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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Torchlit Pompeii. A painted political campaign message on the facade of a building.

A white plastered facade of a building in Pompeii lit in a circle by a torch highlighting some ancient red painted letters - a political campaign message

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh I know… I came for the Gaius Caesar (possibly Octavian): image 4

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Roman Arles is amazing! The museum and remains really make you realise how the Rhone was the economic superhighway of the entire region. I came here to see a portrait of Gaius Caesar, but left blown away by the 30m barge excavated in 2011 & conserved with nuclear radiation, freeze drying & resin!

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Congratulations to my favourite poet, Anne Carson, Nobel Laureate! A few choice quotes from my first exposure to her, Autobiography of Red.

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 30/09/2026

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 3.1 (2026) With contributions from Jody Valentine, Sarah Cullinan Herring, Joy Woolley and Paul Robertson, and Sally Mubarak #OpenAccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-3-1...

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Res Diff 3.1 (2026)

Jody Valentine, What is a Classic? Experimenting with Engaged Scholarship Keywords: classical tradition, critical self-reflection, reflexive antiracism, Sappho, subjectivity, White privilege. Abstr…

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jill Lepore on what I have been calling “the outsourcing of the American mind”. Thankfully in my department we have pushed back & gone analog primarily. No tech in classrooms (unless accommodations), most assessments are in-class, note taking graded for credit. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson

Machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, seeks to make an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor (with tenure) of a scholar with a dual focus on Computational Humanities and on Roman Archaeology. See further: isaw.nyu.edu/jobs/computa...

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Associate Professor, Computational Humanities and Roman Archaeology

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

a travesty! And the recently proposed solution seems to put the collections in storage...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.

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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am VERY EXCITED to see the ad come out for post-doc positions associated with my Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies: please pass on to anyone who might be interested and works across ancient regions/languages/worlds... www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Applications are sought for three Research Associates to join the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS), directed by Professor Josephine Quinn. Starting no later than 1 October 2027, you wil...

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Looking ahead to December, our volume, "Mobility and Migration in Antiquity: Rethinking the Ancient World Through Movement" is now up on the Routledge page -- yes the price is crazy, but the volume is 712 pages long... www.routledge.com/Mobility-and...

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Mobility and Migration in Antiquity: Rethinking the Ancient World through Movement

Mobility and Migration in Antiquity investigates human movement in the context of the ancient world from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indian Ocean, addressing small-scale, everyday mobility as well as...

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For the first time in my teaching, the majority of my class assessments this semester will be "in class" assessments, and I have also introduced note-taking assessments (credit for taking decent notes, assessed every 2 weeks), inspired by a colleague. Is anyone else doing similar things?

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Working women are frequently attested in the #Roman empire: the funerary stele of Sentia Amarantis depicts the deceased tapping wine from a barrel. She was an inn-keeper and died at the age of 45. The stele was set up by her husband. From Augusta Emerita/Mérida, 3rd c. AD. #ReliefWednesday 🏺 📷 me

A fragment of a marble relief showing a woman in a long robe pouring liquid from a barrel supported by a wooden frame. An inscription below, in Latin, mentions the deceased: Sentia Amarantis.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This encapsulates well the frustration when people not trained in history/historical fields suddenly claim AI can do the work of historians. It shows how few know what it means to do that work.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hi all - I have now uploaded each of the itineraries for the 2024, 2025, and 2026 Classical Summer School at the American Academy in Rome here: www.evanjewell.net/teaching Hopefully this helps any of you who might be planning a study abroad program or similar!

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Teaching — Evan Jewell

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yes amazing how time flies… and new historiography accrues… I do think the Oxford History is meant to be out in the next two years? (Said as a contributor, if you mean the Oxford History of the Roman World)

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thank you! I’ll check it out

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Recommendations for a recent Roman history narrative for undergraduates that is nuanced, digests recent research, and is readable, that is not Beard’s SPQR and is not a textbook per se?

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I will try again! Sorry I’ve been offline

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My book, "Youth and Power: Acting Your Age in the Roman Empire (149 BCE to 79 CE)" is officially under contract at Oxford University Press. I'm hopeful it'll come out some time next year!

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Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Got word from the team @princetonupress.bsky.social that advanced copies of my book are arriving at the press (they sent me this photo of it in the wild)! So excited to be able to hold it in my hands!

A hardback copy of "Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Indian Ocean Trade" by Jeremy A. Simmons standing upright on a stone bench in the lovely green courtyard of Princeton University Press.

