Join #WMU History for a lecture by @metalclassicist.bsky.social and @drchristinah.bsky.social on Femme Métal: Medusa in Heavy Metal Music, exploring the reception of the Greek mythological figure of Medusa in modern music, especially heavy metal. WMU Dunbar Hall 2101, Mon, April 6th, Dunbar 2101.

Announcing our next monthly conference, on March 29th! Come join us for panels on Novel Classics, the Underworld in Games ( #Hades fans unite!) & Subverting the Canon! Featuring papers on #Kaos, #PercyJackson, #EpicTheMusical, #Hamnet, & #DarkAcademia! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/events/

If you're anywhere near Kalamazoo, join us tomorrow with @bretdevereaux.bsky.social to campus to discuss "The Appearance of Accuracy: The Perils of Historical Verisimilitude and the Public's Understanding of History." This is the 1st of 4 lectures for our dept this year on Public & Ancient History.

Join us for a great slate of events on Sat, Feb 28th, including a discussion of source databases, a microgame historical LARP following the Reacting #RTTP model about Roman matrons fighting for their rights, & a social hour! Register for free in advance. antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/events/

In new #classicalreception news, more casting has been confirmed for Chris #Nolan's #Odyssey, including Lupita Nyong'o taking up the mantle of Helen, (following in the footsteps of Galyn Gorg in Xena: Warrior Princess), Zendaya as the goddess Athena (a hat-tip to Bernal?), Elliot Page as Hermes?

Reception Studies Meets the Resistance.

Last Call for this round of paper, workshop, and other innovative session proposals for the monthly winter conference series for Antiquity in Media Studies! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2026-confere...

Excited by the new #Odyssey trailer? Submit for #AIMS' new winter virtual monthly conference series: we welcome proposals for papers, games, workshops, & more on any aspect of classical reception or media about the ancient Mediterranean! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2026-confere...

We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other. www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con... #gamestudies #gamingthepast

Kate Cook on Hades 2, discussing Hades 2's use of more obscure mythical characters and expansion of the notion of what a goddess or god might look like.

The new Roman historical board game Aeterna (M. Wallace, 2025) is a simplification of ~1K yrs of history through the fortunes of 4 clans. It incentivizes historically accurate play, e.g. send citizens to conquer provinces to gain $ & stone to build buildings to quench urban unrest. #Ancientsky #AIMS

If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today. Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analysed the cost of solar in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.

I think so. He did an interview for the @antiquitymedia.bsky.social conference, I want to say last year. I imagine it'll be up on the YouTube channel eventually if it isn't already.

Phineas and Ferb meet the late Roman Empire. www.tumblr.com/charlesobero...

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

Tonight's Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions featured a category dear to #AIMS: "Ancient Romans in the Movies"! While the contestants were confused by some 3X Stumpers, see how you do! For $400: MGM's 1953 epic "Julius Caesar" featured Marlon Brando as Mark Antony & James Mason as this betrayer. 1/6

I rewatched the remake of Clash of the Titans today for the first time since I wrote about it for my thesis 4 years ago and wow, it sure hits different now. A short🧵 on how the new film compares ideologically to the old... 1/

It's Book Day! Amanda Potter and I ran an international virtual conference on #Xena: Warrior Princess in the early days of COVID, which eventually turned into a glorious edited volume! 1/4 www.bloomsbury.com/us/classical...

It's been a privilege to participate in this year's AIMS conference! I have seen some really amazing presentations this week. The conference has run so smoothly thanks to the fantastic organizers 🙌🏾 #AIMS2024

Up now at #AIMS2024, our youngest ever presenter, Nadia Cross, a 6th grader presenting with her father Nick Cross, on Ducktales' Storkules and the connections to Hercules! Classical reception is a family endeavor!

This is tremendously exciting news worth reposting even though a year old.

Up now: @theshirapather.bsky.social analyzing how Pat Barker's "Silence of the Girls" comments upon and reinterprets ancient narratives of sexual assault in light of modern views of rape in times of war.

Up now: Vilma Losyte discussing the use of the Louvre's classical sculptures in modern French fashion campaigns, which pairs Black actresses & models with the classical marble sculptures. She notes the marketing campaign still focuses on 1 canon of beauty, rather than, e.g. the Portrait of Madeline.

@peregrinekiwi.bsky.social discussed the legacy and impact of the late great Jennell Jaquays's 1979 non-linear D&D module "The Caverns of Thracia" upon classical reception in TTRPGs, while Alexis Christansen explored the use and depiction of ancient ruins in AC: Odyssey.

