Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
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Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
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Pasts Imperfect (2.5.26)
This week, medievalist and historian of race Cord J. Whitaker discusses the National Park Service's removal of an exhibit on American slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park. T...
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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
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Good afternoon and major props to this 8th century CE woman breastfeeding as she rides a Bactrian camel along the Silk Roads 🐫 art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3254...
February 18, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Good afternoon and major props to this 8th century CE woman breastfeeding as she rides a Bactrian camel along the Silk Roads 🐫 art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3254...
Good afternoon and major props to this 8th century CE woman breastfeeding as she rides a Bactrian camel along the Silk Roads 🐫 art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3254...
February 18, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Good afternoon and major props to this 8th century CE woman breastfeeding as she rides a Bactrian camel along the Silk Roads 🐫 art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3254...
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Not to brag but Sarah's partner in crime for the museum is my kid :)
There is a fab new book out about the 2022 polychromy exhibition at the Met. It underscores 38 scholars who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 experts in polychromy today. Coming out of polychromy retirement to review _Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today_ for @hyperallergic.com (edited by Natalie Haddad).
How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color
The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.
hyperallergic.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Not to brag but Sarah's partner in crime for the museum is my kid :)
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There is chapter on this man in my first book because I think if racism was taught as something that was invented, rather than something that people do, it would help a lot of people process moments like this without saying things that make them look like a dickhead
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www.linnean.org/learning/who...
February 18, 2026 at 6:39 PM
There is chapter on this man in my first book because I think if racism was taught as something that was invented, rather than something that people do, it would help a lot of people process moments like this without saying things that make them look like a dickhead
www.linnean.org/learning/who...
www.linnean.org/learning/who...
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Agreed. I wrote this: eidolon.pub/this-is-not-...
This Is Not Sparta
Why the Modern Romance With Sparta Is a Bad One
eidolon.pub
February 18, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Agreed. I wrote this: eidolon.pub/this-is-not-...
The Center for Hellenic Studies has hundreds of open access books 📕 for use. I appreciate that the book I use to teach the Helots of Sparta in my ancient slavery class is openly available:
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures - The Center for Hellenic Studies
The name “Helots” evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labor that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functio...
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February 18, 2026 at 12:50 PM
The Center for Hellenic Studies has hundreds of open access books 📕 for use. I appreciate that the book I use to teach the Helots of Sparta in my ancient slavery class is openly available:
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
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Ramadan starts tonight, so wishing all my friends and colleagues ṣawm maqbūl and Ramadan karim!
a greeting card for ramadan kareem with a crescent moon and stars
Alt: a greeting card for ramadan with a crescent moon, lamps, and stars on a purple background
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February 17, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Ramadan starts tonight, so wishing all my friends and colleagues ṣawm maqbūl and Ramadan karim!
Hello, the Association of Ancient Historians meeting will be here in Iowa City from April 16-18, 2026. We are so excited to welcome 23 speakers, 2 keynotes, and dozens of ancient history researchers. Please consider coming over! aah.conference.uiowa.edu
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Hello, the Association of Ancient Historians meeting will be here in Iowa City from April 16-18, 2026. We are so excited to welcome 23 speakers, 2 keynotes, and dozens of ancient history researchers. Please consider coming over! aah.conference.uiowa.edu
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We used one at Ashkelon for aerial photos back in 2012! (the final years of this practice before the quad copters took over).
February 17, 2026 at 12:36 PM
We used one at Ashkelon for aerial photos back in 2012! (the final years of this practice before the quad copters took over).
Hello, just wanted to note that archaeological photographers used to use hot air balloons 🎈to do survey shots (Side Note: during the Civil War, there was a Union Army Balloon Corps). Anyway! I enjoy the history of hot air balloons and liked this: www.penn.museum/sites/expedi...
February 17, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Hello, just wanted to note that archaeological photographers used to use hot air balloons 🎈to do survey shots (Side Note: during the Civil War, there was a Union Army Balloon Corps). Anyway! I enjoy the history of hot air balloons and liked this: www.penn.museum/sites/expedi...
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I also use the “e for example” cue. But for ie I use “i for ‘in other words’”
Maybe a top three thing I learned from five years of Latin classes…
Maybe a top three thing I learned from five years of Latin classes…
February 16, 2026 at 8:51 PM
I also use the “e for example” cue. But for ie I use “i for ‘in other words’”
Maybe a top three thing I learned from five years of Latin classes…
Maybe a top three thing I learned from five years of Latin classes…
There is a fab new book out about the 2022 polychromy exhibition at the Met. It underscores 38 scholars who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 experts in polychromy today. Coming out of polychromy retirement to review _Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today_ for @hyperallergic.com (edited by Natalie Haddad).
