Publius Rutilius Lupus. Roman consul, jurist, orator, and historian. 158-78 B.C.

BEARS!! 🐻 Amazing!

#Chanuary Wheels on Meals! 🚗

Five years ago.

Secretly taken photo of financier of this film published, identity not yet revealed:

This term I'm teaching with "Classics and Race: A Historical Reader" (2025), edited by Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, and Phiroze Vasunia. An incredible achievement: global sources from 14th-20th translated, and given commentaries by expert scholars. And OPEN ACCESS! uclpress.co.uk/book/classic...

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Dr. Bashir knows more about “AI” than the average bear.

“Intelligent and beautiful and proud.” @spottedgiraffe.bsky.social reflects on her life and how Nichelle Nichols has been an inspiration as we remember her on her birthday. www.strangenewpod.com/blog/intelli...

These ornaments are pretty great! #RIPMichaelHutchence

By the prophets and in the name of the Emissary if they actually put the name USS Defiant anywhere near this colossal monument to stupidity… 🤬

Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss political reasons, that’s exactly what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

A Latin joke in “Scrooged” (Bill Murray) …

Plicare (“to fold”) and its compounds are some of the most common doublets and I teach my Latin students about them all the time! Sometimes they use different meanings of the prefix reply (re = back), replicate (re = again) sometimes different objects imply (ideas) implicate (people). Fascinating!

This is the difference between someone with loud opinions and a large following versus a competent operator with expertise based on years of training and experience Here’s hoping everyone else who denies the difference gets the same lesson.

The intrusion of “AI” and its imaginary sources is extra maddening since we spent the whole 20th century improving the discipline of historiography. Prior to the 19th c plenty of poorly sourced “facts” got passed down but in the 20th we created a robust peer review system that largely prevented that

You can just hear “The Remedy” by Puscifer twinkling in AJ’s head.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Winter Courses at LAC are officially open!! We teach ancient languages the way humans learn: rich input, low stress, meaningful communication, and a community that cheers for you. Whether new or returning, there's something for you! Courses: habesnelac.com/courses ❄️

More Latin connections for nerds who like that kind of thing. 😜 connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-Ofd_A0...

Here’s a connections for all the Orberg Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata fans out there! connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-Ofdb7G...

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

Two very exciting sales through the weekend! For Spanish teachers/learners, VERBA Español for less than the original Kickstarter pricing ($25!) tpg-104198.square.site/product/span... For Dragon fans, Underlings of Underwing also for $25 tpg-104198.square.site/product/unde... Please share widely!

This post gave me so much FOMO that I immediately (and successfully) ordered one here in the US. Now $400 later feeling a bit sheepish… Is YOLO the exact ideological inversion of LLAP? 🖖 🙈

A reminder of the 'Teaching With Ovid' symposium - accepting paper and panel proposals through to January! Do you use Ovid in teaching, or do you have an idea you'd like to road-test? The International Ovidian Society and Soc. Ovidiana (a medieval outfit) have teamed up. All disciplines welcome!

📢Just in time for holiday shopping, we are thrilled to announce our first ever AAACC merch drop! 📢 Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today! 🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...

It’d be exciting to think that Bluesky has people pretending to be American like Twitter but I honestly don’t think they could talk about Star Trek Deep Space 9 the way it’s expected here without having watched all the episodes a dozen times

Perhaps @dannybate.bsky.social can help me? I went to see my school’s production of Miller’s The Crucible last night and got into a discussion with the directors (both English teachers) and a few others about the etymology of the word - specifically when & how it took on its metaphorical one…

This just makes me sick. Vaccines do not cause autism. It is one of the most-studied conspiracy theories and has been debunked every time (for example, the link below looked at >650k Danish children). Thousands of children will die of easily preventable diseases because of this.

and of course @rheaclassical.bsky.social, also open access - a book review journal prioritizing underrepresented scholarly voices rheaclassicalreviews.com

if you are looking to send your book review to an outlet with editorial ethics (and also open access), I’d suggest NECJ crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/

Does anyone have reading(s) they like to assign to undergraduates on Cleopatra? I'm finding things that are criminally short or book-length but little in between. Ideally ca. 20 pages?

1 year ago today! The culmination of an almost 15 year journey, I completed the Authentic Athens Marathon! I took this year off, but I’m planning on going back next fall…

MA/ New England ancient historians: an international boarding school in Braintree is seeking a long term substitute teacher for high school world history, starting ASAP until mid March. Emphasis on ancient and medieval history. DM me if interested! (Sharing this on behalf of a friend)

Fair enough.

That's why I wrote this: www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

"We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count" @lollardfish.bsky.social www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

Woohoo! Author’s copies at long last! #Latin #APLatin #ClassicsSky www.bolchazy.com/A-Pliny-Work...

Bit of self-promotion: I have published a commentary on a selection of Martial's epigrams, so if you are a Latin teacher/instructor...or a fan of having Latin grammar and rhetorical devices analyzed...feel free to check it out. a.co/d/e1FBrHH

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

Woohoo! Author’s copies at long last! #Latin #APLatin #ClassicsSky www.bolchazy.com/A-Pliny-Work...

talis erat Dido, talem se laeta ferebat per medios, instans operi regnisque futuris. She is fast, thorough, and sharp as a tack She is touring the facility and picking up slack Same vibes

Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!

Two weeks ago Trump pardoned a guy who laundered money for [checks notes] drug smugglers and Hamas militants.

Calling all teachers and professors of Classics, history, mythology, etc. please join us in VA next June!! We’d love to learn and hear from you, especially if you are from the VA area! www.aclclassics.org/ACL-Institut...

BHS World Language Department Costume Contest Champions again! Six years running!

I am ghost, hear me roar!

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

This is the equivalent of an Eli Cash novel: “Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't." #Owetober

One of my favourite columns on the Palatine this morning, here’s a post about the time I went to where it came from (no paywall) open.substack.com/pub/understa...