Dimitrios Bogdantsalis
@dimitrisatticus.bsky.social
PhD in Byzantine History, DUTh - MA in Local History - Researching late antique Thrace.
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Greetings to the Bluesky community! As my research interests go, this profile will be devoted to the Late #Roman / Early #Byzantine Empire, the Goths, the Huns and the whole gang.
The occasional movie or anime review may also appear.
(Pic.: Musei Capitolini, #Rome)
The occasional movie or anime review may also appear.
(Pic.: Musei Capitolini, #Rome)
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NEW FOR 2026 | Essays in Long Late Antiquity
A new Open Access journal in first millennium studies, enticing interdisciplinary and superregional approaches to research in the second to the ninth centuries & broader Afro-Eurasian region: bit.ly/4f7BXZC @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social
A new Open Access journal in first millennium studies, enticing interdisciplinary and superregional approaches to research in the second to the ninth centuries & broader Afro-Eurasian region: bit.ly/4f7BXZC @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NEW FOR 2026 | Essays in Long Late Antiquity
A new Open Access journal in first millennium studies, enticing interdisciplinary and superregional approaches to research in the second to the ninth centuries & broader Afro-Eurasian region: bit.ly/4f7BXZC @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social
A new Open Access journal in first millennium studies, enticing interdisciplinary and superregional approaches to research in the second to the ninth centuries & broader Afro-Eurasian region: bit.ly/4f7BXZC @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social
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New discovery: 4th-century mosaic hall unearthed in Türkiye’s ancient Hadrianopolis
The mosaics feature motifs such as peacocks drinking from a fountain, geometric patterns, ribbon designs, or an eight-pointed star. About 80% of the mosaic has survived intact.
www.dailysabah.com/life/history...
The mosaics feature motifs such as peacocks drinking from a fountain, geometric patterns, ribbon designs, or an eight-pointed star. About 80% of the mosaic has survived intact.
www.dailysabah.com/life/history...
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
New discovery: 4th-century mosaic hall unearthed in Türkiye’s ancient Hadrianopolis
The mosaics feature motifs such as peacocks drinking from a fountain, geometric patterns, ribbon designs, or an eight-pointed star. About 80% of the mosaic has survived intact.
www.dailysabah.com/life/history...
The mosaics feature motifs such as peacocks drinking from a fountain, geometric patterns, ribbon designs, or an eight-pointed star. About 80% of the mosaic has survived intact.
www.dailysabah.com/life/history...
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December 11, 493 CE: Death of Daniel the Stylite, a monk who lived on a pillar (thus he is a στυλίτης) like Simeon, but near Constantinople. He lived on it for 33 years & had resting stylite face from standing. I love the Cult of Saints database which says more. csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?r...
December 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
December 11, 493 CE: Death of Daniel the Stylite, a monk who lived on a pillar (thus he is a στυλίτης) like Simeon, but near Constantinople. He lived on it for 33 years & had resting stylite face from standing. I love the Cult of Saints database which says more. csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?r...
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Our book, _War and Community in Late Antiquity_, is out in January and is edited by Tina Sessa and Susanna Elm. My chapter is on the literary and archaeological mapping of Roman troop billeting (no Third Amendment in Ancient Rome!) Excited to see this in print soon. www.cambridge.org/universitypr...
War and Community in Late Antiquity | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Our book, _War and Community in Late Antiquity_, is out in January and is edited by Tina Sessa and Susanna Elm. My chapter is on the literary and archaeological mapping of Roman troop billeting (no Third Amendment in Ancient Rome!) Excited to see this in print soon. www.cambridge.org/universitypr...
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Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Yesterday’s Metal & Premodernity class compared Roman constructions of “barbarians” to those of pop culture & heavy metal. We read passages from Tacitus’s Germania alongside Heidevolk’s song” Furor Teutonicus,” & then looked at receptions of Boudicca & the battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Yesterday’s Metal & Premodernity class compared Roman constructions of “barbarians” to those of pop culture & heavy metal. We read passages from Tacitus’s Germania alongside Heidevolk’s song” Furor Teutonicus,” & then looked at receptions of Boudicca & the battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
Sphinx relief from the Archaeological Museum of Kavala, #Greece for #Halloween! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Sphinx relief from the Archaeological Museum of Kavala, #Greece for #Halloween! 🎃
For my first presentation after my #PhD defence, I participated in the XII Greek Byzantinists #Conference, which took place in Rethymnon, #Crete. In my talk, I examined the Gothic conflicts in the early #Byzantine Thrace!
September 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
For my first presentation after my #PhD defence, I participated in the XII Greek Byzantinists #Conference, which took place in Rethymnon, #Crete. In my talk, I examined the Gothic conflicts in the early #Byzantine Thrace!
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Yesterday was the opening of our major special exhibition "Foreign neighbours - Rome and the Germanic people" in our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen.
A highlight of the exhibition is the presentation of prestigious grave goods from Germanic burials unearthed in Kariv, Western Ukraine, in 2017. 🧵1/3
A highlight of the exhibition is the presentation of prestigious grave goods from Germanic burials unearthed in Kariv, Western Ukraine, in 2017. 🧵1/3
September 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Yesterday was the opening of our major special exhibition "Foreign neighbours - Rome and the Germanic people" in our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen.
A highlight of the exhibition is the presentation of prestigious grave goods from Germanic burials unearthed in Kariv, Western Ukraine, in 2017. 🧵1/3
A highlight of the exhibition is the presentation of prestigious grave goods from Germanic burials unearthed in Kariv, Western Ukraine, in 2017. 🧵1/3
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Like a scene from "Ben Hur": For #ReliefWednesday a terracotta relief depicting an accident at a chariot-race at the Circus Maximus.
