✨The Seasons✨ This #FrescoFriday we travel to Block 10, Regio IX of Pompeii to enjoy some of the details from the blue room unveiled during archaeological work in 2024. The room is thought to have been a sacrarium — “a shrine devoted to ritual activities and the storage of sacred objects”.

"Det er alt for farleg å bruke det i yrke der kunnskap er viktig, og det gjeld veldig mange yrke: Journalistikk, utdanning, forsking, prosjektarbeid og mykje anna." Takk for at du bruker den faglige tyngden din til å si klart i fra @jilltxt.bsky.social 💚

I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project! fordhampress.com/theoria

Du hørte kanskje at NTB publiserte en KI-generert melding sist uke. Visste du at KI-sammendraget endret sikkerhetstrussel fra fiendtlige statlige aktører til ekstemvær og aldrende teknologi? Slik ideologisk vridning viser at KI-bias kan være en sikkerhetsrisiko. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Catch our real life Roman ghost story on Instant Classics tinyurl.com/7t2kpzuh On Thursday we are dropping the follow up episode on the underworld in epic. Come and meet the ghosts of the Odyssey and the Aeneid.

Huge LEGO Roman City Has One Million Pieces - Give Bread and Circuses - Bell of Lost Souls www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/11/huge...

Sleeping Cupid Unearthed in Pula: A Rare Masterpiece of Ancient Roman Art - Arkeonews arkeonews.net/sleeping-cup...

Happy to be editing the book series Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan) with Kees de Groot! Looking forward to future book proposals! @drrachelwagner.bsky.social @unsissel.bsky.social @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social link.springer.com/series/15420

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD. On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Happy #Halloween This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper #RomanArchaeology

What better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Gospel According to the Klan The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 by @kellyjbaker.bsky.social kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700624478/

Packed-out audience for @lucygrig.bsky.social's inaugural lecture @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

✨The Eleusinian Mysteries✨ Demeter and Persephone flank a young youth thought to be Triptolemos. This beautiful Augustan era rendition based on a Greek relief is our pick for #ReliefWednesday and #ClassicsTober25.

Hell - the most obvious conference venue. #iahr #easr #aar #sbl #acrel

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 27 of #ClassicsTober25: The Erinyes were chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Their Roman counterparts are the Furies, also known as the Dirae. #ClassicsTober

#EpigraphyTuesday – Hopefully an appropriate choice as we approach the heights of 'Spooky Season', with this triple statuette of Diana-Hecate: ca. Late 2nd Century – 3rd Century AD. #Halloween #Latin 🧵🏺 Image: British Museum (1805,0703.14); CIL VI, 9089. Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

I've been meaning to share my review of @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social's The Violent Take It By Force on the Reading Religion site. Here it is: readingreligion.org/978150649778... As I mention, the book is both well-researched and very accessible to a wide audience. Read it if you haven't yet!

Prague is now the capital of a normal country – alas! My latest commentary… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jeg vet lite om Subjektredaktørens faglige ekspertise, men det finnes mange religionsvitere og sosiologer mediene godt kunne spurt om eventuelle endringer i befolkningens varierende trosuttrykk. Dette er fagfelt med pågående samtaler, og det burde ikke være vanskelig å finne noen som er med i dem.

Obviously millions of people turned out yesterday for the #NoKings protest so why isn’t that the headline on all the American papers? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making. www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "Carson shows us how extremism, when it takes hold, provides these young men with purpose, work, a narrative, hope and clearly defined roles. It also provides them with a set of people [...] to hate, to blame, to punish and, quite quickly, to beat and to kill."

On Instant Classics now, a deep dive into Cassandra, the Trojan prophet doomed to tell the truth but never be believed. We reflect on the story from Aeschylus to Taylor Swift & find more than meets the eye. tinyurl.com/mrymayzp

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy! Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 11 of #ClassicsTober25: torch. On a Greek red-figured pelike two runners in the lampadedromia (torch race). Attributed to the Kraipale painter, made in c. 430 BC. Now in the British Museum. #ClassicsTober

#Caturday #CatsofGreece #Twins 😻😻

Divination and Authority in Graeco-Roman Antiquity - Conferences - Projects | Workshops | Conferences - Chair of Ancient History - University of Potsdam www.uni-potsdam.de/de/hi-altert...

@classicstober.bsky.social #ClassicsTober25 Day 10: Hecate. She was often shown holding torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, and later depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied. She is associated with crossroads, night, light, magic, witchcraft, drugs, and the Moon. #ClassicsTober

My review of Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities is up at BMCR: Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...

hey i made a starter pack of cutting edge humanists (broadly defined) doing cool stuff inside and outside academia. check out these folks and repost to signal boost! let's see if we can't "network" better than conferences!

A reminder that #ClassicsTober starts tomorrow on @classicstober.bsky.social and the overall theme is KATABASIS.

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 4 of #ClassicsTober25: shroud. Greek women weaving a cloth. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), black-figured pottery, Amasis Painter, c. 550–530 BC. #ClassicsTober

Day 5 of #ClassicsTober25: Hermes Psychopompos. This stunning pottery painting is from an Anatolian grave. It is a white-ground cup from the eastern cemetery of Daskyleion in a Persian satrapal center. It dates to the late fifth century BC. #ClassicsTober

Don't jump on the couch!

30th September is the feast of St Jerome who is here depicted as translator of the Psalms #StJerome BnF MS Latin 1152; Psalter of Charles the Bald; 9th century (between 842 CE & 869 CE); School of the Palace of Charles the Bald; f.4r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

On the feast of St. Jerome #otd, 30 Sept, here he is having a quietly tender moment extracting a thorn from his lion's paw. Lucas Cranach, 1515. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

The week just started, and we already need a timeline cleanse.... A #Roman pot with ears and a funny little face (it looks like Shaun the Sheep). Found in a burial in the necropolis of Giubiasco, Switzerland 2nd century AD. 📷 Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum #archaeology 🏺

Jeg har skrevet om Husmorhæren og sammenblandingen av politikk og profitt - som også henger sammen med hvordan sosiale medieplattformer fremmer hustlers som Solheim fordi også plattformene tjener på det. Og det henger sammen med KI-slopp som det Solheim bruker. www.nrk.no/ytring/provo...

Oi, se på biblioteket i Vennesla, da!

I am teaching New Age spirituality this week, so I went through some old photos on my camera and found this perfect conversation starter.

Question for Bible scholars: who is 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 interpreted as being about? I don't study this at all so I'm interested in the whole range of interpretations. Is it the devil? Have there been historical figures connected to this passage?

September 23, 63 BCE: A child named Octavian is born into the sign of Libra; however, he later decides, what the hell: I want to be a Capricorn (Suet. Aug. 94.12) b/c that is when I was conceived (it doesn't work like that & as a true Scorpio, I am offended). Today, we call this guy Augustus.

The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836. Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

I finally got around to do the same today. Again for these reasons and more.

what can i say? i’m good at what i do

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.