Don’t forget today is the last day you can submit your abstracts for our first ever conference! Want to be part of a new way of studying the past in solidarity with the occupied and the oppressed? 🍉 Join us! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

hi friends! i've been working for a bit on a little blog to share various bits and pieces on classics and it's finally live! first article focuses on, you guessed it, my favorite phrase in the latin corpus: miles erat phoebes 🐻 mileseratphoebes.wordpress.com

it's been a minute since i've posted on here, but i'm really excited to share that i'll be bringing some callisto to the classical association conference this weekend! i'll be on the queer 1 panel, bright and early friday morning. drop me a line if you'll be there!

Mob linguist threatening to break your legs unless you pay back your loanwords

Win 2 tickets to a preview screening of THE RETURN at the British Museum, Wednesday, 9 April. To enter: Like and re-skeet this post and follow us before 8pm UK time on Monday 7th April.

New CfP: @librarianchef.bsky.social and I are looking to draw together a variety of folks (not limited to just archaeologists) who are interested in writing about pseudoarchaeology & the ways pseudoarch is used/appears in the world! See our call below, dm or email me or Robert with any questions! 🏺

tragedyheads of bluesky, please lend me a hand tracking down an example of this tantalizing statement from luschnig's introduction to ancient greek textbook!! i have a student who is interested in women in tragedy and i'd love to locate a citation or two for us to discuss

COLUMBIA ALUMNI PULL UP! docs.google.com/document/u/0...

REMINDER: submit to my edited collection pals. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...

#CFP #APGRD Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium. Theme: "Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception(s)" - July 3-4, 2025 - Oxford/London www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... Due by April 25. @apgrd.bsky.social

Open access! www.routledge.com/Ancient-Past...

Please read my friend Marianne Hirsch’s new piece in the Forward forward.com/opinion/7035...

Hi everyone, We aren’t receiving funds quickly enough for our current spending. Remember: if we do not raise enough, we will have to potentially cut thousands of people off from the Internet, during Ramadan. Let’s not let this happen. bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

In honor of #InternationalWomensDay, our #ImageOfTheMonth is a marble relief commemorating two female gladiators —Amazon and Achillia. Found in Halicarnassus, this relief was acquired through donation by the British Museum (1847,0424.19) in 1846, but prior provenience is murky.

Bursaries for Teachers at the Roman Society www.theclassicslibrary.com/bursaries-fo...

#ResearchTraining The ICS are offering two free, online semi-intensive courses in #Phoenician from 15 April - 26 April. Elementary level: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/eleme... Intermediate level: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/inter... Applications close on 22 March

Digital Classicist London 2025 call for papers ics.sas.ac.uk/news/digital... #classicssky #digitalhumanities #callforpapers #digiclass

every day i think more of making a website to bring together all of my little projects, do people have any platforms they most recommend? tragically the vast majority of my blogging experience has been on tumblr

BlueSky, help me to spread the word! --> Abstract submissions are now open for the ASOR Panel on "Pop Culture and Near Eastern Archaeology" for the 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston (hybrid) - November 19-22, 2025! "The papers in this session represent a multidisciplinary discussion of approaches to

Please take a moment to read about the GAZAMAP Project and its important work documenting and protecting cultural heritage as well as training and supporting heritage students in Gaza ❤️ #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #MaritimeArchaeology #GAZAMAP

Our #imageoftheweek today is this beautiful sculpture head from Gandhara (3rd-4th c. CE), representing either Hercules or the bodhisattva Vajrapani. Iconography of Vajrapani in Gandhara was heavily influenced by Greek imagery of Hercules, leading him to be depicted as a muscular man with a club.

four books that shaped me #WorldBookDay quote post with yours!!

