Dimitri Nakassis
@dimitrinakassis.bsky.social
Greek archaeologist, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder; Michigan (BA 1997) & Texas (PhD 2006) grad
Check out this blog post and the article; driving slowly around Examilia with Tim, Lita, David and @billcaraher.bsky.social is certainly preferable to this Examilian mini-tragedy: mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/w...
January 20, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Check out this blog post and the article; driving slowly around Examilia with Tim, Lita, David and @billcaraher.bsky.social is certainly preferable to this Examilian mini-tragedy: mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/w...
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
take once a week or so for best results www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTp...
Narracion Reacción de Andrés Cantor de Telemundo y Claudio Borghi, Argentina Campeona del Mundo
YouTube video by GODS OF FOOTBALL
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:45 PM
take once a week or so for best results www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTp...
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
/🧵
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
/🧵
January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
/🧵
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
/🧵
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
On this day in 2019, the splendid @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social posted this photo of Delphic double rainbows 🌈 on Twitter (taken by Ross Nichol and shared by the Archaeological Museum of Delphi). And I think it’s the only thing I want to repost from Twitter anymore.
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
On this day in 2019, the splendid @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social posted this photo of Delphic double rainbows 🌈 on Twitter (taken by Ross Nichol and shared by the Archaeological Museum of Delphi). And I think it’s the only thing I want to repost from Twitter anymore.
February 1 is the deadline to nominate books for the AIA's Felicia A. Holton Award. If you know any books published in the past three years that make bring the excitement of archaeology to a general audience, please nominate them here:
www.archaeological.org/grant/holton...
www.archaeological.org/grant/holton...
Felicia A. Holton Book Award - Archaeological Institute of America
Learn about and apply for the Felicia A. Holton Book Award from Archaeological Institute of America. Find scholarships, fellowships, and grants for excavation, research, publication, and site preserva...
www.archaeological.org
January 15, 2026 at 6:40 PM
February 1 is the deadline to nominate books for the AIA's Felicia A. Holton Award. If you know any books published in the past three years that make bring the excitement of archaeology to a general audience, please nominate them here:
www.archaeological.org/grant/holton...
www.archaeological.org/grant/holton...
A new and open-access book, "Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece" by Marie-Louise Bech Nosch: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece
Textiles accompany us throughout our lives, au fil du temps , from the cradle to the grave. Aspects of time, seasons and chronology play an important role when exploring textiles and clothes in antiqu...
www.degruyterbrill.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:30 PM
A new and open-access book, "Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece" by Marie-Louise Bech Nosch: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros
January 5, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads
Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology
www.cambridge.org
December 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads
Elsevier's questionnaire about my (a peer reviewer's) ancestry is pretty strange. "Select all geographic areas from which your ancestors first originated"?
December 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Elsevier's questionnaire about my (a peer reviewer's) ancestry is pretty strange. "Select all geographic areas from which your ancestors first originated"?
"Much like the forlorn skull of the horse left in a ditch without context, these articles offer little more than what they are. And for that, I’ll continue to enjoy them." mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/m... @billcaraher.bsky.social
More on Corinth, Northeast of the Theater
Whenever Chris Pfaff and the Corinth Crowd publish one of their preliminary reports in Hesperia, it is a fucking event. These things are massive, baffling, intriguing, and much like an accident bet…
mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"Much like the forlorn skull of the horse left in a ditch without context, these articles offer little more than what they are. And for that, I’ll continue to enjoy them." mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/m... @billcaraher.bsky.social
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - 3 beds/3.5 baths
(SW Michigan MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 5000 sq. ft. ∙ 414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ∙ $7,000,000 ∙ MLS# 25062388 ∙ This Downtown Ann Arbor penthouse stands among the finest residence...
www.redfin.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
ROM appoints Kate Cooper as first Nick Mirkopoulos Associate Curator of Ancient Greece & Rome | Royal Ontario Museum
www.rom.on.ca/news-release...
www.rom.on.ca/news-release...
