Dominic Machado

This fr. Absurd and ridiculous

Shout out to @dominicmachado.bsky.social for making my visit to Holy Cross so enjoyable and enriching!

New Wake Forest University initiative makes tuition free for NC families earning under $200K The program is designed to expand access for talented students across the state regardless of financial background.

shoutout to my one alma mater doing something good right now. WFU has made so many changes since i went there, and many have made me proud to be a deac.

There’s still a couple weeks to sign up for the mentorship program! Please do consider joining us!

Forget your triremes, the strongest ship is mentorSHIP! Applications are now open for the 2025–26 AAACC + Mountaintop Coalition Mentorship Program! Sign up to be a mentor and/or a mentee by September 8! (You can be both!) Head to our website for details.

Sign up please! This has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve done in my professional life!!!

Love to know the answer

Eight headshots of men and women smiling at the camera

Announcing our newly-elected officers for 2025-2027!

Co-Chairs: Tori Lee & Chris Waldo
Financial Officer: Ryan Masato Baldwin
Mentorship Coordinator: Dominic Machado
Outreach Officer: Allie Pohler
Programming Officer: Katherine Lu Hsu
Secondary Education Liaisons: Annie Huynh & Ethan Ganesh Warren

YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology An Honest Conversation about Slavery and the New Testament | Bible & Archaeology

Please see the new episode of this podcast featuring yours truly! Talking about Roman slavery and slavery in the New Testament. youtu.be/qcs91KA-Azg?...

You can read the whole thesis online too:

crossworks.holycross.edu/engl_honor/21/

Take note of the super cool artist illustrations funded by @scsclassics.bsky.social’s AWMC grant too!!!

Jango Janigian ’25 Wants to Take You on an Adventure Janigian’s English Honors Program thesis introduces Dungeons & Dragons players to the rich history and mythology of ancient Armenia.

Okay time to brag! My student Jango Janigian designed and produced a Dungeons and Dragons game set in ancient Armenia that considers questions of empire, survivance, and indigeneity for their thesis! Here’s a write-up of their spectacular project in HC magazine:

www.google.com/url?q=https:...

You can read the whole thesis online too:

crossworks.holycross.edu/engl_honor/21/

Take note of the super cool artist illustrations funded by @scsclassics.bsky.social’s AWMC grant too!!!

Jango Janigian ’25 Wants to Take You on an Adventure Janigian’s English Honors Program thesis introduces Dungeons & Dragons players to the rich history and mythology of ancient Armenia.

Okay time to brag! My student Jango Janigian designed and produced a Dungeons and Dragons game set in ancient Armenia that considers questions of empire, survivance, and indigeneity for their thesis! Here’s a write-up of their spectacular project in HC magazine:

www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Journal of Ancient History Volume 13 Issue 1 Volume 13, issue 1 of the journal Journal of Ancient History was published in 2025.

New issue of Journal of Ancient History Vol. 13, No. 1 (2025) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... @dgb-history.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @akjp89.bsky.social
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Urbs direpta, or how the Romans sacked cities | 8 | War and Society in As was said at the outset, passages providing a whole range of connotations of diripio and its derivatives are few and refer to unusual cases. Two passages in

Probably is more historical than philological but Ziolkowski (1993) is classic:

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Reading Jodi Melamed’s racial capitalism this morning and this is so striking.

Link here: racialcapitalism.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/u...

‘People should not live like this.’ As ICE arrests ramp up in Mass., agents encounter more community resistance. - The Boston Globe Massachusetts residents are increasingly pushing back on federal immigration officials' efforts to detain and deport immigrants under the Trump administration.

Give em hell! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/21/m...

For Reviewers Review Process Guidelines Books for review Review requests Book suggestions

CALLING ALL POTENTIAL BOOK REVIEWERS

See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!

rheaclassicalreviews.com/for-reviewers/

We are delighted to announce scholars Mary Jane Cuyler, Caroline Johnson Hodge, @chancebonar.bsky.social and Mark Ellison as this year's Shohet Scholars Grant recipients.

The Shohet grants support original research on the Ancient Mediterranean. Read on for more about their projects!

Caroline Johnson Hodge, professor at College of the Holy Cross, will be cataloguing burial sites in Rome related to the Christian cult of the dead. (Here she is in Ostia Antica!)

This is an amazing opportunity. A chance to think about race with world leading scholars with a pedagogy explicitly centered around an ethic of care! Apply!!!!

So excited to read this! Great work to all!

Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Go watch the pod and read the chapter it’s based on. On point

All of this for some students watching a documentary on campus. Fucking ridiculous.

Many Antigones What is the place of Classics in the resistance?

This is a public lecture. You should join us! Never been to BC? drop me an email. and I'll tell you how to get here!

12.30 pm Today State Lounge BC Student Center, Dominic Machado: "MAny antigones, What is the place of Classics in the resistance?"

HAPPY MAY DAY! WORKERS, ARTISTS, and STUDENTS OF THE WORLD! This is how I'll be celebrating, consider joining me.

Many ANtigones: What is the place of Classics in the resistance. Th, May 1, 12.30 State Lounge BC Student Center Dominic Machado to deliver Costas Lecture

1980 play bill

This is going to be excellent. So excited to host @dominicmachado.bsky.social at Brooklyn College. AND, it has helped us learn some history and inspire the future. I learned BC staged the Haitian Creole Renaissance masterpiece in 1980 and I hear a revival may be in the works!