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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Great first day at #CAMWS! We had a chance to check out a reception panel that was *chef's kiss*. Time to enjoy some amazing wine and Italian food at the nearby Napoli's. Come say hi!

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Christie Vogler @voguearchaeology.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I am very excited to be a part of this @antiquitymedia.bsky.social panel! It's the first time I'll be talking about popular reception in an academic setting instead of just on the @movieswedig.bsky.social podcast. Who else will be attending #CAMWS2025 this year? #Academicsky #AncientBluesky

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Christie Vogler @voguearchaeology.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Fun Fact: Both @ecfleming.bsky.social and I have worked on archaeological sites with Flint, so we know first-hand what an awesome person and archaeologist he is. Make sure you check out his work in making #realarchaeology accessible to a broader audience at www.youtube.com/@FlintDibble.

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Archaeology with Flint Dibble

Sharing archaeology. From the nitty gritty to the grand. Get access to behind-the-scenes content and support making more videos by subscribing to Patreon: patreon.com/FlintDibble. Or buy a needed cof...

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Dr. Elijah Camille Fleming @ecfleming.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Just cackling to myself on this one....

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

How can men find their way to war but not find their way to a good #podcast? We assemble our biggest survey panel ever to court the latest re-imagining of Homer’s #Odyssey (or the back half at least): The Return. @apistone.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social @joegoodkin.bsky.social #Ancientbluesky

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MWD Reception Battle: The Return (2024), with Amy Pistone, Joel Christensen, and Joe Goodkin

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources. On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names. dan rigiššu “loud is his bark” munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe” mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

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Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If there’s one thing I’ve learned since starting to talk #RealArchaeology online it’s that conservatives often do not know what science grants are. It is not surprising to me that Trump is targeting them, they are a bogeyman in conspiracy communities. 🧪🏺 Bright Insight Lied youtu.be/2GQ-6dg59xk

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Bright Insight Lied

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Leave it to Zuckerberg to fashion himself a modern Augustus only to fold quicker than Lepidus.

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Grab your witches hats and your godly boons as we delve into the Underworld again with @supergiantgames.bsky.social Hades II. Helping us out with this gaming katabasis is the wonderful Meg Sullivan @celticqueenmeg.bsky.social of History N' Games. Listen at movieswedig.com! #AncientBluesky #Podcast

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Christie Vogler @voguearchaeology.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Rewatching #TheReturn for tonight's discussion while typing up my shownotes (still love it). I am eager to learn what everyone has to say about it! #Podcast #AncientBluesky @ecfleming.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social @apistone.bsky.social @joegoodkin.bsky.social @movieswedig.bsky.social

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

While we do see a lot of new faces in #GladiatorII, the overall story is wrapped up in its mythologizing of the original. Helping us out in this episode is special guest (and Maximus/mentor figure to two of your hosts), Dr. Glenn Storey. Listen now at movieswedig.com! #AncientBluesky

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The New Nightmare of Rome- Movies We Dig Discusses Gladiator II with Dr. Glenn Storey

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Mercury Natis @mercuryreads.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

So @movieswedig.bsky.social completely summed up my problems with Gladiator II: 1, that the conclusion is a white hetero populist reclaiming kingship from queer and black usurpers through a speech of togetherness to an army, and 2, real Caracalla is fascinating and that's not him at all!!!

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Feel free to guess at any point, or start the challenge along with us! #20filmchallenge @voguearchaeology.bsky.social @ecfleming.bsky.social So without further ado, here is Day 1: Host 1- The Thing (1982) Host 2- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Host 3- The King and I (1956)

Collage of three movie posters for the films: The Thing, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The King and I.

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A reminder to come hang out with us tomorrow! We'll be streaming #HadesII on our YouTube channel. If you can't join us live, you'll still be able to able to watch the playthrough on your own time there. #AncientBluesky

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's time to return to the OG archaeologist on film! Joined by special guest, author, & archaeologist David West Reynolds, we examine our own experiences w/Indy, the enormous impact on the public perception of #archaeology and what these films, namely Raiders, gets remarkably right. #AncientBluesky

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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

✨NEW ARTICLE!✨ With Gladiator 2 in the cinemas, Alexandra Sills has taken an expert eye to the presentation of day-to-day gladiating life in the movie. Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Find out by clicking the link. With your thumb. 😊 www.workingclassicis...

