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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is great to hear (and I love the layout)

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 25/09/2026

thanks to @thatnerdchick.bsky.social for the headsup on this AMAZING AMAZING, um . . . not even sure what to call it: "situation?" "woodworking?" "bug's life?"

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Big news for these important objects - which feature some significant early Greek inscriptions among them.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 29/06/2024

Was going through my phone & found this I made. Basically it’s mine & @lollardfish.bsky.social new book

Meme showing Carolingians as weird hybrid of Rome and Davidic kingship

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15/09/2026

That hast by tyranny these many years Wasted our country, slain our citizens, And sent our sons and husbands captivate.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What happens when you combine one of Sophocles’ classics with pre-Hispanic art, music, and poetry? You get #Antigone: In the Language of the Kings! Witness the timeless story of love versus tyranny reimagined in pre-conquest Tenochtitlan, Mexico. Presented by Latino #Theater Company and Getty.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The elephant 🐘 capitals below sat atop columns at the Great Temple of Petra (Jordan, 100 BCE-99 CE). Nabataeans replaced Ionic volutes with these extremely expressive elephants—which I think is a good metaphor for making it to Friday & surviving the first few weeks of the semester. Happy Friday!

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Excavations at the building known as the Great Temple at Petra uncovered hundreds of column capitals whose corners terminate in elephant heads. Unique to Nabataean architecture, they derive from lonic column capitals, which end in volutes (spiral scrolls) at either side. Some adaptations have four volutes, one at each corner, which are transformed in this design into elephant heads whose trunks evoke the spirals of the original form. The elephants may refer to Dionysos and his mythological journey to India.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

All are welcome, IRL in Philly or zoom, for our free public talks by Prof. Caroline Winterer on how the US Founders looked back to ancient cultures, beyond the obvious (Rome/ Athens).The first talk is tonight, 9/10/2026, on Carthage. Register here! www.classics.upenn.edu/penn-public-...

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American Antiquities: Beyond the Classical World of the American Founders | Department of Classical Studies

Starting September 10, 2026Caroline Winterer is William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies, and Professor by courtesy of Classics, at Stanford University. She specializes in Ameri...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Lady of Elche. This remarkable 2,400 year-old limestone bust of a woman with elaborate headdress and jewellery is an icon of Iberian culture from pre-Roman Spain. From La Alcudia, Elche, Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a famous Iberian limestone sculpture known as ‘La Dama de Elche’ / The Lady of Elche, on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. Here is a description by the museum:

“Female bust that features a lady's face with very perfect features and that preserves traces of polychromy on the lips and specific areas of face and clothing. The lady is richly dressed: on her head she wears a headdress formed by a pointed tiara covered by a veil and on top of it a strap that joins the two side “cases" that frame the face, where the hairstyle and a headband would be collected on the forehead; the back and shoulders are covered with a mantle that forms folds on the front and exposes three necklaces with amphoras and amulet holders; the earrings of plates and infulas that hang on the sides of the face, and a small fibula that closes the tunic on the neckline. At the back, it has a hole whose function has given rise to numerous interpretations. It was richly painted with red, blue and yellow tones and application of gold sheets, of which hardly any traces remain.

Technically and stylistically it is considered a work of strong Greek influence, possibly made by an artist of this origin, perhaps linked to the nearby town of Santa Pola, after receiving the commission of a high-ranking Iberian character.

It has been speculated about its function but with a posterior opening it suggests a use as a funerary vessel, just like the Lady of Baza. At the same time, it has been interpreted as the representation of a goddess, a priestess, or some royal character or of the aristocracy adorned for a special ceremony and dressed in her best clothes that could constitute her wedding dress composed of three necklaces, diadem and fibula, comparable to those found in several treasures”.

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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not as cursed as John Oliver’s dolls, but dang.

