Every promotional university campus Instagram highlight reel becomes a source of terror lest my fast little gay walk appear blurred in the background like Bigfoot footage.

What these admins will never tell you is that the *courses* in these majors are often full. Students don't *major* in these fields, but they really want to take the classes. They use number of majors as a metric on purpose so they can achieve their cuts.

“It wasn’t a depiction. I did post it and I thought it was a syncretic deity incorporating aspects of Sol Invictus, Asclepius, and Mithras.”

Even Herculean labor is being affected by automation.

I see we’re at the Apocolocyntosis stage of empire.

Thank you, really looking forward to it! Later on, if you have any food recs for the area, do tell.

Honored to be joining the list of Center for Hellenic Studies fellows. Will be working on my book on Seleukid archives and recordkeeping and a little project on impiety and Hellenistic law. Looking forward to visiting the CHS and DC next spring!

The second post in our Earth Month series is now live! And this round is a graduate student feature with Emily Lime 👇

No teaching today means writing, grading, and building a Magic EDH deck in the office.

Pyrrhus coming back to Epirus after intervening in Italy and Sicily, being unable to control the Strait of Messina from the Carthaginians, and turning Rome into a regional superpower.

The cuteness of the sausage link toy quickly turned to horror as we realized we’ve given Attalos nunchucks.

Ancient Greek students asked to read more temple regulations, not knowing the Pandora's jar they have opened...

“And then he said in perfect Latin that Asia est omnis divisa in partes tres…”

Graphic featuring a collage of screen grabs from gaming platforms and the text "Let's Play Antiquity with Eduardo García-Molina"

Our latest instalment of the #PeoplingBlog, features the exciting pedagogical work of @egarcmol.bsky.social. Here, he takes us through his course “The Ancient World in Video Games” to highlight the value of bringing gaming into the modern university classroom: peoplingthepast.com/2026/03/27/b...

The Instagram algorithm is going to force me to write on the (mis)usage of the word "twink" in online humor about Greek and Roman sexuality, isn't it?

What a dystopia, the Humanities without the human.

Decided to show off on campus his 10/10 stick. The back of my knees are destroyed from him following behind me.

Had the pleasure of being invited by one of our grads to give a brief prepper on Latin epigraphy for her LAT 102 class. Students played Valete vos viatores, playing as Roman stonecutters, as I manically gestured and explained abbreviations.

Breaking: Pyrrhus to declare victory after reopening the Strait of Messina.

My apologies to Nero for dragging him into this.

Deranged autocrat in charge while a fire breaks out in Rome? I’ve seen enough. Welcome back, 64 AD.

Yes, yes portus masculine.

Me if I worked customer service at one of the three terminals in Charles de Gaulle airport: “de Gaulle est omnis divisa in partes tres”

Resting my hopes on you, Eumenes.

More imperial Rome instead of another era of antiquity (*cough* Hellenistic *cough*) but my congratulations to Nero reception scholars.

A thing of wonder that we can draw a direct line from the law courts of ancient Athens to the Afroman trial. I now have “Lemon Pound Cake” thoroughly stuck in my head.

I just want to defend the Spartans for a minute, they at least were respected enough early on that their allies joined them in battle.

I will say, the insistence of wearing jeans (pants!) while working out is outright the behavior of barbarians.

Also by being comically easily corrupted by foreign money.