Tanya Cook talks about how the Xenite fandom community has raised $30 million for charity and is very social-justice focused, serving as a precursor to many popular culture fandoms, especially those dominated by women & LGBTQ+ folks, and starticipants like Lucy Lawless. #Xena

Join the Xena virtual book launch or, if you can't, get 20% off the book and all other classical reception texts in the Imagines series! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Welcome new followers! The Antiquity in Media Studies free online conference continues - right now with a panel on the boundaries of Rome in Roman movies, esp Britannia & North Africa. Katrina Knight discusses how women are often the "fundamental Other" in Roman Britain movies - dangerous & savage.

We hate to remind you, but it's that time of year. On the other hand, we love to be helpful, so... www.workingclassicis...

One really nice long-term advantage of online conferences is that questioners have a chance to really think about and fine-tune their questions and the moderator has the opportunity to balance questions among the participants in a panel more consciously and directly.

Achilles: Please, Mother, let the leopards eat the faces of all the Greeks! [Patroclus, Achilles' BFF, gets his face eaten] Achilles, full of grief and fury: Mother! I never thought the leopards would eat HIS face.

Today's Antiquity in Media Studies panels include receptions of Homer, Sierra Schiano on why classicists should be teaching Percy Jackson and democratizing classical reception, and video games, including #Hades2! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...

Very excited to be part of this year's AIMS conference! Brilliant start yesterday with some fascinating talks. I will be discussing Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls: using Homer's Briseis to discuss the suffering of modern women. Register antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...

Comments from folks who know more of the science here? @killgrove.bsky.social in particular?

While a work in progress, Aisha Dad is now discussing the Classics Gaming Collaborative and its ongoing database and pedagogical research: cas.uncg.edu/ncsv/classic... They are working together with Paizomen: paizomen.com antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...

On now: Modern mass music and ancient Mediterranean culture as techne: @duxfeminafacti9.bsky.social is speaking about the use of Swift's use of classical imagery in the video for "Karma" and rejection of her previous good-girl (White) image. antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...

See also Jenny Cromwell's open-access article on Persona 5: thersites-journal.de/index.php/th...

For those interested in learning more about Egyptomania and, for instance, Japanese and Korean interpretations of ancient Egypt in manga and anime, please check out egypopcult.com, which all of these scholars contribute to and includes a growing database of pop culture references to ancient Egypt.

The free online Antiquity in Media Studies Conference begins now! 10 AM EDT: Anc. Egypt in Modern Media! 6 scholars, 6 nations, 1 debate 12 PM EDT: Anc. Med. World in Modern Music 2 PM: Classics Gaming Collaborative 4 PM: Modern Myth (Re)Making antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...

10 days till Antiquity in Media Studies' annual conference! (Free Registration details: bsky.app/profile/anti...) Our 1st panel, on Fri November 8th, is on ancient Egyptian Pop Culture, or EgyPopCult. It's a roundtable dialogue on new topics & trends featuring speakers from 6 different nations!

AIMS strives to be an inclusive organization open to critique. Our website outlines our past & ongoing work toward DEI-related goals. We thank the community for patience as we take time for these difficult conversations. antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/diversity-eq... (1/2) #AncientBluesky

@flaviansophist.bsky.social is speaking (online, totally free) on Sat Nov 9th at 2 PM EDT on our video games panel, along with Joel Gordon on Hercules in video games and Charles Pletcher on Hades 2.

This year our AIMS speakers are physically located in 9 time zones & hail from >10 nations. Today we highlight the work of our 3 undergrad scholars: Tallulah Trezevant (Alt-Right), Evan Shannon (Minecraft), Ruya Tazebay (Fictional Geographies). antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...

Check out @linmanuelmiranda.bsky.social's new genderbent album, The Warriors, based on the '79 film about an NYC gang trying to make it back to their home turf, in turn based on Xenophon's Anabasis, about a group of leaderless Greek mercs making it home from Persia. open.spotify.com/album/3KMnVj...

@aimeehindsscott.bsky.social will be speaking at #AIMS on Friday November 8th, 12 PM EDT, on Myth and Mousikē: Music and Performance as Investigative Tools in Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical”, along with Alicia Matz on Taylor Swift and Daniel Soliman on Ancient Egypt and Afrofuturist Music!

Please join AIMS for our upcoming international online conference on Technology and Techne in the Ancient World: antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere... Free registration, times friendly to EU/Asia/U.S./, and panels on gaming, Xena, music, movies, & more! #ClassicsBlueSky #Gaming