Giovanna Raymondo

This decision will deprive FrancoOntarians of the ability to study Ancient Greek and Latin in their own language in their home province (an unfortunate outcome for an institution that prides itself on being “the largest English-French bilingual university in the world”). Prof. F Pownall, Classical Association of Canada

Supporting Greek & Roman Studies and ancient languages at UOttawa. Here's what supporters are writing to the university administration. #SOSClassicsUO #AncientBluesky #AncientHistory #SaveTheHumanities #ONfr buff.ly/PKodcK2

14.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Ptolemaic silver coin depicting Alexander the Great wearing an elephant scalp, a symbol of his conquest in India. Minted in Alexandria between 305 and 282 BC.

Alexander the Great may have been crowned pharaoh of Egypt #OnThisDay in 332 BC. His conquest paved the way for Egypt's Hellenistic Period under the Ptolemaic Dynasty, founded by Alexander's general and successor Ptolemy after Alexander's death 1/2

📷Marie-Lan Nyuyen / CC BY 2.5

🏺 #Archaeology

14.11.2025 21:30 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Professor, I love your work, but I must respectfully disagree. 'Beautiful' is not the word. 'Nightmare fuel' is perhaps more accurate.

14.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fascinating episode!

14.11.2025 04:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I love your posts, Professor!

13.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵

#LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid

“nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur
rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo.
rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris,
dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae.
si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...

04.11.2025 11:10 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.

Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.

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I haven't done a #PhallusThursday post in a while, so here's an Athenian amphora, ca. Late 6th Century BC, showing an ithyphallic Satyr flanked by a pair of Sphinxes. Attributed to the 'Pointed Nose Painter'. 🏺

Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

13.11.2025 09:11 — 👍 49    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 0

This social media is mind blowing
my first reply is from a Canadian uni, thank you kindly! What's striking is how modern Ptolemaic/Roman Alexandria feels. You see real people (Egyptian, Greek, Roman) figuring out how to live together. It’s messy, complex, and feels so familiar...🤔

13.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When we think about Roman forts & fortresses we imagine them full of soldiers like these in a marble relief depicting Praetorians (imperial guard, AD 51-2).

Women & children were present too as evidenced by this woman’s slipper & child’s boot, #Vindolanda, c.AD 100-105.

#RomanFortThursday
📸 my own

06.11.2025 11:06 — 👍 34    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

At this point, you've probably seen more of him than Antinous.

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Faculty Openings

🚨🚨TT job in Greek or Roman Art History at Temple, specialty in archaeology and/or emerging technologies and ethical issues related to collections. 🚨 🚨 tyler.temple.edu/about-tyler/...
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics 🏺

29.10.2025 03:33 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

It feels more like uncovering the DNA of our own language and thought. You're not just reading what they said, but learning how they thought.

12.11.2025 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A set of replica ancient armor and weapons resting on sand with rocks in the background. The gear includes a short bronze-colored sword, a round black shield with gold studs, a crested helmet decorated with red and blue plumes and white horns, and a section of lamellar armor made of overlapping metal plates edged in red leather.

A person in a red tunic stands barefoot on a rocky beach, holding a decorated helmet with blue and red plumes under one arm and a short sword at their hip. They wear white greaves with bronze-colored plates, while the sea and a seagull flying overhead appear in the background.

A person in a red tunic stands on the beach by the water, adjusting the chin strap of a horned, crested helmet. A short sword hangs at their side, and a black shield with gold studs lies in the sand nearby. Gentle waves and footprints in the sand are visible in the background.

PhD student Ivan Maiorov has triumphantly completed his Agamemnon armor project! The attention to detail is just fabulous!

#ClassicsGC #HumanitiesGC #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

02.09.2025 13:54 — 👍 45    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 0

A rectangular ecard with a red background. On the left-hand side is a holding cover for Mary Beard's new book Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old. On the right-hand side is a photo of Mary Beard in a circle frame. The Profile Books logo is in the bottom right-hand corner.

MARY BEARD RETURNS with #TalkingClassics, an exciting look at whether and why the Classics still matter.

Pre-order your signed edition from Waterstones now: tinyurl.com/TalkingClassicsSigned

@wmarybeard.bsky.social

02.10.2025 09:11 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, what a dream... I love her so much.

11.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Professor Mary Beard sits in front of a triptych of photos of Roman art displaying a chariot racer, housewife and young child clutching a scroll

Mary Beard live is such a treat. I'm always going to be a Roman history nerd and she is so perfectly attuned to what I love about it, the normal people, instead of HARD MEN DOING STOICISM AND SHIELD WALLS AND DECISIONS. Failed poets, chariot circuit stars and roguish housewives are more fun by far.

09.11.2025 11:16 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

#MosaicMonday

A mosaic floor of Bellerophon and Chimaira, Archaeological Museum of Rhodes, in the Medieval City of Rhodes, ca. 300-270 B.C.

#Art #Myth #Archaeology

10.11.2025 16:25 — 👍 70    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 0

Fascinating...

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Photo of a library with brown and white striped ceilings (brown from the wooden beams), old globes, manuscripts, and rugs

Still feel so lucky that I get to do my research in the Old Library at St John’s (@stjohnsox.bsky.social) 🙂 Such a beautiful place.

17.10.2025 11:05 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.

The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study.
theconversation.com/the-roman-em...

08.11.2025 16:45 — 👍 36    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1