New on the @isawnyu.bsky.social news blog: publication of the latest volume from ISAW Monographs, Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3: Texts Mainly from the 2014 and 2015 Seasons (Amheida VIII) by Rodney Ast, Roger S. Bagnall, Clementina Caputo, et al. isaw.nyu.edu/news/amheida...

What a great opportunity! Seminar Native Peoples, American Colonialism and the Constitution with @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social & Ned Blackhawk for grad students & "junior" faculty. In person & virtual. Apply by 10/10. www.nyhistory.org/education/in...

🏛️ Introducing the Ancient Mediterranean Learning Commons! 🌊 The AMLC connects scholars with classrooms & communities. Request a speaker or volunteer to share your work! Learn more at www.cac-scec.ca/amlc/ 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

“Plunge into the wild world of the goddess Artemis…a moonlit path that leads to transformation and a dilemma that maybe only the audience can solve… Then meet Kassandra, blessed with the power to see the future, cursed with never being believed: urban, dark and devastating.”

🚨CFP for #ResDiff7 is now available!🚨 Res Difficiles 7 will take place on 13th March 2026 with Dr Samuel Agbamu as our keynote speaker. Submit an abstract by 12th January 2026: resdifficiles.com/cfp/

Tomorrow! All are welcome.

Coming up, I'm giving some talks, including a free online talk about my newest project, which is focused on Greek sculpture and the place of disability within it, on Sunday, October 19 at 10am Central:

My latest for @hyperallergic.com is on the many Roman bath discoveries made this summer—it’s a recap of an amazing excavation season and a deep dive into ancient flip-flops worn with socks. Thank you to @lisayinzhang.bsky.social for brilliant edits. May socks be worn with sandals without shame! 🧦 🩴

Vergilian Society: Call for Tour Directors - CANE caneweb.org/vergilian-so...

Starting next Thursday at 5:30pm BST (9:30am PST), the Badè Museum will kick off it's new Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Research Facility @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, the Series will explore Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. (1/4)

Recension | Djamila Fellague et Jean-Charles Moretti, Les théâtres antiques et leurs entrées. Parodos et aditus Par Hélène Labit-Tlili #AncientBlueSky journals.openedition.org/frontieres/4...

This Saturday (20 Sept, 2:30pm), join us for a gallery talk on Verlamion, the Iron Age town before the Romans. Discover what life was like before the empire arrived 👣 📍 Verulamium Museum 🎟️ Talks included with admission Learn more: https://f.mtr.cool/rteoowaykv

My next invited lecture will be a virtual Zoom webinar hosted by the Tampa Museum of Art on Tuesday 4 November, 6-7pm Eastern US time. The event is free & open to all to register through the link below. The talk is titled "Ta Megala Theria: Heavy Metal Music’s Reception of Mythological Adversaries."

Me, after being off-line all day *wonders why mutuals are asking about muting images* Me, having learned:

“Spicomellus had a diversity of plates and spikes extending from all over its body, including metre-long neck spikes, huge upwards-projecting spikes over the hips, and a whole range of long, blade-like spikes, pieces of armour made up of two long spikes, and plates down the shoulder…”

Absolutely epic. I want an entire flock.

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 🏺

#HATM is screening Swing Kids tonight and, yes, I am currently searching for my old Brian Setzer CDs.

'Casina' by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation / Catherine Tracy #openaccess www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... @openbookpublish.bsky.social

It's the guns. It's not just mental health, it's not just bias, or any other motivation, all of which should also be addressed. It's the guns, and there's an easy solution that virtually every other country that considers itself civilized uses. #GunControl

If you are in the Minneapolis area, they’re asking for people to donate blood. We’ve never donated and I’m terrified of needles but we’re going.

Hot take: whenever a car manufacturer introduces a fatter SUV, or longer or taller pickup, they should be required to pay into a municipal infrastructure fund to widen roads, rebuild garages, and raise bridges, sidewalks and crosswalks to mitigate the threat to public safety.

The Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration Database is live at historyofincarceration.com. Both the platform and the data are very much a work in progress, and we will continually update it over the coming years. I hope that it is useful, and if you would like to contribute, please do be in touch.

Publication day for a book that Matthew and I spent six years on, anguished over, fought for, rewrote twice, and nearly abandoned. I hope it proves useful in continuing important conversations about the ancient world and about the societies we choose to build today. www.ucpress.edu/books/ancien...

PSA: The Frakes Maneuver should never be attempted on full-height chairs. #ST:SNW

So excited that my book has a cover. Michigan's design people have outdone themselves in their styling of Mr. Murder Mittens (a massive Roman temple key from Switzerland). Full details here (the e-version will be open access come the publication date): press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...

New to Dickinson College Commentaries: Books 1 and 4 of the Odyssey have now been added. dcc.dickinson.edu/homer-odysse...

47. T. as a DM: constructs an entire political economy for his imaginary world, and gets irrationally cross when the others just want to fight trolls.

Don’t know how I missed this two months ago, but excited to add to my TBR now.

The temperature here has finally backed off ever so slightly, which my subconscious apparently decided meant it was time to start laying in winter provisions. All that to say I just bought several pounds of beans

New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.  news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2... 🏺

This only makes me want one more.

Um, was I the only one who didn’t know about the @orbitbooks.bsky.social special editions?

*screenshots & sends to family*

Oh, I’m in trouble. Look at these special editions for the Indian Lake Trilogy.

Big news! A) CripA is now on Bluesky B) You can now donate to us!

Today on Ancient Office Hours, actor Magnus Bruun, (voice of male Eivor in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla), chats about the rich history/mythology of Scandinavia, playing Cnut in "The Last Kingdom”, and share some behind-the-scenes stories from working on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla!

Really thrilled that my second book is now published! It explores the life of Tacfarinas, a C1st AD auxiliary soldier-deserter-bandit-rebel who came to lead a revolt against #Rome in NW Africa during the early reign of Tiberius. He is a truly fascinating figure in #Roman history! 🏺AncientBlueSky

Première affiche officielle pour l'Odyssée de Christopher Nolan : Défie les dieux. En bas, une statue renversée, dans la fumée et les braises... en écho a ce sous-titre ? On part donc peut-être sur l'idée du déicide très à la mode depuis quelques années dans la culture populaire.

I had a joke about Valentinian II, but it was short-lived.

OMG YES