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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 20h

Wiping tear from my eye, one of my Sallust students just ranked him second only to Vergil as a Latin favorite.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A Greek Civ student felt inspired by Themistocles’ wall.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thrilled to share an interview with my amazing graduate student Amelia, who worked tirelessly on the Gardens of the Roman Empire project over the summer to help publish over 100 gardens on our project website: classics.illinois.edu/news/2026-10... YAY for collaborative digital humanities projects!

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Working with the Gardens of the Roman Empire Project | Department of Classics | Illinois

Over the summer, third-year graduate student Amelia Lamis completed a research internship with the Gardens of the Roman Empire Project, a digital humanities initiative that aims to bring knowledge of ...

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A Roman legion management RTS with hints of folk horror? You've got a wishlist, The Ninth Legion.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well I guess Hyacinthus similarly has a bad end, but thankfully no frisbees nearby.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And one of our students drew him. Class pet names ranged from Hyacinthus to a somewhat morbid yet still topical Icarus.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Had a little friend bonk his head on a window and join us for the first ten minutes of our Greek Civ class today. Thankfully some students managed to get him outside once he started flying again. I’ll consider it a good omen and the bird got a free, if brief, lesson on the Persian Wars.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pastelitos de guayaba ready for the goat roast.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*Roman historian voice* And while he was embroiled in wars abroad and tumult at home, the emperor declared a ceasefire with Neptune.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've just sent @egarcmol.bsky.social an fancy abstract for a talk next month at UIllinois, but my whole thesis is basically just:

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Older historians of Rome: “It was the lead in the pipes.” Future US historians: “It was the rocks in the salted caramel ice cream.”

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You’re not prepared for the dark, twisted thoughts in my drafts.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ah yes, the famous replacement for the Odyssey *checks notes* the Iliad.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A student in my ancient world in video games course last spring told me to buy Tower Dominion. Well, I did yesterday, and I hate him now. Hooked.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think our Greek Civ hoplite demonstration made it to the UIUC Reddit.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today is the day in Sallust we get to one of (IMO) the best lines and introductions in Latin! In tanta tamque corrupta civitate Catilina [...]

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I enjoyed it for the 3 days I had it.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They’ve officially taken control of my new heated blanket.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some smirks, but no laugh track. I might have said it too quickly between panoply discussion

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Was trying to find a chart that morning, thought of you, and knew you wouldn't dissapoint.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If only I could get enough shields and dowels, we could try it out on the lawn. Maybe less yelling orders in German in my case and more Spanish.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also handing students their “spears” (aka dowels), I said “Let’s get down to business, to defeat” and I think the Mulan reference dated me more than ancient warfare.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

All credit to my husband, it’s just a singular piece of cardboard which helps. Some spray paint and duct tape for the handles

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If our university wants to spread some of that budget we got for a ginormous football stadium screen to get more hoplite gear, I wouldn't say no.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Eternally grateful I get to do this and for our students in the Greek warfare lecture this morning. Didn’t even have to weaponize long, awkward pauses to get volunteer hoplites!

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Honestly would have been cooler than donning the helmet and shield with a jacket.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What happens when the previous class is still filing out of the lecture hall before our Greek civ class.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The diameter is a bit small (30 inches), but I wasn’t going to pay 36 inch prices. It does have a nice Athenian owl though (and yes, pardon the horrid spear grip, I need coffee).

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s officially warfare day in Greek Civ! Alas, I couldn’t find a trireme on Temu.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Breaking: Trump declares he was a first responder during the eruption of Pompeii, claims Pliny stole credit.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The box that students drop their attendance cards for Greek Civ is an old Magic the Gathering box. After getting several questions about what decks I run, I’m fairly sure they’re going to challenge me to a game of commander for extra credit.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some do, with more an emphasis on Demosthenic oratory rather than piecing together the hegemony musical chairs of the first half of that century.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

He’s really friendly! Just don’t ask why he doesn’t use all his words, is all.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Similar to cats, you will eventually love them, though your arms might be scarred.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Trying to share my love of Sallust to first-readers of his is like introducing a your beloved cat to new people, assuring them it’s friendly only for it to claw them. In this case, the clawing is irregular word order, archaisms, syncopated perfects mixed with historical infinitives.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Will you cover late antiquity? I’m still not fully convinced late antiquity isn’t a conspiracy made up by Big Pub to sell more edited volumes.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I will never get over one of my professors switching the Seleukids for the Athenians in a survey of empires that included the Achaemenids and Romans.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Making the Hellenistic period take up two weeks in my Greek Civ course is my final act of defiance for classes I took where we stopped right after Alexander or jumped to the Romans after one class on the period.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dropping my Ancient Trade Routes Tier List video on YouTube soon.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Need that othismos that only caffeine can provide.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can now confirm my theory that hoplites could have ready access to caffeine before battles while carrying their shields.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I should have specified he meant in Greece, but this is absolutely S tier trade.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

May not have been used as extensively, but points for creativity.

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