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Fellow Europeans, please, please, sign the petition!

Interesting!! Enjoy the coffee!

Next Wednesday (Feb. 11th), I will be talking about #ancientdemagogues and #emotions at the University of Liverpool Work in Progress Seminar Series! It is at 3 pm (London time). You can ask for the link at: liv.ace.wip@gmail.com
I hope to see you there! #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueskyClassics

"an exceptional resource for those interested in ancient monsters and their reception history in visual and literary media" - #classicalreception @ BMCR #review Scott G. Bruce on Debbie Felton, The Oxford handbook of monsters in classical myth bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01...

My new article on #Aristophanes and #Cratinus is out! In this article, I’m interested in how ancient comedy writers reflected on the reasons to go to war. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
You can read it here: revistas.um.es/myrtia/artic...

📌La revue 📍Clio. Femmes, genre, Histoire📍 fête ses 30 ans !
Inscrivez-vous ! 👉 bit.ly/3LAfD1N
📕Présentation des n° 61 et 62
👥En présence du comité de rédaction, de Michelle Perrot et de Lorraine Wiss.
📅 24/11/2025, 18h-21h
⛪Cité audacieuse, Paris 6e
▶️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?10...

It’s next week!!! Mark your calendars!! #Classicsblusky#Blueskyclassics #AncientBlueSky

This online series of meetings brings together scholars & practitioners from both hemispheres to discuss the stories of ancient historical & fictional women who inspire them & their work. We invite speakers to problematise the concept of what a 'strong' woman means to them, & how our ideas about the position & roles of women, gender & female agency have evolved over time. In turn this affects how we receive, interact with & adapt these ancient female figures & their stories. Each speaker will reflect on their chosen ancient woman/women or group, as a launchpad for a wider examination of the impact of ancient women in recent scholarship &/or in a variety of modern media (including but not limited to the stage, screen & the visual arts). Speakers can choose to focus on the ancient material but must engage with recent scholarly debates on questions of gender, &/or diversity. Practitioners are particularly welcome to present their creative receptions of these ancient female figures, partnering up with a scholar or by themselves with a scholar as a respondent to foster dialogue & the exchange of ideas. We welcome proposals from interested scholars, postgraduates & practitioners (a title & a short abstract of 200-300 words) by 6th of January. Collaborations between researchers & between scholars & practitioners are most welcome. Since our goal is to bring together people from both hemispheres, we aim to preserve a balance in terms of numbers between northern & southern speakers. We envisage a seminar series of between 10 & 12 speakers, with around 2 speakers, plus a chair/respondent per session. Dates & times to be decided after the selection of abstracts has been completed.

#CFP online seminar series: Strong Women of the Ancient Mediterranean World and their Reception - September-December 2026 - Organisers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey), Martina Treu (Milan) sponsored by EuGeStA Network, AWAWS, The Imagines Project - Due by Jan 6

Appetite For Destruction My wife is blaming me for her having a very disturbed Friday night, as she felt obliged to listen to Radio 4’s Free Thinking as I was a guest on it ( and then found the discussion of impending glob…

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel that some people feel a bit too fine about this…

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“And I think she ought to be celebrating the fact that I’m capable of participating in an hour-long discussion without shoe-horning in Thucydides…”. I need some tips for this… Great entry! Thank you!

Terrible news from our colleagues at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. We will continue to boost their updates.

See their full notice: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/save...

#AncientBlueSky #SOSÉtudesanciennesUO #SOSClassicsUO

My book on #AncientDemagogues is already on Amazon (soon there will be a #kindle version as well): www.amazon.es/dp/B0FTVDM7BL
#ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics #AncientBlueSky #Aristophanes #Thucydides

This is what happens when one is a philologist AND a #BlackSabbath fan. This is a chapter of my upcoming book on #ancientdemagogues. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

ClassicsTober25: Katabasis 1. Hypnos 2. Thanatos 3. Graeae 4. Shroud 5. Hermes Psychopompos 6. Moirai 7. φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress 8. Erebos 9. Lampades 10. Hekate 11. Torch 12. Styx 13. Empousa 14. Cocytus 15. Τέρατα (Térata) - monsters 16. Typhon 17. Echidna 18. Kharon 19. Shade 20. Acheron 21. Kerberos 22. Judge 23. Lamia 24. Phlegethon 25. Tartarus 26. Punishment 27. Erinyes 28. Phobos & Deimos 29. Mysteries 30. Lethe 31. Elysian Fields

A reminder that #ClassicsTober starts tomorrow on @classicstober.bsky.social and the overall theme is KATABASIS.

I love this!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

💥 Publication of 107 new inscriptions on Attic Inscriptions Online!

👉 New entries include all votives of artisans and workers, and boundary stones of the Athenian empire on Aigina.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and team!

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Today at 12:30 (Mexican time), I will be talking about the #Lysias and his speech, “Against Epicrates” (Lys.27). YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/NzWk-Ym... #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics #AncientBlueSky

This Monday I will be taking about #Lysias and his manuscript transmission! The program: www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/index.php?pa... #ClassicsBlueSky #blueSkyClassics #AncientBlueSky

That if academia and the humanities still exist…

I will write to you later on. Thank you so much!

I am deeply sorry for not reading you, I’m sure it would have enriched my paper.

Doing science in Argentina is hard, and under those circumstances were even harder. I contacted medievalists there who put me in contact with others who helped me with the bibliography. I knew there was a ned book edition of Moerbeke but I didn’t know anyone who had it nor my library had it.

I have no idea who the reviewers were, but that would have been helpful, indeed. This paper was difficult for me because I’m a classical philologist and my aim was beyond Moerbeke itself. And I wrote this mainly during lockdown (in Argentina it lasted two years).

I am sorry. I will look it up. Thank you!

A new edition of the fragments of ‘Anonymus Iamblichi’, fresh off the CUP

Unboxing day! Thanks to all the many people who helped along the way. I hope it’ll generate some interest in these fascinating fragments. Among other things they’re about a people’s own responsibility for preserving its democracy. So not entirely irrelevant for our current moment.

Pinch me, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social has published an article of mine in the journal #Polis on the medieval reception of Aristotle and its influence in our modern concept of #demagoguery
#AncientBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics #ClassicsBlueSky
doi.org/10.1163/2051...

Deadline reminder: Friday 29.08! #AncientBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics #ClassicsBlueSky

Next week I will offer a lecture on #ancientdemagogues and conspiracy in #Aristophanes and #Thucydides. More info: www.instagram.com/encuentroint...
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

I am deeply sorry to read this. He was a great scholar.

A photo of a hardback book, Slavery and Honour in the Ancient Greek World, edited by David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns. The cover includes an ancient vase painting of a shackled humanoid figure.

Happy Friday! May I interest you in a free book? SLAVERY AND HONOUR IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD is out now in Open Access! This edited collection from David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns explores the complexities of honour and dishonour in ancient Greek slavery.