Does anyone else get a lot of article ideas from teaching? I’ve had two ideas from my “Ancient Rome in the Movies” and refinement of others by teaching a slavery course too —this semester alone.

On point as ever 🔥🔥🔥

@opietasanimi.com and I were chatting about this when it came out—couldn’t believe BMCR could publish this poison, but then again, maybe I do believe it.

Let’s not forget that he wrote this review while under this investigation.

Compare: Holt Parker and his "me search" in Teratogenic Grid article (Tacitus in Ohio). (Dealing with this in my book).

Important to note that Goldhill had critiqued @platanoclassics.bsky.social for interrogating the erotics of scholarship vis-a-vis sexual harassment just last year. And I wonder why? Scholars creating preemptive/retrospective apologetics for their crimes?

bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.11...

indeed... Goldhill has long been known about in the whisper network.

No paywall copy of the article in the Times about unwanted sexual advances by Simon Goldhill at Cambridge. Thank god students in 21st century report this shit and the universities take it seriously archive.ph/2026.04.09-1...

Finally got my hands on @khuemoeller.bsky.social’s new book! Can’t wait to dig into it. Love the idea of looking at five lives.

New reads for the very long “to read” list!

For some reason I thought I'd done it successfully using ILS in the past, but I'm probably wrong.

Historians of New World / Black Atlantic / Transatlantic slavery --any good pieces of conceptualization of enslaved people as "thinking tools" at all (or even just as "akin to tools")? (Lots for the Greek and Roman worlds, but wondering if these notions made their way over into this later period).

yes, it's very frustrating! Apparently I have to search for ILS using "D" as an abbreviation -- I emailed them for guidance!

what do we think of the new Clauss-Slaby resdesign? I am finding searching by publication tricky (CIL is fine, but it doesn't seem to work well for ILS, for example).
edcs.hist.uzh.ch/de/

Is it no surprise that the one classicist that pops up in the Epstein files database is none other than Thomas Hubbard, soliciting money for a conference on sexual consent and Title IX? And this was in 2015, well after his conviction...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Antichthon Vol. 58 (2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @selsvold.bsky.social @quidamabo.bsky.social @stephanieframpton.bsky.social @catharineedwards.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

That feeling when the final pieces for a 40 chapter volume you've been co-editing for years and years with six other editors are finally in and ready to go to proofs... phewwwww. Ok, now a moratorium on editing anything for at least 5 years I think.

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Historia Vol. 75, No. 1 (2026) biblioscout.net/journal/hist... @quidamabo.bsky.social

Unintentionally I managed to publish an article about turning 36 as the end of one's youth (adulescentia) while still in my own 36th orbit around the sun! (This is the companion piece to the MAAR article that came out last week).
biblioscout.net/article/99.1...

Writing about "Slavery"? This Might Help Writing About Slavery? Teaching About Slavery? Senior slavery scholars of color community-sourced this short guide to share with and be used by editors, presses, museums, journalists and curricular ...

As I'm teaching my first class semester class devoted to Roman slavery (in comparative study with transatlantic slavery), this primer on terminology from P. Gabrielle Forman remains indispensable, not least to get your students thinking about the terms they use: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My article, "Of Aediles and Villas: Aedilician Presences and Absences in Varro’s De re rustica" is now published in MAAR vol.70 (70pp. in 70!). Open access! Many amazing pieces in this very meaty volume--with great thanks to Peg Laird for helming this volume & MAAR!

www.jstor.org/stable/27442...

I do not recommend writing long articles (25K+ words) if you can help it. Because then you must read over said article's copy-edits, and then proofs, multiple times. That said, I'm glad that some journals still publish long pieces!

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I need to read your piece! Thanks for bringing it to my attention--looking forward to digging in and reading once I emerge from grading and deadline craziness.

Open Positions The American Academy in Rome is seeking candidates for Chief Operating Officer and Director of the American Academy in Rome Classical Summer School.

The search for the next director of the Classical Summer School at the AAR, to start in 2027-28, is now open.
Be my successor!
www.aarome.org/about/open-p...
Please share with anyone who might be interested in applying. You’d get to shadow me for a week in 2026. Happy to answer any questions!

Did this program about a decade ago, in grad school, and it was one of the best learning experiences I’ve had. If you, try to go.

I went as a grad student, and not only did I leave with a vastly new appreciation for Etruscan water management systems (and hate for Mussolini), it was a great way to interact with other classicists at all levels and directions in their careers. Highly recommended if you can swing it.

I did this back in 2000 and it was one of the best experiences of my career

A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!

Discovery Suggests That the House of the Thiasos and Other Domus in Pompeii May Have Had Observation Towers The mental image of the city of Pompeii, crystallized by the mold of ash and lapilli that preserved its ground level for centuries, may be about to acquire a new vertical dimension. A digital archaeol...

Thinking about the recent research on towers in rich houses in Pompeii in relation to Evan Jewell's (@quidamabo.bsky.social) excellent article on wayfinding, and his point that the rich had sweeping views of the city while the poor did not
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/d...