Sarah E. Bond

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Enjoyer of reality tv, mayo, Rome

Assoc. Prof. of History at Iowa & contributor at Hyperallergic. Next Book: Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (YUP 2025)

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Of course I can be friends with people I disagree with. I have at least 3 friends who didn't like THE LAST JEDI and that's okay, I still love them even though they're wrong. But a disagreement over *fundamental human rights* is still a deal breaker.

Every few yrs, the alleged story of the "One Ring" & its possible relationship to a Roman ring is brought up Ca. 1786, a farmer near Silchester (England) found a 4thC CE gold ring reading "Seniciane, vivas iin (!) de." (Senicianus, may you live in God) romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions...

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1/3 New recommendation: Page, James (2024). Rivers vs. Roads? A route network model of transport infrastructure in Northern Italy during the Roman period, Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪

Premiere is Thursday. Who is watching? www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/th... I, for one, am gonna have a very hard time liking Ramsay Bolton, but perhaps I need to just get past Game of Thrones and move on.

Watch Those About to Die (TV Series) Streaming Online | Peacockwww.peacocktv.com Watch Those About to Die, a drama series set in the corrupt world of Ancient Rome, where life and death are at stake in the arena. Stream on Peacock!

Still the best takedown of Vance and his ridiculous book. As an Appalachian as well: do not ever trust this man. bittersoutherner.com/hillbillies-...

Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...

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I have blogged again, about how much STUFF survives from the ancient world, what is really just a loose collection of thoughts that I'd like at some point to hammer out into something more worthwhile

The Quantity of Antiquitytriacorda.blogspot.com Prompted by a passage in Maurizio Bettini's 2023 Chi ha paura dei Greci e dei Romani? Dialogo e cancel culture (my broader thoughts on whic...

The sea was angry that day, my friends. 🧜‍♂️ www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...

The gods must be angry: Mexico ‘cancels’ statue of Greek god Poseidon after dispute with local deity | eKathimerini.comwww.ekathimerini.com The gods must be angry – or just laughing at the hubris of humanity. Authorities in Mexico have slapped a “closure” order on a 3-meter-tall aquatic statue of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon that was...

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After a four-year wait, the Chora Church in Instanbul reopened as the Kariye Mosque, with its treasured works of Byzantine Christian art open to public view.

Istanbul Church Reopens as Mosque With Medieval Mosaics and Frescoes Intacthyperallergic.com After a four-year wait, the Chora Church reopened as the Kariye Mosque with its treasured works of Christian art open to public view.

Font humor springs eternal.

...and all the mods and posters will look up and shout "Apologize for a post!"... ...and I'll look down, and whisper "no."

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this is a pretty cool find.

In Spartacus news ⚔️, archaeologist Paolo Visona's team in the Dossone della Melia forest in Calabria (S. Italy, across from Messina) have likely found the Roman fossa & agger (ditch and mound) defensive system erected by Crassus' men to stop Spartacus' troops. www.archaeological.org/wall-built-t...

News - Wall Built to Contain Spartacus Discovered - Archaeological Institute of Americawww.archaeological.org AIA News news from the AIA

There is a new article on “A new approach to locate, characterise and restore in 3D polychromy of Apollo’s temple at Delphi (4th century B. C.),” which is pretty stunning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌈 🎨 They used machine learning to analyze photos to isolate pigment remains then analyze.

On August 2nd, UVA classicist Sara Myers has a new book coming out with OUP on the ancient Roman literary garden 🪴 🌺 🌳. global.oup.com/academic/pro... this book looks brilliant and also she is a great human. So 10/10 would suggest.

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I've been thinking about the places where things used to be - repatriated artifacts; cruel monuments; stolen bodies - and how loud the silence is when these places stay empty. Today I have a piece in Hyperallergic about ways of marking these places. hyperallergic.com/870144/retur...

Return the Stolen Artifact, But Keep the Museum Labelhyperallergic.com Naming the wrongs of the past is hard, especially when the wrongs have not yet been entirely righted, but it's crucial.

