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Olivier Gengler

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Senior researcher, Heidelberg Academy. Malalas, Sparta, Pausanias, historiography, narratology. Father, baker, painter, maker. 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇦🇹🇬🇷🇨🇭🏴‍☠️

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Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Apr 23

We have no idea who John Malalas was or in how many steps the “Chronographia” transmitted under his name was written, but if you want to have a look into our project on this early Byzantine world chronicle, there is a short video (in German with English subtitles) here: youtu.be/hcTiM6C7THY?...

Kurzporträt | Das Projekt „Malalas-Kommentar“ stellt sich vor

YouTube video by Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften

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Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · 23h

Irgendwelche Pläne für morgen?

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Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · 4d

Indiana Jones and reviewer 2

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · 13d

It was always a funny competition with my colleagues at the start of term : who got the leaflets ? (I never got one obviously)

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · 14d

Here a cat wondering too if it’s a good idea

A black cat sneaking through a door opening

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Akademienunion @akademienunion.bsky.social · 26d

🗓️ Am 27. September lädt der Akademientag in Heidelberg unter dem Motto „Einander verstehen – Gemeinsam in die Zukunft“ zum Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft, Kunst und Gesellschaft ein. Spannende Panels, Performances, ein Poetry Slam und Mitmachstationen erwarten Sie. Zum Programm 🔗 shorturl.at/ddMES

Einander verstehen – Gemeinsam in die Zukunft
Akademientag 2025

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Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · 26d

And now I miss Belgium…

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · Sep 11

CDU Politikerin Caroline Bosbach behauptet auf ihrem Instagram-Kanal, Kirk habe „Andersdenkende“ „nicht ausgegrenzt“, „kaum jemand stand so für freie Debatte“. Hier ist nur eine kleine Auswahl seiner Tweets der letzten 4 Wochen

Twitter: Charlie Kirk & @charliekirk11
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President Trump is going out on patrol tonight in
DC.
Shock and awe. Force.
We're taking our country back from these cockroaches.
Just the start.

Twitter: Charlie Kirk & m
@charliekirk11•14.08.25
Why are we still putting up with this garbage?
@TaraBull808 •14.08.25
The NFL's first transgender cheerleader, Justine Simone of the Carolina Panthers' TopCats, has returned for their third season

Charlie Kirk hat repostet
Wall Street Mav !
@WallStreetMav
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Charlie Kirk: "I do not know how to solve this problem. I am open to suggestion"
"White college indoctrinated women will ruin America if we let them. They are brainwashed.
They are completely indoctrinated. The worldview that is being uploaded to young women on a daily basis is hyper narcissistic, hyper selfish. I am the only one that matters.
Who are you to tell me how I should act? And it makes them miserable."

Twitter Charlie Kirk: Importing millions of Muslims is civilizational suicide. Europe must stop, or die.

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Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sie sieht genauso aus wie meine!

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Sep 6

C’est fascinant ! Il y a des textes antiques assez similaires.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · Sep 1

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press!

#ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Book Series

Published by Edinburgh University Press The study of ancient Greek religion stands at a critical methodological juncture. While foundational frameworks like the polis-religion model have yielded...

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Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social · Sep 1

Everything I've ever published was written against a steady backdrop of care work with intermittent bouts of sheer personal terror — made extra terrific by being on a fixed-term, contingent appointment.

All this to say, academics are not robots. Be kind when evaluating (junior) colleagues.

a woman says " everything hurts and i 'm dying "

ALT: a woman says " everything hurts and i 'm dying "

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Jennifer S. Henke @jenniferhenke.bsky.social · Aug 29

Stell Dir vor, eine aus Steuergeldern bezahlte Firma bildet am Fließband hochspezialisiertes und in der Regel überengagiertes Personal aus, von dem ein Großteil jedoch hauptsächlich für Tätigkeiten in der eigenen Firma - oder Schwesterfirma in einem anderen Bundesland - qualifiziert wird. 1/5

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Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 24

You have to buy and read exclusively books from the U.S. I guess?

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 12

Chronographia XVIII 46 (p. 378-9)
The story is remarkably well structured with an announce of the event, a flash back, the encounter with Justinian and the subsequent mission. Only the encounter with Justinian is dated in the year 529. The following battle against the Huns occurred probably later.

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 12

2. In 529 AD, the Gepid prince Moundos went over to the Romans, in Constantinople. The Chronographia gives his backstory: how he went to his uncle in Sirmium after his father's death and then to Theoderich. Justinian received him and his men and sent him in Thrace, where he destroyed the Huns.

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 12

Chronographia, XVIII 23 (p. 367 Thurn)
The story certainly circulated with the intent to present a positive image of Justinian. Although it is probably anachronistic to call it propaganda, it certainly reflect the imperial ideology, just like the historical introductions accompanying certain Novels.

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 12

1. Eulalios, a comes domesticorum, ruined after a fire, made Justinian his rightful heir with a mandate to pay 15 folles every day to each of his three daughters and to provide them with a dowry . Against the advice of his curator, the emperor accepted and granted the girls an even larger dowry.

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 12

I managed to delete my earlier post, so I'll put here new facts!

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 12

Ich kann das empfehlen:

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Bisschen weit weg aber sonst perfekt passend!

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Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 11

2. A member of the tribe of Japeth named Hesiod lived in the time of Abraham and invented the Greek alphabet.

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 9

Do you find those in the U.S., especially the cheese?

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 8

One follis was probably enough for one day of subsistence at the time.

Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social · Aug 6

Let’s go! One like, one (weird) fact or story from Malalas’s Chronographia.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · Aug 6

One like, one line out of my new upcoming Fall of Rome book.

Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social · Jul 31

One like, one Roman history opinion.

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Privatdozent:in, Universität X @pdprekaer.bsky.social · Jul 17

Es gibt ein neues Netzwerk: #PDprekär

Was wir fordern:

1. Abschaffung der verpflichtenden Titellehre!

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Kristin Eichhorn @drkeichhorn.bsky.social · Jul 17

"Wir fordern: Abschaffung der verpflichtenden Titularlehre. Und wenn es Lehraufträge gibt, dann bitte: bezahlt!"

@jenniferhenke.bsky.social, @juliahauser.bsky.social und @joergsternagel.bsky.social gründen #PDprekär und berichten darüber bei @jmwiarda.bsky.social!

Titel ohne Zukunft?

www.jmwiarda.de

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