Join the HelleNET Seminar Series:
Monday, 20 April 2026, 18:00-19:00-18 CET (Thursday, April 21st, 00:00-01:00 GMT+8) | Dr. Manolis Pagkalos (Zhejiang A&F University) | Dialectics of Power: Negotiating Political Change in Hellenistic Greece.
Zoom Link (reoccurring): us06web.zoom.us/j/8230752475...
Fresh publication (First View), in the Classical Review:
Pagkalos, M. E. (2026). Kings, Codes and Rules of Engagement: Perspectives on Hellenistic Leadership. The Classical Review, First View, 1-7 | doi.org/10.1017/S000...
#publication #Hellenistic #history #reviewarticle #hellenistickingship
What I hope is that new generations of scholars with power will stay generous and supportive with younger scholars and students, but not feel entitled to cross that line. Plenty did: you can care about people without freaking them out. Pedagogy can be engaged without erotic tension.
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...
Unsurprising, which makes me sad, because it indicates how whisper networks operate to try (and fail) to protect survivors without any actual consequences for perpetrators.
A great talk and discussion yesterday, with Prof. Angelos Chaniotis (IAS) in the HelleNET Scholars Talk. Prof. Chaniotis talked about 'Theatricality and Illusion in the Post-Classical World'.
A great thank you to the audience's questions, Samantha Sink and the HelleNET community for hosting!
Coming up this week... Athens has lost the Peloponnesian War, and democracy is the greatest casualty. @roelkonijn.bsky.social guides us through what happened when a different system of government was installed, one that murdered its citizens and plundered their wealth...
Tune in on Wednesday!
Interactive map of Iranian sites damaged in the war
Which Iranian sites have been damaged? An important new GIS DH project maps the historic & archaeological sites damaged (69+ so far) by US-Israeli strikes in Iran. heritagewatch.camelab.net The Society of Iranian Studies is working with the Center of Ancient Mediterranean Landscapes & EAMENA.
Join the HelleNET Scholars Talk:
Wednesday, 8 April 2026, 17:00-18:30 CET (Thursday, April 9th, 01:00-02:30 GMT+8) | Dr. Angelos Chaniotis, IAS: Theatricality and Illusion in the Post-Classical World | Chair: Dr. Manolis Pagkalos (Zhejiang A&F University)
Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/8299546796...
Now published fully:
Pagkalos, M. E. (2026). In the Service of the Demos: Civic Religion and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens. Intellectual History Review, 36(1), 29-52. doi.org/10.1080/1749...
#publication #Hellenistic #history #HellenisticAthens
- Keynote: Samuel Agbamu (@samagbamu.bsky.social), “The Battle for Births: Rethinking the Birth of Biopolitics”
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now listening to Derek Cebrián Ocampo #ResDiff7
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now listening to Manolis Pagkalos #ResDiff7 bsky.app/profile/opie...
Very close to the event, so you can tune in!
Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics. Co-organized: Hannah Čulík-Baird (UCLA) and Elke Nash (UNH). With support of the UCLA Division of Humanities. (All times are US Pacific).
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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
Fresh from Production, although online only for now: In the service of the Demos: civic religion and politics in early Hellenistic Athens: Intellectual History Review (Read Online) | Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#publication #Hellenistic #history #HellenisticAthens
Interesting article by A. Hardwick on teaching the Iliad in translation at undergraduate level. Freely available in The Journal of Classics Teaching:
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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! Medievalist & historian of race @profcwhit.bsky.social discusses NPS' removal of plaques documenting slavery in Philly 🔔 Then, the ceramics of Roberto Lugo, a new DH project on the artifacts of refugees, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more
Save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary! - Sign the Petition! c.org/Qj5YXGkcRC via
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16 Necromancing Ancient Heroes and Heroines in the Fate Anime Series Nicole Becklinger and Jeremy Swist C16P1 C16P2 The shōnen subgenre is one of the most commercially and globally successful forms of Japanese anime, especially among its traditional target audience of boys and adolescent men.1 Particularly popular are series centered on battles and tournaments involving various forms of martial arts, futuristic technology, and/or special beings summoned to fight on a competitor’s behalf. But what if, instead of animals like Pokémon, those beings were human figures from world mythology, history, or literature? Such is the premise of the Fate franchise, whose growing popularity in Western markets can be attributed in part to the scores of ancient Mediterranean heroes and heroines among its dramatis personae, including the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great, the Arcadian warrior- woman Atalante, and the Roman emperor Nero. These three figures will serve here as representative case studies on the Fate series’ adapta-
Received proofs for my first co-authored publication! Nikki & I discuss classical reception in the Fate anime series, using Alexander, Atalanta, & Nero as case studies. This will appear in the @academic.oup.com volume "Animation & the Ancient World," edited by Chiara Sulprizio & Toph Marshall.
Dwelling on the Margins of Empire by Lisa Binkley considers histories of home from the margins, highlighting the perspectives of displaced, colonised, and disenfranchised groups in imperial and settler colonial contexts.
Out now! https://bit.ly/4iGA0GO
Watercolour drawn direct with the brush showing Trinity Street, Cambridge during May Week. Sold a while ago.
Another Cambridge street painting. I think these old views of people dressed up and thronging the streets in celebration of their exams being over are a bit of an antidote to what's going on now (original sold a long time ago). Direct watercolour no predrawing.
#art #watercolour #mayweek
Day 2; SCS/AIA 2026 – the first full day of discussion. Solid sessions, covering a good range of topics both in Classics and Archaeology. The discussions during Q&A have been particularly engaging. Nice to be back in an academic setting, exchanging ideas with colleagues.
#SCS #AIA #SanFrancisco
One more year is coming under wraps, looking forward to 2026! Not because it will be a good year, but because we really need to stand against the currents of the world, which seems to spiral towards all that is wrong.
Solidarity, humanity, and understanding. Come together and stand stronger!
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies Vol. 145 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @hellenicsociety.bsky.social @claudeeilers.bsky.social @cjudson.bsky.social
Fresh from the press, my review of (K.) MAWFORD and (E.) NTANOU (eds) Ancient Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration in Graeco-Roman Literature. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021 in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, 145, 268-270.
#JHS #Review #Classics #AncientHistory #Literature #Memory
Front Cover: West wall (wall 38) and floor of the marble room south of Late Antique wall 24, from the east. Photo C. A. Pfaff; courtesy Corinth Excavations; © Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development (H.O.C.RE.D.)
New issue of Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Vol. 94, No. 4 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56090 @projectmuse.bsky.social
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The new Volume (#4) of Pnyx: Journal of Classical Studies is nearly ready to be published, with three articles, two book reviews and two interviews. Here is the freshly published editorial of Volume 4, by our own Manolis Pagkalos (@immanump.bsky.social), Editorial: πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει
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