How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color
The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.
hyperallergic.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM
There is a fab new book out about the 2022 polychromy exhibition at the Met. It underscores 38 scholars who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 experts in polychromy today. Coming out of polychromy retirement to review _Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today_ for @hyperallergic.com (edited by Natalie Haddad).
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Ancient Grease at its territorial peak
February 16, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Ancient Grease at its territorial peak
Enjoying reading "Egeria’s 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! 🗻
Only complaint: Where are the maps?!
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! 🗻
Only complaint: Where are the maps?!
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February 16, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Enjoying reading "Egeria’s 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! 🗻
Only complaint: Where are the maps?!
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! 🗻
Only complaint: Where are the maps?!
I’d really like to suggest @walterscheidel.bsky.social’s The Great Leveler once again. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
February 16, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I’d really like to suggest @walterscheidel.bsky.social’s The Great Leveler once again. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Our Lupercalia 🐺 cookies are delicious reception with, um, creepy googly eyes. Romulus and Remus could never.
February 16, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Our Lupercalia 🐺 cookies are delicious reception with, um, creepy googly eyes. Romulus and Remus could never.
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Someone with such a huge platform as @theatlantic.com could have used said platform to make the case for federal funding for the arts and humanities and how it was a common good for ALL people and delve into what's happened to #NEH, #NEA, and #IMLS, but...nah.
February 16, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Someone with such a huge platform as @theatlantic.com could have used said platform to make the case for federal funding for the arts and humanities and how it was a common good for ALL people and delve into what's happened to #NEH, #NEA, and #IMLS, but...nah.
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DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
ChatGPT cuts in action
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February 13, 2026 at 11:49 PM
DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Mellon is counterbalancing the takeover of the NEH and NEA. As a funding entity (same with ACLS and Whiting), they are trying to fund the projects that the federal government refuses to. This Atlantic article was such a hot mess.
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Mellon is counterbalancing the takeover of the NEH and NEA. As a funding entity (same with ACLS and Whiting), they are trying to fund the projects that the federal government refuses to. This Atlantic article was such a hot mess.
The pet peeve no one wishes to hear is that midwestern towns have got to stop calling one stage in a field an “amphitheater.” Unless it is two theaters pushed together in a large circle in the round, sir, it is a theater.
February 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The pet peeve no one wishes to hear is that midwestern towns have got to stop calling one stage in a field an “amphitheater.” Unless it is two theaters pushed together in a large circle in the round, sir, it is a theater.
Ave! Big Larry fan over here.
Larry the cat celebrates 15 years as the British government’s official rodent-catcher and unofficial first feline, a reassuring presence who has served under six prime ministers. Sometimes it seems like they have served under him.
‘First feline’ Larry marks 15 years as Britain’s political top cat
Larry the cat is marking 15 years as Britain’s Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street, a symbol of stability in turbulent political times.
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February 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Ave! Big Larry fan over here.
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey is now available electronically.
The print version will be out in the UK in December and in the US in March.
academic.oup.com/book/61677
The print version will be out in the UK in December and in the US in March.
academic.oup.com/book/61677
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey
Abstract. The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary-style essays for non-specia
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November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey is now available electronically.
The print version will be out in the UK in December and in the US in March.
academic.oup.com/book/61677
The print version will be out in the UK in December and in the US in March.
academic.oup.com/book/61677
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We'll be talking about the Lupercalia (thanks for this 👇👇Sarah) on the next episode of Instant Classics, out on Tuesday: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
February 15, 2026 at 12:55 PM
We'll be talking about the Lupercalia (thanks for this 👇👇Sarah) on the next episode of Instant Classics, out on Tuesday: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
February 15, 44 BCE: Plutarch (Life of JC, 61) details the Lupercalia on this day. The consul, Marc Antony, ran through the streets naked (as one does) hitting women with strips of fur. It is unclear to me if he had clothes on when then offering a diadem to Caesar twice. 🐺 But it was a bad look. 👑
February 15, 2026 at 12:47 PM
February 15, 44 BCE: Plutarch (Life of JC, 61) details the Lupercalia on this day. The consul, Marc Antony, ran through the streets naked (as one does) hitting women with strips of fur. It is unclear to me if he had clothes on when then offering a diadem to Caesar twice. 🐺 But it was a bad look. 👑
Happy Valentine’s Day, I got you this rather pedestrian perfume bottle in the shape of a foot with painted sandals and white toenails from the 6th century BCE. 👣 You’re welcome.
February 14, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day, I got you this rather pedestrian perfume bottle in the shape of a foot with painted sandals and white toenails from the 6th century BCE. 👣 You’re welcome.