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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yeah, I think I’m tapping out y’all. I’m not spending the cost of a new laptop on a smartphone, foldable or standard. Also, they had all this time to workshop a name and the best they could come up with is Duo? SMH

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Curator Rob @curatorrob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Remember that time when I did the whole glass furnace thing @butserancientfarm.co.uk with our PhD student, Kim (and team)? Well they only went and made a film of it! 🤩 It's 20 mins, but worth every second. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yci4...

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Can We Re-create Roman Window Glass? | 3 Day Experiment.

YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

How does Roman glass get those iridescent flakes? Nanolamellae. Basically, as the glass ages in alternatingly damp and dry soil, the silica in it precipitates out, then re-deposits in incredibly thin layers, which act as photonic crystal “mirrors” and result in the incredible colors.

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Photonic crystals built by time in ancient Roman glass | PNAS

Ancient glass objects typically show distinctive effects of deterioration as a result of environmentally induced physicochemical transformations of...

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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If we’re bringing back Y2K fashion and Mapquest y’all better be bringing back my LG Env too 🤣

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Lorelei King @loreleiking.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Star Trek Tribble collectible.

A long-haired grey cat curled up so that he looks like a tribble - a ball of fur.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 26/08/2026

Why, Timothy!

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

DS9 has the best main theme of all the Star Treks. I said what I said.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A near life size Romano British limestone head found at Childe Oakford #Dorset now in the excellent Gold Hill Museum Shaftesbury Possibly meant to represent a female deity The hairstyle suggests a late 2nd or early 3rd century AD date 📷 August 2026 #FindsFriday #Roman #Celtic #Archaeology

Stone portrait of a woman with centrally parted hair

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Save Ancient Studies Alliance @saveancientstudies.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🔨Breaking barriers in archaeology! Discover the new updates to the SASA Archaeological Terms and Translation project, bridging language gaps. Terms and Translations relating to archaeology and material culture are available in: Hindi Arabic Japanese Spanish Modern Greek German French Italian

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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For too long, the people who have done the real work of archaeology have not been recognised. At Dura-Europos in Syria, one of the ways this is evident is in the lack of credit given, or even names recorded, for the many workers there.

Archival photograph from the Yale Dura collection of archaeological workers

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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oh lord, first PSL sighting of the season. TOO SOON!

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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Quick question, is it a stipulation of receiving your SAG card that you must film at least one episode of Law & Order 🤣

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What a great picture: A Roman dolium (a large vessel used to store and transport wine and foodstuff) discovered off the coast of the island of Elba. It's believed to be connected to a so-called dolium ship, a merchant vessel that was used to transport large quantities of wine. 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

An underwater photograph featuring a diver positioned in front of a dolium, illustrating the substantial size of the vessel.

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Combined Classics Library @joliheroics.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We are pleased to announce our new free exhibition! In the library reception space, you can read about our collection of ancient artefacts, which were donated to the Institute by professor Victor Ehrenberg.

Poster for an exhibition called 'Catalogue of my Antiques: the story of Victor Ehrenberg's Collection', an exhibition of ancient artefacts and their journey to the Institute. There is an image of an ancient Greek vase with a winged lion.

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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wondering what the new Libro.fm announcement will mean for Bookshop.org. Thinking that Bookshop x Kobo integration may have some new urgency.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/

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Loebolus

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You can make a free account and dive into FutureLearn's courses (they've got some great Roman archaeology stuff). The one trick is that free access is a for a very limited window, so it's not something you want to start when busy. Anyway, I just learned a little about Roman bones.

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Ancient Roman Archaeology - Online History Course - FutureLearn

Explore the archaeology of early Roman Britain and learn the techniques used to uncover the secrets of ancient Roman remains in this short online course from the University of Reading.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Righte now the greatest danger to the future of universityes ys universityes. Remembir the missioun, remembir the studentes, remembir those who have come bifor and will arryve aftir, remembir teachinge and learninge and dialogue. A universitye ys much more than a corporation wearinge a mortarboard.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Join First America, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Red Media, and the Lindy Waters III Foundation for an evening celebrating Indigenous futurism, storytelling, and the release of "From the Heart of Our Nations": www.tulsaartistfellowship.org/calendar/fro...

