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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3h

Gonna say it, not enough games about defeating Klansmen, Confederates or neo-Confederates.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 2h

Every other town in Massachusetts.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 14h

Apropos nothing in particular, one can disagree with a good junior scholar's arguments about a set of events in the past without maligning them as advancing a harmful political agenda whose emergence post-dates work they did on those events and with which that scholar is openly, clearly, not aligned

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 4d

At the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies we are offering 10 fellowships for scholars at any stage in their careers to stay with us for up to 6 months (PhD candidates and senior academics) or 12 months (postdocs) to complete a research project:

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 4h

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.10...

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

bmcr.brynmawr.edu

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Dr. Christina Hotalen @drchristinah.bsky.social · 3h

Lmao, some of you tenured track professors need to log tf off and delete your social media accounts. Go outside and touch grass, jeez.

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 9h

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 8: Erebos

Erebos 🇯🇵 Erebos

The Engraving (2016)

Melodic death metal

"It's the final stage of endless torture
Before your soul dies, break it away yourself
Erebos is always at your side"

#ClassicsTober

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 9h

My review of Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities is up at BMCR:

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 9h

Lyrics: www.metal-archives.com/albums/Erebo...

www.metal-archives.com

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 9h

Music: open.spotify.com/track/01z7kS...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 9h

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 8: Erebos

Erebos 🇯🇵 Erebos

The Engraving (2016)

Melodic death metal

"It's the final stage of endless torture
Before your soul dies, break it away yourself
Erebos is always at your side"

#ClassicsTober

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

Meet the Philippides Study Collection with Classics Professors : Department of Classics : UMass Amherst
www.umass.edu/classics/eve...

Meet the Philippides Study Collection with Classics Professors : Department of Classics : UMass Amherst

Meet the Philippides Study Collection with Classics Professors (Hogue, Poehler, Tuck)

www.umass.edu

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s Metal & Premodernity class transitioned from the Spartan to Alexander by considering the “Persian version” in both Achaemenid art & modern Iranian metal. We then discussed the definitions & criteria for being “the Great,” before analyzing Iron Maiden’s “Alexander the Great” in full.

Persian elite warrior. One of the
"Immortals"
(c. 480 BCE)
Persian servant carrying tribute
(c. 480 BCE)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Arsames
（
"Xerxes" (2010)
«
不可旦司
PERSIAN METAL MUSIC

Ramses the Great Cyrus the Great
Alexander the Great
Pompey the Great Herod the Great
Constantine the Great
Justinian the Great
Charlemagne (i.e. Charles the Great)
Frederick the Great Catherine the Great
"The Great"
Megas (Greek)
Magnus (Latin)
What makes somebody "the
Great"?
What does
"Great" mean?

Iron Maiden →K "Alexander the Great" (Live in 2024)

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 7: φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress

Kawir 🇬🇷 Medea

Αδράστεια (2019)

Pagan black metal

"Φαρμάκιδα Μήδεια
Αδελφοκτόνος Μήδεια φαρμακεύτρα.

Μήδεια βδελυρή Μήδεια φαρμακεύτρα
Μήδεια η πλανεύτρα Μήδεια μελανόψυχη"

#ClassicsTober

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 1d

I woke up to a review of a book published by a convicted felon in my field, and it's interesting to read that in the book, he attempts to depersonalize Cicero, to separate the man from the work. That's probably a neutral choice.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 1d

New issue of Illinois Classical Studies Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 2025 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55694 @projectmuse.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social Fake News is or as Invective in Ancient Texts

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m not being an asshole I’m neurodivergent.”

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

My Metal & Premodernity class is covering Alexander today, and so we're going to watch this video to foreground a discussion of what makes an historical figure "the Great," what that actually means, and who decides it.

Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible. Epic Rap Battles of History

YouTube video by ERB

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

Lyrics: www.metal-archives.com/albums/Kawir...

www.metal-archives.com

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

Music: ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/track/medea

Medea, by Iron Bonehead Productions

from the album Kawir - Adrasteia

ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 7: φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress

Kawir 🇬🇷 Medea

Αδράστεια (2019)

Pagan black metal

"Φαρμάκιδα Μήδεια
Αδελφοκτόνος Μήδεια φαρμακεύτρα.

Μήδεια βδελυρή Μήδεια φαρμακεύτρα
Μήδεια η πλανεύτρα Μήδεια μελανόψυχη"

#ClassicsTober

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 2d

A new article by Anthony Kaldellis: www.academia.edu/144320605/_A...

‘Authorship and Intolerance in Late Antiquity,’ Porphyra 30 (2024 [2025]) 11-31.

www.academia.edu

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 2d

This was a fun conversation!

Digging Up The Past @diggingupthepast.net · 2d

Check out our latest podcast episode as we sit down with MSU #Classics assistant professor and author Jeremy Swist to discuss Emperor Julian.

www.diggingupthepast.net/p/the-last-p...

@metalclassicist.bsky.social #history #historyfacts #historymatters #historical #byzantine #romanempire #roman

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 2d

Lately, the perma in permafrost.

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 2d

"Is Cicero a Natural Philosopher?"

That can mean two different things.

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