Happy New Year! This is how Janus works. Good luck. 🤞♥️

“Look, Germanicus, Janus proclaims a happy year for you and is present to start my song.” (Ovid, Fasti 1.63-64. Trans. Woodard) [image not mine]

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. (image: evergreen tree from the Painted Garden fresco in the villa of Livia, early 1st c. CE, Rome)

Fancy a #grasshoppers on a ring? The #Romans did. Between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, grasshoppers seem to have been pretty fashionable amongst the subjects carved on #intaglios.

If you’re watching the Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution, last night’s episode mentioned York, PA. York was where Second Continental Congress fled to when the British captured Philadelphia in the fall of 1777. This portrait is from the York County History Center’s collection!

Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙 Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

This is so depressing to me www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Once again urging archaeologists to critically assess the AI push into archaeology. There is a huge swath of problematic ethical issues that come with the AI tech & tech lords & we don't have to make it easier for them to insert themselves in archaeology by welcoming them in. Don't be complicit. 🏺

Day 25 of #Classicstober is Tartarus! Sisyphus, Ixion, & Tantalus, seen on this 2nd c CE marble sarcophagus in the Vatican, suffered their punishments in Tartarus. #Classicstober25

Day24 of #Classicstober is Phlegathon, the flaming river of the underworld. This river also makes it into Canto XII of Dante’s inferno (seen here) digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine... #Classicstober25

Day 23 of #Classicstober is the Lamia. Lamia were beautiful women with the body of snake who lured men (maybe children) in order to drink their blood/feast on their flesh. Companions to Hekate. (The only historic image I could find was a 17th century woodcut) #classicstober25

Day 22 of #Classicstober is Judge. Here is a 4th century BCE red figure vase featuring the 3 judges of the underworld: Rhadamanthys, Minos, &Aeakos. (P.S. I love late Sicilian vases) #classicstober25

Day 10 of #Classicstober is Hekate. Here is a beautiful marble statuette of Hekate dating to the 1st-2nd c. CE found at the Met. #classicstober25

Day 7 of #classicstober is pharmakis (witch, sorceress). I am sharing a book I have on my October stack and that I will be starting this weekend! The First Witches: Women of Classical Power in the Classical World by Alexis Hannah Prescott #Classicstober25

Love slow mornings with coffee and archaeology. Watching the @PBS.org new documentary Pompeii: the new dig. www.pbs.org/show/pompeii... Finding joy when and where I can. #Archaeology #Pompeii

Day 5 of #Classicstober is Hermes Psychopompos. (Hermes as the transporter of souls). Here he is on the tondo (interior) of a kylix found in an Anatolian grave. If you have AJA access, read more about it and see more great photos www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #Classicstober25

Day 4 of #Classicstober is the Shroud. This red figure skyphos c. 430 BCE depicts Penelope at her loom weaving her father-in-law’s burial shroud. “…postpone requests for marriage till I finish weaving this sheet to shroud Laertes when he dies.” (Odyssey 19.142-144 Wilson trans.) #Classicstober25

Day 3 of #Classicstober25 is the Graiai. Not a lot of images of them but did find a Pyxis from Athens c. 430 BCE which feature the Graiai and Perseus. The Graiai feature in Perseus’ quest to find Medusa. #Classicstober #archaeology

For Day 1 & 2 of #Classicstober #Classicstober25 Hypnos & Thanatos I’m sharing one of my favorite vessels, the Euphronios krater (c. 515 BCE) depicting the death of Sarpedon in the Ilaid. “…then send Death and gentle Sleep to take him to his spacious Lycian homeland…” (16.578-579 Wilson trans.)

Being Odysseus classicalstudies.support/2025/09/08/b...

Authoritarianism is on the rise across the globe, including in the United States. Might the historical rise of authoritarianism in the ancient world help us understand its rapid expansion today?

Finished this book for Labor Day weekend! I enjoyed it over all. I loved looking at history I know relatively well from a new angle along with learning some new things. Definitely would recommend it!

Under pressure from the White House, Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit at the National Museum of American History

I love this little dog from @pennmuseum.bsky.social

Stromboli ❤️

New issue of Journal of Classics Teaching: Vol. 26 , No. 51 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @cambridgeup.bsky.social @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social @corabeth.bsky.social

Identity of the Occupants of the Tomb of Persephone in Vergina Revealed: They Are Not Philip II and His Wife www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/04/i...

📣 Calling all little Ancient Historians and their grown ups! The BMCA’s Athena’s Owls 🦉 will be a Greek Myth Forest School for May, June and July! Oonagh has created a brilliant set of sessions to explore ancient myths in Birmingham’s Cotteridge Park #teachancient #myth #greekmyth #forestschool

On April 18, the Old North Church—where two lanterns once sparked the American revolution—will ring its bells for democracy. I hope houses of worship across the country will join them in this nationwide call to protect our freedom. Learn how your congregation can take part.

Hoping to see this over the summer "A trove of artifacts recovered from the black market goes on display in Naples" apnews.com/article/napl...

This is false. There are earlier law codes than the 10 commandments. Law code of Ur-Nammu. Hammurabi’s law.

It’s so wild to be teaching about the fall of the Roman Republic right now. So many parallels.

We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl. 🦉