You've heard of Mega-Albania, are you ready for Giga-Dacia?

Nice to see Andrew Scholz’s article on Libanius’ Declamation 30 here, & flattered to have my 2017 GRBS article “Sophistry & Sorcery in Libanius’ Declamations” cited here.

American Journal of Philology Vol. 147, No. 1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56624 #openaccess @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social

Found out the hard way that in German universities they knock their knuckles on the table instead of clapping.

Day one of the “Antike im Metal” conference. Let’s do this.

After many years of studying metal’s reception of antiquity, today we finally got to meet and hang out with Christian Thrue Djurslev (right) He published (in the 1st ever issue of Metal Music Studies) one of the 1st articles on the topic (“The Metal King: Alexander the Great in Heavy Metal Music”).

“Personalities of the history of Trier.” That is quite the prosopography.

Huge thanks to @mikebeer.bsky.social for this bumper episode - I just know that a lot of GCSE and A level students in particular are going to find his insights so helpful...

Drudkh are fascists and they want you to know. One ex-member of Hate Forest was in Dub Buk aswell as in Burshtyn.

Why are you, a mid to late 30 year still obsessed with Harry Potter? You’re never going to freaking Hogwarts, you’ll never get your silly house assignment, and JK Rowling wouldn’t even piss on you if you were on fire. Grow up and stop financially supporting a moldy bigot.

This video is having a mini-crest over on YouTube right now - if you could watch, comment and like that could help push it over the algorithmic hump and I would really appreciate it

How did gender shape who was seen and treated as a criminal in Late Antiquity? Read up on Julia Hillner's project. For an overview of all research projects, see the new Dependent: buff.ly/gi1LMwh @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Lord, grant me the confidence of a white man and an obnoxious grad student who think they know everything. Αμήν.

Ζήτω η Ελλάδα

Can finally cross this off my list of pilgrimage sites for late antiquity nerds. ✅ 🏛️ 🇩🇪

This was apparently the river Ausonius was raving about.

A new DOUBLE episode for you this week! @mikebeer.bsky.social joins Alexandra to take a fresh, critical look at the life and career of Augustus. Think you know him? You might just know the image Augustus *wanted* you to know...

Browsing the bookstore at the Frankfurt train station. I know a good title when I see one.

My trip to Germany is off to a good start. Soon after landing in Frankfurt I completely unexpectedly ran into @metalbyzantinist.bsky.social as she was going in the opposite direction to America.

Soon boarding for what will likely be my only transatlantic travel this year. If all goes well I’ll arrive in Trier mid day tomorrow. ✈️ 🚆 🇩🇪

Members of Congress shouldn’t have any special perks in general, period.

Putting the finishing touches on my presentation for the "Metal im Antike" conference in Trier this week. Flying to Frankfurt tomorrow and will be in Germany till Sunday. Stoked for a gathering of fellow metal classicists in the Rome of the North.

Putting the finishing touches on my presentation for the "Metal im Antike" conference in Trier this week. Flying to Frankfurt tomorrow and will be in Germany till Sunday. Stoked for a gathering of fellow metal classicists in the Rome of the North.

Assistant Professor in Classical Greek Language and its Legacies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY495/a...

Censored because BlueSky moderation is extremely annoying

Just recorded an episode of Byzantium & Friends on my Julian book. Episode will be out around the beginning of May.

Rewrite of Plato’s The Republic, called The Republicans. It starts the same way, discussing the view that justice is helping your friends and harming your enemies but this time everyone agrees and they light up cigars. In other words, Trump and his circle have set ethics back by 2,500 years.

Country #104 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is MALDIVES 🇲🇻 Kulhi Boakibaa is a spicy fish cake made with tuna, habanero peppers, lemon juice, onions, curry leaves, turmeric, and rice flour. Baked in an oven.

Country #105 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is MALI 🇲🇱 Tiguadege Na is beef, onions, garlic, carrots, eggplant, potatoes, & tomatoes stewed in peanut butter & beef broth, and spiced with herbes de Provence. Served over rice.

Country #106 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is MALTA 🇲🇹 Aljotta is a fish soup (I used flounder) made with onions, garlic sautéed in olive oil then stewed with tomatoes, rice, fresh mint, and lemon juice.

How the Tetrarchy Won the East - Emperors of Rome - Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Country #106 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is MALTA 🇲🇹 Aljotta is a fish soup (I used flounder) made with onions, garlic sautéed in olive oil then stewed with tomatoes, rice, fresh mint, and lemon juice.

So anyways, what’s everyone having for dinner?

Objectively the best way to introduce conditions in Latin.

Had a fantastic session of my Metal & Premodernity class today as @drchristinah.bsky.social reprised her guest lesson on Roman empresses in Roman literature, modern film, & heavy metal.

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✨The Gallic Sack of Rome - Part 6!✨ 390 BCE is finally coming to a close! As expected, there are similar elements in the ancient sources, but it is astonishing to see the different way the authors weave the details together.

Also like, I don't quite understand why people need to AI generate ancient history content? There is a LOT of real ancient history content out there to pull from!

I don’t normally share the ridiculous AI-generated garbage that “ancient wisdom” accounts are always posting, but this is just monumentally laughable. Perhaps it’s some Hellenistic syncretism of Athena & Artemis, plus a crop-top peplos, because of course a virgin goddess must be sexualized.

A great first talk in our series, offering intriguing thoughts on how to convince folks to get their info from Actual Historians & historians to offer it. Next up: @metalclassicist.bsky.social & @drchristinah.bsky.social on Monday, April 6th to discuss the reception of Medusa in heavy metal music!

Don't miss Decatur Daily's review of Goodman's HEROD THE GREAT, calling it "scholarly, insightful, and clearly written".

It isn't up on Amazon, yet, but here we are.

Came across a nice review of my book by M. David Litwa of The Gnostic Archive.

Came across a nice review of my book by M. David Litwa of The Gnostic Archive.

✨Honouring the gods✨ This relief appears to depict the lead up to a bull sacrifice. There is a veiled figure at the altar with an attendant nearby, while another person leads the bull towards the final moment.

This has been out a little while but it only just landed on my doormat - containing a little chapter I wrote on my OGs (Deleuze and Guattari). Congratulations to the editors! 📘

Learn Ancient Greek in 118 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard | Open Culture www.openculture.com/2026/03/lear...

Now available for preorder, with promo code TCCCR2026, "The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race," a major intervention against the decades-old orthodoxy of the alleged anachronism of "race" and "racism" for the study of the ancient past. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

available for pre-order now: Why Odysseus?: Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero a.co/d/03nEFxoK

out in US and UK. Just in time to add to the Odysseus-Scholarly-Complex.