sport & chapters look at ancient sport, the modern Olympics, physical fitness, stadiums & sports art.

Pre-order here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/sport-9781350140202/

#ancientgreek #ancientrome #ancientroman #classics #ancienthistory @antiquidons @histodons

Travelling to #UCLouvain for at a conference this week (Thu 15th to Fri 16th). "#Isocrates between #Plato and #Aristotle"

Haven't really been to #Belgium for far too long. Now I am thrilled to meet friends and new colleagues and discuss Isocrates' place in the #HistoryofPhilosophy.

And I'll have some #BelgianBeer, obviously.

@philosophy @rhetodons

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4642) Wednesday 7th December 2022.

St Peter's Church, Kettles Yard and deckchairs from The Garden Kitchen.

New volume of #AntikeUndAbendland just published by #DeGruyter @litstudies @neolatin @histodons @historikerinnen @renaissance @italianstudies @philosophy

Breaking off from admissions interviews to look at final proofs of 'Memories of Socrates' - Martin Hammond's new translation of Xenophon's Memorabilia and Apology, with introduction and notes by me, for Oxford World's Classics. I think that Martin catches the school-masterly tone of Xenophon's Socrates rather well...

#xenophon #socrates #paperback

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/memories-of-socrates-9780198856092?cc=gb&lang=en