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Roman Archaeology Conference
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...
18.09.2025 09:34 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Are you interested in death, dying, loss, grief, and related topics, from historical studies to current issues? Then I'd recommend following @openthanatology.bsky.social and keeping an eye out for resources it shares.
15.09.2025 09:38 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
Introducing... The Roman Mourner - a comprehensive analysis of the customs and rituals associated with mourning and death in ancient Rome.
Find out more: bit.ly/4lMdRI6
22.07.2025 17:21 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Time for unboxing. Exciting to have my own copy at last! @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social.
15.07.2025 14:18 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Check out this fab new book from our member @valmhope.bsky.social on Romans' funeral rites and mourning. #deathstudies
14.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Publication day! Just in time for essential summer reading (preferably by a pool with a cool drink). @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...
10.07.2025 08:48 — 👍 39 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
A thing of beauty, & it’s in our garden #bloomscrolling #tinyjoys
17.06.2025 08:33 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
See the recent short article added to our Open Thanatology Hub? If not, you can read about this #ThanatologyThursday. "Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome" by Valerie Hope
shorturl.at/3eLgx
05.06.2025 09:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A book cover with a black background and yellow edging. The title is: The Roman Mourner. Funeral Rites, Gender and the Body. Beneath the title is a sculptured panel showing a laid-out body surrounded by mourners.
Not long til publication (10/07/25) @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Appendices are already available online. So if you're desperate to know (and who wouldn't be!) how often Roman mourners pulled their hair, groaned and so forth, see www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...
03.06.2025 12:50 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see this out. Thanks due to the editors. And its Open Access, with a full PDF on the publisher's website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
21.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder that the call for these scholarships is open! Deadline 4pm on 3rd June!
20.05.2025 11:39 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Dandelion seed head against a green grass background dotted with small white flowers
The head of a white rabbit against green grass, with a yellow dandelion just visible by the rabbit's mouth.
Trying to embrace the beauty of dandelions for no-mow-May.....or alternatively feeding them to the rabbits. Timmy loves a dandelion feast. #tinyjoys #weedscrolling rather than #bloomscrolling
06.05.2025 15:29 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Funded MA Studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University | Classical Studies
Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to:
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...
02.05.2025 13:27 — 👍 28 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 6
White & pink petals of apple blossom
A round cake with multi-coloured icing with a Happy Birthday banner. Behind a cake stand with cupcakes.
Apple blossom in the orchard & mass cake consumption with a relative #tinyjoys
29.04.2025 18:15 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
And don't forget you can also explore the guided, interactive tour of Pompeii that we made to accompany the series, and learn more about studying Classical Studies with @openuniversity.bsky.social connect.open.ac.uk/history-and-...
20.01.2025 09:05 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Nondisabled researcher of disability in ancient Greece. she/her pronouns in bio. Who do you think you are? I am
Roman Historian (what happens after emperor gets assassinated?). Lecturer at University of Arizona. Outside academia: rap & metal music, SFF fiction, Seinfeld.
News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Museum geek and lover of old Roman stuff. Senior Curator @ The Yorkshire Museum; co-curator of ‘Gladiators of Britain’ 2025-26 with The British Museum
Senior Lecturer in Classics and Digital Humanities, University of Exeter, UK.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/24632-charlotte-tupman
Asst Prof in Roman Archaeology at Durham. Likes all things Roman Britain/Gaul/Germany and Roman religion, with a side helping of art and epigraphy. Also likes trees and hills.
Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Curator: Ancient Mediterranean Life at the British Museum. Opinions my own. 📜🏛️🏺
Roman historian, sometime (historically) archaeologist, occasional seamstress & baker.
Associate Professor in Classics (Roman History) @Durham_Classics. Latin inscriptions & the ancient world by day. Rome, dogs, wine & friends by all other means.
Hadrianophile
"omnium curiositatum explorator"
#Hadrian1900
https://followinghadrian.com/
Bridging Disciplines • Supporting Scholarship • Connecting the Public at catacombsociety.org.
Roman Inscriptions from the Iberian Peninsula.
A #DigitalEpigraphy project hosted & supported by
the University of Alcalá
Joaquín Gómez-Pantoja in memoriam
https://hepol.uah.es/
The Open University's interdisciplinary group for the research, study & education of death, dying, loss & grief across the lifecourse. Co-chaired by Prof Erica Borgstrom and Dr Joanne Jordan.
Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
🏛️ Classicist (Roman literature, civil war, emotion and trauma)
🎻 Violinist
🐴 Mum to Bish
Roman Archaeologist living in Athens. Decolonialism/funerary studies/public history. In my civilian life I’m into LOTR, cats, DnD, tzatziki with fries, and dismantling systems of oppression.
Roman historian. Professor of Classics and Humanities at Ohio University.
Assistant Professor of religious studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Lived in 7 cities and 5 countries in the EU, now based in Szeged/Budapest.
Author of Roman religion in the Danubian provinces (2022) and Sanctuaries of Roman Dacia (2018)