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FIRST AMERICA INDIGENOUS FUTURES BOOK RELEASE: FROM THE HEART OF OUR NATIONS — TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP

Join First America , Tulsa Artist Fellowship , the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities , Red Media , and the Lindy Waters III Foundation for an evening celebrating Indigenous futurisms,…

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Another lil merch post for the back to school crowd! 🏺🌿 www.redbubble.com/people/flaro...

Myself standing with six of my artworks surrounding me

A selection of notebooks stickers and phone cases from my shop

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Classical Receptions @crsn-uk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

New CfP on the CRSN site!! In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the publication of Ted Hughes' "Tales from Ovid," the Ted Hughes Society and the School of Classics, University of St Andrews are accepting proposals for papers! Find out more information: classicalreception.org/event/cfp-te...

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CfP: Ted Hughes’ “Tales from Ovid”, Thirty Years On

2027 will be the 30th anniversary of the publication of Tales from Ovid. Twenty-four Passages from the Metamorphoses by the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Tales from Ovid was immediately acclaimed and w…

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Want a book about the end of the southern British Iron Age, the Roman invasion and the greatest king of this island has ever had? If only such a thing existed...🤔 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/caratacus... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social January 2027 #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Book cover with an Iron Age coin depicting a naked spear and shield wielding male warrior on a horse with the title *Caratacus - Great King of Britain* below

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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Finally watched Masters of the Universe (2026), and wow, did I never fully appreciate the heights of Himbo that costume climbs.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

this is the thing like schism watch 2k16 is hilarious in many ways but it is also terrifying because extremists are always terrifying some of these people are simply whiny losers yelling on the internet about the pope being mean to them, but some of them are legitimately dangerous

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Five more important sites designed by Black architects just received Getty funding. Getty and @savingplaces.bsky.social's $4.85M initiative "Conserving Black Modernism" helps protect sites designed by Black architects and has preserved 26 significant buildings. Full story: gty.art/4fxwnlD

Wendell Campbell's St. Mark AME Zion Church, East Chicago, Indiana. Preserving Black architecture and design. This $4.85M initiative has helped communities across the US protect 26 modernist sites. Read full story getty.edu/news

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The Ozymandias Project @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Today on AOH, Dr. Jenn Finn, an Associate Professor and Chair of the Classics Department at Loyola University Chicago, discusses framing Alexander the Great in an ancient Near Eastern context, Alexander as a symbolic strategist, and consulting for the Netflix series “Alexander: The Making of a God”.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"This document is too tough to read! I need to get an AI to transcribe it" - foolish, decadent, a researcher unaware of the fragile beauty of the past "This tome is incomprehensible to me for now. I must study the ancient languages to learn its arcane secrets" - a wizened sage, their third eye open

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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Knew I saved my academic regalia for a reason.

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This week Historians At The Movies talks about love and grief in 16th century England. Join us on Netflix this Sunday, July 26 at 8pm eastern for HAMNET. I'll still be on a forest fire so follow @phdrachel.bsky.social for kickoff and share #HATM across Blue Sky!

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ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Does anyone have a recommendation for a smallish waxed canvas messenger of tote? Big enough for everyday essentials and a hardcover or two?

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026

Pride and Prejudice as a shonen jump action epic when

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss.

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Watch the Throne: Uncovering three new kings of Assyria | news.yale.edu/2026/07/09/w... A new study co-written by Eckart Frahm @yale.edu provides evidence that the ancient kingdom of Assyria had three more kings than previously thought.

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Watch the Throne: Uncovering three new kings of Assyria

A new study co-written by Yale’s Eckart Frahm provides evidence that the ancient kingdom of Assyria had three more kings than previously thought.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

god fucking dammit, Zuko

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