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Did gladiators really do that? — Working Classicists

Did they really launch ships in the Colosseum? Did they really wear fancy breastplates? Alexandra Sills, checks how accurately Ridley Scott’s film presents the life of a gladiator.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Trump’s staffing picks make Caligula’s choice of Incitatus seem reasonable.* *yes, yes, hostile historiographical tropes

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Dr. Elijah Camille Fleming @ecfleming.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I didn't get to be a part of this chat because this movie left theaters so incredibly quickly in my tiny town. But I can guarantee thinking about this hot garbage with my brilliant colleagues is 10X better.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Extra galling that I'm required to think up dinner ideas as the empire crumbles.

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Don't Panic! How to fight fascism as an archaeologist. Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that! blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...

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Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as an Archaeologist

Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shovelling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people. It’s time to lean into that, to …

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

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Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Collaborating with brilliant colleagues Angela Trentacoste & Erica Rowan to host the inaugural #Environmental #Archaeology Summer School in situ at Falerii Novi 🎉🙌 Rare enviro research-led, in-field training w/leading experts! 🏺 🗃️ ClassicsBluesky Info + Apply: faleriinoviproject.org/opportunities/

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives @cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hello Newcomers! We're really excited to connect with you all on Bluesky! This season is all about #Archaeology in film. We'll have a new episode for y'all soon. For now, you can check out all our current episodes on the topic here: open.spotify.com/playlist/6Nh... #AncientBluesky #Podcast

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Grab a Trowel! MWD Archaeology Episodes

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Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

go.bsky.app/JWsLqqw A handy list of people doing great work outside the academy. As usual, omissions are not personal, just give me a nudge.

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

it's almost like people should think about structures of service and family support (coerced and non-coerced), as well as non-nuclear, non-heteronormative family structures when they're assuming things about humans past... potentially eye-opening finding for ya www.npr.org/2024/11/08/g...

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New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii victims

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

For all my dog-loving followers: A stunning #Greek rhyton (drinking cup) in the shape of a #dog's head. Dating ca. 475 BC. Life without #dogs is possible, but pointless! 📷 Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Hello newcomers! If you like the ancient world AND pop media, than you are in good company! This season is focused on #Archaeology in film, but we'll also be discussing the latest films like Megalopolis, Gladiator II, & The Return. Find it at movieswedig.com or wherever you listen! #AncientBluesky

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Movies We Dig – The podcast about film, antiquity and everything in between

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Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

I had a great girls' night with @movieswedig.bsky.social discussing Starz' Spartacus: Blood and Sand - a series that can never decide what it wants to be. When it gets spectacle right it gets it REALLY right, and when it gets it wrong it's FUBAR ancientbluesky www.movieswedig.com/podcast/spar...

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Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010), with Alexandra Sills – Movies We Dig

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

For all the #AIASCS folks heading home today, if you need something fun to listen to on the trip be sure to check out our latest minisode on Ep. 4 of Percy Jackson! This time we get to meet Echidna, The Mother of Monsters 🦁🐐🐍 Find it in the link below! #AncientBluesky #Archaeology #Podcast

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Hello Diggers! (Yes, I have arbitrarily decided to call our followers that.) A new episode has dropped where we finish out our discussion to the Classic BBC adaptation of Robert Graves' novel, I, Claudius. Listen here: www.movieswedig.com/podcast/i-cl... #AncientBluesky #AcademicSky #Podcast

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

A new episode of Movies We Dig has finally dropped! This is Part 1 of I, Claudius. Special guest @lizgloyn.bsky.social joins us to discuss memorable, if at times questionable, depictions of the Julio-Claudian family. #AncientBluesky #Archaeology #AcademicSky #Podcast

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