Book cover, with an ancient stone relief of 2 pairs of fighting gladiators. The text is crimson.

🥳Cover reveal for 'Gladiators in the Greek World: How a Roman Bloodsport Took Ancient Greece by Storm'🥳

Now officially available to pre-order with an early bird discount (though I'm not sure the release date on the website is 100% set in stone yet)

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Gladiators-i...

Thank you. It really ranked that there was a list of toxic people I was excluded from

How do I block bluesky ai, please.

Israel Approves Death Penalty Law – but Only for Palestinians Israel’s parliament has passed a law making the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of killing Israelis.

The popped champagne. Look at the unbridled joy, which is nothing more than rampant, racist bloodlust. Israel is a nest of monsters.

novaramedia.com/2026/03/31/i...

A lot of academic ink has been spilled on Greece and Rome, we know. But in the times we live in, can we still find relevance when we look to the past? Listen to the full episode with @drdanstewart1.bsky.social - "What is 'Classics', Anyway?"

Our episodes have already been downloaded by listeners is 41 countries! We can't believe it!

Mnemosyne: Podcast Network - Liv Albert The Memory Collective includes a growing podcast network bringing together existing podcasts as well as creating new shows and other content/media touching on all facets of ancient life and culture. T...

Did you know we're part of an independent podcast network? Learn more about the network and our sister shows here:
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A new DOUBLE episode for you this week! @mikebeer.bsky.social joins Alexandra to take a fresh, critical look at the life and career of Augustus. Think you know him? You might just know the image Augustus *wanted* you to know...

Augustus and his reboot of Rome...

Listen to the full episode of Augustus' life and career with Dr Mike Beer wherever you get your podcasts!

Coming up this Wednesday! We chat with @lejenksbrown.bsky.social about the essential role played by the Gods in the stories told in epic poetry...

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At least you don't have to fill in forms, Alexandra. We get the emails, too, but ours have forms attached. Pointless emails and pointless forms. That must be filled in by insert deadline that is at once arbitrary and the most inconvenient that could be imagined.

Checks out. Needs Phoenicians though, and no, Carthage doesn’t count.

We have journalists who can't differentiate between countable and uncountable nouns, but by all means let's continue to chip away at the substance of our curriculum. More fucking about outside with pine cones, less boring thinking.

I feel seen

Merry Christmas!

Haven't *bought* a single present!

Did you ever sit waiting for a train and decide to pass the time in some people watching, only to be confronted with the dawning realisation that you're entirely repulsed by humanity?

Well, I've bitten the bullet and become the owner of www.ancientalexandra.co.uk

The Guardian Angels, but it's just me setting fire to any business thar puts Christmas shit up before December 1st.

Pythagoras would disagree...

I can write this for you if you give me some bullet points

The Shelbiad. I completed my PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2022. My thesis was 'Contemporary Feminist Adaptations of Greek Myths'. I now research contemporary feminism at the University of Derby. If you are i...

New blog post tomorrow on TheShelbiad.blogspot.com 🔮

Lingua Latina Ab Initio - Malta Classics Association The Malta Classics Association (MCA) is once again organising the Lingua Latina Ab Initio (LLAI) series of exam-track courses in Latin. These courses are intended to equip students with familiarity .....

For those who want to dip their toes into the world of Latin, Malta Classics Association are once again running courses. All online, with expert instructors, and competitively priced: classicsmalta.org/lingua-latin...

Alexandra Sills has a Moody Professional Photo™️. Officially unstoppable.

'I can't express how little I care that it's your birthday.'

'I will outlive all of you.'

'Cruelty is the default mode of nature.'

All things I've said to a bunch of 12 year olds this week. Teaching is wild.

A Turkish Roadtrip: What I Saw, What I Loved, What Pissed Me Off A couple of weeks ago, me and my Dad embarked on an epic 3 week road trip through Turkey. For me, it was the culmination of studying for two degrees and then a year writing the manuscript for a book.....

I planned a once-in-a-lifetime road trip, but could Turkey live up to my expectations? ancientalexandra.weebly.com/blog/a-turki...

Autistic StoryTime You may have noticed that I haven’t been around much this year. I used to post on this blog every week, but now I post very rarely. I used to be on all sorts of Classics-related committees, but ear…

Here's a tale for anyone who'd like to know what I've been up to over the last year... and if you're able to help/share, I'd really appreciate it.

Autistic StoryTime – Classical Studies Support share.google/0XfKZucMCoAr...

I told my students there are two basic plots in tragedy: 'Faafo' and 'shguti'. Respectively 'Fuck around and find out' and 'Shit happens, get used to it'.

You were always a certainty.