Elizabeth Macaulay
@ermacaulay.bsky.social
Archaeologist and Architectural Historian; Associate Prof. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Smarthistory.org - editor and board chair. Interested in antiquity & why the modern world is obsessed with Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians. Pug lover & cook.
A delightful morning with my mom (mother's day treat at day late) for a visit to the Sargent & Paris show at the met. Saw old favorites and new ones. Love his use of red, black, and white. Also love how the ladies take center stage.
May 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A delightful morning with my mom (mother's day treat at day late) for a visit to the Sargent & Paris show at the met. Saw old favorites and new ones. Love his use of red, black, and white. Also love how the ladies take center stage.
perfect afternoon. A street fair with my daughter (weird and wacky macarons, snicker flavored from Brooklyn). some light reading for next term: papyri and the museum of the bible (which for all of its ethics) had no problem buying a lot of stolen papyri (so much for the 10 commandments)..
May 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
perfect afternoon. A street fair with my daughter (weird and wacky macarons, snicker flavored from Brooklyn). some light reading for next term: papyri and the museum of the bible (which for all of its ethics) had no problem buying a lot of stolen papyri (so much for the 10 commandments)..
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Catch it before it closes (Sun May 4) — Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy at the Morgan
May 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Catch it before it closes (Sun May 4) — Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy at the Morgan
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Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5
May 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5
Great visit to Rethinking Etruria Exhibit at ISAW. Great objects, but even better stories. The grave goods from Norchia's tombs were unique: a stamnos from Tomb Lattanzi 3 with figures from the Iliad. 3-D printed copy of the Vicchio Stele from Poggio Colla; one can touch and look for inscriptions.
May 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Great visit to Rethinking Etruria Exhibit at ISAW. Great objects, but even better stories. The grave goods from Norchia's tombs were unique: a stamnos from Tomb Lattanzi 3 with figures from the Iliad. 3-D printed copy of the Vicchio Stele from Poggio Colla; one can touch and look for inscriptions.
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We’d love to see more MALS students share their accomplishments through the Student Achievement Portal!
Submit to the Student Achievement Portal by April 30, 2025 — it only takes 10 minutes, and your story helps show what makes our program great.
Submit to the Student Achievement Portal by April 30, 2025 — it only takes 10 minutes, and your story helps show what makes our program great.
April 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We’d love to see more MALS students share their accomplishments through the Student Achievement Portal!
Submit to the Student Achievement Portal by April 30, 2025 — it only takes 10 minutes, and your story helps show what makes our program great.
Submit to the Student Achievement Portal by April 30, 2025 — it only takes 10 minutes, and your story helps show what makes our program great.
apparently, a British Research survey says that owning a dog is like getting paid an extra $90,000. No price could be put on the joy that Minerva brings us! Happy 5th Birthday to our family's goddess of wisdom.
April 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
apparently, a British Research survey says that owning a dog is like getting paid an extra $90,000. No price could be put on the joy that Minerva brings us! Happy 5th Birthday to our family's goddess of wisdom.
From yesterday's seminar on Umayyad Art and Architecture. Part of the facade of Mshatta, an early caliphal residence in Jordan. Today in Berlin...it was gift from the Ottoman Sultan to the Kaiser..because nothing says friendship like a monumental piece of architecture. The Kaiser sent horses back...
April 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
From yesterday's seminar on Umayyad Art and Architecture. Part of the facade of Mshatta, an early caliphal residence in Jordan. Today in Berlin...it was gift from the Ottoman Sultan to the Kaiser..because nothing says friendship like a monumental piece of architecture. The Kaiser sent horses back...
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Students are invited to join the CUNY Graduate Center Council, a key governing body where student perspectives help shape the institution.
This is a great opportunity to contribute to the GC community and boost your resume or Ph.D. applications!
This is a great opportunity to contribute to the GC community and boost your resume or Ph.D. applications!
April 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Students are invited to join the CUNY Graduate Center Council, a key governing body where student perspectives help shape the institution.
This is a great opportunity to contribute to the GC community and boost your resume or Ph.D. applications!
This is a great opportunity to contribute to the GC community and boost your resume or Ph.D. applications!
Went to very cool center for book arts she looked at a fun exhibition about books that are not books! Personally, I like the decanters hidden in old books…
April 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Went to very cool center for book arts she looked at a fun exhibition about books that are not books! Personally, I like the decanters hidden in old books…
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🦁 The goddess Ishtar is the first known deity to appear in the written historical record! Also known as Inanna, Ishtar is the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war. Scholars believe that worship of her in the Near East can be traced all the way back to the 4th millennium BCE!
April 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
🦁 The goddess Ishtar is the first known deity to appear in the written historical record! Also known as Inanna, Ishtar is the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war. Scholars believe that worship of her in the Near East can be traced all the way back to the 4th millennium BCE!
