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Zach Herz

@zacharyherz.bsky.social
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Rural jurist at the University of Colorado. All opinions yours.

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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You know what people need? My review of the Odyssey. www.zacharyherz.com/blog/2026/9/22/fuck-it-we-ball-another-classicist-reviews-the-odyssey
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fuck it we ball: another classicist reviews The Odyssey — Zacharyherz.com
(spoiler alert, obviously) I saw The Odyssey last week, finally, and I have So Many Thoughts about it. The shortest version, though, is—this is a great movie and, simultaneously, an almost comicall...
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New blog post, about how my treadmill desk will fix everything. WARNING: Spoilers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer www.zacharyherz.com/blog/2026/8/20/office-space
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office space — Zacharyherz.com
A new school year is starting, and I always like to use this time to reflect on what’s working and what isn’t. Since kindergarten my life has followed the rhythms of an academic calendar, and I treat ...
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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you work on the history of law and capitalism or of law and technology, you should check out the Call to join an ASLH Virtual Working Group in AY2026-27. Applications due 31 Aug. 2026: aslh.net/virtual-work... #legalhistory @nfyahaya.bsky.social @zacharyherz.bsky.social @siobhanbarco.bsky.social
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Virtual Working Groups | American Society for Legal History
ASLH Themed Virtual Legal History Workshop Themed Virtual Legal History Workshops provide a space for scholars with common interests to discuss or present innovative work in their fields, and cultivat...
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
if you can’t love yourself
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
That's right--she's blogging now. www.zacharyherz.com/blog/2026/7/...
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What now — Zacharyherz.com
I was awarded tenure this summer, and am now an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado-Boulder (appreciate the congrats). I have a lot of thoughts on this process, mostly warm...
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
B M C R It’s fun to be in the BMCR bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.05...
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The God and the bureaucrat: Roman law, imperial sovereignty, and other stories – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Tenured! #GonnaStartABlog
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Full Saltburn Dance Scene ( Murder on the Dancefloor ) Saltburn Ending naked dance scene
YouTube video by BigHandsASMR
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
New trends in engaged pedagogy = making students pose with a picture of your dog #romanlaw
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Undergraduate teaching as prop comedy
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A very kind review of my book in Greece and Rome, making some of the connections between Roman autocracy and contemporary society that I hadn’t been *quite* willing to say out loud in print… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Roman history | Greece & Rome | Cambridge Core
Roman history - Volume 73 Issue 1
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Some personal news: I am thrilled to announced that I have refreshed the reed diffuser in my office, and changed the scent from PF Candle Co. (Spruce) to PF Candle Co. (Wild Herb Tonic)! As always, thank you to @cuboulderclassics.bsky.social for giving me this platform, and to my loving husband.
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Be engaged!!!!
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A question that came up in my Roman law lecture: who is the American equivalent of Rita Ora? I think it’s Deion Sanders but need to run it by the scholarly community
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Can’t say Anabasis without 🍑
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
#TheVerveYouDeserve
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Me on Monday: ‘Good afternoon! My name is Zach Herz, I’m your Roman Civilization professor this fall, and Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post’
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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
#RomanLaw
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Listen to the man!!
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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
#RomanLaw
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/) www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
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The God and the Bureaucrat
Cambridge Core - Ancient History - The God and the Bureaucrat
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
2013-2025 Moose died this morning. He declined quickly, but with enough warning for me to come home, and we were able to give him a sendoff that was painless and dignified. He got very old, very fast, and decided he was done. It was a good death. I just thought we would have so much more time.
Moose.
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Quote from a final (posted with permission): “Without a doubt, Rome fell when Broadway began.”
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Call for papers is out from the American Society for Legal History! This is my favorite conference to present at, by far: wonderful audiences, who engage closely without tearing anybody down, and they love ancient law! Hit me up with questions and then SUBMIT. aslh.confex.com/aslh/2025/cf...
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Call for Papers
Call for Papers
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Quiz time: in order to get Moose to pose like this, you have to hold up A) a treat B) page proofs for Cambridge’s forthcoming translation of the Theodosian code; or C) all of the above #romanlaw #boyaremyarmstired
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Finally heard a Tate MacRae song, and I no longer understand gay men. Why do we stan this woman
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
After si, nisi, num, and ne Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Moose, gazing skyward
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Legal historiography pupdate: Moose is under contract with Cambridge University Press Studies in Legal History! The God and the Bureaucrat: Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty, and Other Stories should be coming out in ‘25. Hopefully they get his name right. #romanlaw #undercontract #getit
Moose, under a contract.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Count me also as unimpressed with the moral and philosophical incoherence of people who insist on asking “does calling Amy Wax a bigot chill speech” but steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the question “does a professor saying black and Asian people don’t belong here chill speech.”
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Just remember—when you make fun of Ulpian’s self-aggrandizing notion of jurists as ‘sacerdotes’ at D.1.1, THIS is who you’re making fun of. #romanlaw #guilttrip
Moose.
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
tfw you’ve made yourself regent to the child ruler Severus Alexander, but end up being killed on a military coup sometime between 223 and 228 C.E. #romanlaw #awkward
Moose, grimacing
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Hadrian’s Edictum Perpetuum IS brat #romanlaw #digest #bookxcx
It’s a picture of Moose. All the Roman law posts have pictures of Moose. You know this by now.
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
One of life's great pleasures is reading student responses to "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema." #ifyouknowyouknow
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
@jbouie.bsky.social is the only NYT op-Ed who makes me feel smarter for reading him (specifically because he pointed me to the Rancho Gordo table of instant pot cooking times)
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Enthusiasm @bonniehonig.bsky.social
Me saying ‘Hatshepsut!’ immediately below Bonnie Honig saying ‘Bernie!’
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Cannot emphasize enough, the man making this critique looks like Chappell Roan’s Wario
Richard Hanania, Hot to Transvestigate
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Herz: just remember that no one cares how your talk goes
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
🎼 he has slept countless aeons/In the frigid, cold beyond/Scream IO, CTHULHU PHTHAGN/it's the Necronomicon 🎼
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 03/08/2024
Harp teachers
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
‘Globalist puppet’ ‘cabal’ Jesus Christ man just say Jew and save the ink.
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
OMG! @gregwoolf.bsky.social you are finally going to have a decent bagel.
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
A woman at the next table in this coffee shop just asked what ‘the whole coconut thing is about’
A still of Eminem about to battle in 8 Mile.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Hi. I was away for a week. Hope everyone is doing well. There are people who believe the reasons for my absence are shameful and disqualifying for full participation on public life. Those people can snort my taint. If you need help, get help. Don’t wait to be in crisis. You can feel better. /1
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
Trump is gonna have plenty of money, but this makes it MUCH more likely that Trump switches VPs and I want that *so bad.*
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
Tired: I study the early third century CE Wired: it’s a Severanomenon
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
This is critical for talks, especially. Leaving aside the tone-setting, the icebreaker buys you a few seconds to figure out acoustics and sight lines.
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
She would never stand in the way of congestion pricing
Pauline from Super Mario Odyssey
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
Can some talented person please make a κακοθερής T-shirt?
Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere
TIL there is a word in ancient Greek (Kakotherēs) that means "bad at summer" or "unfit for summer" and it pleases me to know that this has been going on for thousands of years for I too am bad at summer
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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
History does not protect you from having to make normative decisions and from feeling responsibility for the outcomes of those decisions, part 234423948282937€
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