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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

October 8 2026 4:30PM BST = 11:30 AM EDT Online @ics.bsky.social Jessica L. Lamont @yale.edu Magic in Roman and Late Antique Corinth ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Sarah Parkhouse @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Deadline for this is coming up! Self-nominations are encouraged.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There are just a few days left to apply to be a visiting scholar this year at Ohio State's Center for the Study of religion. This program is exclusively for colleagues who are not in tenure-track positions. For details, see religion.osu.edu/visiting-sch...

Graphic with the text "Apply now for the Visiting Scholar Program. Apply by August 14. The Ohio State University, Center for the Study of Religion" superimposed on a mandala

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Extremely excited about the IG/TikTok content the Odyssey is giving us! Also thank you a million times to @archaeadne.bsky.social for sending me tiktoks because I simply cannot do that platform

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Homer, of course, famously hated starting his narratives in the middle of things.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The CFP for Ohio State’s visiting scholar program at the Center for the Study of Religion is now available. This opportunity is specifically designed for non-tenure-track colleagues, including contingent and independent scholars. religion.osu.edu/visiting-sch...

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Visiting Scholar Program | Center for the Study of Religion

The Center for the Study of Religion hosts a short-term visiting scholar program one or two times per academic year. Building on a successful pilot program held in March 2023, this initiative aims to ...

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm taking on a new service role, and I think it should be a lot of fun (maybe some work too)! religion.osu.edu/people

Screenshot of website that reads, "Megan Nutzman, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Religion; Assistant Professor, Department of Classics"

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I had to check the automated transcript of my myth class from yesterday. I'm amused that the AI consistently thought we were discussing a certain Lannister rather than a certain daughter of Helios. The class was entirely on the Odyssey, so the AI was incapable of picking up on context cues.

John William Waterhouse's Circe Invidiosa (1892)

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I have no words, and I refuse to screenshot the evil being posted online. Instead, a prayer that I think about a lot these days: "Again we pray for the protection of this holy church, this city and every city and land, from wrath, famine, pestilence, earthquake, flood, fire, sword...

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I just taught this passage again a few weeks ago…

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Visiting AP in Classics and Religious Studies at Hamilton College: Religions of Late Antiquity with the ability to teach Greek and/or Latin and New Testament (in translation). Review of applications begins February 23, 2026.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“Fear not those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow.” www.instagram.com/amandascgorm...

For Alex Jeffrey Pretti
Murdered by I.C.E January 24, 2026
By Amanda Goreman

We wake with
no words, just woe
& wound. Our own country shoot
ing us in the back is not just brutal
ity; it’s jarring betrayal; not enforcement,
but execution. A message: Love your people & you
will die. Yet our greatest threat isn’t the outsiders among us,
but those among us who never look
within. Fear not those without papers, but those
without conscience. Know that to care intensively,
united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today
& a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel
we have nothing to give, & still belove this world wait
ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may
we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our
humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open
ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor,
& save one more bright, impossible life.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Minnesota is home for me. I hate not being there and helping keep vulnerable members of the community safe. I have family + loved ones in the middle of it. My brother is in S Minneapolis. My first apartment was very close to where the 5-year-old was taken from school yesterday. These are my people.

Black outline of Minnesota with a heart and the word “home”

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm looking for a Greek civ/history recommendation: What articles/blog posts do you like for thinking about the relevance and/or (mis)appropriations of ancient Greece for today? I'm looking for something to use in the last week of my Greek civ class this semester.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Does anyone have a VR program that they like for teaching ancient Greece? Maybe the Athenian acropolis, Delphi, or something like that? Now that I'm at a school with more resources, I'm hoping that I can make use of some fun stuff in my classes.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Does anyone have a Greek epigraphy reading list that they'd be willing to share? We have a grad student who is interested in complementing their work in Latin epigraphy, and while I've done some work on inscriptions, I am certainly not an epigrapher! Image for visibility...

Jewish epitaph from Rome, written in Greek

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I posted the wrong link when I shared my new article yesterday, so here it is again. Now available online, "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation." www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a...

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Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It's publication day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation"! www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/journal/e...

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Early Christianity

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I won free tickets to an Ohio State football game at faculty orientation today. I should probably buy something red!

Picture of me standing next to Brutus Buckeye, the Ohio State mascot.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Page proof day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation," forthcoming in Early Christianity. Do the famous reliefs from the Piraeus Asklepieion and the Oropos Amphiareion (and others) show Greek healers conveying a cure with a simple touch? I argue that they don't.

Abstract for my forthcoming article: This article seeks to overturn more than one hundred years of scholarship that has suggested that Asclepius, the preeminent Greek god of healing, was reputed to heal
by touch. Previous scholars have interpreted a small number of Attic votive reliefs as depicting touch-miracles analogous to those attributed to Jesus in the New Testament. In light of epigraphic and literary depictions of Asclepius as a divine physician, I argue that some of these reliefs show Asclepius administering medical or surgical
cures, while others represent Asclepius employing the physician’s compassionate hand (παιωνία χείρ). In contrast, Jesus is portrayed as a source of divine power, which he is able to transfer to a sick or injured person by means of a simple touch without any need for a physician’s techniques. Similar touch-miracles in the Septuagint and
the Genesis Apocryphon indicate that antecedents for touch-miracles attributed to Jesus can be found not in Greek healing cults but rather in Jewish traditions.
Keywords: Asclepius, Amphiaraus, Jesus, healing, miracle, touch, votive