CUNY and Bard while different have a lot in common…
Quoting President Botstein and citing Bard as an example of how higher ed can face the present moment, for @nytimes.com Opinion, M. Gessen writes: “This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare.”
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
CUNY and Bard while different have a lot in common…
Civilization in midtown...
April 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Civilization in midtown...
Astoria the Celebrity Turkey Returns to Ritzy Midtown Manhattan www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
Astoria the Wild Turkey Returns to Midtown Manhattan
Is she seeking excitement? Danger? A date? The birders who look after her just want her to go home.
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April 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Astoria the Celebrity Turkey Returns to Ritzy Midtown Manhattan www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
From last spring break, 2024; I am stuck here in NYC working away to finish an MS...the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose...just a little Egyptomania on a Tuesday.
April 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
From last spring break, 2024; I am stuck here in NYC working away to finish an MS...the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose...just a little Egyptomania on a Tuesday.
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ICYMI, watch classicist Mary Beard’s brilliant talk, “Misleading Lives: The Perils of Ancient Biography” – this year’s Leon Levy Lecture on the craft of biography. Now up on YouTube! youtu.be/ZGyBxaP-vWI @wmarybeard.bsky.social
Mary Beard - Misleading Lives: The Perils of Ancient Biography
YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center
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April 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
ICYMI, watch classicist Mary Beard’s brilliant talk, “Misleading Lives: The Perils of Ancient Biography” – this year’s Leon Levy Lecture on the craft of biography. Now up on YouTube! youtu.be/ZGyBxaP-vWI @wmarybeard.bsky.social
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Thank you to everyone who came out tonight to hear me and THE @profmsinha.bsky.social discuss legacies of the 19th c abolitionists who organized for a more just world, and how we must continue to speak their names & their stories @nyhistory.bsky.social #historymattters
April 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Thank you to everyone who came out tonight to hear me and THE @profmsinha.bsky.social discuss legacies of the 19th c abolitionists who organized for a more just world, and how we must continue to speak their names & their stories @nyhistory.bsky.social #historymattters
As a 14 year old my dad took me to see Rebecca Lobo and Jen Rizzotti in NCAA, the year before they won their first national title. Inspired me to play sports and to do well in school (they both had like 3.8 GPAs). 12 national titles today. Proud to be from CT and for my Uconn Huskies.
April 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
As a 14 year old my dad took me to see Rebecca Lobo and Jen Rizzotti in NCAA, the year before they won their first national title. Inspired me to play sports and to do well in school (they both had like 3.8 GPAs). 12 national titles today. Proud to be from CT and for my Uconn Huskies.
Skeletons of the Roman Empire Are Found Under a Vienna Soccer Field www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Roman Empire Skeletons Found Under Vienna Soccer Field
Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago.
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April 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Skeletons of the Roman Empire Are Found Under a Vienna Soccer Field www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
A few more from the Frick...che bella! So happy this grand museum has reopened
April 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A few more from the Frick...che bella! So happy this grand museum has reopened
Minerva, Minerva, Minerva...One from Aquae Sulis (aka Roman Bath), One from Hildesheim in 1868, and One from NYC...All goddesses...all worshipped (I am preparing a seminar on Roman Britain...)
April 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Minerva, Minerva, Minerva...One from Aquae Sulis (aka Roman Bath), One from Hildesheim in 1868, and One from NYC...All goddesses...all worshipped (I am preparing a seminar on Roman Britain...)
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia and Livia by Jean-Bapiste Wicar (1790-1793) - from a trip to the Art Institute in 11/2024...I love the colors in the painting. It also reminds me of how my kids might respond when I have talking a little bit too long about the Temple of Dendur...
April 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia and Livia by Jean-Bapiste Wicar (1790-1793) - from a trip to the Art Institute in 11/2024...I love the colors in the painting. It also reminds me of how my kids might respond when I have talking a little bit too long about the Temple of Dendur...
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Paige Bueckers has set a new UConn WBB record for points in an NCAA Tournament game in today's win over Oklahoma 🔥
◽ 40 PTS
◽ 16/27 FG
◽ 6/8 3-PT FG
◽ 40 PTS
◽ 16/27 FG
◽ 6/8 3-PT FG
March 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Paige Bueckers has set a new UConn WBB record for points in an NCAA Tournament game in today's win over Oklahoma 🔥
◽ 40 PTS
◽ 16/27 FG
◽ 6/8 3-PT FG
◽ 40 PTS
◽ 16/27 FG
◽ 6/8 3-PT FG
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🏛️ Have you seen the controversial film “Agora” (2009), directed by Alejandro Amenabar? The film depicts the story of the ancient female philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria. However, the movie has received some backlash for its depiction of early Christianity.
March 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🏛️ Have you seen the controversial film “Agora” (2009), directed by Alejandro Amenabar? The film depicts the story of the ancient female philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria. However, the movie has received some backlash for its depiction of early Christianity.