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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Please consider supporting fellow Classicist @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social who has designed a beautiful and compelling Classics-inspired TTRPG: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon... We need more creativity and art in times like these.

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Nostos

a tabletop roleplaying game about sailing home and saying goodbye.

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The ink is officially dry and I am thrilled to announce that my book “Hands That Write: The Training and Lived Experiences of Ancient Mediterranean Scribes” is under contract with OUP! @oxfordunipress.bsky.social Sincere thanks to the editors, readers and mentors who have supported this project.

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The ancient Egyptians maintained 12 months of exactly 30 days each by observing five intercalary days at the end of the year. These days existed outside of the standard reckoning of time and were essentially back-to-back feasts, and I feel this just perfectly captures the vibe of Dec. 26th-31st.

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It was an honor to have met this remarkable woman and to have hosted her as our annual orator years ago. May Dr. Jane Goodall rest peacefully in the Earth she fought so tirelessly to protect.

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

“This week, Mellon Leadership Fellow and Nero scholar Lauren Donovan Ginsberg busts the myth of the useless humanist; a falsehood often used to justify cuts to humanities departments and programs today.”

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

“I asked ChatGPT” yeah well I asked the beautifully coiffed snake god Glykon by submitting my query in writing to his prophet Alexander at the temple in Abonoteichos that has a back room nobody’s allowed to go into

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I’m really proud of my article, “The Body of the Scribe,” which will be appearing in CJ 120.4—give the issue a read!

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

🚨Classics Job Opportunity Alert🚨 If anyone in my network is interested in teaching Latin in a K-12 setting and is open to relocation (to the American Southwest), I have eyes on a great opportunity for you. DM me for details!

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

FYI #AncientBlueSky: An excellent BMCR review of Raffaella Cribiore's "Listening to the Philosophers" is here, describing it as "fearless, insightful, lucid, & thought-provoking." bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.03... And, more at @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

A book cover with an image of a statue in a thinking posture, with the title at top reading "Listening to the Philosophers: Notes on Notes" and author name "Raffaella Cribiore" underneath.

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Rwany Sibaja @rwanysibaja.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Reminder: we're hiring in the Dept. of History at Appalachian State University. TT line at Asst. Professor level. Must be able to teach courses in history (area of specialization open), as well as in history/social studies education. #skystorians #academicsky careers.historians.org/jobs/rss/191...

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Assistant Professor, History/Social Studies Education in Boone, NC for Appalachian State University

Exciting opportunity in Boone, NC for Appalachian State University as a Assistant Professor, History/Social Studies Education

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Many of us seem to have opinions about this particular historical moment and I really don’t know if the majority of those opinions need to be in the public sphere. I certainly have nothing useful to say, except that I can’t sleep thinking of the innocents who died and will die. And that’s it, really

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

You could make a Roman edition of “Subterranean Homesick Blues” just by reading from Wheelock: “Poets in the forum are standing on the pediment.” “Girls in the patria praise the Roman government.” “The man and the sailor see old books there.” “The wisdom of the farmer cannot help the magister.”

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

I think we’ve missed a real opportunity by not branding “ClassicsBlueSky” as “CloudCuckooLand”

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Our exhibit “Manuscript Migration” opened at Duke’s Rubenstein Rare Book Library yesterday! Grateful to my fellow curators for their collaboration throughout this process and all those at Duke and in the community who contributed research, design work, art, funds, time and energy to its creation!

Michael Freeman posing next to his the section of the exhibition to which his own research contributed, focusing on Duke Univeristy’s papyrus collection.

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Looking forward to presenting at this online conference in just a few weeks with my colleague Amanda Ball (not yet on BlueSky)! Links are available by request from the organizers.

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David J. Wright @rmavirumquecano.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Hey everyone, Sportula currently has a backlog of emergency requests—they really need funds! The next person who donates to Sportula gets a free copy of the Thetis volume I co-edited! You can donate through Venmo with the username @Sportula! Email me (d.wright@bowdoin.edu) with receipt!

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Tori Lee @toriflee.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Since they don't have an account here yet: The Sportula still exists! This month, they only had enough funds to fill 6 microgrants, & the backlog of emergency requests is more than double that. Any donation helps: Venmo @sportula or join Patreon:

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Michael Freeman @michaelfreemanphd.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

So excited to see the opening of this exhibit I helped curate! I’m so proud of the collaborative student and faculty research that created this, and so grateful for the exhibitions team at Duke for all of their incredible, hard work making it possible and beautiful! Pictures to come soon!

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