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Propaganda was not a widely used word before WW2. Sergeï Chakhotin was one of the first theoreticians of authoritarian propaganda in his 1939 book The Rape of the Masses, which was immediately banned by fascists.

Here are his 7 rules of propaganda:

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Melissa Kutner @melissannbee.bsky.social · 9h

Thread- full repost of classic “Rome as pizza” thread

Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 12h

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Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Export Updates 2025-10-08:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

52 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

"main" branch:

46bde755 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
e5acd1e6 - updated gis package […]

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Was Tuberville counted at his residence in Florida or in Alabama where he serves in the Senate?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tommy Tuberville on the 2020 census: "The Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going that was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged."

(Believe it or not, Donald Trump was president in 2020.)

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

When you want to fund someone who believes that pandemics like the Justinianic plague were *checks notes after millions died in the 6th century* “inconsequential” so you give him $250000 of NEH money. news.okstate.edu/articles/art...

History’s Eisenberg receives NEH grant for collaborative research on the First Plague Pandemic - Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma State University Department of History assistant professor Dr. Merle Eisenberg recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaboration grant for nearly $250,000 to conduct res...

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 1d

New on the @isawnyu.bsky.social news blog: publication of the latest volume from ISAW Monographs, Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3: Texts Mainly from the 2014 and 2015 Seasons (Amheida VIII) by Rodney Ast, Roger S. Bagnall, Clementina Caputo, et al.

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ISAW announces the publication of Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3 (Amheida VIII)

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press announce the publication of the latest volume from ISAW Monographs, Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3: Texts Mainly from the 2014 and 2015...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 1d

That #Latin sepulchral inscription that showed up in New Orleans? Jeff Becker's got the links etc here: scholar.social/@serviliusah...

#epigraphy

Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@[email protected])

Latin epitaph of a Roman sailor found in New Orleans, LA ?! 🚨 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/new-orleans-ancient-roman-grave-marker

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 1d

New on the @isawnyu.bsky.social news blog:

Welcome to ISAW's Visiting Research Scholars for the 2025-2026 Academic Year!

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Welcome to ISAW's Visiting Research Scholars for the 2025-2026 Academic Year!

ISAW is pleased to announce the visiting research scholars for the 2025-2026 academic year. Each scholar will spend there time here working on their research projects, in addition to participating in ...

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 1d

New on the @isawnyu.bsky.social news blog:

Welcome to ISAW's First Year Ph.D. Cohort

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Welcome to ISAW's First Year Ph.D. Cohort

A very warm welcome to the 2025-2026 first-year students at ISAW. We are so thrilled to have them join us on their journey and become a part of our community. Please give them a warm welcome, and read...

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Jonathan Surratt @beerinator.com · 2d

I wrote a very in depth look at what a Carolina-style burger is and what it isn't. I created a map to help you find a great example and then I shared strategies and tactics to make your own all-the-way burger at home. Click through to get hungry and learn more.

All-the-way to Carolina burgers

Taking a deep dive into the Carolina-style cheeseburger. We'll be figuring out what this burger is and isn't, where you can find one, and then sharing tips and recipes to make your own at home.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 2d

#epigraphy #chicken

Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry, but for budget reasons, your chariot to the afterlife is scheduled to be pulled by a chicken.

Small votive dedication to Hades showing a man in a chariot and, sorry, a chicken. With greek inscription.

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Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social · 2d

We are delighted to have finished the latest tranche of translation: our #digitalcorpus now contains 334 #documents in New #Persian, enabling researchers to explore the medieval Islamicate East through stories of everyday life!

Thank you to all team members since 2020 for their work 🎉

#medievalsky

Image features a teal and gold/brown background, with images of fireworks exploding. There is a frame in the centre, around a photograph of three people smiling, one with hands clasped, one with two thumbs up and one waving. The backdrop is an office, with three computers in the background, a bookcase and many posters on the walls.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 2d

Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #classics

Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (29 September - 6 October 2025): The Pleiades editorial college published 17 new and 210 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle […]

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A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map covers the area from northern Europe and the Strait of Gibraltar in the northwest to Sri Lanka in the southeast.

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 2d

If you work in a classics library, as the classics librarian in a general academic library, in any research library or heritage institution that contains some classics content, or are in any capacity involved in cataloguing or taxonomising ancient world data, you may be interested in…
#digiclasswiki

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

Archaeologist of early Christianity Irene Selsvold has an interesting new (open access) article on streetscapes at Ephesus. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I do question the entire process of “Christianization” as a framework but this is an interesting dive into spatial studies in 1 street corner.

Figure 4. Plan of the Triodos with indicated changes in Late Antiquity (by author, adapted from Waldner (Reference Waldner2020)).

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 5d

original uncredited: Korpe, Reyhan. “2022-2024 Grani̇kos Savaş Alani Yüzey Araştirmalari Yeni̇ Bulgular Yeni̇ Sonuçlar.” Troy Museum Journal, T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Special Issue: Prof. Dr. A. Coşkun Özgünel III. Troas Sempozyumu Özel Sayısı, 2025, 107–23.

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Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

The #pleiadesgazetteer linked data sidebar project continues to grow. As of 3 October 2025, 21,757 unique Pleiades place resources display the sidebar. They include 37,083 inbound links from 18 external datasets and websites. 14,073 of these links are reciprocated by Pleiades references.

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 5d

NC ACLU preparing to take legal action against UNC Chapel Hill if Prof. Dwayne Dixon is not reinstated by the end of the week. UNC is violating Dixon's Constitutional rights, and his and his students' and colleagues' academic freedom. @aaup.org
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NC ACLU chapter threatens legal action against UNC if professor is not reinstated by end of week

The North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to take legal action against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill if the university does not reinstate Dwayne...

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 13d

Look what we have here then.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 6d

Go together like a horse and carriage, I've been told ...

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