Flattery in Seneca the Younger: theory and practice – Bryn Mawr Classical Review bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09...

We need to replace the empty heart button with: 😳

Penn Press and @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social are delighted to announce that @thejqr.bsky.social will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)! www.pennpress.org/blog/jewish-...

This installment of five books features a wonderful essay* by @profangiehobbs.bsky.social on the pre-socratic philosophy and how Nietzsche related to it 👇🏼 *It's the sort of interview that enables an essay

Deleted my academia.edu account and you should too

Hahahaha Academia Dot Your Stuff Is Yours messed up so badly that Humanities Commons is currently down, lol When it comes back, scholar friends, go get yourself a profile at a place that won't steaI from you

A review in @theguardian.com piqued my interest in 'Transcendence for Beginners' by Clare Carlisle. The preview on @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social isn’t representative. There's much more to the book. I skimmed through a copy in a bookshop and was intrigued to read more. Don’t expect a systematic intro

The Philosophy Bites podcast has had nearly 50 million unique episode downloads so far… philosophybites.com

Some of the new philosophy books out recently (or later this fall) that we like the look of: fivebooks.com/best-books/n..., picked by Nigel Warburton (@nigelwarburton.bsky.social)

I lowered the flames of my academia.edu account a long time ago, with no regrets or adverse effects. It was never really useful to me. Given their new policies, helpfully pointed out by Gelfert, the time has come to take permanent action. So, I have gelöscht the account.

Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future Brody, Lisa & Anne H. Chen (eds.). 2025. Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future. Turnhout. Brepols. This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary host of scholars to reflect on the complicated legacies of exploration at the archaeological site…

In After Transformation, @maiakotro.bsky.social offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. Read the intro for free now. buff.ly/TNIwz7k

A review in @theguardian.com piqued my interest in 'Transcendence for Beginners' by Clare Carlisle. The preview on @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social isn’t representative. There's much more to the book. I skimmed through a copy in a bookshop and was intrigued to read more. Don’t expect a systematic intro

Christian Slavery in Fars Stadel, Seth M. 2025. The legal constructions of Christian slavery in Fars at the end of Late Antiquity. Journal of Late Antiquity 18(2). 401–422. In the seventh and eighth centuries, the Church of the East community in Fars (southwest Iran) slowly developed a distinctive…

Interested in a global antiquity? There is a new, open access vol. _Classical Art and Ancient India_edited by Peter Stewart. 🌏 “This volume explores India's connections with the Med. and Western Asia during Graeco-Roman history, highlighting artistic exchanges” www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

A reminder that our 2025 Philosophy essay competition is now open. Do pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in submitting. ✍️📚 Visit royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/bodies-... for full details. #philosophy #essay #competition #prize

Absolutely. Not criticising Katherine, but to add another perspective: much high-quality research in the humanities is produced by people in precarious job arrangements with no or little funding. They are often forgotten, despite being the very pillars on which much of the research output rests.

Fattori, Marco & Marco F. Ferrari. 2025. Zeus Pharnauas and Persian Mazdaism in Cappadocia. Iran 1–16.

New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' 'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical Scholarship', by Timothy Twining bit.ly/3IkveRA How was ‘everyday erudition’ used to come to terms with the historical reality of Christian revelation? 1/2

Some good news!

Nicht beeindrucken zu wollen, keine Lautstärke, und Zurückhaltung—hoffentlich sprachlich sowie in der Handlung—sind literarische Tugenden, die heute nicht genug gefeiert werden. Und einige der Gründe, warum ich Robert Walser so sehr schätze. Diesen Roman 👇🏼, kenne ich allerdings (noch) nicht.

Moving 📌 to 📁, I rediscovered this 🧵. After re-reading the fascinating discussions, realising that I had already commented in it, re-viewing @paulkelleher.net's device, & researching reMarkable again, my only writing advice remains: disable your social media!!! Off to work on my next article.

Clare Carlisle on Transcendence interviewed by Mette Hoeg - first January event for the Philosophy in the Bookshop series @blackwelloxford.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...

1st, this book has been published 👏🏻 2nd, I was not going to ask for a copy. 3rd, I was reminded that my DMs are disabled because @bsky.app wants me to verify my age using an unknown entity as verifiers. My email, my white beard, not even my blazing wisdom give away my age! Happy! @support.bsky.team

Barnea, Gad. 2025. Some Achaemenid Zoroastrian echoes in early Yahwistic sources. Iran. 1–10.

