Religion and Slave Revolts in the Roman Mediterranean is under contract with the @uwiscpress.bsky.social! Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.

It's OUT!! Our chapter in Evolving Perspectives on Digital Classics, edited by Anna Foka and Clelia LaMonica. In very good company among the best scholars in the field. www.routledge.com/Evolving-Per...

Augustus, in the Res Gestae:

I'm emerging from my social media hiatus to say that I think there's a reference to Hannibal crossing the Alps in the Mandalorian and Grogu trailer

I know I never post anymore, but my current professional update is that I’ll be returning to Bowdoin as a Visiting Assistant Professor! I’m going to miss my Colby students and colleagues a lot, but I’m looking forward to this new venture!

❗My shop is back❗Check out my illustrations of classical antiquities in all their polychromatic glory🏺 www.redbubble.com/people/Neo-C...

This is exciting, but I'm very concerned for Remus right now ...

I'm really excited to be teaching a week-long course on monsters and myth this summer at the CANE Summer Institute this July at Stonehill College in Easton, MA.! Be sure to check out the other awesome courses, workshops, and lectures! All courses will have virtual options as well. @caneweb.org

It's been 8 years in the making, but the metapoetic dictionary I contributed to is finally out! I wrote two entries (in English): one on bees/honey in Latin literature and one on nymphs in Greek and Latin literature. If you'd like PDFs of my entries, I'd be happy to share them!

REMINDER: CfP Mythological Game Studies Conference (May 2025, online) Send @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and me your abstracts on everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies before February 2!

Looking forward to today’s Collections and Research Day at @antiquaries.bsky.social, where I’ll be talking about racialised touch and classical sculpture in the eighteenth century #c18

CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2! For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So proud to see this issue published! It was a pleasure to work with my fellow AAACC officers to highlight work by our members, and an honor to collaborate with Joe Romero and @opietasanimi.bsky.social for Res Diff!

We created a "Reception of Antiquity" starter pack. Please share to made it known, and comment if you think you should be added in it! 🏺🏛️🔥 #AncientBlueSky #Antiquity #ClassicalReception #ReceptionOfAntiquity ➡️ go.bsky.app/SmtFscD

Does anyone have any good readings on Near Eastern influences on the Presocratics?

The next deadline for the Rudolph Masciantonio Grants for K-12 Educators is May 31, 2024! To learn more about the two types of Masciantonio grants and the application process, please visit: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

First summer in 3 years I don’t have to move! 🎉🎉🎉

New update! I'll be joining Colby's Classics Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor this fall. I'm sad to leave my wonderful colleagues and students at Bowdoin. But I am excited to be staying in Maine and I'm looking forward to this new venture!

The edited volume on the sublime that I contributed to is out! My chapter examines the Isthmus of Corinth, the Nero's plan to build a canal through it, and the cosmic implications of such a project. I'm happy to share a pre-proof draft with anyone who is interested!

The Medea has a very unexpected ending

Tomorrow! At Bowdoin College!

I'm co-organizing a Classics "B Movie" festival this spring at Bowdoin. It's open to the public, so if you happen to be in southern Maine on any of these dates, come join us! And check out the poster I made!

I'm excited to announce that I'll be presenting at the 2024 PCA National Conference this March on a panel that examines monsters in popular culture. My paper explores the ways in which Godzilla has become a symbol of empowerment for marginalized groups.

If you're attending #AIASCS this week, be sure not to miss the workshop I'm running with Dr. Arti Mehta this Friday morning at 8m CT: "A Workshop on Classics, Racism, Bias: Discussion and Praxis on American History, Mythology, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." in Salon A-3!

Are you attending the #AIASCS this week? Sportula is in need of more volunteers to work their booth! I've done it for the past few years and it's always a good time. Please consider signing up!

So excited that the review Dora Gao and I co-authored is out! "Diversity and the Study of Antiquity in Higher Education," edited by @thedancinggrad.bsky.social and Fiona McHardy and with a lot of really thoughtful contributions by a range of scholars from the US and Europe! doi.org/10.1017/S000...

I guess I’m meme-ing on Bluesky now too

Euripides

I realize this may be a long shot, but does anyone know if there are any images of the manuscripts with Pliny's letters available online?

Snow! 😍

Finally made an orcid: 0009-0007-0858-7458 🥂

Final proofs are in for my contribution to Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception (Bloomsbury) which is due to come out in April 2024! My contribution explore references to Isthmus of Corinth in Latin imperial poetry and their connection to the canal project.

We're reading the Pliny's ghost story letter (7.27) and I'm struck by the fact that first ghost seems to be the genius (the tutelary guardian spirit) of Africa. Is it me or is unusual to have an appearance of a genius be put in a collection of ghost stories?

My students really want to know what Regulus did to Pliny the Younger

There's a date and time for the workshop I'm co-running with Dr. Arti Mehta at the #AIASCS this January: "A Workshop on Classics, Racism, Bias: Discussion and Praxis on American History, Mythology, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." will take place on Friday, Jan. 5 at 8:00am CT!

Classics and theater friends, I'm excited to announce Playing Antigone, the third iteration of our student theatrical competition organized by of Chaos Theatre. Deadline Feb 18, 2024, details are available here! www.out-of-chaos.co.uk/playing-anti...

Over the past few years, I’ve taught some classes that were pretty close to my idea of a dream class: mythology classes that focused on monsters. I just heard back from Bowdoin’s Curriculum Implementation Committee. They’ve accepted my proposal for my spring course on monsters!

Anyone going to CAAS this weekend? I’ll be there!

Today’s Peopling Blog is another exciting Grad Student Feature! Read on as we interview Dora Gao, who takes us through their research on religious kinship, affect, and belonging in Ptolemaic Egypt with a particular focus on marginalized populations: peoplingthepast.com/2023/09/22/b... /1

The SCS is offering participation stipends to students, contingent faculty, and unemployed scholars for the 2024 Annual Meeting, including 100% (!) of virtual registration and $300-500 for in-person attendance. Apply by November 1 at the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Now would be a great time to do a one-time donation and/or up your monthly contribution if you can afford it!

We're back!

Anyone have any good secondary source readings on the Secession of the Plebs/Conflict of Orders that is accessible to undergrads?

Hey everyone, it's the start of the school year! And Sportula (@sportula.bsky.social) has a serious backlog of funding requests. I'm trying think of ways we can help them. I know campaigns have worked in the past. Anyone have any ideas?

If you'd like to know more about who we are, what we do, how we fund it, and how to get involved, check out our #FAQ: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

WE'RE HERE ✌️

I want to go on a purrgil watch!

I know some of you out there have always wanted to learn Sanskrit! There's no time like the present! The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is offering an online critical Sanskrit course. It's still not too late to sign up! AncientBlueSky thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

Anyone teach Roman history recently and are comfortable sharing their syllabuses? It's been a while since I've taught it (not since before the pandemic) and I'm in the process of overhauling my old one. I'm looking for some inspiration. Thank you! AncientBlueSky