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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

After what has been a total write-off of the past few months with so many personal obstacles I made a spontaneous purchase of a new board game - Caesar! And yes I did take Rome in 20 minutes and thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS! “We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025 Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Not usually something I do on the old social media, but there’s probably enough friends floating around here who could do with a life update. givealittle.co.nz/cause/joels-... Don’t get me wrong, I love NZs public health system, but it drastically needs more funding and an overhaul.

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Joel’s medical misadventures - big costs all round

Help Joel and Jess with their medical expenses

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

So awesome to see this project announced - it was a privilege to be a part of it!

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

NZ government just announced the major funding grant will no longer be supporting humanities or social sciences : justification being “Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences.”

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Murderous rabbits in medieval manuscripts are simply amazing! I made a point of including them in a class a taught last year on Alexander in medieval traditions

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Someone has gone to quite enormous trouble to painstakingly recreate the Great Palace of Constantinople in Minecraft - AND based on VERY recent scholarship... the greatest thing I've seen on the Internet in a while! (Images belong to the OP of threat in following post, obvs...) #classicsbluesky

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This should be an amazing conference! Really encourage everyone to get onboard

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Aaaaand, I’m back. Appreciate the lack of Elon bots over here

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Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @resaustrales.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago) #BMCR review: Darja Šterbenc Erker, Ambiguity & religion in Ovid's Fasti bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.01... "valuable contribution to current discussions of genre, poetic intention, & audience expectations in literature of..late 1st century BCE to 1st century CE"

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Ambiguity and religion in Ovid’s Fasti: religious innovation and the imperial family – Bryn Mawr...

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

So excited to share the CFP for "Worlds Above and Below" - a hybrid (Dunedin & zoom) interdisciplinary conference (theology, biblical studies, ancient studies & classics) on supernatural worlds - abstracts due 22 March 2024 to above_below@otago.ac.nz

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Totally gutted that the strain of COVID that I’ve likely got is Eris, I would much preferred the more cooler Cerberus or kraken or even Centaurus or Argus. I mean goddess of strife sums up the week, but Cerberus!

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Gah, 2023 can go suck a lemon. To finish off the year in style our family has gotten COVID (thankfully only for the second time). Currently Mr 5 and Ms 3 are testing negative but myself, Jessica and bubs are all positive

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Michael König @08mikowitsch15.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

the struggle is real

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Reception #Classicstober Day 20 - Odysseus. All I can say is the 80's was wild! Ulysses 31 (or Space Legend Ulysses 31) was an anime with 26 episodes that told Odysseus' wanderings in a sci-fi setting

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

A bit late jumping on the #ClassicsTober and #ClassicsTober23 bandwagon, but couldn't help it with this piece of classical reception from the game #Fortnite. Described as "a dark sea witch with unknowable power", she doesn't yet have a backstory but follows naming conventions from Greek myth in S4.

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Do I have the best wife ever… why yes, yes I do!

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Joel Gordon @joelagordonnz.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Having had hand surgery I’m getting into audiobooks and came across some awesome classical reception in Warhammer 40K. A nekron dynasty called Ithakas is attacked by the fleets Polyphemus and Laestrygonian

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