I’m reminded of the extent to which the answer to Hanson and Heath’s “who killed Homer? was not in fact post-modernism but Christianity.

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jesus vs. Odysseus: The debate about ‘The Odyssey’ that’s been overlooked | CNN www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/w...

I am in awe. Just got a digital off print from a colleague. The first page has title, author name, and so much footnote (largely acknowledgements) that there is NO body text. Even the abstract is bumped to p.2.

For all my Information History people: souvenir shopping in highland Peru.

Out today!

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 2w ago

How goods and people in motion across the ancient world were entangled through consumption. Sea of Treasures by @caeliambulator.bsky.social is now available (15 September UK/EU pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #AncientWorld #AncientHistory #History

@nakhthor.bsky.social Congregations!

We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.

Does anyone have to hand the JRA 1991 supplement on LIteracy in the Roman World? I need a few pages, and my copy has disappeared on me.

Also of interest to Classicists!

@rsutaustin.bsky.social · last mo.

The Department of Religious Studies is pleased to announce a new addition to its faculty, Dr. Matthew Larsen! We're excited to have him join our outstanding faculty cohort as an Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Read more about him at the link. tinyurl.com/2s3bs2yp

I checked with a colleague of mine at Exeter, and he thought that it was worthwhile for people to sign this petition about the absurd down-sizing proposed there: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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The excitement continues!!! Come to the SCS in Boston in January to see @dominicmachado.bsky.social and I give our joint paper “Uncritical Fabulation - Subjection, Subjectivity, and the Study of Slavery.” Excited to be going back to the SCS in person! 🧐🧐

Academic question. This has now happened to me a few times. I referee an article for a journal, and it is not accepted. At some later point a different journal asks me to referee the exact same article. My strong instinct is to decline, though I can't exactly articulate why. Thoughts?

Out today. it means a lot for this to be published on Juneteenth and before Father’s Day. classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/jav...

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Dr. Stephennie Mulder@stephenniem.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🎉 We’re on YouTube! 🎉 The White Banner is an Arabic-English historical adventure role-playing game set during a famous rebellion in early Islamic Syria. The game is currently in development as a joint Syrian-UT Austin collaboration. Subscribe & follow for updates! www.youtube.com/@WhiteBanner...

Dramatic announcement incoming: After over 3 years yours truly has written for the SCS blog once again. Stay tuned for “Fatherlessness in Antiquity and Now” this week.

Surprised Pikachu Meme

ALT: Surprised Pikachu Meme

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Noted without comment, especially not about the top line.

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

Everything you every wanted to know about the history of American immigration and citizensip policy. At UT Sept. 10. bsky.app/profile/unla...

@grammartable.bsky.social

Coffee & Donatus@coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Found an early variety of sentence diagram in a Vermont schoolbook, William Livingston’s "An English grammar; calculated in conjunction with the Syntactical Atlas." (Middlebury: Francis Burnap, 1817) It is the earliest syntactic digram I have seen like this printed in the United States.

One more thing from me on standardization (one more in the pipeline, and then I think I'm done). www.academia.edu/167894508/St...

Standardization and Standardizations

Let me begin with a word about my title. 1 Creating novel plural forms of abstract nouns is perhaps too much in academic fashion these days. Nonetheless, a central framework of my discussion today wil...

academia.edu

It’s out!!! Late on posting this but this new chapter and the volume it’s published in is out now! Shout out to Hilary Lehmann and @chrissieplastow.bsky.social for their great editorial work and to @dominicmachado.bsky.social @foodoriented.bsky.social amongst others who read this whole before!!

Living Precariously in the Roman World by Astrid Van Oyen This book investigates the lived experiences of inequality in the Roman world through qualitative analysis of archaeological data. https://cup.org/4dHoTvl #archaeology

My book is real.

Applications for the 2026 Erich S. Gruen prize, which recognizes graduate research, are now open at apply.classicalstudies.org. Find out more information about the prize at classicalstudies.org/awards.

If you're interested in the comparative history of the Roman and Han Empires—or just want to know what all the fuss is about—you could do worse than begin with Michael Loewe's (posthumous) synthesis, favorably reviewed here. *Many* viable topics for further analysis lurking in these pages...

Happy Birthday, Erich! The 2026 SCS Erich S. Gruen Prize competition is now open! @scsclassics.bsky.social classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

I wonder if part of the problem here is that while "credentialing" is a terrible description of what college does, it's less implausible as a description of what distinguishes colleges.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Niche humor (and probably marginal at that. My wife just bought this new feeder toy for the dogs, and it came with its own sekoma/tabula mensoria.

Anybody know why the Yale digital objects catalog doesn't (I think) have PDura numbers for their papyri from there? E.g. why can't I find this as PDura 100?

I am co-editing a special issue of Epigraphy Graffiti Iconography on the theme "Writing, place-making and architecture". More information here: journals.wisethorough.com/index.php/EG... All scripts, areas, periods welcome, from ancient to modern. Please share!

Our AJR book review #forum on Sarah E. Bond's Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire continues with an essay from Richard Last @yalepress.bsky.social @sarahebond.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/4/...

Ancient Associations and Collective Labor Action in Sarah Bond’s Strike — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

First, the initial three chapters, which cover the Roman Republic, read like a new history of Rome, one that shows how ingrained collective labor action really was in Roman society.

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