Hegseth photo beside a bust of Caracalla from the Met
Whelp, the amazing Prof. @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social sent this over, as made by her art historian friend Susanna McFadden—and now I cant unsee Hegseth as Caracalla. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Alexander Severus bust and Eminem
Even better than Eminem and Alexander Severus tbh.
Hegseth photo beside a bust of Caracalla from the Met
Whelp, the amazing Prof. @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social sent this over, as made by her art historian friend Susanna McFadden—and now I cant unsee Hegseth as Caracalla. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
As a Virginian? Virginia is for Democracy Lovers ❤️
You are a very good friend to all.
Awww thank you, friend! This is really kind. 🙏
Just emailed you. 🙌
He’s been good friends with many of our bike friends for awhile. Seems like a great guy. Met him only once at Joe’s here in IC.
Book cover of Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf by Alex Boodrookas
Comrades Estranged by Alex Boodrookas reframes the history of labor activism, citizenship, and decolonization in the Persian Gulf by centering the history of social movements—especially organized labor.
www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studie...
The farmers? They are mad. We all are.
Beth Yale is one of our best here at Iowa History. And this book is gorgeous to behold and to read. Simply beautiful.
Do you want to chat about it for my own piece?
This Day in Labor History: April 21, 1894. Bituminous coal miners went on strike. They failed in the face of state violence but this is one of the big strikes that slowly built cultures of solidarity and resistance to oppression that over many decades created a path to worker victory!
I mean, we should all take some Homer with us to the afterlife, just in case we need a little epic reading while cruising on the Styx.
Oh, that is so amazing. What time is your class? If you ever want me to zoom just let me know. 🙏
Physical Description Axis: 6 Diameter (in mm): 18 Weight (in g): 2.73 Series: RIC.7 Typological Description Object Type: Coin Date Range: 332–333 Denomination: AE2 Denomination: AE3 Material: Bronze Authority Authority: Constantine I Dynasty: Constantinian Dynasty State: Roman Empire Geographic Place of Production: Trier Reverse Symbol: -/-//TR•P References Reference: RIC VII Treveri 542 Administrative History Identifier: 1954.203.89 Department: Roman Collection: American Numismatic Society Provenance Acquisition: Lot 1954.203 (purchases: Ives, Mrs. Herbert Eugene), October 1 1954 Subjects Category: Roman--Imperial--Laterempire Rights CopyrightHolder: American Numismatic Society License: Public Domain Mark (images) Rights: No Copyright - United States Map In
A happy 2779th birthday to the city of Rome. You really don’t look a day over 2000. 🐺 numismatics.org/collection/1...
What can coinage tell us about crisis? 🪙 The spatial pattern of finds from late antique Phanagoria (Black Sea, now Russia: pleiades.stoa.org/places/854724) indicate citizens dropping coin purses, likely during a fire while the city was besieged (Justinianic, 545-554 CE) arkeonews.net/6th-century-...
Hyperallergic EIC @hakimbishara.bsky.social snagged a very rare interview with the First Lady of NYC Rama Duwaji. In it she says, “Everything is political: what we choose to show, what we choose to omit, the stories we highlight and the ones we leave in the margins.”
Bring on the old shoes! Here are shoes from ancient times to centuries ago, including from the Roman auxiliary fort, Vindolanda 🏺🧪
What can coinage tell us about crisis? 🪙 The spatial pattern of finds from late antique Phanagoria (Black Sea, now Russia: pleiades.stoa.org/places/854724) indicate citizens dropping coin purses, likely during a fire while the city was besieged (Justinianic, 545-554 CE) arkeonews.net/6th-century-...
Exactly. We did too!
Association of Ancient Historians Meeting APRIL 16-18, 2026 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IOWA CITY, IA https://aah.conference.uiowa.edu
A wonderful conference filled with 72 ancient historians, 1 tornado watch, 1 severe thunderstorm siren, wonderful mentors, and my academic siblings. Couldn’t have done it without @paregorios.bsky.social. As usual, he is the calm in the midst of all storms.
Well I mostly just wanted to send greetings back to you.
Ran a conference all weekend. Hyped up on ancient history. But Ted and Elizabeth say hello! 👋
As a doctor, I agree.
I am a (c)lover of alium in almost anything.
Garlic cloves and bread from a fresco originally from Herculaneum and now at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), Italy. Photo by Sophie Hay
Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...
Bravo! 👏
Roman Straw Hat (420-568 AD), known as "Panama Hat" from Flinders Petrie's 1901-2, field season in Egypt, later donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) by Egypt Exploration Fund.
April 18, 193 CE: In Roman Egypt, a farmer named Melas writes a letter to a centurion named Ammonios Paternos about being assaulted by a cousin, Phanesis, while attempting to load χόρτος (hay) in a family plot (P. Mich. 3 175) He wanted the centurion to *cough* bale him out.
papyri.info/hgv/11981
"The book is a valuable reckoning of the epistemological shifts in ideas surrounding Roman imperialism and the provinces in the last century and a half. In that sense, the volume should be essential reading for all graduate methodology courses and comprehensive lists in classics, ancient history, and archaeology."
#classicalreception @ BMCR #review: Sarah Bond on Danielle Hyeonah Lambert, Decolonizing Roman imperialism: the study of Rome, romanization, and the postcolonial lens bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02...