Anna P. Judson
@annapjudson.bsky.social
Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC UK and WIASN. Blogging (intermittently) at http://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her
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Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields
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Small grant scheme in action: Ilaria Truzzi - WCC-UK
The WCC Small Grant Scheme that I received in March 2026, has allowed me to visit two archaeological museums around the Southern Valencian Community and Region of Murcia- Spain. I was already in Spain...
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I've been compiling a list for @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social of small-grant sources - orgs with funds for UK-based students/researchers/teachers in #Classics & related fields to use for e.g. research trips, conferences, other professional development activities #ClassicsBluesky 🏺1/4
Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields
Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields The WCC UK’s Small Grants Scheme provides grants of up to £150 to support members’ academic activities relating to the study of classics (...
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if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4w ago'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'
Wow. Wondered who the guy who gave the BM so much money he got a *portrait* and a quote on the wall outside the exhibition. Now I know...
Dr Frazer Lee@frazerlee.bsky.social · 4w ago“Bayeux beware” 👀 www.thenerve.news/p/bayeux-tap...
PSA for people with British Museum Bayeux Tapestry tickets: BM has massively oversold, expect to queue for a very long time before getting anywhere near it (1.5 hours today) and if your ticket is for one of the last slots you may not even get to see it at all, or not for more than 5-10min 😢😡
Anyone from #ClassicsBluesky have a recommendation for a good video of (any part of) the Iliad being chanted/sung in Greek, for students to get a feel for what the hexameter sounds like?
FFS, You don’t even have to look *outside Cambridge* for examples of white professors who have behaved far, far worse and not only kept their jobs, but have been protected and celebrated by both their institution and the media.
🏺With the solar eclipse in the news here in the UK, it’s probably worth noting that we have archaeological evidence of eclipses. Like this cuneiform tablet from Mesopotamia circa 900-600 BCE forecasting a solar eclipse. Now at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. 📜 n2t.net/ark:/21549/h...
extremely good practical illustration of how a colander can be used to see the eclipse
“Elise”@pageantmalarkey.bsky.social · 2mo agoOr your dog’s bum!
slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists
Yes, a question that doesn’t get asked enough is: is there a shortage of interest in the Ancient Greeks? I don’t think there is, I think there is a shortage of interest in critical analysis of the Ancient Greeks. Uncritical ref to the Ancient Greeks is over represented because of western supremacy.
Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees@badancient.bsky.social · 2mo agoI am also growing tired of any take, at all, about the Odyssey film and academia that does not acknowledge that films lile this have not resulted in our departments getting more funding or support in the past 25 years. But are in fact being shut down in the backdrop of all this
*this para is important. William O'Reilly, history don, was found to have plagiarised by the university, and has had sexual misconduct claims against him as well — but he remains in post at Cambridge, and the press/public barely noticed.
In my life time? Gladiator, 300, Troy, and Alexander all come to mind and all since the year 2000. What happens each time is people say it will save the study of ancient history, it is loved for a bit before the next big thing happens: all while ancient history depts across the world shut.
Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen in your life is there ever going to be this much public fascination and investment in a story so ancient and fundamental? There is an audience out there which is primed to hear more about this and find a whole new interest in it who are seeing you mock a passionate adaptation as slop for rubes.
This is such a good piece by @jaseokundaye.bsky.social. Excuse the long extract in the screenshot, but these points are really important.
Naaz Rashid@naazrashid.bsky.social · 2mo ago"If we let only our opponents tell the story, then it becomes a parable about the hazards of striving for progress and equality, rather than about the institutions that reduced equality to a mere PR exercise." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shh, don’t tell our colleagues at the Faculty of Classics Library, but this is the only Odysseus we’re really interested in 🤫🐾 #OdysseusTheCat #CambridgeUniversityLibrary
your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors
“This summer… An epic tale of betrayal and the quest for forgiveness. In a world struggling to produce enough food, one man will brave the cold to survive. PLUMS only in cinemas.”
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 3mo agoStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Odyssesus's dad wants to chat Routes (This one is a print and I have four copies left of in the edition before it's sold out, ie never to be printed again! Shop link in my bio 👆) #odyssey
![Scene is a domestic room in ANCIENT GREECE. The traveller ODYSSEUS enters to meet his DAD, an old, bearded man.
DAD:
Odysseus!
ODYSSEUS:
Father!
DAD:
It’s so good to see you after all these years! How was your journey?
ODYSSEUS:
Not bad, yeah
DAD:
Which way did you come?
ODYSSEUS:
Oh... I dunno.
I just followed the sat nav
[There is a silent pause. Odysseus’s dad smiles, a frozen rictus of affability which says ‘that is not acceptable and I’ll pretend you didn’t say it’.]
DAD:
Which way did you come.
ODYSSEUS:
Um. I dunno, Dad
DAD:
Did you come via the domain of the Cyclops?
ODYSSEUS:
I think.... um....
DAD:
Through the lair of the Laestrygonian cannibals?
ODYSSEUS:
Uh....
DAD:
Past the siren song of the enchantresses?
ODYSSEUS:
Dunno, I had a podcast on
DAD:
You must've gone the Western Edge of the World way, past Scylla the six-headed monster and the Whirlpool of Charybdis...
ODYSSEUS:
Is that by the McDonald’s roundabout
DAD:
Yes
ODYSSEUS:
Yeah I did come that way
DAD:
OOOH YOU SHOULDN’T COME THAT WAY
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wanted to contribute to Odyssey discourse but unfortunately nothing I could say is better commentary than bsky's post settings
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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I’m a former classicist who just saw The Odyssey, AMA. Just kidding… if I have to hear about the hospitality of Zeus one more time imma dispatch dozens of suitors.
I missed out 6) which is that Nolan's use of Bronze Age material culture (some instantly recognisable, some a bit more allusive/not-quite-right, mixed in with a whole bunch of Not Bronze Age stuff in a fantasy world) is more or less spot on for the Homeric epics' relationship with the Bronze Age
Anna P. Judson@annapjudson.bsky.social · 3mo agoThoughts of a Bronze Age Aegeanist watching the #Odyssey 1) nice pottery 2) Palace of Ithaca on the outside is totally the Evans concrete version of Knossos, right? 3) Polyphemus lives in the Cave of Nestor! 4) Nolan appears to think you can walk to Pylos from Ithaca? ... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
Thoughts of a Bronze Age Aegeanist watching the #Odyssey 1) nice pottery 2) Palace of Ithaca on the outside is totally the Evans concrete version of Knossos, right? 3) Polyphemus lives in the Cave of Nestor! 4) Nolan appears to think you can walk to Pylos from Ithaca? ... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
