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Peter Sarris

@peter_sarris

11 months

I have it at last…

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Peter Sarris

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16 days

Overheard in a pizza place in DC last night: Long-haired tipsy customer: ‘Everything has been caused by imperialism. The reason you don’t know your real language but speak Spanish is because of imperialism’ Server: ‘I don’t speak Spanish. i speak Turkish.’

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

Recently a German university accidentally paid me my travel expenses twice. Accordingly I repaid second payment - giving them in £ exactly what I received in £. They are now asking for more to make up for what they have lost in currency fluctuations etc. What a cheek! Tough luck.

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Peter Sarris

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4 months

To my mind one of the most brilliant living historians of the ancient Greek world with what will prove to be one of the most monumental works of this century.

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Peter Sarris

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2 years

Overheard a N. American student in Cambridge: ‘When people here say “can I help you?” it feels like they are saying “Please stop what you are doing and go away.”’ Yep - generally a pretty good translation of that particular nuance of British English.

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Peter Sarris

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6 months

Whoever they are I hope they go to prison. If they are students, I hope they are expelled. If they are not British citizens,I hope they are chucked out of the country. Morons.

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Peter Sarris

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10 months

Some rivalries never fade -spotted in Waterstones in Oxford…

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Peter Sarris

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11 months

A few advance copies in my office …

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Peter Sarris

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2 months

Totally bowled over that ‘Justinian’ has won the London Hellenic Prize against stiff competition from over 150 wonderful entrants! It is a huge honour to be reckoned alongside such past winners as @19Averil , Mark Mazower, Peter Parsons et al. Amazing news!

London Hellenic Prize

@LHellenicPrize

2 months

Peter Sarris' "Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint" ( @BasicBooksUK ) is the winner of this year's London Hellenic Prize. Warmest congratulations to @peter_sarris for a brilliant biography of one of the most controversial emperors of Byzantium!

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Peter Sarris

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5 months

Mt Olympos from my balcony - I hate leaving Greece!

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Peter Sarris

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6 months

Waiting for mass demonstrations in London to protest against the (actual) genocide of Armenians.

Marcus Walker

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6 months

The last Christian country in the Middle East is about to be obliterated. The ethnic cleansing of Christians from the lands of their birth is not far from completion. Not only will the West do nothing, we are likely not even to notice.

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

The proofs have landed…

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

About to finally complete on the purchase of an apartment in Agios Pavlos, Thessaloniki. This is a view from the balcony. Looking forward to doing lots of writing there…

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Peter Sarris

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6 months

In village pub this evening: saw a lovely but slightly shy dog. Told the owner how pretty she was and he said he was a rescue dog from Cyprus. I addressed the doggy in Cypriot Greek: she looked up, came over, rolled on her back, and got a belly rub.

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Peter Sarris

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16 days

@KomnenosMegas The customer said ‘How are things in Turkey?’ He replied ‘Very bad. Very bad inflation.’ Customer said: ‘That is because of imperialism.’ Reply: ‘No, it is because of Erdogan’. Customer: ‘Trust me, there is inflation is everywhere. Erdogan is fine. It is imperialism’

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

I remember a Fellow of All Souls who had been elected in 1926 telling me that at his first dinner there, an elderly Fellow asked him how he had spent the day. After hearing that he had been off riding a bicycle, the elderly Fellow replied: ‘Ah, bicycles. They are after my time.’

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1 year

‘The bicycle is fascinating,’ Flora Mayor wrote to her sister from Newnham College, Cambridge in 1892. ‘It’s much easier than skating [but] one must have knickerbockers for it.’ #ViragoModernClassics

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Peter Sarris

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2 years

We have a cover for the US edition ⁦ @BasicBooks ⁩

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

I have a cover for the UK edition

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Peter Sarris

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1 month

Two of the greatest privileges of my life: having spoken in Greek to a survivor of the sack of Smyrna (when I was a schoolboy: Petro - these English people are driving me mad - speak to me in Greek and I’ll give you a cigarette); and speaking in Greek to Constantinopolitans.

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Peter Sarris

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11 months

Pergamon

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

About to start my last re-read of the copy edit …

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Peter Sarris

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11 months

Istanbul by day, Constantinople by night…

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

The Eastern Walls of Thessaloniki by night

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Peter Sarris

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8 months

Happy Epiphany from Thessaloniki

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Peter Sarris

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8 months

Nice to see my book for sale in my hometown of St Albans alongside one of my books of the year for ⁦ @EngelsbergIdeas ⁩ : Robin Lane Fox on Homer and His Iliad

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Peter Sarris

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11 months

Thanks for everyone who came to my book launch last night - was great fun! ⁦ @doujohyou ⁩ ⁦ @betterworldecon ⁩ ⁦ @BasicBooksUK ⁩

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Peter Sarris

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10 months

Back in Oxford - the 30th anniversary of my election as a Fellow of All Souls. Also had a very good night catching up with old friends at The Jolly Farmers

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Peter Sarris

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10 months

It would be rude not to … ⁦ @miltonbrewery ⁩

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Peter Sarris

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7 months

Looking forward to reviewing this for ⁦ @EngelsbergIdeas ⁩

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Peter Sarris

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16 days

@HamrickPaul @yuanyi_z Nothing more illiberal than a certain type of liberal.

