@ancienthistgeek.bsky.social
Ancient history PhD at large. Accidental digital classicist / copyeditor. Expect random posts about dinosaurs. Formerly @ClassicHistGeek in the bad place.
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Them: Life's ambition?
Me: Built-in bookcases.
Me: Built-in bookcases.
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Our Black Friday sale is now live! 🥳
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Our Black Friday sale is now live! 🥳
Reactor Mag woke up and chose violence I see.
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Reactor Mag woke up and chose violence I see.
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Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Oh. Oh no. The Christmas movie invasion has already begun 😬
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Oh. Oh no. The Christmas movie invasion has already begun 😬
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Great opportunity! Check out our full post about a PhD position at York University in Toronto in the History of Authoritarian Politics in Ancient Rome with Professor Benjamin Kelly.
Deadline is January 15th. Share with Master's students in your networks!
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/york...
Deadline is January 15th. Share with Master's students in your networks!
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/york...
PhD Position at York University (Toronto) in the History of Authoritarian Politics in Ancient Rome (Deadline January 15) - The Classical Association of Canada
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November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Great opportunity! Check out our full post about a PhD position at York University in Toronto in the History of Authoritarian Politics in Ancient Rome with Professor Benjamin Kelly.
Deadline is January 15th. Share with Master's students in your networks!
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/york...
Deadline is January 15th. Share with Master's students in your networks!
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/york...
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For those who missed it and those who want to hear it again, we are delighted to say that the recording of Glynn Davis's talk on the Colchester Vase is now available on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TRX....
October 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
For those who missed it and those who want to hear it again, we are delighted to say that the recording of Glynn Davis's talk on the Colchester Vase is now available on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TRX....
At this point, any news outlet that credulously prints or reports statements issued by this administration without prefacing them with a bare minimum “X claims” or “X alleged” is providing cover and committing journalistic malpractice.
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
At this point, any news outlet that credulously prints or reports statements issued by this administration without prefacing them with a bare minimum “X claims” or “X alleged” is providing cover and committing journalistic malpractice.
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Ancient Peace Studies Network: inaugural workshop
📆 20 to 26 January 2026
📍 University of St Andrews
🔗 View details: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...
To register interest, please contact Prof. Alice König at [email protected].
📆 20 to 26 January 2026
📍 University of St Andrews
🔗 View details: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...
To register interest, please contact Prof. Alice König at [email protected].
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Ancient Peace Studies Network: inaugural workshop
📆 20 to 26 January 2026
📍 University of St Andrews
🔗 View details: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...
To register interest, please contact Prof. Alice König at [email protected].
📆 20 to 26 January 2026
📍 University of St Andrews
🔗 View details: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...
To register interest, please contact Prof. Alice König at [email protected].
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Steve Tuck just published an amazing book that traces the survivors of Pompeii. It’s 30% right now with code AUFLY30.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Steve Tuck just published an amazing book that traces the survivors of Pompeii. It’s 30% right now with code AUFLY30.
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One of the most interesting things about the #HATM conversations re: the Am Rev doc imo is seeing how people are processing / relating to it through modern media portrayals of the war. So far I’ve clocked mentions of:
Hamilton
West Wing (Josiah Bartlett/ fictional Jed Bartlett link)
1776 1/
Hamilton
West Wing (Josiah Bartlett/ fictional Jed Bartlett link)
1776 1/
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
One of the most interesting things about the #HATM conversations re: the Am Rev doc imo is seeing how people are processing / relating to it through modern media portrayals of the war. So far I’ve clocked mentions of:
Hamilton
West Wing (Josiah Bartlett/ fictional Jed Bartlett link)
1776 1/
Hamilton
West Wing (Josiah Bartlett/ fictional Jed Bartlett link)
1776 1/
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#CFP online seminar series: Strong Women of the Ancient Mediterranean World and their Reception - September-December 2026 - Organisers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey), Martina Treu (Milan) sponsored by EuGeStA Network, AWAWS, The Imagines Project - Due by Jan 6
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
#CFP online seminar series: Strong Women of the Ancient Mediterranean World and their Reception - September-December 2026 - Organisers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey), Martina Treu (Milan) sponsored by EuGeStA Network, AWAWS, The Imagines Project - Due by Jan 6
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Online conference
Archaeology of the Greek and Roman Periods in the #BlackSea Region: People, Culture, Landscape.
paia.amu.edu.pl/en/invitatio...
Archaeology of the Greek and Roman Periods in the #BlackSea Region: People, Culture, Landscape.
paia.amu.edu.pl/en/invitatio...
Invitation to the First Collaborative Workshop on the Archaeology of the Black Sea – Paia
paia.amu.edu.pl
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Online conference
Archaeology of the Greek and Roman Periods in the #BlackSea Region: People, Culture, Landscape.
paia.amu.edu.pl/en/invitatio...
Archaeology of the Greek and Roman Periods in the #BlackSea Region: People, Culture, Landscape.
paia.amu.edu.pl/en/invitatio...