We link to the site in the post, but here is once more the page of the series, where you can find all the volumes also in open access: histoire.unistra.fr/faculte/depa...

As has been pointed out, also available as open access: Sims-Williams, Nicholas, with contributions by Jonathan A. Silk. 2025. An Old Khotanese Reader: The Tale of Bhadra (Beiträge zur Iranistik 53). Wiesbaden: Reichert. www.biblioiranica.info/an-old-khota...

Niechciał, Paulina. 2025. Zoroastrian Women in the United States of America: Practicing Lived Zoroastrianism in a Diaspora (The Vastness of Culture). Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press. www.biblioiranica.info/zoroastrian-...

The newest volume in the PEII series: Panaino, Antonio. 2025. Ahreman’s ascent and the direction of his primordial aggression. With an excursus about the cosmic egg (Publications d’Études Indo-Iraniennes 4). Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg. www.biblioiranica.info/ahremans-asc...

We're back from summer break! In today's new #podcast Ariane Schneck joins me to discuss the correspondence between Elisabeth of Bohemia and Descartes, focusing on the mind-body problem and the passions. www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-el... #philsky #descartes #mindbodyproblem

Today, I went to buy treats for my dogs. Uncontroversial. Two older, bald guys in front of me. Shaved, not just bald. I counted 3 sw*st*k tattoos on one of them and noticed a dangerous and threatening look when they turned. The crisis is coming. But which one? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Paperback day!

Our latest episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast: an interview with Carlos Alberto Sánchez on Mexican Philosophy philosophybites.com/podcast/carl...

I just noticed that the eBook is Open Access. 😲

'Melting Point' is an amazing book. I have no idea how Cockerell managed to research and arrange all that archival material into such an engaging narrative!

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published. C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

As @mattitiahu.bsky.social says, 10 years in the making and 96 authors. I played a little part in this as well, and it's finally here: C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

Congratulations to Yiftach Fehige for the Honourable mention of "Thought Experiments, Science, and Theology" by the Book Prize committee of the International Society for Science and Religion, who recognized the volume as an “excellent contribution to the field". Find it at: brill.com/display/titl...

30 Years of “Iran and the Caucasus”: A Proud Milestone Conference Dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of Iran and the Caucasus 19-21 September, 2026 Armenia The Editorial Board of "Iran and the Caucasus" in collaboration with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social www.biblioiranica.info/30-years-of-...

It really bothers me that the introductions of the individual @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Shakespeares do not indicate subsections in the headers. Yes! Maybe the new series can fix this!

This week the Society published 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales', by Andrew McTominey bit.ly/4n4LkxB 'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the New Historical perspectives book series with @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2

Oh dear! Where to start!?

Another, newly discovered, profile that sooths the soul!

Brian's timeline is a real treat, a sanctuary in this and other madhouses! Thank you, @brianthill.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Two articles by Arish Dastur Dastur, Arish. 2025. Imbued with the essence of the Gods: The intersection between Zoroastrian theology and the Old Avestan possessive adjectives derived from personal pronouns. Bulletin of SOAS, FirstView 1–34. The Gāϑās of Zaraϑuštra provide us with the Old Avestan…

Hot off the press: Michael Kremer’s and my resurrection of Margaret Macdonald.

For anyone interested in the late antique intersection of religious institutions and economic activity, have a look at our CfP! Julia Koch and I will host a session in May 2026 in Aarhus at RAC/TRAC (Roman Archaeology Conference / Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference). Abstracts due 10 Oct.

Studia Persica 23 Afshin-Vafaie, Mohammad & Pejman Firoozbakhsh (eds.). 2024. Studia Persica in Memory of Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Yazdi, volume 23. Tehran: Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Endowment Foundation. The volume contains several interesting papers on different aspects of Iranian Studies. Here is the table…

East and West (vol. 64) The latest volume of East and West contains several interesting articles, some of which deal with aspects of ancient Iran. M. Minardi, A. Bekbauliev: Report on the First Campaign of Excavations of 2023 at Bazar-kala, with Additional Considerations on the Urbanism of Ancient…