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Peter Sarris

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2 years

When I was at Balliol I remember a porter chuckling about an encounter he had just had with an aggressive tourist. The college was closed to public but visitor said: ‘But you must let me in! I am a Professor at Yale! Do you know it?’ Porter: ‘Yes, sir, I think you make our keys.’

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

I once overheard a conversation between the partners of two SRFs at All Souls: Partner A :‘My husband is very clever - he has read everything Derrida has ever published.’ Partner B: ‘But isn’t it a better indication of intelligence to know when to stop?’

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Peter Sarris

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11 months

The column of Constantine

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Peter Sarris

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8 months

Spotted in Ankara via ⁦ @Fall_of_Zeynep ⁩

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

Move into my new teaching rooms getting there: half my books still to arrive and mirrors, pictures and curtains need putting up. But probably where I will happily spend the last 18 years of my career…

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Peter Sarris

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2 months

Errr… what shadows?

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2 months

Greek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows

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Peter Sarris

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3 months

Relaxing with a beer and the only self-help book any Byzantinist should need - the Strategikon of Kekaumenos…

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Peter Sarris

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2 years

New book on Justinian off to the copy-editor…

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Peter Sarris

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The walls of the Hippodrome this morning…

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Peter Sarris

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2 years

Amazing knitted postbox topper in St Albans showing the Abbey/Cathedral

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

A word of warning to my colleagues; my forthcoming book on Justinian has been written for the intellectually engaged reading public. Not for them.

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Peter Sarris

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St Irene’s today…

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

This is a wonderful book!!!!

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Peter Sarris

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11 months

In good company with ⁦ @RoryStewartUK ⁩ and ⁦ @EmilyRCWilson ⁩ (we were all ⁦ @BalliolOxford ⁩ at the same time)

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Peter Sarris

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5 months

Greek sausage and Byzantine walls in Thessaloniki - what is not to like?

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Peter Sarris

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4 months

My forthcoming Spanish cover (out in September)

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

In preparation for a tour I will shortly be lecturing on, I am re-reading one of my favourite books about post-Byzantine Constantinople

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Peter Sarris

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11 months

Lesbos viewed from the western church of Assos

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Peter Sarris

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5 months

Waiting for the demonstrations in London.

Simon Maghakyan

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5 months

Today marks the first time since the year 301 when Easter is not celebrated in Nagorno-Karabakh. Here is a photo from the last celebration — in 2023 — during #ArtsakhBlockade

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Peter Sarris

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2 months

Highlight of my talk on Justinian in Oxford yesterday: a British engineer resident in Chicago called Andrew who was visiting UK came to Oxford just for the talk because he had enjoyed my book on Justinian so much, buying a second copy from Blackwells for me to sign @BasicBooksUK

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Peter Sarris

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1 month

Mt Olympus from my balcony in the winter

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Peter Sarris

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9 months

Take that Dan Brown…

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Peter Sarris

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The very fine ‘red’ basilica of Pergamon

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

Where else is a Byzantinist to eat?

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Peter Sarris

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4 months

We have the Dutch cover too…

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Peter Sarris

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3 months

It looks like a Greek translation of Justinian will be forthcoming (Dutch, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese and others in press). I am sure he would have approved!

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Peter Sarris

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4 months

Justinian’s consular diptych…

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Peter Sarris

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I am told the first US copies were hot off the press yesterday…

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

www.amazon.com

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Peter Sarris

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1 month

Me - I think in the Roman amphitheatre in Salamis in now occupied Cyprus, with my uncle and aunt, sister, mother, and another relative - not long before the invasion

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2 years

What a day to be in Greece…

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Peter Sarris

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8 months

Epiphany sunset from my balcony in Thessaloniki

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Peter Sarris

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Temple of Athena, Assos

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

Mt Olympus at dusk from my balcony…

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Peter Sarris

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14 days

Delighted to see that the Greek Prime Minister @kmitsotakis has Justinian on his Summer reading list! @BasicBooksUK @BasicBooks @doujohyou @CamHistory

