The poster is barely readable, but the series of talks promises to be very interesting: 'Disclosing the Wonder: The Impact of Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology on Environmental Issues' More here: www.unive.it/data/agenda/... #philosophy #aristotle

I am ready for 2026 to end as soon as possible. Not sure I am ready for another year after this one.

In Solidarity with the People of Iran We have been following the news of the protests in Iran with growing concern and deep distress. We acknowledge the profound suffering unfolding across the country and recognise the courage of our sisters and brothers who are fighting for their freedom. Like so…

For all the newcomers interested in book and manuscript history here is a handy starter pack go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo

A reminder for the series “Euripides in the Middle Ages”. This week’s seminar has been postponed. The next seminar will be: 20 January, 4:30 p.m. GMT D.J. Mastronarde (UC Berkeley), The nature of Palaeologan annotations on Euripides: Moschopulus, Thomas, and Triclinius An updated programme below

A review by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social ahead of the book's UK publication tomorrow: Rapoport, Yossef. 2025. Becoming Arab: The formation of Arab identity in the Medieval Middle East. Princeton: Princeton University Press. asianreviewofbooks.com/becoming-ara...

🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀 #Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

One of the strong points of the HOPWAG series is Adamson's accessible writing style. It is good to have 'All Ten Rules for Writing about the History of Philosophy' in one place. Useful as they are for students, I suspect they will find application beyond #history and #philosophy 👇🏻

Achaemenid royal women in Egypt Kaczanowicz, Marta. 2025. Invisible figures: Achaemenid royal women in Egypt. Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia. Brill 5(2). 1–19. This contribution aims to reexamine the frequently stated assertion that Achaemenid royal women were not involved in…

A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣

Memory, politics, and religion in the reign of Xusrō II Baca-Winters, Keenan. 2025. A most vicious game: Memory, politics, and religion in the reign of Xusrō II. Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History 3(2). 25–53. This paper examines the complex relationship between Xusrō II and the…

Memory, politics, and religion in the reign of Xusrō II Baca-Winters, Keenan. 2025. A most vicious game: Memory, politics, and religion in the reign of Xusrō II. Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History 3(2). 25–53. This paper examines the complex relationship between Xusrō II and the…

"Two Rivers Entangled: An Ecological History of the Tigris and Euphrates in the Twentieth Century" Dale J. Stahl www.sup.org/books/middle...

Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World Soudavar Farmanfarmaian, Fatema. 2025. Scent, colour and glitter in the ancient world: A comparative history of aromatics, cosmetics and adornment, from the Mediterranean to the China Seas. London: I.B. Tauris. Aromatics, cosmetics and personal…

The first BBC Radio 4 Bookclub of the year was a great chat with Leonard and Hungry Paul author Ronan Hession - listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @ronanhession.bsky.social

Here you go. @ronanhession.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Book Club. Leonard and Hungry Paul. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m... @nybooks.com @waterstones.bsky.social @gardnersbooks.bsky.social

'... writing about philosophy is an art, not a science ...' Insightful set of essays for those writing on philosophy, and perhaps more broadly in the humanities. So far, there has been one post per day, starting on 1 Jan 2026. Your reading begins here: www.historyofphilosophy.net/rules-writin...

Le livre de Yōišta Friiāna Pirart, Éric. 2025. Le livre de Yōišta Friiāna. Introduction, édition, traduction et commentaire (Publications d’Études Indo-Iraniennes 5). Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg. Yōišta Friiāna est un héros mythologique présent dans toutes les strates de la littérature…

The lives and legacies of Bōrān and Āzarmīgduxt Baca-Winters, Keenan. 2025. To walk in royal ways: The lives and legacies of Bōrān and Āzarmīgduxt. Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia. Brill 5(2). 1–33. Amid the political turmoil and external threats that marked the final years of…

On the Teispid-Achaemenid Dynastic Divide Zarghamee, Reza. 2025. A contribution to the discourse regarding a Teispid-Achaemenid dynastic divide. The Ancient History Bulletin 39(3/4). 86–124. Editorial remark: Unfortunately, we are unable link to the individual articles, published by the bulletin.…

Dabir (vol. 12) Volume 12 of Dabir (2025) is now available both online and in print, featuring two issues: Salman Aliyari Babolghani: The Imperfect with the t-Type Prefix in New Iranian and Its Connection to the Old Iranian Augmented Imperfect Optative Majid Daneshgar: Reading Ismāʿīlī Islam in…

The lives and legacies of Bōrān and Āzarmīgduxt Baca-Winters, Keenan. 2025. To walk in royal ways: The lives and legacies of Bōrān and Āzarmīgduxt. Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia. Brill 5(2). 1–33. Amid the political turmoil and external threats that marked the final years of…

The lives and legacies of Bōrān and Āzarmīgduxt Baca-Winters, Keenan. 2025. To walk in royal ways: The lives and legacies of Bōrān and Āzarmīgduxt. Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia. Brill 5(2). 1–33. Amid the political turmoil and external threats that marked the final years of…

On the Teispid-Achaemenid Dynastic Divide Zarghamee, Reza. 2025. A contribution to the discourse regarding a Teispid-Achaemenid dynastic divide. The Ancient History Bulletin 39(3/4). 86–124. Editorial remark: Unfortunately, we are unable link to the individual articles, published by the bulletin.…

Some Sasanian-ish hunters on a lovely example of the shared luxury culture of late ancient and early medieval Eurasia. “Brocade with Four Heavenly Kings,” Tang dynasty silk brocade (jin 錦) from the Hōryū-ji (法隆寺) Buddhist temple in Ikugara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Mid-7th century CE.