A relief found at the Asklepieion in Piraeus, which shows depicts a reclining woman in the center; a bearded Asclepius stands at the head of her bed and reaches down to touch her right shoulder with both hands. Behind Asclepius stands Hygieia, and at the foot of the bed are positioned a group of smaller figures including a bearded man, two women, and a child

A votive relief dedicated by Archinos. The left part of the image contains two figures; the smaller individual, Archinos, extends his
right arm to the larger figure, Amphiaraos, who holds the arm from below with his left hand while touching his upper arm or shoulder with his right hand. The scene on the right side of the image shows Archinos reclining on a bed with an attendant standing near his head. Coming up from behind the bed is a snake, whose mouth is open on Archinos’s shoulder.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

My former department lost 3 people in the last year alone: 2 tenured (including me) and 1 TT. There will be no TT or FT lecturer searches this year and no promise of any in future years. This is in addition to the 4 lines lost over the previous decade. I feel guilty about adding to these numbers.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I've never subscribed to the listserv, since it seems like I only ever hear about it when it becomes really problematic. For those of you who subscribe, do the benefits outweigh the drama?

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Is anyone having a hard time logging into the online LCL today via institutional access? I've tried it on a number of browsers, but each time the log-in seems to go through, only to have the content that I need still show as unavailable without logging in. I just need to double check a citation!

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Applications are due in two weeks for a visiting scholar at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. Open only to scholars who are not in tenured or tenure-track positions. I look forward to being involved in the CSR in my new position at OSU and to welcoming this visiting scholar!

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CSR Visiting Scholar Program – Call for Applications

Visiting Scholar – Call for ApplicationsThe Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the continuation of our short-term visiting scholar program.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is a fantastic explanation of and reflection on using teaching with games in the undergraduate classroom.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I don't follow Catholic politics, but this would not have been the outcome that I expected. Chicago is going to be celebrating today.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Today is the day that we have Latin in the news!

White smoke coming from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling the election of a new pope.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

As a classicist, I am eagerly anticipating the moment when Latin will be in the news! Also, I like ceremony and ritual, so even though I'm not Catholic, I find the process interesting.

White smoke from the Sistine Chapel when Pope Francis was elected.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

For independent and contingent #AcRel scholars: Short-term visiting scholar program at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. $3,000 stipend, lodging, travel, and meals for a week-long residency. Deadline: July 1, 2025

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Visiting Scholar Program | Center for the Study of Religion

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

From ODU to OSU: I'm thrilled to share that I've accepted a position in the Classics Department at Ohio State!

Picture of me in a green sweater standing in front of a red sign that says Ohio State University, established 1870

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It looks like I'll be teaching myth next year -- something that I've never taught before. What are some of fun ways to approach teaching myth? I'm interested in everything from course structure to interesting (or even non-traditional) assignments. If you have a syllabus to share, I'd love to see it!

Movie poster for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief from 2010.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In my tradition, today is the Sunday of the Last Judgement. I always find the Gospel passage for today very meaningful, but it is especially timely this year. Here is how it ends (from Matthew 25): ... (images from the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles in Capernaum)

Image 1/3 showing the Icon of the Last Judgement from the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles in Capernaum. This shows the upper and central part of the icon. For more information on the symbolism of Last Judgement icons, see https://www.saintjohnchurch.org/last-judgment/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIoZA5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQwJfHi94JJJDB9fguo1j3VAunNp9fzO7dgld5xVVaEDUY8dwMjnLcWxwg_aem_5L7OuR-F5QdmxxNfKsj9Dg

Image 2/3 showing the Icon of the Last Judgement from the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles in Capernaum. This shows the lower left part of the icon. For more information on the symbolism of Last Judgement icons, see https://www.saintjohnchurch.org/last-judgment/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIoZA5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQwJfHi94JJJDB9fguo1j3VAunNp9fzO7dgld5xVVaEDUY8dwMjnLcWxwg_aem_5L7OuR-F5QdmxxNfKsj9Dg

Image 2/3 showing the Icon of the Last Judgement from the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles in Capernaum. This shows the lower right part of the icon. For more information on the symbolism of Last Judgement icons, see https://www.saintjohnchurch.org/last-judgment/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIoZA5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQwJfHi94JJJDB9fguo1j3VAunNp9fzO7dgld5xVVaEDUY8dwMjnLcWxwg_aem_5L7OuR-F5QdmxxNfKsj9Dg

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book: Imagine, if you will, a woman living in Caesarea in the early fourth century CE.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Fellow classicists, please help me out so I don't sound stupid! How are we pronouncing the abbreviations ThesCRA (Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum) and LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae)? Is it thes-crah and L-I-M-C?

Front cover of one of the volumes of ThesCRA, published by the Getty museum.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. State Department/foreign service 2. Political Science 3. History (BA) + Theology (MTS) + Classics (PhD) 4. Ancient history professor

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

An attempt at work-life balance, in the form of a krokbragd rug. I'm making it to coordinate with the Hudson Bay blanket (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%...) that we use as a bed covering.

Picture of a rug hanging down the front of a floor loom, with the warp still attached to the loom. The rug is mostly a natural cream, with overlapping stripes of green, red, yellow, and blue.

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

There was some discussion of this exact journal in a Facebook group last month, with the same general consensus.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Thank you for the outpouring of well-wishes. As of today, Getty staff, the art collections, and buildings remain safe from the Palisades Fire. The threat is still happening, and our hearts go out to everybody in Los Angeles affected by this awful tragedy.

ALT A drone shot of the Getty Villa museum building against the landscape overlooking the ocean

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Publicity shot of leading characters on Silo

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