Thereโs two weeks left to apply for this position. I appreciate everyone who has shared this so far. If anyone has questions about the position, then please contact me.
Adding books to my To Be Read queue like Iโm gonna live forever.
Terracotta statuette of a dog with upright, pricked ears and a fluffy upright tail. He has an oval object - supposedly meat - in his mouth, painted red. Black pigment can still be seen on his ears and the tip of his tail, in addition to some traces of red on his coat.
Every dog owner: โWhatโs that in your mouth?? Omigod, drop it, drop it!โ ๐ฑ
This Greek (Boeotian) terracotta dog appears to have a red piece of, um, meat in its mouth. Iโm sure he earned it (โHey, that dead guy over there wasnโt using this.โ)
1st half of the 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum ๐ธ me ๐บ
An interesting video from @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social exploring Europeโs last pre-Christian religions inspired by my โSilence of the Godsโ m.youtube.com/watch?v=drA6...
This New Exhibition Reveals How Magic Ruled the Ancient World
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#OnThisDay in 12 BC, Augustus became pontifex maximus, the most important position in the ancient Roman religion.
The Pontifex Maximus led the Collegium Pontificum, overseeing state cult, religious laws, worship, and the calendar. The pontiffs managed sacred sites and public morality.
"The challenge to produce authentic yet engaging versions of Roman women in screen media is even greater now than before, given the proliferation of anti-feminist rhetoric
in contemporary media culture." (p.15)
From the warmly recommended introduction by Woลบniak and Wyke.
Did I mention it's OA?!
Admit I was looking for something else when I came across this great, new book: Audio-Visual Roman Women. Gender, History and Screen Media. And it's Open Access! Guess I'll just have to postpone the other plans I had for today.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/audiovisu...
The deadline for applications has been extended to March 23rd to allow a bit more time for candidates to work on their application materials.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion, University of Bergen, Norway. Specialization in Rabbinic literature 2nd โ 7th century CE. NB Short deadline: 6 March. nt4ox.link/BergenPDF26
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago: โFemale temple attendants, whose costumes and hairstyles recall fashions worn at least 200 years earlier by the Greek occupants of southern Italy and Sicily, kneel before a tall incense burner, upon which they place an offering. The scene is bordered by an egg-and-dart pattern above and a lotus pattern below. The presence of four nailholes indicates that these panels were likely affixed to a wall.โ
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This #ReliefWednesday we are enjoying this beautiful terracotta relief thought to date from the C1st CE but emulating the style of southern Italy and the influences of Magna Graecia.
The โPilgrim Hareโ from St. Maryโs Church at Beverley in East Yorkshire. Dating to the mid-14th century, the hare is dressed as a pilgrim, hence the title. It is thought that the carving was the inspiration for Lewis Carrollโs White Rabbit. ๐ธ My own. #StoneworkSunday #Beverley
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... my friend Charlotte here on why reading for โpleasureโ is NOT the be all and end all of reading. With a shout out for non fiction too which hasnโt got too much of a look in during this year of reading.
me teaching religion and politics for over a decade
Huge congratulations to my colleague prof. Nils Korsvoll!
Ironien i at jeg aldri i mitt liv har opplevd sรฅ mye trรธbbel med vannforsyningen som etter at jeg flyttet til Bergen. ๐โ๏ธ www.bt.no/nyheter/dire...
So many interesting points raised in this conversation about The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe. And the whole volume is open access! open.spotify.com/episode/5Qsb...