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 06/05/2026

just received proofs of my latest article, forthcoming with postmedieval journal: "The invention of blackness in Ovid's Metamorphoses." (a new reading of the Phaethon myth in Bks 1 and 2)

"The invention of blackness in Ovid's Metamorphoses." Abstract: In Ovid's Metamorphoses (1.750-2.365), the Roman poet gives an aetiology for the invention of blackness via the myth of Phaethon, whose failure to control his father's solar chariot leads to the scorching of the earth. This article situates Ovid's myth of Phaethon within ancient discourses of race, contextualizing the sequence within ancient environmental theory, racial affect theory, and the melancholic tensions of Rome's enslaving practices. The article concludes with an analysis of the reception of Ovid's myth of Phaethon in Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth (1994).

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Our article on a dedication of a late Archaic representation of a dwarf woman on the Athenian Acropolis is out, and open access! This project began in earnest in Spring 2022, so it's been a long time coming and I am so proud of it. Share with your students! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A Dwarf Maiden on the Athenian Acropolis: Disability and Dedication in the Archaic Polis

The study of ancient Greek sculpture is heavily influenced by the notion of the ideal and idealized human body, which has long been assumed to exclude notions of bodily difference and disability. I...

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Coming out later this year hopefully...

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Not this attack on Canvas happening just when I need to grade everything…

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Sometimes those overdue article revisions really can be done in just a day or two--it just takes will power and the headspace from the end of the semester to get there.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol. 70 (2025) www.jstor.org/stable/e2744... @jstor.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social #openaccess @quidamabo.bsky.social

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In case you didn't already know, the wonderful, generous, brilliant Annetta Alexandridis has passed away. I still remember going to Israel & Jordan with her for 2 weeks about 10 years ago. She modeled many behaviours as an academic I can only hope to one day imitate. news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

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Classical art historian Annetta Alexandridis dies at 58 | Cornell Chronicle

Annetta Alexandridis, a classical archaeologist known for her hands-on approach to research and teaching, died April 13 in New York City.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Putting out my annual call for guest speakers for the AAR Classical Summer School - if you're going to be in Italy from June 15 - July 17, please do get in touch and maybe you can lend your guest expertise!

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Conclusion: slop existed before AI slop.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is accompanied by a dramatized scene in which Tiberius is seen teaching Caligula how to be sexually adventurous (in an orgy no less)--not helped by the fact that the acting is terrible, as is the production quality and directing. Compare the new Netflix Cleopatra which is infinitely better.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

One of the latter talking heads at one point says that the Romans "had no sexual morality", implying they were very sex positive or something akin to aspects of our current culture. Of course, nothing could be further from what we know, not least in their condemnation of Tiberius & Caligula!

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Second, there are colleagues I respect on this show, but I think their interviews must have been edited beyond recognition, because their comments reinforce this simple narrative, though generally they say far far more sensible things than the journalists they also interview.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

First, the narrator tells us an extremely straightforward narrative. Nothing is problematized. No doubt is ever expressed about "what happened". No sources are ever mentioned. It's very much an A happened, then B, then C thing. We just "know" this is how it all played out.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Today I taught the Netflix docudrama series "Roman Empire: Reign of Blood", the Caligula season, as an ad hoc addition to the end of semester, and I didn't realize that something like this could be this BAD. Very bad. Both the documentary and the drama elements.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Does anyone else get a lot of article ideas from teaching? I’ve had two ideas from my “Ancient Rome in the Movies” and refinement of others by teaching a slavery course too —this semester alone.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

@opietasanimi.com and I were chatting about this when it came out—couldn’t believe BMCR could publish this poison, but then again, maybe I do believe it.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Let’s not forget that he wrote this review while under this investigation.

“His specific arguments on this topic, however, are deeply unsatisfying. First—and he calls this “obvious”—loving what and how you study “is routinely implicated in the enabling and justification of the predatory behavior that directly confronts women and people of other marginalized gender identities in the academy.” What on earth does “implicated” mean here? If you love the Iliad, you are implicated in sexual harassment? If you do sexually harass someone, you typically defend yourself because you love the Iliad? Don’t love your work as it may lead you to sexually harass someone?! “Routinely?!””

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Compare: Holt Parker and his "me search" in Teratogenic Grid article (Tacitus in Ohio). (Dealing with this in my book).

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Important to note that Goldhill had critiqued @platanoclassics.bsky.social for interrogating the erotics of scholarship vis-a-vis sexual harassment just last year. And I wonder why? Scholars creating preemptive/retrospective apologetics for their crimes? bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.11...

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

indeed... Goldhill has long been known about in the whisper network.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

No paywall copy of the article in the Times about unwanted sexual advances by Simon Goldhill at Cambridge. Thank god students in 21st century report this shit and the universities take it seriously archive.ph/2026.04.09-1...

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Finally got my hands on @khuemoeller.bsky.social’s new book! Can’t wait to dig into it. Love the idea of looking at five lives.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

New reads for the very long “to read” list!

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