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We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
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#gamestudies #gamingthepast
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#gamestudies #gamingthepast
Call for Contributions - Fictions | Historical Games Network
Our theme of Fictions started with a HGN | IWM panel at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival. You can read more about the event on the Historical Games Network blog and you can watch the ...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
Kate Cook on Hades 2, discussing Hades 2's use of more obscure mythical characters and expansion of the notion of what a goddess or god might look like.
Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making.
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Hell with other people
Video games are often the first and most common way that many people now encounter the classical world. Hades, a critical hit following its release in
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October 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Kate Cook on Hades 2, discussing Hades 2's use of more obscure mythical characters and expansion of the notion of what a goddess or god might look like.
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The new Roman historical board game Aeterna (M. Wallace, 2025) is a simplification of ~1K yrs of history through the fortunes of 4 clans. It incentivizes historically accurate play, e.g. send citizens to conquer provinces to gain $ & stone to build buildings to quench urban unrest. #Ancientsky #AIMS
August 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The new Roman historical board game Aeterna (M. Wallace, 2025) is a simplification of ~1K yrs of history through the fortunes of 4 clans. It incentivizes historically accurate play, e.g. send citizens to conquer provinces to gain $ & stone to build buildings to quench urban unrest. #Ancientsky #AIMS
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If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today.
Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.
Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.
June 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today.
Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.
Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analysed the cost of solar in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.
June 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analysed the cost of solar in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.
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I think so. He did an interview for the @antiquitymedia.bsky.social conference, I want to say last year. I imagine it'll be up on the YouTube channel eventually if it isn't already.
June 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I think so. He did an interview for the @antiquitymedia.bsky.social conference, I want to say last year. I imagine it'll be up on the YouTube channel eventually if it isn't already.
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A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
Tonight's Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions featured a category dear to #AIMS: "Ancient Romans in the Movies"! While the contestants were confused by some 3X Stumpers, see how you do! For $400: MGM's 1953 epic "Julius Caesar" featured Marlon Brando as Mark Antony & James Mason as this betrayer. 1/6
February 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Tonight's Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions featured a category dear to #AIMS: "Ancient Romans in the Movies"! While the contestants were confused by some 3X Stumpers, see how you do! For $400: MGM's 1953 epic "Julius Caesar" featured Marlon Brando as Mark Antony & James Mason as this betrayer. 1/6
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I rewatched the remake of Clash of the Titans today for the first time since I wrote about it for my thesis 4 years ago and wow, it sure hits different now. A short🧵 on how the new film compares ideologically to the old... 1/
February 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I rewatched the remake of Clash of the Titans today for the first time since I wrote about it for my thesis 4 years ago and wow, it sure hits different now. A short🧵 on how the new film compares ideologically to the old... 1/
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It's Book Day! Amanda Potter and I ran an international virtual conference on #Xena: Warrior Princess in the early days of COVID, which eventually turned into a glorious edited volume! 1/4 www.bloomsbury.com/us/classical...
Classical Receptions and Impact of Xena: Warrior Princess
Presenting a wide range of new scholarly approaches, this is the first volume to critique the highly influential television series Xena: Warrior Princess. Based…
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February 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It's Book Day! Amanda Potter and I ran an international virtual conference on #Xena: Warrior Princess in the early days of COVID, which eventually turned into a glorious edited volume! 1/4 www.bloomsbury.com/us/classical...
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It's been a privilege to participate in this year's AIMS conference! I have seen some really amazing presentations this week. The conference has run so smoothly thanks to the fantastic organizers 🙌🏾 #AIMS2024
Up now: @theshirapather.bsky.social analyzing how Pat Barker's "Silence of the Girls" comments upon and reinterprets ancient narratives of sexual assault in light of modern views of rape in times of war.
November 14, 2024 at 6:40 PM
It's been a privilege to participate in this year's AIMS conference! I have seen some really amazing presentations this week. The conference has run so smoothly thanks to the fantastic organizers 🙌🏾 #AIMS2024
Up now at #AIMS2024, our youngest ever presenter, Nadia Cross, a 6th grader presenting with her father Nick Cross, on Ducktales' Storkules and the connections to Hercules! Classical reception is a family endeavor!
November 14, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Up now at #AIMS2024, our youngest ever presenter, Nadia Cross, a 6th grader presenting with her father Nick Cross, on Ducktales' Storkules and the connections to Hercules! Classical reception is a family endeavor!
This is tremendously exciting news worth reposting even though a year old.
Cool news for Reception studies ☺️ 🐍 “Researcher James Fennell has identified… scenes from one of the most sought-after “lost films” of all time: Cleopatra (1917), starring iconic vamp Theda Bara.” (📸 and article: silentlondon.co.uk/2023/09/14/w...)
November 14, 2024 at 5:18 PM
This is tremendously exciting news worth reposting even though a year old.