The famous circus in #Rome can be recognised due to the seven movable dolphins on the central dividing barrier, the... 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
The famous circus in #Rome can be recognised due to the seven movable dolphins on the central dividing barrier, the... 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
September 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Like a scene from "Ben Hur": For #ReliefWednesday a terracotta relief depicting an accident at a chariot-race at the Circus Maximus.
The famous circus in #Rome can be recognised due to the seven movable dolphins on the central dividing barrier, the... 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
The famous circus in #Rome can be recognised due to the seven movable dolphins on the central dividing barrier, the... 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
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An early medieval fibula (a decorative pin for fastening garments/a brooch) in the form of an eagle, made of gold and silver inlaid with garnets and lapis lazuli. It's part of the so-called Domagnano Hoard consisting of 21 pieces. They belonged to an Ostrogothic...🧵1/3
🏺 #archaeology
🏺 #archaeology
September 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
An early medieval fibula (a decorative pin for fastening garments/a brooch) in the form of an eagle, made of gold and silver inlaid with garnets and lapis lazuli. It's part of the so-called Domagnano Hoard consisting of 21 pieces. They belonged to an Ostrogothic...🧵1/3
🏺 #archaeology
🏺 #archaeology
Thank you so much for your kind words and support! @giboutziopoulos.bsky.social
I would like to congratulate my good friend @dimitrisatticus.bsky.social for defending successfully his doctoral thesis today!
His research topic: The Byzantine Empire and the tribes along the Danube Frontier and in the Administration of Thrace (4th–7th Centuries)!
Congratulations Dr Bogdantsalis!
His research topic: The Byzantine Empire and the tribes along the Danube Frontier and in the Administration of Thrace (4th–7th Centuries)!
Congratulations Dr Bogdantsalis!
August 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Thank you so much for your kind words and support! @giboutziopoulos.bsky.social
Successfully defended my doctoral thesis on the Byzantine Empire and the enemy tribes along the Danube frontier and the dioecesis of Thrace (4th-7th c.). Today was a good day! #PhD
August 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Successfully defended my doctoral thesis on the Byzantine Empire and the enemy tribes along the Danube frontier and the dioecesis of Thrace (4th-7th c.). Today was a good day! #PhD
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And now attention, late antique people!
Today in Trier I was shown the Trier Ivory up close,
from the front and
- unseen before, at least by me-
from the back!
Note the strange markings, apparently by the craftsmen, and the hole for the elephant’s nerve reaching into the tusk
Today in Trier I was shown the Trier Ivory up close,
from the front and
- unseen before, at least by me-
from the back!
Note the strange markings, apparently by the craftsmen, and the hole for the elephant’s nerve reaching into the tusk
August 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
And now attention, late antique people!
Today in Trier I was shown the Trier Ivory up close,
from the front and
- unseen before, at least by me-
from the back!
Note the strange markings, apparently by the craftsmen, and the hole for the elephant’s nerve reaching into the tusk
Today in Trier I was shown the Trier Ivory up close,
from the front and
- unseen before, at least by me-
from the back!
Note the strange markings, apparently by the craftsmen, and the hole for the elephant’s nerve reaching into the tusk
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Historians will never be replaced by AI
July 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Historians will never be replaced by AI
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OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora.
global.oup.com/academic/con...
global.oup.com/academic/con...
August 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora.
global.oup.com/academic/con...
global.oup.com/academic/con...
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A super-rare surviving record of 174 men swearing an oath to a Carolingian king, probably Louis II in 846.
July 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A super-rare surviving record of 174 men swearing an oath to a Carolingian king, probably Louis II in 846.
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Our new article is out in Speculum! @robin-f.bsky.social called it “ #isotopes for poets” it’s a fab ongoing interdisciplinary project on a late #Roman & #EarlyMedieval cemetery in Hampshire read more 🔗 https//doi.org/10.... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #archsci
Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3
www.journals.uchicago.edu
July 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our new article is out in Speculum! @robin-f.bsky.social called it “ #isotopes for poets” it’s a fab ongoing interdisciplinary project on a late #Roman & #EarlyMedieval cemetery in Hampshire read more 🔗 https//doi.org/10.... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #archsci
Visited the early Christian basilica of St. Isidore in #Chios. Built upon the remains of an earlier structure, it encloses the martyrium of the Saint and impressive 5th-6th c. #mosaic floors with geometric patterns. #Roman #Byzantine
June 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Visited the early Christian basilica of St. Isidore in #Chios. Built upon the remains of an earlier structure, it encloses the martyrium of the Saint and impressive 5th-6th c. #mosaic floors with geometric patterns. #Roman #Byzantine
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Dragons in Caen! I repeat dragons in Caen! Superb graffiti! Last time I was at the castle, it was a building site. I can't wait to go back (possibly next month) @catrionacooper.bsky.social #medievalsky #castles #normans
June 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Dragons in Caen! I repeat dragons in Caen! Superb graffiti! Last time I was at the castle, it was a building site. I can't wait to go back (possibly next month) @catrionacooper.bsky.social #medievalsky #castles #normans
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In February 360, the emperor Julian was almost crowned with a piece of jewelry that his wife Helena wore "on her head or around her neck" (Amm. Marc. 20.4.17).
It's intriguing to think that it was similar to this late antique object that could be worn both as headband or as neckband. 1/
It's intriguing to think that it was similar to this late antique object that could be worn both as headband or as neckband. 1/
June 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In February 360, the emperor Julian was almost crowned with a piece of jewelry that his wife Helena wore "on her head or around her neck" (Amm. Marc. 20.4.17).
It's intriguing to think that it was similar to this late antique object that could be worn both as headband or as neckband. 1/
It's intriguing to think that it was similar to this late antique object that could be worn both as headband or as neckband. 1/