Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/ Pasts Imperfect: https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Happy National Oyster 🦪 Day. I don’t eat oysters here in landlocked Iowa because I value my life, but the word comes from the Greek ὄστρεον (ostreon). A couple of years ago, they found a # of oyster shells at Pompeii in the Blue shrine—oysters were used for mortar. hyperallergic.com/stunning-pal...
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
I know it’s so pedantic, but I hate it when people throw toga parties and then wear a Greek chiton off Amazon with, like, a gold meander pattern. That’s why I always teach my students how to tie a proper bedsheet toga—because Rome.
When I think of Homer, I think of the Homer statue at the University of Virginia—and the fact that for over 25 years, Ted Lendon has been making students (including me, once) learn how to march in a phalanx on the lawn. ⚔️
Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/
Loebolus
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Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/
Loebolus
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Wake up, honey, new Misopogon just dropped—but this time it’s not a satire. Yet we are still on a Persian campaign.
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · yesterday"Commanders [must] maintain a log of personnel requiring facial hair treatment plans... Must forward a Facial Hair Accommodation Accountability Report in Excel monthly... Those approved for accommodation must carry the signed paperwork on their persons..." www.militarytimes.com/news/your-na...
Dreamt that I bought a t-shirt for the first day of classes that says “Maybe WE are the Sea Peoples” and honestly need to make this happen.
Y’all, midwesterners have the best Interjection for almost any situation (akin to how allora in Italian is an interjection that can mean almost anything): Ope! Surprised? Ope! Made a mistake? Ope! Calling to someone at a party from across the room? Ope! Accidentally offended? Ope! It’s great.
This is absolutely an illegal scam preying on heritage tourism. But I will say I… can’t help but admire this incredibly capacious hustle on some level—although I do think he needs to make reparations. www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
Italian conman jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre
In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials.
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Y’all, midwesterners have the best Interjection for almost any situation (akin to how allora in Italian is an interjection that can mean almost anything): Ope! Surprised? Ope! Made a mistake? Ope! Calling to someone at a party from across the room? Ope! Accidentally offended? Ope! It’s great.
It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.
Hello. I’m a science journalist / editor. I want to follow people posting about science / ideas that excite them. People who ask big questions and take curiosity seriously. I always want to know why a question matters, and for whom. I probably won’t be a super active poster. Just here to learn 🧪
Look, Voltaire didn't say "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It." I see it attributed to him all over but Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote it in her bio of Voltaire, while summarizing his beliefs about free speech. Give her flowers 🪷 archive.org/details/frie...
In a new pre-print 🍞, a # of ancient historians look at the relationship b/w climate & food shortages in the Roman Med. using "annual palaeoclimatic reconstructions from climate field reconstructions...w/ a dataset of 55 attested shortage events" (1–650 CE). egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
I’m astonished by the ability of my fellow humans to forget the events we all just lived through. Folks remember the masks and the remote school. The million US dead are rarely mentioned. Folks, we lived through a plague.
Sarah is the absolute best! This truly made my day.
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 3d agoI’ve been immersed in Theodosian Code since May, but awoke to find Prof. @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social ’s new Catullus translation. It’s amazing to see a person you admired as an undergraduate at UVA now killing it as a classicist & translator. Amo et Amo. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667356...
I’ve been immersed in Theodosian Code since May, but awoke to find Prof. @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social ’s new Catullus translation. It’s amazing to see a person you admired as an undergraduate at UVA now killing it as a classicist & translator. Amo et Amo. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667356...
I do wonder sometimes whether Augustus gets upset that so many professors & teachers curse his month (as of 8 BCE) and thus name—once they actually remember what the date is. Good luck on your syllabus due in like two weeks, amici (*sobs into hands*).
I don’t support tiger skin rugs. 🐅 But I do support tiger skin mosaics that look like a rug. (Museum of Bardo, 200-399 CE, image by Roberto Piperno).
Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.
MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.
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Caity Weaver@caity.bsky.social · 10mo agoIMPORTANT QUESTION: What is the best free restaurant bread in the United States? (ANY restaurant is eligible, but the bread must be free provided free to *every* table.)
Please enjoy this medieval mosaic of two roosters capturing a fox from the twelfth-century floor of the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato in Murano, as taken by Iowa medievalist Shane Bobrycki. 🐓🦊🐓 Now this is some gallus humor.
Liberals say that ancient Athens was the world’s first democracy. They’re wrong— ancient Athens was the world’s first republic.
Hello, dear βιβλιόφιλος ("booklover") 📚 The JMA has a open access article on "New Approaches to Identifying Roman Libraries," on two Late Antique Examples from Stobi (North Macedonia) & Fuente Álamo (Spain). Can we develop computational techniques to help us identify the grammar of libraries? Yes!
Investigadores de la UGR identifican en una villa romana de Córdoba la biblioteca más antigua de la Península Ibérica - Canal UGR
Investigadores de la Universidad de Granada descubren en la villa romana de Fuente Álamo (Córdoba) la biblioteca más antigua documentada de la Península Ibérica.
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I have never wanted to see and only talk about the Hannibal movie more. Calling on @netflix.com to stop this nonsense and unpause this. We need a petition. And maybe elephants. screenrant.com/denzel-washi...
Denzel Washington’s Netflix Historical Epic Is “Effectively Dead,” Reveals Producer
The actor won’t be reuniting with Antoine Fuqua.
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