Dabir (vol. 12) Volume 12 of Dabir (2025) is now available both online and in print, featuring two issues: Salman Aliyari Babolghani: The Imperfect with the t-Type Prefix in New Iranian and Its Connection to the Old Iranian Augmented Imperfect Optative Majid Daneshgar: Reading Ismāʿīlī Islam in…

Anabasis, vols. 14-15 Volumes 14-15 (2023-2024) of Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia, edited by Marek Jan Olbrycht, is out now. Several papers and reviews of the issue relate to ancient Iran: Michał Podrazik: Cyrus the Younger in Syria and Mesopotamia, Abrokomas, and the Great King’s…

The Late Babylonian worship scene at Persepolis Garrison, Mark B. 2025. The Late Babylonian worship scene at Persepolis. In: Benjamin Sass & Laura Battini (eds.), Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Images from the Levant to Mesopotamia. Studies Offered to Tallay Ornan…

Reaching the Persian Gulf from the Kur River Basin Matin, Emad. 2025. Reaching the Persian Gulf from the Kur River Basin: Patterns of an Intermittent Connectivity. East and West 65 (1). The paper at hand explores the connectivity between Central Fars and the Persian Gulf over a long period of time…

Auf Empfehlung von @mattzehn.bsky.social sehr gerne gelesen. Auch wenn man Nadolnys „Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit“ oder seine anderen Romane nicht kennen sollte, lohnt sich die Lektüre sehr. Iranistikperspektive: iranische Teppiche und das Knüpfen sind zentrale Themen ;) youtu.be/QetCUOANOBY?...

My book _Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam_ is finally coming out in a much-more-reasonably-priced paperback in December. And you can take 30% off that with this discount code. Reviewers are calling it “good” etc edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-...

Looking for a New Year's resolution that is good for your mind and (relatively) easy to keep? Check out the Institute of Historical Research seminars for January 2026. Fourteen seminars in week 1 alone. Free, broad-ranging, open to the public and usually available both in person and online.

Heute vor 90 Jahren starb Kurt Tucholsky im schwedischen Exil. Wir empfehlen seine Texte im Buch „Wenn wir einmal nicht grausam sind, dann glauben wir gleich, wir seien gut“ von Kurt Tucholsky, hg. v. @robertstadlober.bsky.social . Mehr: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/wenn-wi...

And write your articles yourself!

No problem with AI content if you write your articles yourself and read real literature.

As @benpatrickwill.bsky.social notes: the proliferation of AI generated 'references to non-existent papers ... is potentially corrosive to the scholarly knowledge environment'. But who are those, citing these papers? We can't ignore our responsibilities as scholars. Students may be another question.

Auf Empfehlung von @mattzehn.bsky.social sehr gerne gelesen. Auch wenn man Nadolnys „Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit“ oder seine anderen Romane nicht kennen sollte, lohnt sich die Lektüre sehr. Iranistikperspektive: iranische Teppiche und das Knüpfen sind zentrale Themen ;) youtu.be/QetCUOANOBY?...

Studies on Middle Babylonian texts from Haft-Tappe Nikkhah Bahrami, Gita. 2025. Untersuchungen zu mittelbabylonischen Texten aus Haft-Tappe (dubsar 27). Münster: Zaphon. G. Nikkhah Bahrami’s study offers a comprehensive edition and cultural-historical and economic-historical investigation of the…

Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Kingship, War, and Spectacle on the Achaemenid Frontier Hyland, John O. 2025. Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Kingship, War, and Spectacle on the Achaemenid Frontier. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Persia’s Greek Campaigns offers a bold reassessment of the wars between the…

The best philosophy books of the decade? My choices for @fivebooks.com fivebooks.com/category/phi...

Palmyra, the Roman Empire, and the Third Century Crisis Raja, Rubina & Eivind Heldaas Seland. eds. 2025. Palmyra, the Roman Empire, and the Third Century Crisis: Zooming in and Scaling up from the Evidence. Stuttgart: Steiner. The third century is often seen as a period of crisis in the Roman…

Enjoying that Oxford Press allows you to search their Global Middle Ages books through an interactive map. More of this, please! blog.oup.com/2024/06/the-...

This is an important publication: the result of a lifetime’s work on the Sasanian legal system, long awaited by many in the field. It's a major contribution to our understanding of Sasanian law and will undoubtedly shape future research. Published by @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social

Sasanian Law in its Social Context Macuch, Maria. 2025. Sasanian law in its social context (Iranica 34). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Sasanian law has remained largely an unknown entity outside the specific field of Iranian Studies due to the immense difficulties involved in understanding the…

We are now open for booking for our London International Palaeography Summer School! We offer both beginner and advanced courses in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies. Discover more and reserve your spot here: buff.ly/WP2GKLD #Palaeography #Manuscripts

Honored to have my book *Religious Affects* discussed as part of this outstanding Religion for Breakfast video essay from @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social reviewing the evidence for religious behavior among animals!

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

The Achaemenid-Zoroastrian Background of the Burning Bush Pericope Barena, Gad. 2025. ʾAhyh ʾAšr ʾAhyh: The Achaemenid-Zoroastrian Background of the Burning Bush Pericope. Revista Pistis & Praxis 17(3), 384–402. Various types of impact, assimilation, and engagement of certain redactional layers…

'Whose is Zoroastrianism?' A short blog I wrote on the occasion of the exhibition 'Cosmos / Memory / Scale' by Karl Singporewala, hosted at the @soasuni.bsky.social Gallery: www.arashzeini.com/whose-is-zor...

Keith Ansell-Pearson, Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom: The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Sage – @uchicagopress.bsky.social, May 2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...