Dr. Virginia L. Campbell

As an academic I have major issues with AI. But I’ve just seen a Christmas ad for a certain high end jewellery brand that features baby panthers. They have managed to uncute the cutest thing in the world with AI. Unequivocal proof of its inherent evilness.

Look at my baby panther instead.

Agree. The point I think Claire makes so well here is that evidence for a group of women in one place equating a brothel is lazy and reductionist and often has meant not looking at any other evidence. That practice needs to stop.

This is such a brilliant article and includes my new favourite way of conceptualising women's work in (poorly done) previous studies as the 'whorification of female labour.'

Editable basemap for UMAP with DARE maptile overlayed.

I have been playing with the open source "UMap" along with CAWM & DARE Maptiles of the Roman Empire to help people make their own maps for websites, teaching, and books using ancient world data. Is there any interest in learning the basics of DIY maps? umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/ancie...

I think you’d need more than a couple of scooters to get away for this one….

My students and I have spent the last two hours devising a new definition for ancient literacy. This is the good part of academia: engaged, thoughtful, and curious students who critique scholarship and ideas and come up with a better way. #tinyjoys #whyiteach

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Preserving Pompeii’s past, one step at a time Art conservator and restorer Ludovica Alesse works to safeguard Ancient Roman remains unearthed in the latest excavations to ensure the city’s story will never fade.

Preserving Pompeii’s past, one step at a time
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Same. We probably need to prepare ourselves with libations first. Will be in touch.

I’m not even sure when it opens. I’ll have a look when I can get to it and message you.

Let’s do this!

I love this idea. Because research is never born out of spite. Nope. Nothing to see here. 😬

There is a part of me that wants to go out of curiosity but I may need to arrange bail money / a solicitor first. 🫢

I have equally been looking at this and have Views. They may be quite sweary views.

100% woud let nibble.

All time classic

Genius. Definitely genius.

Skeleton-filled well in Croatia likely holds remains of Roman soldiers, study finds Archaeologists have discovered a mass grave of Roman soldiers hidden inside an ancient well in Croatia.

Archaeologists think they've found a mass grave of Roman soldiers from the Battle of Mursa (260 AD). 🧪🏺

Hell with other people Video games are often the first and most common way that many people now encounter the classical world. Hades, a critical hit following its release in

Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making.

www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...

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!

Are you working on relations between bodies (living/dead/human/animal/other!) & ritual in the #ancient #Roman world? If so, maybe you'd like to submit a 300-word abstract for the session 'Bodies in Ritual Practices' at RAC/TRAC Aarhus, 21-23 May 2026?! See www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...

So pretty! #roadporn

Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art Join one of Britain's leading art historians, Jaś Elsner, for a look at the religious context of some of the great monuments of antiquity.

Free lecture by Prof Jaś Elsner at Senate House on 10th October. Book on the link below.

The 28th Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture

Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art | British Museum share.google/glf556KROUQV...

Live from Vicus Caprarius in #Rome!
Visitors can explore the remnants of an ancient Roman residential complex, including a luxurious mansion (a domus) and an apartment building (insula).
It includes a massive water reservoir, or castellum aquae, which was part of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct (1st c. CE)

When I first moved to the UK I lived with someone from the north who was daily asking me what I wanted for tea. Um... do you mean earl grey? I was so confused by this question.

Sometimes it's easy to forget we speak the same language.

I swear the other half and I argue about this more than we do aluminum. Or, as he would say, aluminium. 🤣

Ooh... how to start an argument amongst Brits and Americans: homey v. homely. Have you encountered this yet?