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27 May 2026 Conversations with Tyler Toby Wilkinson on Ptolemaic Egypt and the First Great Commercial Civilization
“If I look back at some of the first things that I wrote as an academic, they were pretty esoteric, pretty dry and dusty, as a lot of academic journal articles tend to be.”
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- Toby Wilkinson
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- 27 May 2026
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…How has that changed your scholarship, having the connection to the external world, seeing what’s relevant, seeing what other people think is relevant? I hope it’s helped me to write for a broader readership. If I look back at some of the first things that I wrote as an academic, they were pretty esoteric, pretty dry and dusty, as a lot of academic journal articles tend to be. I now try to write in a style that is well grounded in research, but accessible to anybody who’s interested in the ancient world. I think that has come out of needing to be much more outward-facing. You worked for a while as a dean in Fiji, is that correct?…
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