I took this photo of the Caracalla bust in the Vatican Museums and he honestly looks like he is giving side eye to the new film version of Caracalla (in Gladiator 2)—that looks nothing like him. 👀

News - Wall Built to Contain Spartacus Discovered - Archaeological Institute of Americawww.archaeological.org AIA News news from the AIA

Network analysis in the study of the ancient world is very useful. An article that never got enough engagement was Diane Cline's splendid viz. of Athenian political agents in the mid-5thC BCE (lots of Pericles, but also women as connectors!) cc. @digkabri.bsky.social jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jh...

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We will hold an online workshop Tuesday July 16 at 12 noon Eastern (USA) time on searching and querying our database of richly annotated Coptic literature. All are welcome! Register here+:

Workshop: Searching the Coptic Scriptorium Database (ANNIS) July 16 (12 pm Eastern time USA)urldefense.com This online workshop will show participants how to use Coptic Scriptorium's database of richly annotated Coptic literature. Whether conducting basic word searches or finding certain grammatical constr...

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First official pre-publication review of the pig book! jhvonline.com/a-year-histo...

A 3,000-year history of Jews and the pigjhvonline.com The Jewish Herald-Voice - Houston's Jewish Newspaper

Long ago for @hyperallergic.com, I wrote a history of Phrygian caps (and red hats generally) if you want to know what the heck this new Paris Olympics mascot thing is. Enjoy! hyperallergic.com/436182/befor...

Before MAGA: Mithras, Phrygian Caps, and the Politics of Headwearhyperallergic.com Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.

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July 10, 138 CE: Hadrian dies, likely of heart failure, at Baiae pleiades.stoa.org/places/432716. As @followinghadrian.bsky.social has written on, his earlobes (in sculpture) show creases that may be indicative of a coronary artery disease. S·T·T·L, Hadrian. followinghadrian.com/2013/07/10/a...

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#OtD 21 Jun 1949 7000 brewery workers in NYC won their 82-day strike. They won more base pay, increased night pay, more holiday, shorter hours, better safety, employer-funded… https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9399/new-york-beer-strike-wins?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky#OtD 21 Jun 1949 7000 brewery workers in NYC won their 82-day strike. They won more base pay, increased night pay, more holiday, shorter hours, better safety, employer-funded… https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9399/new-york-beer-strike-wins?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

For those teaching, researching, or interested in visualizing Greek myth, there is an invaluable new interactive map & database of Greek mythic persons, objects, & places called MANTO. The raw linked open data alone is stunning but the maps are also fantastic [1/4] manto.unh.edu/viewer.p/60/...

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Over the course of 15 months and with 62 Lakota speakers involved, The Avengers has been dubbed fully into Lakota by the original cast: reactormag.com/the-avengers...

The Avengers Cast Reassembles to Dub Film in Lakota Language - Reactorreactormag.com Working with The Lakota Language Reclamation Project, the actors came together once more for a very important cause.

There is a famous fresco of a seated Socrates from a house atrium near Ephesus (1stC CE), but the chair he sits on is the most intriguing part: Lysippos is said to have made this commemorative chair & a seated bronze statue for Athens after S’s death in 399 BCE—as a kind of mea culpa by the city.

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They found a 6.8 ft tall Hermes statue in a Roman sewer at Heraclea Sintica in Bulgaria likely placed there gingerly w/care after the earthquake of 388 CE—and, hey, I’d like Theodosius to know making Christianity “official” didn’t mean people just abandoned the old gods. www.msn.com/en-ph/news/w...

Key Reminder: Don’t drink and dragon 🐉

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New issue of Classical Receptions Journal Vol. 16, No. 3 (2024) academic.oup.com/crj/issue/16/3

Volume 16 Issue 3 | Classical Receptions Journal | Oxford Academicacademic.oup.com Publishes contributions covering all aspects of the reception of the texts and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome from antiquity to the present day.