Sarah E. Bond

@sarahebond.bsky.social

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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)

Our newsletter, Pasts Imperfect, is here: https://pastsimperfect.substack.com

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The return of Sunday bikes 🚲 and beers 🍻 now with an added “b” (babysitter at home). This mama still has some mountain legs in her.

Me reading Naomi Wolf’s absolute bananas newsletter casting Steve Bannon as a defender of the constitution … and then remembering this woman has an actual PhD? Sigh.

This is absolutely Wisconsin.

there is something extraordinarily weird about how you'll be driving through a seemingly relatively normal US state and suddenly there's this patch where everyone apparently thinks theyre in Bavaria or something, even fuckin Frankfurt doesnt have this many German restaurants lined up side by side

Please stop 🛑 using ancient “AI generated” reconstructions of emperors as “real.” Prof. @nyashajunior.bsky.social and I wrote about the BS and uninformed human choices behind these types of reconstructions here. hyperallergic.com/593074/how-r... via @hyperallergic.com

I see your museum bum and raise you one of Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος (‘Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks’) now at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples (MANN). This statue is also mentioned in Ulysses’ Laestrygonians episode (Book 8), namely when Bloom wonders if statues have anuses.

When you all bring large amphorae to the pre-drinks, and never make it out of the house 🥳👍🏛️🍑🏺 #MuseumBums "The Three Graces", on a gilded bronze mirror, c200CE, from @metmuseumbot.bsky.social Thanks @met_greekroman for sharing 😁

So, there is an underpass being put in by the Vatican to connect Saint Peter’s & Castel San’Angelo. They found a fullery recently (=laundry), but yesterday Rome’s superintendency released a new statement saying they found portions likely of the Horti of Agrippina www.beniculturali.it/comunicato/2...

Giubileo, a piazza Pia emergono strutture di età Giulio-Claudia e il portico di Caligolawww.beniculturali.it Nel corso dei lavori di scavo stratigrafico e delocalizzazione della fullonica rinvenuta nel cantiere per il sottopasso di piazza Pia, a...

I don’t really miss Twitter as it is today, but I do think about that one time I asked Taika Waititi about Thucydides and his Thor script a lot.

My example for why people should really understand classical reception before using it for branding is that Starbuck’s used to have CD 💿 racks in stores with albums called “Siren Songs.” Not sure you want to imply you are luring customers to a watery grave—but just my opinion.

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'This is the opera/classical reception crossover that I hope PI readers want to see: The Comet/Poppea, an opera from the LA-based company The Industry. W.E.B. DuBois? Monteverdi opulence?' Yes it is.

This week's Pasts Imperfect is by @javalac.bsky.social & Cole Smith. They examine Greek transport amphoras 🏺 & modeling human trafficking in antiquity. Then, Egyptian pigment analysis, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more! pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-impe...

Pasts Imperfect (7.4.2024)pastsimperfect.substack.com Greek Ceramics, Ancient Egyptian Pigments, Silk Roads of the Kushan Empire, Chaco Canyon's Conch Trumpets & More

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Pasts Imperfect (7.4.2024)pastsimperfect.substack.com Greek Ceramics, Ancient Egyptian Pigments, Silk Roads of the Kushan Empire, Chaco Canyon's Conch Trumpets & More

Our second child was born on Bastille Day last year. I had planned on letting people eat cake and putting up some French Revolution flags, but the whole “resist the monarchy” and “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" vibe is now less fun and more … a reminder to resist autocracy? Sigh. 🇫🇷

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Lord, there's a pit in my stomach seeing the pictures coming out of St. Vincent (where I was born and where much of my family grew up or still lives) The devastation caused Hurricane Beryl is...tremendous. And the world isn't ready for the future (present?) of climate change and climate refugees

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Banksy-funded migrant rescue boat detained in Italy after saving 37 people

Banksy-funded migrant rescue boat detained in Italy after saving 37 peoplewww.theguardian.com Artist calls impounding of MV Louise Michel ‘vile and unacceptable’ after rescue of 17 unaccompanied children

Finishing reading _The Slaves of the Churches: A History_ by Mary E. Sommar and it is simply staggering how many enslaved persons were owned by early churches well into the medieval period. I just, seeing it all laid out is a lot. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

Inscribed rules of the Library of Pantaenus, Athens: βυβλίον οὐκ ἐξε- νεχθήσεται, ἐπεὶ ὠμόσαμεν· ἀνυγή- σεται ἀπὸ ὥρας πρώ- της μέχρι ἕκτης. “No book shall be taken out, since we've sworn it. It will be open from the 1st hr until the sixth [=dawn to midday]” sarahemilybond.com/2016/02/26/c... 📑

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Must be nice to have choices

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I wrote about the #museumofjurassictechnology's upcoming show on Islamic Geometries of Medieval Spain, part of the #Getty's next PST on art & science and made possible by a #mikekelleyfoundation grant, for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/924580/museu...

Museum of Jurassic Technology Aims to Recreate Islamic Spain in LAhyperallergic.com The museum known for its mix of history and whimsy received support from the Getty and Mike Kelley Foundations to take on its most ambitious project yet.

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NEW: 87 movie theater workers for Alamo Draft house outside of Denver are forming a union and joining CWA

We don’t even actually have a VHS player, but I saw this videotape out for free in the department office and just decided to it was time for a Natalie Zemon Davis shrine in my office. ❤️

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A Roman governor, a bunch of monks, and two bishops (one dead) walk into a bar in Edessa in April 449. If you want to know what happened here is an open access article on what can we learn from the Syriac Acts of Ephesus II about late antique cities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Restless City: Edessa and Urban Actors in the Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesuswww.tandfonline.com The Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus offer an opportunity to look at the evolution of urban structures in the middle of the fifth century at the edge of the Roman Empire. Observing a ci...

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My article for @newrepublic “The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.” newrepublic.com/article/1833...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a Kingnewrepublic.com The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

“I need to get beach body ready” That beach body 🦀 🐬:

Watching academics get into public writing like 🥹🥹🥹

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Such an interesting article! Be sure to see @sarahebond.bsky.social‘s thread

There is a lot of current and forthcoming amazing work on disability attached to ancient scribal practices. A new open access article looks at the spinal impact on Egyptian scribes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... turns out criss-cross applesauce writing is very bad for the spine, joints, & even jaw

Ancient Egyptian scribes and specific skeletal occupational risk markers (Abusir, Old Kingdom) - Scientific Reportswww.nature.com Scientific Reports - Ancient Egyptian scribes and specific skeletal occupational risk markers (Abusir, Old Kingdom)

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Henry II: "Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?" General Counsel: "We interpret the King's query as an official act of his office, and therefore immune from persecution"

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Y’all? We have a cover! _Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire_ will be out in February 2025 with @yalepress.bsky.social. More soon but I am stoked.

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Since tourist season is upon us I've been asked a lot for my medieval London tips. Turns out I have 3 days worth, so I wrote them up for Patrons. You can check it out from just £1 per month, and it supports the blog. You get churches! Museums! Graveyards! AND pubs. www.patreon.com/posts/guide-...

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