A fundamental feature of Greek ceramics and their offshoots is that they could be used. By contrast, this vase, with its lid fixed onto the body, serves a purely symbolic function. It belongs to a class of pieces associated with the site of Centuripe in Sicily. They are characterized by elaborate and delicate applied decoration and by refined polychromy executed after firing. The vase was made for the tomb. The scene shows a bride surrounded by attendants. The background is a deep, vibrant pink, and the colors of the women's clothing includes cream, yellow, blue, green, orange, lilac, and red. Their skin is very pale. One female attendant wears a grape-leaf wreath on her head and bangs on a tympanum (hand drum). The bride is veiled. The sealed vessel resembles a tholos-style tomb or temple, with lion-headed waterspouts, triglyphs and metopes. Greek, Sicilian, Centuripe, 3rd-2nd century BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (53.11.5)
This Greek terracotta vase from Centuripe, Sicily (a Greek colony) is brightly painted with a scene depicting the mostly-naked red-haired enthroned god Dionysos cradling a thyrsos in his right arm. A female figure veiled in a white himation - a priestess? - stands next to him, her face lost to time. A shield is propped up against the side of Dionysos' throne. The background here is a vivid pink madder, and the skin of the god is very realistically portrayed - pale, with reddish toning, and highlights and shadows. Even in its partially ruined state, the painting technique is obviously wonderfully realistic while the intensity of the colors make it look fantastical. The top of the vase includes architectural features, including a Lesbian kyme cornice (with remains of gilding) below lion-head waterspouts. The base is an open acanthus plant, as if the vase were growing out of its center. Probably made for the tomb. Greek, Sicilian, Centuripe, 3rd-2nd century BCE. Terracotta, gilding, and pigments. H. 15 3/4 in. (40 cm.); diameter 14 1/2 in. (36.83 cm.) Met Museum, New York (29.131.2)
Ancient #polychromy is rarely more vibrant than this type of Greek painted pottery from Centuripe, Sicily. Both vases here are funerary and have architectural elements at top, looking like small tholos-shaped temples (lion head waterspouts!). The colors are blazingly vivid. ๐บ 1/
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If ever a series made us feel our age, it's this one! We return to Riordan's fantastical world of teenage demi-gods with the 2nd season of Percy Jackson. We are joined by @lexie-henning.bsky.social, who helps us navigate the world of prophecies and Party Ponies.
Listen now at movieswedig.com!
Dark greenstone polyhedron, on which we can see capital Greek letters (20 sides to the polyhedron), with only the last four letters (phi, chi, psy, and omega) missing. It looks identical to modern RPG dice. Greek, 2nd-1st c. BCE. Met Museum (27.122.5)
Blue-green faience polyhedron (which probably means that it originates in Egypt, but no findspot is known) with a capital Greek letter on each side/facet. A number of polyhedra made in various materials are known from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. They may have been used in conjunction with an oracle inscribed on a pillar set up in a public place. The polyhedron was thrown in order to choose a letter at random. One consulted the inscription to find the matching letter and read the oracle's response. There would be twenty oracular messages, each beginning with a letter of the alphabet that corresponded to one side of the dice. Roman, 2nd-3rd c. CE. Met Museum (37.11.3)
Two ancient 20-sided polyhedra inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet. Now known as 'divination dice', they were used for cleromancy, a form of divination where casting lots determined divine will, sometimes in conjunction with an oracle. ๐บ 1/ #ancientbluesky
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This article was truly hilarious/disturbing & also, ratified one strong approach to tech journalism, which is, "go talk to the craziest, most quotable lunatics you can find" harpers.org/archive/2026...
Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave
A new podcast episode with Anna Bonnell Freidin. "Birthing Romans sheds critical light on the diverse ways pregnancy and childbirth were understood, experienced, and managed in ancient Rome during the first three centuries"
PhD opening in Bergen. Come and work with me on my NFR project looking at violence and warfare in antiquity: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Enjoying reading "Egeriaโs Views From the Mountain:
Female Agency and Biblical Stylization in the Itinerarium Egeriae" by Klazina Staat. I have thought deeply about the geography of Egeria, but now I am seeing her as a literal mountain climber in new ways! ๐ป
Only complaint: Where are the maps?!
Two ancient Roman altars found near Edinburgh and acquired for the nation are set to go on public display for the first time as part of a new exhibition at the National Museums of Scotland (NMS).
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The photo shows a black and white mosaic depicting a lying large guard dog chained to a double-winged door.
For today's #MosaicMonday a #Roman guard #dog chained to the door, a detail from a mosaic at the entrance of the House of Paquius Proculus in #Pompeii.
Dating 1st century AD.
Cave canem - Beware of the dog ๐ถ๐๐ฆฎ๐โ๐ฆบ๐ฉ
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Ancient Romans loved their dogs. Here's what their heartbreakingly beautiful epitaphs said about them. - Upworthy
www.upworthy.com/roman-dog-ep...
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
10 years ago today, Beyoncรฉ released โFormation.โ
