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Now looking forward to the next highlight in our seminar. Next Wednesday at 4.15pm Hartmut Leppin will speak on digital humanities and the the church history of John of Ephesus. Please join us! (2/2)

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.

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

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.

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

#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 🧵

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

"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

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

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

Erst mit einem Reformvorschlag aufwarten, der die schlechte Situation maßgeblich verschärfen wird, und nun mit einem zutiefst zynischen Kommentar sich über alle Kritik hinwegsetzen.

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 Austrian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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…

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.

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.

25. März: "Achsenzeit und Spätantike. Zum Verhältnis zweier Epochenbezeichnungen". Vortrag von Fellow Hartmut Leppin in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin blog.sbb.berlin/termin/achsenz…

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