I've been doing an AMA all day on r/AskHistorians if you care to jump in:

Arendt famously noted that mechanisms of internal oppression developed in a colonial context soon get directed at folks at home (concentration camps, etc.). These slobs apply *the aesthetic* of the Iraq/Afgan occupations to unconstitutional oppression at home. Instagram fascism.

Thracian Hoplite, 4th century BC. Details in the ALT-Description #ancientbluesky #art

Delighted to share more feline news since, after the Indian Tiger, our British Lion is now out as well with Ancient History Magazine!

Mexica Cuāuhtli warrior

Dardanian warrior of the late 4th century BC (see alt text for more info) #ancientbluesky

Illyrian warrior reconstructed from the Bosnian tomb of Arareva Gromila (excavated by Truhelka in 1890); second half of the 6th century BC.

Publius Claudius Pulcher in shambles

Author copies have arrived from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social ! At long last, I’ve achieved my dream of placing my own book in my library of books on Julian. I recorded an unboxing video so you can share the experience.

Dardanian warrior of the late 4th century BC (see alt text for more info) #ancientbluesky

Hellenistic South-Illyrian Hoplite, ca. 3rd-2nd century BC.

Illyrian warrior reconstructed from the Bosnian tomb of Arareva Gromila (excavated by Truhelka in 1890); second half of the 6th century BC.

Illyrian Warrior based on findings from Rechitsa, from the 6th-5th century BC #AncientBlueSky

Illyrian Warrior from the Dassaretis, 4th-3rd century BC.

Illyrian Warrior from the Dassaretis, 4th-3rd century BC.

Collaborative scene by @eol4242.bsky.social @eggman and me

Gathering little friends

Anyone else know of other ancient scenes of warships being sunk or sinking besides the two below?

Alternatively

@veliteaquila.bsky.social A collection

What we often get is the kind of stuff you see in Musk's tweet: a reduction to vague principles that *sound* plausible but are pretty meaningless on their own. When one hoplite phalanx meets another, what does "concentration of force" actually mean? And how does it achieve victory?

For the @reorient.bsky.social blog I wrote about Shuhada Sadaqat (Sinead O’Connor), caliphates, imaginary kings, Greek tragedy, Britain starving the Irish, what it means to be free and of course - how we do history. 🤓 criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/project/befo...

After the circus in the study of the ancient world this week a few people have been asking what I think a better discipline would look like. 🤓 This completely open-access book, written by what Professor Pomeroy calls my “cabal” (aka our research collective) has some ideas: tinyurl.com/cawsbook

I love how one of these full professors at prestigious universities spouting this nonsense puts in their lengthy email signature a Livy quote cherry-picked to justify their privileged detachment from their political reality. Buddy, studying Livy doesn’t mean we should BE Livy.

"This is a Classicists List not a political one." A field of study is doomed when it surrenders its claim to be relevant to the real world, to how we live our lives in relation to other human beings, & cultivate mutual understanding. Isn't that the very point of the humanities?

Adhd-coded Ligurian in Sallust‘s Jugurthine war, going away to fetch water, just starting randomly collecting snails and then accidentally stumbling upon a secret passageway to the castle they are currently besieging

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Does anyone have better pictures of this fresco? From Vincenzo d’Ercole, 2019, Le armi e le tattiche belliche in Italia centrale tra la fine dell’età del Bronzo e i Sanniti (XI-IV sec. a.C.).

I can't quite believe I'm saying this but: I wrote a book! And it's being published this May! It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly. geni.us/AllRoadsLead...

@equipmentroman.bsky.social Poux in his paper on Alesia mentions pieces that are similar to buckles from a Roman segmentata. Looking at the Kalkriese armour, I do see it. He proposed a leather prototype but I was wondering if it was an iron version with most of the iron recovered post-battle?

Who do I call to talk about the weird manipular army system in Livy 8.8? 😄 It takes a few maybes and emendations to add up but then one could perhaps make it make sense #AncientBlueSky

Gallic chieftain twirling his moustache, 4th century BC (Thanks to @celtic-latene.bsky.social for providing me with the correct La Tène material)

Guardsman of Veii, ca. 400 BC

Since I’ve been enjoying reading Livy so much, here’s a 5th century Roman soldier

Retouched my battle of Lechaion a bit with some watercolours. Much happier with this

I love Livy so much: „Caesar is great, literally my best buddy … Anyway, here’s the story of some guy who sold corn for a bit too low a price so he was executed on the spot for being a potential tyrant who wanted to buy the people‘s loyalty, haha isn’t this crazy? We hate tyrants so much here haha!“

WIP

Another drawing from the conference

Roman auxiliary sketch, on-topic for todays conference

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

they're still wandering around in the: filter > render > difference clouds abyss

Philip the V and Polybius one day towards Marcus Aemilius for some reason.

Returning to water colour is always a real treat

Abolgian Archers

Somewhere along the way, while researching Thracian weaponry, I got tricked into entering every damn tomb I can get info on onto my map

One of my favorite fresco fragments from #Pompeii, which depicts a griffin attacking an Aramaspi, one of a legendary tribe of one-eyed people from northern Scythia. The battles between the Aramaspi and griffins are known via a lost work by Aristeas, reported in Herodotus. 🏺 60-50 BCE, #MANN 📸 me

Edonian herders paying a road toll

WIP

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