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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 23/09/2026

Featuring Ben Paites, Senior Curator at @colmuseums.bsky.social, Kate Sumnall, Curator of Archaeology at @londonmuseum.bsky.social and Lexi Diggins, archaeologist and guest curator at @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social... Ancient History 101 presents: BOUDICA Part 1: Prelude to Destruction

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Well that is just horrendous to watch

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And a lovely yellow it is too. It will stand out on the book shelves!

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is the perfect book for just that topic. There is another book coming out start of new year if you later wish to dive deeper into this: How the West invented the Ancient World by @luxmea.bsky.social

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am one of those! 'Super sexy Alcibiades' is the best way to describe him anf understand why people kept letting him get away with so much cr@p.

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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 09/09/2026

After his wonderful episode discussing the Thirty Tyrants, @roelkonijn.bsky.social has returned to give us a crash course in the Sicilian Expedition this week! Crack open your copy of Thucydides, we're going sailing...

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @westlandbooks.bsky.social! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making. 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

A tower of copies of HUMANS, with bright red spines, and a single copy balanced on top, its mirror-foil oval mirror on the cover facing outwards.

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HistFest @histfest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📣 Announcement! We’re delighted to share a brand-new podcast series that invites expert historians to challenge your perceptions of the past. CHALLENGING HISTORIES is hosted by historian and author, @amyfuller.bsky.social. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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

Some fun stuff in here about Aphrodite as a war-god.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yeah, there was a prominent cult to them and they held important cultural significance in Sparta, but nothing compared to that of Athena, Artemis and Apollo

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Took my 11yo to the videogaming museum in Sheffield today and found these two beauties! Wasn't happy to see things in glass cases as exhibits that I distinctly remember playing as a kid. That was just rude.

Video game set up with an old tv and console. They sit on top of a blue table and a red stand for the tv. The creen is small with a pixellated image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse in a forest.

A tv and beige Commodore 64 sit on top of a black sand. A purple seat is in the foreground. The screen is black and blue with some white text. The game's name is Anarchy.

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 28/08/2026

Last day of the holidays, so here are a few things I have coming up once I get back to work 🧵

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Working through a draft of a new Bad Ancient article submitted by a new contributor. Always an exciting prospect, but I am particularly happy because this question on Spartan religion has been in our backlog for years!

Screenshot of a webpage with a black background and white writing. The website is BadAncient.com and the article is titled 'Was Ares the Patron God of Ares?'. There is a colour photo of some stone ruins on an ancient temple on a grassy hill.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am VERY EXCITED to see the ad come out for post-doc positions associated with my Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies: please pass on to anyone who might be interested and works across ancient regions/languages/worlds... www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Applications are sought for three Research Associates to join the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS), directed by Professor Josephine Quinn. Starting no later than 1 October 2027, you wil...

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I thought that. They are the same size as well. Clearly made to look like them... and it works!

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It was on a list for me for a while - but I have always found languages hard to learn so was reluctant to commit. But I have really got into it!

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New books have arrived so I can practice my Sanskrit (I'm definitely not procrastinating from the book I need to finish). Very excited to find that there is a Loeb-like edition of some texts (i.e. dual language), less excited to have numerous book retailers claim to have then but actually not!

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Blimey! Thanks, it is nice to hear people have enjoyed it

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Fun data: this year the most ordered book via my blog's Amazon links is @badancient.bsky.social's The Far Edges of the Known World, followed by 1942: Crux of War and The War People. Last year it was @michaellivingston.com's Agincourt, followed by Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783 and Waging a Good War.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wow! Thanks for platforming my book and giving it such an intellectually generous review

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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 12/08/2026

New episode alert! @drdragases.bsky.social joins 101 to give us a crash course in Late Antiquity, a fascinating period that gives Game of Thrones a run for its money. Was the Roman empire really 'split in half'? How did Christianity become the official religion? And when did Rome *actually* fall?

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Roel Konijnendijk @roelkonijn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Had a chat with the WarTalk team about The Odyssey www.chinatalk.media/p/wartalk-od...

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WarTalk: Odyssey Edition

yes you need more odyssey content

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Indeed. Currently trying to get my hands on some ancient Indian books in UK shops .... with little success.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Starting a list of things that have inspired a love of ancient history since 2000 - films, book series (kids, YA and adult), massive non-fiction books, video games, TV shows ... it is a long list. There is huge interest.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I hope so. 300 had a similar effect for a short while - as did the Rome: Total War games.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I was in a very critical Ancient Civ A-level class when Troy came out ... but there were only 4 of us. 300 has been torn apart by academics since it's release, but things didn't go viral in the same way in 2006 I suppose.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I wish that were true, I really do. Christian Cameron's books are great. As are Ben Kane's if you have read then?

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Percy Jackson, yep forgot about that! Also Harry Potter - it was translatated into both ancient Greek and Latin. There is no doubt ancient myth is a huge market for entertainment.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I am also growing tired of any take, at all, about the Odyssey film and academia that does not acknowledge that films lile this have not resulted in our departments getting more funding or support in the past 25 years. But are in fact being shut down in the backdrop of all this

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Oh yes! I loved that first season...

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In my life time? Gladiator, 300, Troy, and Alexander all come to mind and all since the year 2000. What happens each time is people say it will save the study of ancient history, it is loved for a bit before the next big thing happens: all while ancient history depts across the world shut.

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 04/08/2026

Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk

Lecturer in Public History and Heritage - (9363) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 31/07/2026

Historians and archaeologists have mixed feelings about the spectre haunting Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster. www.iflscience.com/were-the-mys...

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Sarah Steegar @paperandairplanes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yay! It’s here

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Bad Ancient team's interview with @iflscience.com is live! Inspired by the Odyssey film, it focuses on the question of the Sea Peoples and 'collapsing civilisations'. Also, it is the first time we have ever been called a 'ragtag team' and I like it. We should put that in a bio somewhere!

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Were The Mysterious “Sea Peoples” Lurking Throughout Nolan's The Odyssey Real? We Asked The Experts

Historians and archaeologists have mixed feelings about the spectre haunting Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster.

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Katy Evans @katyfevans.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Like if the Powerpuff Girls fought bad history takes 💪

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hi! Yes but we can't pay - entirely volunteer run I'm afraid. The site generates no income.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

iflscience.com

Were The Mysterious “Sea Peoples” Lurking Throughout Nolan's The Odyssey Real? We Asked The Experts

Historians and archaeologists have mixed feelings about the spectre haunting Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster.

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