🎥 Our recording of last month's event 'The Art of Filmed Theatre: Greek Tragedy captured by the National Theatre' with Erin Lee (NT Head of Archive) and Jess Richardson (Head of Production and Content) is now available to watch online!🍿 @nationaltheatre.org.uk @apac-ssn.bsky.social shorturl.at/k3nnh

📣 CFP now live for our annual joint postgraduate symposium with Royal Holloway Drama! 3 & 4 July, Oxford/London! More details here www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

#ReliefWednesay: a shot of the front of the #Etruscan bronze Monteleone chariot. It depicts the nereid Thetis giving her son Achilles new armor, fashioned by Hephaestus. The shield - with its apotropaic head of Medusa and a feline face - is remarkable. The provenance is disputed. 🏺 #MetMuseum 📸 me

Great to have Diogenes 4.7.1! Many thanks to Peter Heslin. Mac OS Sequoia victims are now slightly better off than they were with version 4.6. Download here: d.iogen.es/d/download.h...

any exciting work out there on tragic reception in a wounded fawn or do i finally have to make a blog?

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Today's #imageoftheweek comes from the scrapbooks of the modernist poet, H.D. These photomontages collage together images of ancient art with scenes from the poet's life and pictures of people she knew. #ClassicsSky #AncientBluesky #ClassicalReception Image from the Beinecke Library on Flickr.

Don’t forget: you can now pre-order the upcoming volume at www.routledge.com/Ancient-Past... 🤩

Sharing the CFP for the LCC-sponsored panel at next year's SCS. "Queerness Beyond Identity," organized by Nicolette D'Angelo (UCLA) and Erin Lam (UCSB). Deadline for abstracts: March 1. Please share widely!

The SCS Pedagogy Award supports professional development, educational resources, and curriculum development and enhancement for educators at all levels. Applications are due April 21, 2025! classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

Registration for #ResDiff6 is now available: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

Reminder! Closing date for applications is Friday!!

📣 Prize in Classical Reception Research 👉 Award for a doctoral thesis in Classical Reception Studies, completed between 30/6/2024 and 30/6/2025 🎉 £100 prize & invitation to a guest lecture with @durham-university.bsky.social 👉 E-mail entries to @carolinebarron.bsky.social by 30 June 2025

Wedding preparations depicted by the Eretria Painter in 440-415 BC, Attica. In ancient Greece, the month of weddings Γαμηλιών (Gamelion) began in January and overlapped with February. #Ancientbluesky 🏺❤️

A Pre-Raphaelite #imageoftheweek for this crisp Thursday morning! This wonderfully monstrous Arachne was painted on William Burges' great bookcase, now in the Ashmolean museum. Multiple artists worked on the bookcase, so I'm not sure exactly who painted her. #ClassicsSky #AncientBluesky

anyone have an article/book chapter recommendation for ovid's heroides 17? either on its own or as a pair with 16, although what's going on with helen is of the most interest. reading it with a student and getting that distinct ovid spidey sense (arachne sense???) that there are layers to be peeled

WCC Virtual Conference: Embodying Women’s Colonial Experiences February 28, 2025 Full conference info available here! www.wccclassics.org/wcc-virtual-...

The Stoa: a Review for Digital Classics Call for Submissions: blog.stoa.org/editorial

Our friends at contubernales.bsky.social are having a sale which INCLUDES our new book A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology! Buying direct from Contubernales means we don't lose half the profit to fees and stuff like we do on other sites, which means more money toward our outreach projects.

I have lived SO MANY years of my life not knowing this existed. Thank god that era has ended!! 😍

my friends and family are about to begin living in an onion headline along the lines of "tragic: world's most manic fan of euripides' helen finally watched the first season of severance"

You’re all invited! ✉️ A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology Book Launch Event! Taking place 6th March at 6pm at Waterstones Dundee! Fully accessible venue Free to attend (please reserve via email) Cake Readings Books available to buy Meet some of the authors @waterstones.bsky.social

Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be submitted as PDF email attachments to [email protected] by Friday, March 7, 2025. Find more info on the SCS page: tinyurl.com/aaacc26

“This reminds me of absent Anactoria” οὐ]δὲ νῦν, Ἀνακτορί[α, τ]ὺ μέμναι δὴ] παρειοῖσασ, #Sappho

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM