Happy birthday Rome! The Eternal City celebrates 2,779 years today Rome celebrates 2,779 years on 21 April, in the Natale di Roma birthday tradition based on the legendary founding of the Eternal City by Romulus in 753 BC.

Happy birthday Rome! The Eternal City blows out 2,779 candles today.

Opinion | The Warmongers Are Getting History All Wrong As in Thucydides’ time, the Trump administration’s war posture promises short-term gains but long-run disaster.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The Trump administration’s relentless bullying ignores a central lesson from classical antiquity: Athens’s shift from benevolent hegemony to malevolent empire paved its road to ruin,” Stewart Patrick writes.

The always fantastic @partialhistorians.bsky.social are at last emerging from the Early Republic (small, poor, sources largely made up) to the Middle Republic (cool, successful, sources not* made up)!

(*mostly).

White woman in pink blazer in front of balloons and a banner that says “50 WGS” over and over in rainbow colors. Celebrating 50 years of WGS at the university of oklahoma

Thrilled to celebrate my department’s 50th birthday tonight! First women’s studies degree in the state, only grad program in the state. we. are. stil. here

An Iliad Welcome from Artistic Director, Mitchell Butel

Saw a preview of 'An Iliad' at the Sydney Theatre Company last night. Powerful and timely. @acrsn.bsky.social @sydneytheatreco.bsky.social
sydneytheatre.shorthandstories.com/an-iliad/ind...

Last night’s 4 Corners episode is recognition of our years-long campaign for Better Universities. We know what needs to be done - now it’s time for major action.

Read the full media release 👉 nteu.info/4corners

History of Women in Ancient World Studies Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies (AWAWS) is a professional organisation established for women and men committed to gender equality and diversity in ancient world studies including classics,...

My latest @awaws.org post on Dr Cynthia Begbie/Dean, fmr. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer @sydney.edu.au. @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @acrsn.bsky.social
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An Evening with R.F. Kuang

May 22 Sydney Writers' Festival (Sydney Town Hall, 8pm) An Evening with R.F. Kuang - To hell and (hopefully) back again with bestselling fantasy author. Book $ www.swf.org.au/program/fest... #Katabasis

Proving, pleasing and persuading: why ancient rhetoric still matters Challenge the standard picture of the ancient orator with Professor Henriette van der Blom and the role of rhetoric in contemporary society.

March 12 Melbourne (UMelb Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building) Professor Henriette van der Blom, Proving, pleasing ansd persuading: why ancient rhetoric still matters events.humanitix.com/proving-plea...

March 13 hybrid/Brisbane (4pm AEST, E302 Forgan Smith) UQ Classics & Ancient History seminar: Professor Maria Wyke (UCL/2026 Visiting Professor UQ Centre for Western Civilisation), #Nero in the Early Years of Cinema hpi.uq.edu.au/event/sessio... Zoom: email d.pritchard@uq.edu.au

Res Difficiles | Difficult conversations in classics Visit the post for more.

March 13 online - Res Difficiles 7 – Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity in Classics resdifficiles.com

Cover image for edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic'. Depicts detail of a gilt bronze statue of a Roman woman. Pergola, Italy. c. 70-30 BCE.

Book description: In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case studies of individual women, such as Licinia, wife of C. Gracchus, Mucia Tertia, Fulvia and Octavia Minor, with broader surveys of the institutional frameworks and social conventions that constrained and enabled women's wealth and its consequences. The book contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in re-evaluating the role of women in Republican Rome and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.

Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
@universitypress.cambridge.org
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

@lordscribonius.bsky.social (2026): Romanas. Voces rescatadas. Madrid : @despertaferroed.bsky.social

Recomendadísimo. Vidas de mujeres para conocer ese cincuenta por ciento que conformaba la población del mundo romano antiguo, invisibilizadas en la historiografía general.

Table of contents: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/women-wealth-and-power-in-the-roman-republic/E613853DA10FBBD8B5F03697E255582F

Table of contents: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/women-wealth-and-power-in-the-roman-republic/E613853DA10FBBD8B5F03697E255582F

Many thanks to our wonderful contributors, including Kit Morrell, @lordscribonius.bsky.social, Harriet Flower, Peter Keegan, Bronwyn Hopwood, Francesca Rohr Vio, Alessandra Valentini, Giulia Vettori, Carolyn Tobin, @leabeness.bsky.social, Tom Hillard, Christiane Kunst, Christian Hjorth Bagger,

Anne Mackay @ BMCR #review: Candace Richards, Elizabeth Minchin, Mediterranean collections in Australia & Aotearoa NZ... bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03... "multi layered perspectives on.. post-colonial era problems of curation &.. societal relevance of antipodean Mediterranean antiquities"

Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic

Thrilled that Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic is now published: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... @awaws.org @lewismarkwebb.bsky.social @resaustrales.bsky.social @acrsn.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Had a fantastic week in Auckland at #ASCS47 this year! I was privileged to present on the AWAWS sponsored panel ‘Home is Where the Hatred Is’ with Katherine Prouting and Meg Challis. Looking forward to the next one!

@brickclassicists.bsky.social
The first year. Anyone know these people?

Please spread the word @partialhistorians.bsky.social

Attn. NSW High School History/Ancient History Teachers: Free to a good home. A run of 'Teaching History' 2010-2016. Misc. issues of 'Ancient History: Resources for Teachers'. I would love to see these go to a resource-poor school but mostly would like to see them being useful to someone. DM me.

Kennedy Overhauls Federal Autism Panel in His Own Image The new panel, which advises the government on research and service priorities for people with autism, includes many members who have argued that vaccines cause autism.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has overhauled a panel that helps the federal government set priorities for autism research and social services, installing several members who have said that vaccines can cause autism despite decades of research that has failed to establish such a link.

Reassessing ties to the US The world as we know it is changing fast. It is not at all clear what the seating arrangements will be or who will be leading the opposition when parliament resumes next Tuesday. At face value, the disarray of its opponents is a gift for the Albanese government, shifting attention from how it is handling the many daunting challenges confronting the nation to the other side of

Albanese's invitation to Canada’s Mark Carney to visit Australia and address the parliament was issued before Carney’s denunciation of Trump - and the hegemon - at the world economic forum in Davos. Chalmers described the speech as "stunning". satpa.pe/SgNrGFY

Australian Leaders Promise to Tighten Gun Laws After Bondi Beach Attack The prime minister’s office said officials agreed that Australia needed “immediate” reform, including new restrictions on who is allowed to own firearms.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that Australia would move to strengthen the country’s strict gun laws in the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack.

‘Increasing failure’: First Nations deaths in custody at record levels More than three decades after the royal commission, calls are growing for the government to finally implement its recommendations, to stop the rising number of preventable deaths.

"A lot of our people have died preventable deaths at the hands of the system, and governments continue to perpetrate this violence and handball responsibility to one another when we know that the federal government... can intervene.” satpa.pe/DLCcxTs

The back of an Antonine marble inscription reused as a threshold connecting the western parodos with the orchestra.

Excavation around the marble block

Examining the inscription before lifting the marble block

In November 2002 the Paphos theatre team revealed the reused fragment of the Antonine dedicatory inscription of the theatre. It had been placed facedown as a threshold onto the orchestra during a later phases of use.
It is the largest marble inscription ever found in Cyprus.

#findsfriday

Tonight was a very bad night.

What is the purpose of Barnaby Joyce? Barnaby Joyce has always talked a story about himself bigger than the brim on his Hopalong Cassidy hat. He is a one-man plot line, but his achievements for the people he professes to represent are sli...

Brilliant by Tony Windsor @thesaturdaypaper.com.au “Rarely has a man of such little substance had so much consequence.” #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22029/...

What is the purpose of Barnaby Joyce? Barnaby Joyce has always talked a story about himself bigger than the brim on his Hopalong Cassidy hat. He is a one-man plot line, but his achievements for the people he professes to represent are sli...

Tony Windsor is always worthwhile.
What is the purpose of Barnaby Joyce? www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

Excellent opinion piece.

Sounds like a load of gobblers to me …