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  1. #DOTD: Yang Kuan 楊寬 (1914–2005), #classicist and #historian of pre-imperial 先秦 #ChineseHistory. A member of the Doubting Antiquity/Debates on Ancient History Group #古史辨派, he is one of the greatest scholars of the Warring States 戰國 period (475–221) in #ModernChina

  2. #DOTD: Guo Moruo 郭沫若 (1892–1978), #Chinese historian and #classicist of #Hakka #客家 descent. One of the most influential scholars of #ModernChina and first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences #中國科學院, he is often seen as a mouthpiece of Mao #毛澤東 and the #CCP.

  3. Books for #classicist​s/#medievalist​s: I give away (against postage cost) the following titles (disaccessioned library copies or reprints, all but one in rather good condition):

    - Thierfelder, A. (1971). De rationibus interpolationum Plautinarum (Repr. d. Ausg. Leipzig: Teubner 1929). Olms.
    - Hirzel, Rudolf. (1964). Untersuchungen zu Ciceros philosophischen Schriften Hildesheim Olms.
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  4. #BOTD: Guo Moruo 郭沫若 (1892–1978), #Chinese historian and #classicist of #Hakka #客家 descent. One of the most influential scholars of #ModernChina and first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences #中國科學院, he is often seen as a mouthpiece of Mao #毛澤東 and the #CCP.

  5. Greetings all, I'm a #classicist who works on and toots about #Homer, Herodotus and Pausanias, and always happy to give school talks about any of these radicals and more (#tragedy, say). I'm also interested in investigating literary geographies using digital methods and tools, specifically recogito.pelagios.org/. I'm currently General Secretary of the Pelagios Network pelagios.org/, a community bringing together #scholars and #glam folks to connect resources online using #lod.