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14 days

O ΠΘ περνά το μήνυμα του για τη συνέχιση της κεντρώας πολιτικής μέσα από τα βιβλία που προτείνει για διάβασμα (the centre must hold). Να του επισημάνουμε μόνο πως με τον τρόπο που κινείται το «κέντρο» σήμερα οδηγεί τη Δύση σε ένα άλλο βιβλίο. To “clash of civilisations”

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Peter Sarris

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11 months

No longer visitable

The Hidden Face of Istanbul

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The Deesis Mosaic of Hagia Sophia

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Peter Sarris

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Octopus stifado for lunch in the Ano Poli of Thessaloniki

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Sunset and the eastern walls of Thessaloniki from my balcony

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Peter Sarris

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1 month

One of the many very nice things about being in Washington D.C. is being able to discuss the history of Aksum with very well informed and rightly proud cab drivers

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Peter Sarris

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24 days

Available for 99 new pence! Take Justinian and Theodora to the beach

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Peter Sarris

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9 months

I’m really sorry but the idea pedelled by many that far right racist extremists are motivated by their respect for Braverman is ridiculous. She ain’t no Enoch Powell. The far right response and her response were ´unleashed’ by the decision to hold a massive demo on 11/11.

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Just awful what has been unleashed….

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Peter Sarris

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9 months

A very generous - and beautifully illustrated - review of Justinian

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

My walk to the gym this morning

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3 months

Relaxing in the garden with a good book…

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The sun setting over the Byzantine Empire in Thessaloniki

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Peter Sarris

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My final lunch in Thessaloniki for a while - time to get back to work…

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Peter Sarris

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8 months

Can people please stop using the word ‘colonialism’ when they mean ‘imperialism’? It is an Americanism that is not helpful.

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Peter Sarris

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11 months

Just gave a lecture on Justinian which reduced some of my audience to tears - for once it wasn’t due to boredom but thanks to the amazing @cappellaromana as I played them their lost music of Hagia Sophia.

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Peter Sarris

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9 months

I can’t wait to read this - it will be monumental!

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Peter Sarris

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2 years

Looks like I am buying a small apartment in Thessaloniki #midlifecrisis 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

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9 months

Sunset over Thessaloniki with Mt Olympus in the distance …

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11 months

Pergamon viewed from the (amazing) Asclepion

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3 months

First day back in Thessaloniki - time for some proper food…

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Peter Sarris

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5 months

My last sunset in Thessaloniki for a while - and a great last day discussing the Empress Theodora with ⁦ @tweeter_anita ⁩ and ⁦ @DalrympleWill ⁩ for ⁦ @EmpirePodUK ⁩

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Peter Sarris

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2 months

I do like the cover of the Spanish translation of my Byzantium - A Very Short Introduction (also available in Greek, Polish, Chinese, and - obviously - English).

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Peter Sarris

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3 months

One of my favourite pictures: my papou (grandfather) Costas Sarris visiting from Cyprus c.1980 with the rescue dog we had just got from the RSPCA (they named her Gypsy). She would be with us for another 20 years. He alas passed away 16 years later (in his 90s).

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

Me giving my last lecture on the Near East in the Age of Justinian and Muhammad in 2040.

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11 months

Ephesus

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Peter Sarris

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5 months

Delighted to see @josephinequinn is coming to Cambridge as the new Professor of Ancient History!!!! 🥂🥂🥂🥂🍾

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Peter Sarris

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4 months

My review of Anthony Kaldellis’ The New Roman Empire

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The secret to Byzantium’s success | @peter_sarris

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Peter Sarris

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5 months

To all my friends who celebrated Easter today

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Peter Sarris

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4 months

Funny how there weren’t all these demonstrations outside @Eurovision when Azerbaijan were performing #genocide #ethniccleansing

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Peter Sarris

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8 months

Mt Olympus at sunset

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Peter Sarris

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5 months

This time next week I will be back in Thessaloniki (writing my review of Kaldellis’ recent magnum opus)

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Hagios Demetrios, 7th century Thessaloniki 🇬🇷

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Peter Sarris

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3 months

Looking forward to returning to Thessaloniki next week to start work on my next book for ⁦ @BasicBooksUK ⁩ - my take on Byzantine/East Roman history and civilisation and its legacy from Constantine to today. Due out Autumn ‘26.

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

I have greatly enjoyed reading this. Amongst other things, it has reminded me how incredibly fortunate I was to have been a colleague of the brilliant Martin West (and to have met the great Jasper Griffin in his prime)

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

Some very gratifying feedback on my forthcoming book on Justinian…

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Peter Sarris

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1 year

We have spent many years creating & encouraging the traditional English flower and hay meadow outside our house (long before re-wilding was fashionable). It is enjoying the weather along with the many happy bees buzzing around it

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