New book review on Rhea! Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴 Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!

Someone (me) decided it would be a great idea to plan a wedding during the first year of my Ph.D. program. So, anyway…the wedding venue is booked! 🤎

We have new designs (created by our very own EIC) up on our RedBubble! Purchasing one means supporting us so we can continue to publish your stellar art and writing and pay our contributors. Plus, they're cool (I'm not biased). 🤎 #classicsbluesky www.redbubble.com/people/Aothe...

This week on Columns, we invite Laura Jenkinson-Brown (@greekmythcomix.bsky.social) to talk about her upcoming book, You Are Odysseus. It's a tour-de-force of a novel -- a choose-your-own-adventure retelling of the Odyssey with 51 (!) different endings. 🔆 Read: aothenmagazine.com/#lbjinterview

STAFF APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! We are seeking editors and readers for the 25-26AY. All positions are volunteer roles. Open to undergraduate and grad students at #UNC. Apply here or at the link in our bio: linktr.ee/carolinaquar....

A Rush to Save Ancient Artifacts in Gaza Highlights All That Has Been Lost A bombing delay enabled rescue of some objects, but archaeologists fear the wider loss of antiquities from the many cultures living there over thousands of years. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

I’m thrilled to say I’ve taken on the role of EIC at the Carolina Quarterly. I cannot wait for submissions to open in December. 🫶🏻

On October 18, from 2–3:30 pm EST / 11 am–12:30 pm PST, join us for a discussion with Thu Truong on her article “Ocean Vuong, Intertextuality, and the Limits of Interpretation,” which was awarded the prestigious John J. Winkler Prize in 2025! Registration link available in bio.

"Jupiter Rebuked by Venus" by Abraham Janssens, c. 1612. Source: The Art Institute of Chicago. #mythology #arthistory #classicalstudies

Our book of the week is HEKATE by @nikitagill.bsky.social! This marvelous novel told in verse illuminates Hekate, the Greek Goddess of magic, witchcraft, and necromancy. We read an advanced copy and loved it! We can't wait to hear what you all think about it. 🤍

Trust that we at Aôthen are so incredibly grateful & so thrilled! The community really makes this magazine what it is. Thank you!

Went for a walk to decompress from this strange week and found plants trying to escape their enclosure.

The first author blurbs for VILE LADY VILLAINS have come in 🥹🥹 Thank you so much to @schwartzwords.bsky.social and to Lauren Dedroog for your kind words and camaraderie! 🖤 Please go check out Leanne’s and Lauren’s books and order them if you haven’t already!

I survived my first month as a comp lit Ph.D. student! In this essay, I discuss what it’s been like navigating my program thus far as a first-gen scholar, including advice I’ve received and readings I’ve completed.

Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage.

Phyllis Katz, longtime Latin teacher at Miss Porter's School and Dartmouth College, has died. Phyllis taught at the CANE Summer Institute for years and a CANE scholarship is named in her honor.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

✨ We are SO delighted to release our guide to National 5 Classical Studies. ✨ It's completely free (unless you'd like to make a donation) and is the first Classics textbook written for the Scottish education system in two generations! ✊⚡ www.workingclassicists.com/national-5-c...

I finished writing this tonight. It’s a textbook for National 5 Classical Studies, the first of its kind. I’m not sure but I think the last Scotland-specific Classics textbook for schools came out in 1983. Anyway, it’s 220 pages long and will be available for free/donation from tomorrow.

✨Perseus and Andromeda, the villa at Boscotrecase✨ This fresco captures moments from the myth of Andromeda and Perseus. Perseus swoops in stage left to rescue Andromeda—trapped on a crag at centre stage—from the sea monster Kêtus. The monster takes up most of the lower left of the fresco panel.

Brutal. Photojournalist Madison Swart is doing a longterm project documenting the presence and tactics of ICE and federal agents at 26 Federal Plaza. Follow: @madisonswart.bsky.social Like most photographers, their best work is on Instagram: madisonswart

What I am learning very quickly tonight is that lots of people have never fully comprehended that fascism always begins in language and that extremist language has very tragic and violent consequences.

One of the things that I learned while researching On the Wrong Side is how campus gun violence is a much bigger problem than mass shootings—especially in red states where a lot of students keep guns in the dorms or bring them to class. The victims are primarily women in abusive relationships.

Hekate is out in 6 days on the 16th of September and I am equal parts hyped and terrified.

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

🏺 This week on Columns, we have an interview with Garrett Dome from Contubernales Books! Garrett speaks to us about the communal #Aeneid translation project he is working on, the nature of #translation, and building community in the classical field. 🔗 Read now via our profile!

Celebrating 5 years of khōréō with essays & interviews! In "Missives from the Postapocalypse," M.J. Woods (ed. Isabella Kestermann) reflects on Larissa Lai’s talk on apocalypses, how marginalized groups have faced them, ways forward & key speculative fiction recs. www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

The best way to support a small indie mag such as @aothenmagazine.bsky.social is by reading and sharing the work we publish! Issue 9 is phenomenal, and we're so thankful to platform such incredible writing & art about ancient history and mythology.

We've been busy with this for a while but it's very close to launch 👀

Students in Gaza are still studying, and right now are taking their exams—and YOU can help them do that! The youth volunteers behind Spark Space are providing electricity for these electronic exams. Help cover the electricity costs! FINAL 4 HOURS—231/350 chuffed.org/project/spar...

The copy in question!

Special collections juvenile archival material from the Wilson Library (UNC - Chapel Hill).

Hey #AncientBlueSky! We are planning a webinar this fall on the theme of attending academic conferences. We are looking for volunteers for the panel! We would love to hear from anyone who can speak to navigating logistics, finances, or finding community at conferences.

Currently reading @nikitagill.bsky.social's HEKATE which releases Sept. 16. On first impression, I'm intrigued by the poetic form of Gill's take on Hekate. More thoughts soon!

What should historians do when our sources do not tell us what we want to know? Submit your research to the American Historical Review's upcoming special issue. Submission deadline: September 16, 2025: oxford.ly/45Isir6 @historians.org

So much history in that one weekend! And this is just one facet of it.

My grandmother knows nearly nothing about Classics except that I research reception. Because of this, she always looks for literature on classics when she goes to book stales or travels. Somehow, she found a copy of the Aeneid from 1895 to gift to me. It's in excellent condition. I'm marveling.

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

I wrote my upcoming verse novel Hekate inspired by ancient Greek poet and playwright Euripides’ structure. I loved writing this book and was bereft when I finished it. It’s one of those stories that lingers - an intimating goddess of necromancy telling us her origins.

Happy birthday to my beloved Mary Shelley.

Hey, you! We'd love it if we saw your name on your newsletter list... 👀 🤎 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #amwriting #writingcommunity #indielit #classicalstudies

From the Ackland Art Museum. Chapel Hill, NC. Classical reception is everywhere.

Mary Shelley appears to haunt Taylor Swift's 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department.

"New website," we all cheer in unison. Complete with lots of info about my scholarship and teaching! www.kaitlinwrites.com

The beauty of campus. ✨

If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...