ROM appoints Kate Cooper as first Nick Mirkopoulos Associate Curator of Ancient Greece & Rome
Kate Cooper nommée conservatrice associée Nick Mirkopoulos de la Grèce et la Rome antique au ROM
www.rom.on.ca
December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
ROM appoints Kate Cooper as first Nick Mirkopoulos Associate Curator of Ancient Greece & Rome | Royal Ontario Museum
www.rom.on.ca/news-release...
www.rom.on.ca/news-release...
Check out the 2025 newsletter of my department (Classics at the University of Colorado): www.colorado.edu/classics/med...
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Check out the 2025 newsletter of my department (Classics at the University of Colorado): www.colorado.edu/classics/med...
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
I have a Cyber Monday deal for you: a one-click download of 10 books (a so-called "Dakota Dozen").
No email, sign-up, sign-in, or other information required. Click. Download. Unzip. Read.
Free. #OpenAccess #CyberMonday #FreeBooks
mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...
No email, sign-up, sign-in, or other information required. Click. Download. Unzip. Read.
Free. #OpenAccess #CyberMonday #FreeBooks
mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...
Cyber Monday: One-Click Download from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota
People say to me all the time: Bill, I just can’t be bothered to click download every time a new free book comes out from your press. This is an understandable concern. After all, clicking download…
mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I have a Cyber Monday deal for you: a one-click download of 10 books (a so-called "Dakota Dozen").
No email, sign-up, sign-in, or other information required. Click. Download. Unzip. Read.
Free. #OpenAccess #CyberMonday #FreeBooks
mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...
No email, sign-up, sign-in, or other information required. Click. Download. Unzip. Read.
Free. #OpenAccess #CyberMonday #FreeBooks
mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...
Delouse and Guitar
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Delouse and Guitar
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
Or you could, you know, talk to your friends
What do you do after you’re done jumping the shark?
Whatever it is, Nature Careers is all in.
Whatever it is, Nature Careers is all in.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Or you could, you know, talk to your friends
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
"There are only so many selfies, photos of my dog, and funny-shaped carpet stains I can share before I come off as a shallow, boring influencer. So, I decided to post an image in my dump of a book a roommate left behind—The Picture of Dorian Gray."
I Started Reading Performatively, and Turns Out Books Are Pretty Good
It all started when Instagram introduced the twenty-slide photo dumps. Trying to post the correct ratio of photos to memes to appear both off-the-g...
buff.ly
November 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"There are only so many selfies, photos of my dog, and funny-shaped carpet stains I can share before I come off as a shallow, boring influencer. So, I decided to post an image in my dump of a book a roommate left behind—The Picture of Dorian Gray."
Reposted by Dimitri Nakassis
Happy to see my book reviewed in @antiquity.ac.uk!
📕 #BookReview
What did prehistoric people think about their past? Can #archaeology reveal 'historical culture' in societies without written literature? @profbernard.bsky.social's 'Historical culture in Iron Age Italy' breaks new ground on these questions 1/2
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺
What did prehistoric people think about their past? Can #archaeology reveal 'historical culture' in societies without written literature? @profbernard.bsky.social's 'Historical culture in Iron Age Italy' breaks new ground on these questions 1/2
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺
October 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Happy to see my book reviewed in @antiquity.ac.uk!
The Greek newspaper @kathimerini.gr ran a story about our ongoing XRF study of the Linear B tablets from Pylos: www.kathimerini.gr/culture/5638...
Ακτίνες Χ σε Γραμμική Β΄
Ακτινογραφώντας τα αρχαία, πήλινα «μέμο» της Πύλου.
www.kathimerini.gr
October 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The Greek newspaper @kathimerini.gr ran a story about our ongoing XRF study of the Linear B tablets from Pylos: www.kathimerini.gr/culture/5638...
I'm compiling some statistics about the proportion of articles about Aegean prehistory in major American journals (it's about 15-20%) and every so often, you get an issue that's all Aegean all the time (ajaonline.org/toc/1183/):
September 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm compiling some statistics about the proportion of articles about Aegean prehistory in major American journals (it's about 15-20%) and every so often, you get an issue that's all Aegean all the time (ajaonline.org/toc/1183/):