Hi! This is today! Come and hear me rambling about pots I think are pretty! #ClassicsBluesky
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It's a solace to have a way of describing the deep and unexpected sadness I have at this news.
28.09.2023 13:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Captures my feelings perfectly. I'm also devastated to think of the people whose profound memories of this place are now tarnished and for those deprived of the opportunity to commune with a wonderful duet of nature and history. This is an act of cultural and spiritual assassination.
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Jokes in Greek Comedy
In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever 'just a joke'. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve, and shows that far from being mere surface-lev…
Welcome to my lovely colleague @drnaomiscott.bsky.social - everyone on ClassicsBluesky should go and follow her, and also go buy her book Jokes in Greek Comedy - which is out (digitally) and nearly out (physically).
22.09.2023 13:19 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
(Reformed Alexander the Great receptionist here)
Rose: Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
Thorn: Oliver Stone's Alexander
WTF?: William Shatner's Alexander the Great pilot TV series episode
26.09.2023 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Weirdly, given the above I seem to be thinking of it less than the average man.
24.09.2023 12:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Writing - archaeology - heritage. British Iraqi. Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' student. Incoming Editor: European Journal of Archaeology. Working Classicist of the Year 2025. Likes crafting, boardgames and cats. She/her
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Studies ancient Greek cultural and social history, BA history and classical studies @IUBloomington, MA @BrandeisCLAS, she/her.
PhD candidate at La Trobe University. Writing a thesis about early modern collections of antiquities. Art/ancient historian, artist.
Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. ECR Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies, London and Associate Lecturer in Classics at the Open University.
speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (New Mexico, all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC and WIASN. Blogging (intermittently) at http://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her
Dean of Liberal Arts & Natural Sciences, Birmingham (UK), Professor of Classics; When not at work, I'm home in Dublin (or Italy) 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Personal account. Also @dianajspencer@mastodon.ie, @dianajspencer
Curator for the reception of the ancient Mediterranean at the British Museum - PhD in classical archaeology and museum studies - Opinions my own - she/her
Potted History: Ancient maker of replica ancient pottery, shaper of clay, builder of kilns, maker of tools, Experimental archaeology: Ceramic Technology. Prehistory Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval.
Ancient historian, archaeologist, writer, lecturer at The Open University. All things Pompeii, Rome, and epigraphy.
https://pompeiinetworks.wordpress.com/
PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology. Writer for Hellebore. Co-editor of 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press). Editor 'Circles of Stone' and 'Return of the Ancients' (British Library Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
I write about Romans. A lot. Someone should probably stop me. Author of the Four Emperors Series set in 68/69 CE and the non fiction How to Survive in Ancient Rome, Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome & Ancient Rome's Worst Emperors.
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://pastsimperfect.substack.com
After surviving exposure at birth, these unconventional academics realised they were destined to found the greatest Ancient Roman History podcast! 🏛📯⚔️
📘‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ is out now! https://linktr.ee/ThePartialHistorians
Historian/Archaeologist; #museum & #SocialMedia - head of visitor service and events @unesco Roman Monuments Augusta Treverorum
Ancient historian at U. of Exeter. Hellenistic history & historiography, Polybius, Philip V, Macedonia, director of the #AntigonidNetwork. Author, dabbler artist, beagle owner, gamer and foodie.
Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
www.jennieanderson.co.uk
Reconstruction Artist, Archaeological Illustrator, designer & maker, erstwhile textile artist, yarn-art-nerd, dreamer, thinker, longbow archer, budgie mum, plant rescuer.
A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes.
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
Ancient Historian. Writing a book about gladiators in greek provinces. Public history devotee. ND + ClusterC. Sweary. Expect typos. Birkbeck and Leicester alum
https://linktr.ee/alexandrasills #pinksky
