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Short reports for Hadashot Arkheologiyot on what we were up to at Legio in 2022 and 2023: (2023) www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detai... (2022) www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detai... More details forthcoming in the Limes 2025 volume and a standalone article on the amphitheater.

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Out now: What is ‘ancient history’? Why it is much bigger and more important than we might think, how generations of scholars have dismembered it, how we can do it justice – and why ‘Classics’ has run its course: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Also, my book showed up on the UC press website and I learned that because I got an alert from Google Scholar that I should claim it so really really I'm already done for the week www.ucpress.edu/books/things...

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The Roman desire to make expensive intricate art of chained up defeated people looking sad is so fucking WEIRD. They absolutely love to look upon people they chained up. Deeply unpleasant bunch of lads.

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Glenn Youngkin has vetoed a bill which would have slightly eased the burden on prisoners in solitary confinement. Solitary is an abomination and must end. Please support the work of @solitarywatch.bsky.social solitarywatch.org/2025/04/02/v...

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Worthwhile reading. Some of the features that John rightly criticizes in AI writing are shared by the sort of committee reports and consensus papers that emerge from workshops and symposia because someone felt that there had to be a “product“ associated with the meeting.

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Due April 1st! Please share with potentially interested scholars.

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The Vatican Digitizes a 1,600-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript of the Aeneid

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[New Post] Cuicul (Djémila) followinghadrianphotography.com/2025/03/26/c...

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Rarely post here, but check out my new, highly ambitious study of slavery and the Roman economy!

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The federal government here declares its right to dictate the policies of private universities on a granular level.

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Due April 1: The Dept of History at the University of Washington is hiring a 9 month distinguished lecturer in ancient or medieval history. 4 classes over 3 quarters, salary $100–115k, plus benefits. Review begins April 1st, feel free to email me with any questions apply.interfolio.com/161510

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Thank you so much, @arturoviaggia.bsky.social! A reminder that the book is Open Access, should anyone want to take a look (for free!) doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Please enjoy the Getty’s latest acquisition. www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

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🗃️ Ephrem Ishac introduces the first public Syriac HTR model on @transkribus.bsky.social 💻 helping make Syriac manuscripts more accessible 📜 🤖 #digitalhumanities #SyriacStudies #history #HTR #Coding #llm digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/18/f...

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An entry for the annals of nominative determinism: the typesetter for Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration is named Paige.

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The Department of History at the University of Washington is hiring a 9 month distinguished lecturer in ancient or medieval mediterranean history. 4 classes over 3 quarters, salary $100–115k, plus benefits. Review begins April 1st, feel free to email me with any questions apply.interfolio.com/161510

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Coming soon! Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World---from @ucpress.bsky.social

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Peep @simchagross.bsky.social’s groundbreaking _Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity_

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For the past year I’ve spoken against instrumentalizing charges of antisemitism and attacks on free speech and academic freedom, and for justice & peace in Israel-Palestine. I’ve seen colleagues & students targeted for harassment because of their identities or their politics. 🧵1/

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My review article for JRS, "The Problem(s) of Empire," is finally out. It's sort of a hybrid: part long review of The Oxford World History of Empire and part "think piece" on empires, comparative history, and empire as such. Let me know if you don't have access to JRS; happy to send a PDF.

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I was thinking this morning, I love that all these various journals have a presence on bluesky and always put up their new issues and a link, but in reality, it's just @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social doing it, a huge service

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An important review for an excellent book by @letteney.bsky.social bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.01...