The downside to following so many authors & publishers on here is that I’ll see that some really cool sounding ebook is on sale, only to realize it’s the UK imprint 🙃
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The downside to following so many authors & publishers on here is that I’ll see that some really cool sounding ebook is on sale, only to realize it’s the UK imprint 🙃
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Do you like Outlander? Do you like pirates? Then come to my virtual presentation to discuss piracy in the Outlander series and Colonial America for the Wake County Public Library on Tuesday, Nov 25 at 4/7 PM PST/EST. It will be over Zoom and registration is FREE!
wakegov.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
wakegov.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Do you like Outlander? Do you like pirates? Then come to my virtual presentation to discuss piracy in the Outlander series and Colonial America for the Wake County Public Library on Tuesday, Nov 25 at 4/7 PM PST/EST. It will be over Zoom and registration is FREE!
wakegov.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
wakegov.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Hot on the heels of our 1st webinar of this season comes the 2nd:
‘Mobility and Cult of Relics in the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Islamic Period: The Case of the Iberian Peninsula’
Wednesday 3 December, 17.00 (UTC)
All welcome, please register here: tinyurl.com/4zns7deh
‘Mobility and Cult of Relics in the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Islamic Period: The Case of the Iberian Peninsula’
Wednesday 3 December, 17.00 (UTC)
All welcome, please register here: tinyurl.com/4zns7deh
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hot on the heels of our 1st webinar of this season comes the 2nd:
‘Mobility and Cult of Relics in the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Islamic Period: The Case of the Iberian Peninsula’
Wednesday 3 December, 17.00 (UTC)
All welcome, please register here: tinyurl.com/4zns7deh
‘Mobility and Cult of Relics in the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Islamic Period: The Case of the Iberian Peninsula’
Wednesday 3 December, 17.00 (UTC)
All welcome, please register here: tinyurl.com/4zns7deh
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Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children?
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
FAQ: Underage Women
“Many of the headlines have read that [Jeffrey Epstein] is accused of ‘sex with underage women.’ Really? Why are we whitewashing? Why are we not ca...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children?
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
This holiday season all I want is to watch all these self-dealing, morally bankrupt, unrepentant facsimiles of human beings (and their enablers) rot in The Hague for the rest of their natural lives.
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This holiday season all I want is to watch all these self-dealing, morally bankrupt, unrepentant facsimiles of human beings (and their enablers) rot in The Hague for the rest of their natural lives.
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Full article: The digital reconstruction of the Herculaneum boat (79 CE)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The digital reconstruction of the Herculaneum boat (79 CE)
This paper discusses a Roman boat discovered in an unusual context: stranded on the shore of Herculaneum, destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. The Herculaneum boat retains two-t...
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Full article: The digital reconstruction of the Herculaneum boat (79 CE)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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If you missed my talk for the Tampa Museum of Art, the recordinf is now available!
Ta Megala Theria: Heavy Metal Music’s Reception of Mythological Adversaries
YouTube video by Tampa Museum of Art
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November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If you missed my talk for the Tampa Museum of Art, the recordinf is now available!
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You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Now I’m going to be fan casting this all day. Can I cheat and use Muppets too?
I would be more likely to tune in for _Sesame Street does Cicero_ tbh
Fortunately my voice is getting better, but I'm still thoroughly frustrated that it abandoned me just when I wanted to show my students that Cicero's first Catilinarian oration should be understood as spoken, not written, text. Try performing that thundering opening while sounding like bloody Elmo.
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Now I’m going to be fan casting this all day. Can I cheat and use Muppets too?
I would be more likely to tune in for _Sesame Street does Cicero_ tbh
Fortunately my voice is getting better, but I'm still thoroughly frustrated that it abandoned me just when I wanted to show my students that Cicero's first Catilinarian oration should be understood as spoken, not written, text. Try performing that thundering opening while sounding like bloody Elmo.
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I would be more likely to tune in for _Sesame Street does Cicero_ tbh
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Free online seminar tomorrow on global perspectives on cultural heritage repatriation with speakers from Nepal, Cambodia, the US, and the Gulf Region! Registration here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Free online seminar tomorrow on global perspectives on cultural heritage repatriation with speakers from Nepal, Cambodia, the US, and the Gulf Region! Registration here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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#medievalsky
Learn to read Old English from scratch! Join our online and in person monthly manuscript reading sessions at any time in the year.
Next session this Saturday, 10-12 CET, at the Sorbonne and on Zoom.
Ping us if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
Learn to read Old English from scratch! Join our online and in person monthly manuscript reading sessions at any time in the year.
Next session this Saturday, 10-12 CET, at the Sorbonne and on Zoom.
Ping us if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
![Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve.
Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts — but were too afraid to ask
Attend the 2025-2026 CÉMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch!
When — Saturday 10 am-12 noon — October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13
Where — Sorbonne & Zoom
To join at any point in the year, just e-mail us: florence.bourgne [at] sorbonne-universite.fr](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r55clalroymggnwcbda7rj6k/bafkreidcp4qdch723map5sjg4quxgqjohnccv3eokqtm7j4qzyly3boznu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
#medievalsky
Learn to read Old English from scratch! Join our online and in person monthly manuscript reading sessions at any time in the year.
Next session this Saturday, 10-12 CET, at the Sorbonne and on Zoom.
Ping us if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
Learn to read Old English from scratch! Join our online and in person monthly manuscript reading sessions at any time in the year.
Next session this Saturday, 10-12 CET, at the Sorbonne and on Zoom.
Ping us if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