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Roman historian @ Iowa & contributor @ Hyperallergic. Book: Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/ Our newsletter, Pasts Imperfect: https://pastsimperfect.substack.com
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The 2025 Jr. Iditarod starts today in about 20 minutes. This is Emily Robinson's last Jr. Iditarod and she's definitely the favorite to win it again. Here is the map and the field from trackleaders.com/jriditarod25

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Found a used copy of a book that changed my brain for only $11? Sold. 🎪

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My favorite meme-ready face yesterday. Note the eyebrow action. Identified as Berenice II. At Greco-Roman museum, Alexandria Egypt.

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“From focusing on 2,000-year-old finds from 42 diff. sites across the national borders of present-day …Norway, Finland, & Sweden, our study reveals advanced iron and steel production contemporaneous with Roman steel production within the hitherto unthinkable cultural context of hunter-gatherers.” 😮

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I have never hated being able to unpack this ridiculously laundered Roman iconography so much.

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well hellooooo

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Gall-Peters 4 Eva 🗺️ ❤️ youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY?...

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Export Updates 2025-02-21: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 2 new and 62 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 5eb5d111 - updated json no change: rdf/ttl 50d2a7a6 - updated […]

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Roman associations—often called collegia—had lots of rules, like any club or group. In 153 CE, the collegium of Asclepius & Hygeia notes in their rules (a lex collegii) they had 7 feasts (CIL VI 10234). February 22 was the Cara Cognatio (“Dear Kinfolk”) & wine and bread was handed out to members.

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The Theodosian Code is about the size of a 1.5 year old, in case we are looking for a new, cuter book metric.

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Videntes is excited to announce a collaboration w/ UCCS's DH Center (labs.uccs.edu/crefdh/) to host an @neh-odh.bsky.social funded Institute on #MSI and #CulturalHeritage. Includes travel to UCCS+archive of your choice+full-spectrum camera! 📣 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! grants.uccs.edu/illuminating...

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for the cycle of responses to images from Nolan's Odyssey production

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Fun @pleiades.botsinbox.net.ap.brid.gy morning adding info on the Roman amphitheater at Tibur. Now enriching my own interactive hippodrome map (=circuses in the west) w/ Pleiades URIs to add to the gazetteer. Outide question of the day: What was the environmental toll of a Roman hippodrome? #HGIS

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#AncientBlueSky @jenniferpete.bsky.social

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Coptic Summer Schools this summer. Online + week in Rome: www.copticsummerschool.org

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Pretty much can't believe that the New York Times is recommending me alongside the miraculous Mati Diop as a source for learning more about "the intrigue-filled world of questionable provenances, the art trade and nations' efforts to retrieve stolen objects" but I'll take it!

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Greco-Roman Scribes 🖋️ are having a moment right now (thx in part to @candidamoss.bsky.social, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social & @illdottore.bsky.social ‘s work). And this new GRBS article on late antique Egyptian ones just after the Arab conquest is fab grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/gr... #openaccess

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Honestly, the side eye on this Byzantine camel now at the Art Institute 🐪 is amusing, but it’s the bell that catches the eye. Bells have been placed on trade camels for over 2500 years because these dudes love to wander—and we have many in the material record. Photo 📸 by me.

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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, apocalypse expert Steven Friesen discusses immigration & Revelation. Then, a new report on Palmyra, the merchant guilds of the Chola Dynasty, recovering Amazonian "Garden Cities," new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more.

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Among the poems in the latest issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social that I am most proud to have published is this tale of a hydrophobic Byzantine Emperor—Lucinda Davis’s first appearance in print. “But imagine how, / as they stared at what was obvious to / them all, his courtiers cowered…”

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A phenomenol joke.

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City and federal workers joined forces Wednesday night at the #SaveOurServices rally at Foley Square in New York City, organized by @fedworkersunited.bsky.social. Photos by @l-l-xu.bsky.social:

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The @jewishcurrents.bsky.social & @hyperallergic.com collaboration on censored artworks is out in print. Honored to share a byline with @valentinadl.bsky.social 👏

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Review of my book by Steven Friesen out in Pasts Imperfect: "Academia needs studies like this that raise suppressed questions if we are to understand better the ancient texts, their histories of usefulness, our academic disciplines, and our contemporary societal struggles."

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some bad TV ancient Greek that lives rent-free in my head:

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For the thousands of us who have had second-term pregnancy complications, this is terrifying. It is more common than people realize, and now it’s much more dangerous too.

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some WV state legislators just put out a bill that would reintroduce “moderate corporeal punishment” in K-12 schools.

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