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Esther Meijer

@esthermeijer.bsky.social

Latinist @ St Andrews. Working on: early imperial & philosophical epistemologies, narratives of incorporation, pleasure/rhetoric/philosophy/patronage. 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 Also love: sci-fi, yarny arts, bitterballen.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn@lizgloyn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just in case this got lost on Friday, sharing again this WonkHE piece on Phase 1 of the project that I'm running with @emizuc.bsky.social, @zenakamash.bsky.social and Lee Dibben on supporting students in the Classics dept living with neurodivergence and/or mental illness. It is good, important work.

Asking students about the challenges they face

Lee Dibben, Liz Gloyn, Zena Kamash and Emilio Zucchetti explain how engaging with students who are neurodivergent or living with a mental health condition can identify simple and effective interventio...

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Esther Meijer@esthermeijer.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Screenshot. Text reads: (Re)Producing The Egyptian: Arboricultural Cultivation Of The Roman State In Lucan’s Civil War. Esther Meijer. Abstract: This article examines the changing relationship between Rome and Egypt in Lucan’s Civil War. It applies philological and ideological analyses to the epic’s destabilisation and restabilisation of the body politic of the Roman state as discernible from two interrelated sets of imagery: firstly, the language of arboriculture and propagation as evoked by Virgil’s Georgics and Theocritus’s 17th Idyll; and, secondly, the mortuary treatments applied to Pompey’s body parts. Key to the restabilisation of the res publica is Caesar’s interpretation of Pompey’s remains, which reproduces Egypt as “Other” in relation to Rome while acknowledging its now enduring presence within the empire.
Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2y ago

New issue Arethusa Vol. 57, No. 3 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/53371 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Visions of Egypt in Imperial Latin Literature @elainam42.bsky.social @julesadv.bsky.social @esthermeijer.bsky.social

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Esther Meijer@esthermeijer.bsky.social · 3y ago

I’ve been teaching Tacitus’ Agricola for one of our Latin honours modules @ St Andrews, and I couldn’t resist including an inscription from the Hunterian for tomorrow’s session about freedom and enslavement 🧑🏼‍🏫

PowerPoint slide depicting a relief with inscription and a translation. The relief is in the shape of a triumphal arch. In the middle, a person raises their hand victoriously. Around them, people are kneeling and in chains: they are captives. Translation of inscription is: for the emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father of his country, a detachment of the twentieth valiant and victorious legion built (this) over a distance of 3000 feet. Found near Hutcheson Hill, West Dunbartonshire, F.1969.22, Hunterian Museum Glasgow.
Esther Meijer@esthermeijer.bsky.social · 3y ago

Today was supposed to be my last day at St Andrews - but I am very glad and relieved to be sticking around for most of the new academic year. 😊🙏🏻 Especially excited to get to continue to teach and support their wonderful, creative, and incisive students!

Esther Meijer@esthermeijer.bsky.social · 3y ago

Today I submitted an article (the main fruit of this summer 🍊, alongside, y’know, five job interviews and many more job applications) and sent a number of emails I’d been postponing before finally turning on my out of office. Annual leave, here I come. 🧜🏻