Sarah E. Bond

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers (LIMES XXV volume 1) @ Sidestone Press This publication – Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers – is the first volume of the LIMES XXV’s congress proceedings arranged around the original sessions, in order to form coherent thematical colle...

The new _Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers –thr first volume of the LIMES XXV’s Congress_is out now open access. So many great articles on women & the Roman army; digital mapping of the limes; and a lot of articles on walls from Britain to China. www.sidestone.com/books/curren...

Yes: #NEH supports projects and moreover PEOPLE. Which is why it's all the more egregious that 1,400 grants were terminated and over 100 employees were fired in April 2025.

Support funding for NEH, but also please support justice for those who were economically harmed last year.

Maybe I will clean the house next.

가정리 Fig. 2 Diagrams from William F. Gardner's Time Ball patent application, 1884, show the time ball pictured as a monument, complete with doric columns. Figure 3 in the diagram represents the releasing apparatus that used both magnet and an electrical circuit to drop the ball when the noon signal was received via telegraphic circuit. (Boston file, in "Time Ball Reports, " Records of the Hydrogmaphic Office, United States Navy, National Archives Records Administration, Record Group 37, Entry 64) no Gardner IN PENTOR

I learned that the phrase "on the ball" comes from the Greenwich Observatory's time ball that signalled to sailors that it was 1 pm. My mind is very easily blown, but this is also why there is a ball drop on NYE. Why yes, I do have an article due and may be procrastinating. Why do you ask?

Cover of forthcoming book, The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession and a Global Art Conspiracy, by Matthew Campbell

The Man Who Stole the Gods is award-winning journalist Matthew Campbell's exploration of the career of trafficker Douglas Latchford who looted Cambodia's ancient heritage with the complicity of some of the world's most prestigious museums. Preorder for 6/2
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739182...

Ancient Greek Law Fleshing out the intersection between the unity of Greek law on the one hand and its manifestation in countless cities on the other, each one with striking idiosyncrasy in legal administration and pra...

Again, signing up for BMCR provides reviews, sure, but also notations on new open access volumes! For example? _Ancient Greek Law
Vectors of Unity and Local Idiosyncrasy_ by Hans Beck and Kaja Harter-Uibopuu. www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde... + bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03...

Monarch butterfly shirt from Raygun that stays monarch butterflies are the only monarch that I recognize

Went to @raygunsite.com for a gift, but also buying this amazing shirt. 🦋

Monarch butterfly shirt from Raygun that stays monarch butterflies are the only monarch that I recognize

Went to @raygunsite.com for a gift, but also buying this amazing shirt. 🦋

Mosaic of Daniel in the Lions’ Den, mausoleum at Furnos Minus, 6thC CE, National Museum of Bardo, Tunisia.

MEMORIA / BLOSSI HONO/RATVS INGENVS ACTOR / PERFECIT

[Dedicated to] the memory of Blossus. Honoratus (his) freely born agent brought (it) to completion’] www.flickr.com/photos/carol...

Timeline of harm to Franco-Ontarian students:

Oct 2025: French classics program suspended
Jan 2026: "Reinstated" after pressure
Feb 2026: Re-suspended after 10 weeks

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#SOSClassicsUO #ONfr #LanguageRights #uOttawa #Ottawa

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Classics at the University of Iowa is fighting to keep its Latin and Greek courses. Please sign the petition: c.org/HLyPwxbKP2

Wow 😮 I had no idea. Now that is a perk.

Hello from another right to work state, Iowa, where public sector employees cannot strike. 👋 www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/20...

Sex and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible - Sex and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East

I love that Cambridge Elements are usually open access to read for the first two weeks after publication. That means _Sex and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East_ by Stephanie Lynn Budin is free to resd until March 10! This is part of the Elements in the Ancient Near Eastern World and the Bible.

“To labor unions, everywhere.” - Noah Wylie, accepting his Actor award

Explore the Faces of Ancient Roman Egypt in Getty's New Volume on Mummy Portraits | Getty News This open-access publication brings together global expertise and groundbreaking research to scholars and the public worldwide.

Explore the Faces of Ancient Roman Egypt in Getty's New Volume on Mummy Portraits | Getty News
www.getty.edu/news/explore...

Opinion | Closing the African American Studies program is a gut wrenching loss to faculty and students In the middle of January the UI Office of Strategic Communications put out a news release that the University of Iowa would conduct a review of low enrollment undergraduate majors to assess their dema...

Af Am Studies: dailyiowan.com/2026/02/12/o...

Letter to the editor: Don't let the Board of Regents close the Department of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies at UI - Little Village We, alumni/ae of the University of Iowa, write to you in a moment of profound alarm about what is happening to our beloved university. Public universities exist for a reason: […]

From GWSS alumni: littlevillagemag.com/letter-to-th...

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

Porphyrogenitus…

We have a Roger Rees and a Tom Holland. I am sure it’s a difficult journey for them! Oh and there is also a Lee Brice who is a military historian.

Diocletian and the Tetrarchy Diocletian and the Tetrarchy

Anyways, I am obsessed with the Tetrarchy, as most people know. And I find my favorite book on them is by Roger Rees. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-dioclet... Happy Tetrarchy Day!

Silver Argenteus of Maximian, Rome, 295–297. 1986.161.133

Or even in coin form: cautious embrace. numismatics.org/collection/1...

Ope! Even in Venezia—the looted Tetrarchs hug. laststatues.classics.ox.ac.uk/database/det...

Discussion Porphyry column decorated with group of two embracing older Tetrarchs. Rome. 293-305. DESCRIPTION (Object) With LSA-841, two porphyry columns, each with a pair of emperors on a console, the emperor on the proper right puts his right arm on the left shoulder of his companion. H (columns): 385cm, H (figures) 56 cm. Missing: Nose of Diocletian LSA-840, tips of noses of Maximianus LSA-840 and Constantius LSA-841. Surfaces polished. PROVENANCE Mentioned by Fr. de Albertini 1510 as in the chapel of Sixtus IV at St.Peter in Rome and as coming from the Thermae of Domitianus, i.e. the region of Aurelianus’ temple of the sun-god

More cautious hugs incoming… laststatues.classics.ox.ac.uk/database/dis...

Fig. 1. Relief block with embracing emperors, detail of fig. 7 (H. 104 cm, L. 270 cm) Credits Crediting for all images: Courtesy Çukurbağ Archaeological Project [TÜBİTAK 115K242], Kocaeli Archaeology Museum/multispectral or microscopic details : M. Abbe. URL http://journals.openedition.org/techne/docannexe/image/2567/img-1.jpg File image/jpeg, 832k

March 1, 293 CE: Today is the beginning of the Tetrarchy—the rule of four. It marks the day Diocletian and Maximian as Augusti made Galerius and Constantius their Caesars. Remember to hug it out as you keep your other hand on the hilt of your sword, 🗡️ folks. journals.openedition.org/techne/2567?...

I am so sorry! That sounds intense.

I learned about it first from @moudhy.bsky.social. Pure brilliance.

1. Tablet with bite marks found during the late nineteenth-century excavations at Nippur Loaned by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, USA, N5326B

One of my favorite objects from ISAC in Chicago? A school tablet with bite marks found during the late nineteenth-century excavations at Nippur. Loaned by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology a few years ago (image by me). 🦷 School stress is universal.