Up now: @theshirapather.bsky.social analyzing how Pat Barker's "Silence of the Girls" comments upon and reinterprets ancient narratives of sexual assault in light of modern views of rape in times of war.
November 14, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Up now: @theshirapather.bsky.social analyzing how Pat Barker's "Silence of the Girls" comments upon and reinterprets ancient narratives of sexual assault in light of modern views of rape in times of war.
Up now: Vilma Losyte discussing the use of the Louvre's classical sculptures in modern French fashion campaigns, which pairs Black actresses & models with the classical marble sculptures. She notes the marketing campaign still focuses on 1 canon of beauty, rather than, e.g. the Portrait of Madeline.
November 14, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Up now: Vilma Losyte discussing the use of the Louvre's classical sculptures in modern French fashion campaigns, which pairs Black actresses & models with the classical marble sculptures. She notes the marketing campaign still focuses on 1 canon of beauty, rather than, e.g. the Portrait of Madeline.
@peregrinekiwi.bsky.social discussed the legacy and impact of the late great Jennell Jaquays's 1979 non-linear D&D module "The Caverns of Thracia" upon classical reception in TTRPGs, while Alexis Christansen explored the use and depiction of ancient ruins in AC: Odyssey.
November 13, 2024 at 9:55 PM
@peregrinekiwi.bsky.social discussed the legacy and impact of the late great Jennell Jaquays's 1979 non-linear D&D module "The Caverns of Thracia" upon classical reception in TTRPGs, while Alexis Christansen explored the use and depiction of ancient ruins in AC: Odyssey.
Tanya Cook talks about how the Xenite fandom community has raised $30 million for charity and is very social-justice focused, serving as a precursor to many popular culture fandoms, especially those dominated by women & LGBTQ+ folks, and starticipants like Lucy Lawless. #Xena
Join the Xena virtual book launch or, if you can't, get 20% off the book and all other classical reception texts in the Imagines series! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
November 13, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Tanya Cook talks about how the Xenite fandom community has raised $30 million for charity and is very social-justice focused, serving as a precursor to many popular culture fandoms, especially those dominated by women & LGBTQ+ folks, and starticipants like Lucy Lawless. #Xena
Join the Xena virtual book launch or, if you can't, get 20% off the book and all other classical reception texts in the Imagines series! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
November 13, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Join the Xena virtual book launch or, if you can't, get 20% off the book and all other classical reception texts in the Imagines series! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
Welcome new followers! The Antiquity in Media Studies free online conference continues - right now with a panel on the boundaries of Rome in Roman movies, esp Britannia & North Africa. Katrina Knight discusses how women are often the "fundamental Other" in Roman Britain movies - dangerous & savage.
November 10, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Welcome new followers! The Antiquity in Media Studies free online conference continues - right now with a panel on the boundaries of Rome in Roman movies, esp Britannia & North Africa. Katrina Knight discusses how women are often the "fundamental Other" in Roman Britain movies - dangerous & savage.
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We hate to remind you, but it's that time of year.
On the other hand, we love to be helpful, so...
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The Working Classicists Christmas Gift List 2024 — Working Classicists
Here’s a big old list to help you with your gifting this year. More than
twenty recommendations means there is DEFINITELY something for everyone
here.
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November 10, 2024 at 11:25 AM
We hate to remind you, but it's that time of year.
On the other hand, we love to be helpful, so...
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On the other hand, we love to be helpful, so...
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One really nice long-term advantage of online conferences is that questioners have a chance to really think about and fine-tune their questions and the moderator has the opportunity to balance questions among the participants in a panel more consciously and directly.
November 9, 2024 at 7:36 PM
One really nice long-term advantage of online conferences is that questioners have a chance to really think about and fine-tune their questions and the moderator has the opportunity to balance questions among the participants in a panel more consciously and directly.
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Achilles: Please, Mother, let the leopards eat the faces of all the Greeks!
[Patroclus, Achilles' BFF, gets his face eaten]
Achilles, full of grief and fury: Mother! I never thought the leopards would eat HIS face.
[Patroclus, Achilles' BFF, gets his face eaten]
Achilles, full of grief and fury: Mother! I never thought the leopards would eat HIS face.
November 9, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Achilles: Please, Mother, let the leopards eat the faces of all the Greeks!
[Patroclus, Achilles' BFF, gets his face eaten]
Achilles, full of grief and fury: Mother! I never thought the leopards would eat HIS face.
[Patroclus, Achilles' BFF, gets his face eaten]
Achilles, full of grief and fury: Mother! I never thought the leopards would eat HIS face.
Today's Antiquity in Media Studies panels include receptions of Homer, Sierra Schiano on why classicists should be teaching Percy Jackson and democratizing classical reception, and video games, including #Hades2! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...
November 9, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Today's Antiquity in Media Studies panels include receptions of Homer, Sierra Schiano on why classicists should be teaching Percy Jackson and democratizing classical reception, and video games, including #Hades2! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...