6th annual Erich S. Gruen Prize for best graduate student paper on multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean world. Deadline for submissions: September 30. Spread the word! Or, better: throw your hat in the ring!

Happy to see my review of an interesting book about the effects of distance on Roman power has come out in BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09...

Michael Putnam has passed. A major figure in Latin poetry, especially due to his interpretation of the Aeneid. At Brown, he was wonderfully supportive of his students, myself as well as many fortunate others. sttl, Michael.

Learning Latin with ChatGPT is gonna get a lot more people thinking "Romanes eunt domus" is correct www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEc...

The department at Chicago has a reputation as being one of the heavy hitters in the discipline in the US. This is... just... absolutely beyond words.

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.

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

I am so excited to read this!

My review of Rebecca Edwards' (excellent) new book on Tiberius and Augustus: www.sehepunkte.de/2025/07/4009...

Latin word of the day: mergo, mergere, mersi, mersus - sink in, hide #LatinWordOfTheDay

Classics friends, we're searching for an adjunct to teach two in-person courses, intro Latin and a Roman lit in translation course, at Fairfield University this fall. Please see details in the attached screenshot, and let me know of any questions or interest! ClassicsBlueSky AncientBlueSky

Any recent PhDs still looking for something for this coming academic year should apply to our postdoc! Its inaugural holder was a classicist! More info here: www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/huma...

Please share: we have a Teaching Fellow in Roman History post available! I want to be up front: 0.4 FTE for basically 10 months. We know what that means, but we are supportive, friendly & not cruel taskmasters. Applications close June 30. Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....

It's time for me to embarrass myself by putting this out there: if your college or university in the greater Los Angeles area needs an instructor for anything to do with music history or medieval studies, I'm available to teach this fall.

Once again loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words #IdesofMarch 🗡️

Do you know somebody exceptional teaching classics or promoting the study of yhe ancient world? Or promoting inclusion in classics? Nominate them for the Teaching Awards of the Classical Association! #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋 #Classics classicalassociation.org/classical-as...

My slight tweak on the cats-as-Roman cursus honorum (course of honours) meme adapted for my Latin class, which is studying Nero's Rome.

📣 Job alert! The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at UBC is seeking applications for a renewable three-year Lecturer position in Latin Language and Ancient Mediterranean Studies. Deadline: March 25th Full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/02/amne...

I promised you guys more of these. Here is one that I find particularly great. Materials: plastic, metal, wiring, and human tears. (See ALT text for full transcript of the sign).

Hope this brightens everyone's day

🗣️ Job alert! Two posts @uoft.bsky.social Dept of Classics- Contractually Limited Term Appointments: 1) Assistant Professor – Greek and Latin Language Pedagogy 2) Assistant Professor – Greek and Latin Literature and Culture. Deadline: March 31st Full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/01/utsg...

Jessica Clark (@koriannon.bsky.social) and I will be hosting a panel on race, gender, and warfare at the 16th Celtic Classical Conference in beautiful Coimbra! Check out the CFP below and please do get in touch if you have questions or want to submit an abstract: www.uc.pt/site/assets/...

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!

So excited to receive this book in the mail!

We're hiring! VUW Classics is looking for a generalist and particularly encouraging specialists in Greek history and Roman art and archaeology to apply. Full details here: ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

"Over 1,200 years ago there was a happy cat on Mount Zion..." www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...

Ottawa downtown 6/12/2024

My first glimpse of the latest discovery of a household shrine in #Pompeii with the familiar motif of snakes—that offered the ancient inhabitants protection—writhing through the undergrowth towards an altar furnished with dates, an egg, a fig, and a pine cone The House of Phaedra. #FrescoFriday

It is time to teach comparatives again

We’re hosting Canada’s largest conference devoted to the study of Ancient Greece and Rome in Winnipeg in May, 2025! The call for papers is out and may be found on our conference website: www.uwinnipeg.ca/classics/cac... 1/4

YOU: How did your date go ME: Eh, I think it's going to stay Platonic YOU: Why? ME: Well I said the chicken sounded good, and she said 'when you say "good", do you mean "good" as we say a child is good or a horse is good, or that it contains goodness, or that it promotes goodness through its acti

UnRoman Romans: A sourcebook on socially stigmatized groups in Rome.

This post has been living rent-free in my head all week. “I would like a SMALL APPLE”

We're hiring again! "Research expertise that complements the department's current strengths, particularly in the areas of global antiquities, comparative approaches to classics, or classical reception." Details/portal at (only CV/letter 1st round): apply.interfolio.com/150732

Kaos - wow. I can't remember the last time I've enjoyed a cinematic/tv re-imagining of antiquity so much.

It is my great pleasure to announce the call for papers for a special issue of Res Difficiles, The Journal guest-edited by Ashley Lance and Tara Wells: 'Rez Diff.' We invite submissions on topics of Indigeneity in Classics. Due 15 Nov. #ResDiffJournal resdifficiles.com/rez-diff-ind...

happy first day of classes

This gravestone is for a dog named Heuresis, 'Tracker / Finder', 1st cent. BCE

Texas Tech University Department of History is hiring a t-t historian of the Ancient Mediterranean World. Applications due Oct. 1. I'm not on the committee but I'm happy to try to answer any questions. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... 🗃️

It is my pleasure to announce the program for ResDiff5 (March 22, 2024), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Dominic Machado (@dominicmachado.bsky.social). resdifficiles.com/res-diff-5-2...

Hello world! We've joined BlueSky now and we'd love to make some new friends over here, especially as it's almost time for the annual AIASCS meeting and we have loads of related updates to share!

Pleased to say I have a new article on two previously unnoticed moments when Lucan looks back to the beginning and conclusion of the Aeneid. DM me if you'd like a copy