"You will be visited by three spirits."

My favorite part of the season is my hat. ♥️

Very excited to participate in the Reception of the Ancient World in trading, collecting, gaming and fortune-telling cards Colloquium this Saturday! Please feel free to reach out for the Zoom link if you’re interested in attending. It will be a lot of fun! #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky

Finally met Dr. Emily Hauser, and she was wonderful! So kind, sweet, and just really lovely to talk to. Getting a little chat with her and taking some photos together was honestly amazing. Plus, she signed my books with the cutest messages! 📚✨

The Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference committee of the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia is issuing a call for papers for their conference on “Bodies and Embodiment.” www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/aigs... #AncientBlueSky

It's Beneventan for me.

💬 𝐄𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐨 𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐚 𝐥𝐚 𝐕𝐈 𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐞 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐂𝐥𝐚́𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐬 📚 “𝐋𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐣𝐞𝐫 𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐬. 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨” 🗓️ 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 💻 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 forms.gle/LvCUTnUx7R95...

Extraño el aroma al Día de Muertos en México.

I love it.

[Exit Ghost.]

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻! The Milkmaid traded her jug for a pumpkin and is carving a Jack-o'-lantern! 🎃🥛 The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660 #Halloween #painting #art

The Department of Classics at the University of Cologne is the newest member of the Nomisma.org consortium, providing the first 100+ of their 12,000 coin collection to Ptolemaic and Seleucid Coins Online. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/10/depa... #classicsbluesky #lawdi #LODLAM

I was really surprised to get a couple of special gifts for my 6-year anniversary of living away from home.

Just in time for #Halloween, my article on the uncanny in #Plautus’ “Ghost Play” is now available open access on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Find out how the scheming slave Tranio creates the perfect haunted house on stage to scare his master and... (1/2) #ClassicsBluesky #RomanComedy

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Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 8: Erebos Erebos 🇯🇵 Erebos The Engraving (2016) Melodic death metal "It's the final stage of endless torture Before your soul dies, break it away yourself Erebos is always at your side" #ClassicsTober

🕊️ Jane Addams (1860–1935), social reformer, feminist, pacifist. She co-founded Hull House in Chicago, advancing education, health, & women’s rights. A leader in peace activism, she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM tinyurl.com/3hcd739j

Today's reading is...

On the seventh day of #ClassicsTober25: φαρμακíς - witch, sorceress In his 1907 work, Jason and Medea by John William Waterhouse, Medea prepares the potion for Jason to give to the dragon guarding the Golden Fleece. Her dress, emblazoned with bold symbols, suggests her role as a sorceress.

The humanities went from being seen as irrelevant to facing a crisis of literacy and critical thinking. This is why the humanities are so crucial. They provide the foundational tools and perspectives that shield us from such challenges.

On the sixth day of #ClassicsTober25: Moirai Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, The Triumph of Death, or The 3 Fates. Flemish tapestry (probably Brussels, ca. 1510-1520). Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

On the fourth day of #ClassicsTober25: Shroud Example of Greek funeral shrouds. Attic Red-Figured Kylix 490–480 B.C. Attributed to the Brygos Painter (Greek (Attic), active about 490 - 470 B.C.

On the third day of #ClassicsTober25: Graiai Elihu Vedder (1836-1923), 'The Phorcydes'—or Graiai—, ''American Art & American Art collections'', Vol. 2, 1889.

We have two further Starter Packs, also updated for the new academic year, covering: > Societies & groups for historians, international go.bsky.app/9T5F1Qc > UK institutes and research centres for historians go.bsky.app/RbfRrhm Again, recommendations for additional contacts are welcome 2/2

On the second day of #ClassicsTober25: Thanatos (Death) and Hypnos (Sleep) (?) bringing a dead warrior to the tomb. Lekythos, The Thanatos Painter, c. 435-425 BC, Attic White Ground Pottery, 48.85 cm height (The British Museum, London, England). #lekythos #ClassicsTober #ClassicsBluesky

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 1: Hypnos In Flames 🇸🇪 Lord Hypnos The Jester Race (1996) Melodic death metal “I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos Your garment alive with your song” #ClassicsTober

Hypnos 💤🪽 for #ClassicsTober Day 1!

Octobres 🍁🍂 Dating from the 1st half of the 3rd century AD, this mosaic is located at the Sousse Archaeological Museum in Tunisia. #ClassicsBluesky #Classics #october

Happy Friday! May I interest you in a free book? SLAVERY AND HONOUR IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD is out now in Open Access! This edited collection from David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns explores the complexities of honour and dishonour in ancient Greek slavery.

💥 Publication of 107 new inscriptions on Attic Inscriptions Online! 👉 New entries include all votives of artisans and workers, and boundary stones of the Athenian empire on Aigina. 🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and team! 🔗 buff.ly/4Bgd7gF

On the first day of #ClassicsTober25: Beneath the quiet wings of Hypnos, the world softens into dreams. He silences pain, soothes restless hearts, and opens the gates of night. Tonight, this song belongs to him. #ClassicsTober25 youtu.be/eua0N6-1bzA?...

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New book review on Rhea! Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴 Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!

Oct 18, 2025  9:30 am-1 pm California Classical Association - South virtual Conference Hosted by UC Santa Barbara CONNECTIVITIES & COLLECTIVITIES IN ANCIENT EURASIA   Anthony Barbieri-Low - UCSB Nicholas Bartos - UCLA Jinyu Liu - Emory University Carlos F. Noreña - UC Berkeley

In the latest TLL podcast episode, Eleanor Dickey discusses Latin loanwords in ancient Greek. 📜

I'm a big fan of Dr. Irving Finkel!

Unexpected findings. #cat

The countdown is on #ClassicsTober25.

¡Es hoy, es hoy!

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...

Just want to say that Chengzuo Yao’s “The Battle of Adrianople: The Anatomy of Error” is 🔥

Cyprus Museum friends.

#FrescoFriday returns us to the #Augustan #domus of the #Farnesina, whose surviving #fresco work is in #PalazzoMassimo alle #Terme in #Rome. Here we meet two figures of #Greek #philosophy famous in antiquity, the consciously shameless #Cynic couple #Crates and #Hipparchia. #AncientBluesky 🏺

It's time to tell you to pre-order this! $34.95 for a handy lil' paperback! www.ucpress.edu/books/things...

#InternationalDogDay The interior of the House of Paquius Proculus, #Pompeii, #Italy, with its splendid 'cave canem' ('beware of the #dog') mosaic. 📷 My own 2019. #Archaeology #History #art #artwork #ancientbluesky

Emily Wilson talks about translating Homer into English verse buff.ly/whp4PQ4 #AncientGreece #AncientHistory #Classics #Translation #AncientBluesky

Having a really excellent time in my 'read a book by a woman from every country in the world' challenge, tbh. Just finished Tajikistan, and now it's onto Estonia. I've read 125 books, so there's only 72(ish)* to go... theglobalwomenslibrary.wordpress.com

Next week I will offer a lecture on #ancientdemagogues and conspiracy in #Aristophanes and #Thucydides. More info: www.instagram.com/encuentroint... #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

A new episode of the Classics Podcast just dropped! I'm answering questions what the ancient Egyptians ate and how they married, syncretism in the ancient world, and historical figures I'd *really* like to meet 👇 #AncientBlueSky #Egyptology #Classics open.spotify.com/episode/3PEl...

Bamburgh calling! The 49th International Mediterranean Survey Workshop in November. Also free online attendance is possible. Call for abstracts open NOW! #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