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Sissel Undheim
@unsissel.bsky.social
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Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools.


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jilltxt.bsky.social
Du hørte kanskje at NTB publiserte en KI-generert melding sist uke. Visste du at KI-sammendraget endret sikkerhetstrussel fra fiendtlige statlige aktører til ekstemvær og aldrende teknologi? Slik ideologisk vridning viser at KI-bias kan være en sikkerhetsrisiko. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
Teknologien truer kunnskapssystemet vårt. Men den norske staten har slukt tekgigantenes PR rått.
Les kronikken.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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wmarybeard.bsky.social
Catch our real life Roman ghost story on Instant Classics tinyurl.com/7t2kpzuh On Thursday we are dropping the follow up episode on the underworld in epic. Come and meet the ghosts of the Odyssey and the Aeneid.
Roman Ghostbusters
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 30/10/2025 · 38m
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November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Huge LEGO Roman City Has One Million Pieces - Give Bread and Circuses - Bell of Lost Souls
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Huge LEGO Roman City Has One Million Pieces - Give Bread and Circuses
Step back in history with this massive LEGO Roman City, including hundreds of thousands of pieces and detailed buildings.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Sleeping Cupid Unearthed in Pula: A Rare Masterpiece of Ancient Roman Art - Arkeonews
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Sleeping Cupid Unearthed in Pula: A Rare Masterpiece of Ancient Roman Art - Arkeonews
During excavations in the historic center of the Croatian, archaeologists uncovered a finely carved marble sculpture of a “Sleeping Cupid,”
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November 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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janeskj.bsky.social
Happy to be editing the book series Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan) with Kees de Groot!

Looking forward to future book proposals!

@drrachelwagner.bsky.social @unsissel.bsky.social @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social

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Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture
Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (CRPC) invites renewed engagement between religious studies and media studies, anthropology, literary studies, art ...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
Small blue glass bottle with a round base and a long narrow neck, decorated with white swirling patterns. The bottle rests on a textured dark surface, reflecting light across its glossy finish
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Happy #Halloween
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.

Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper

#RomanArchaeology
Oval intaglio engraved with a skeletal human figure resting on an amphora and holding a jug, carved in translucent amber-colored stone.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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wmarybeard.bsky.social
What better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Roman Ghostbusters
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 30/10/2025 · 38m
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October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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nyashajunior.bsky.social
Gospel According to the Klan
The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
by @kellyjbaker.bsky.social
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October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Packed-out audience for @lucygrig.bsky.social's inaugural lecture @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...
Inaugural Lecture - Professor Lucy Grig | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
Professor Lucy Grig - Professor of the History of Late Antiquity - will give her inaugural lecture on 'A slow history of Late Antiquity'.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
✨The Eleusinian Mysteries✨

Demeter and Persephone flank a young youth thought to be Triptolemos. This beautiful Augustan era rendition based on a Greek relief is our pick for #ReliefWednesday and #ClassicsTober25.
Description from the Met: “Demeter, the goddess of agricultural abundance, stands at the left holding a sceptre. At the right is Persephone, her daughter and the wife of Hades, the god of the underworld. Each goddess extends her right hand toward a nude youth. The boy is thought to be Triptolemos, who was sent by Demeter to teach men how to cultivate grain. The original marble relief was found at the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis, the site of the Eleusinian mysteries, a secret cult that was famous throughout antiquity. The original Greek work and a number of Roman copies survive. Here the ten Roman fragments are embedded in a cast of the Greek relief.“
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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protik.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
unsissel.bsky.social
Hell - the most obvious conference venue.

#iahr #easr #aar #sbl #acrel
Photo of hallway with text indicating direction: "Hell Congress Hall". Taken in the lobby of Scandic Hotel Hell, Norway.
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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ullamr.bsky.social
@classicstober.bsky.social Day 27 of #ClassicsTober25: The Erinyes were chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Their Roman counterparts are the Furies, also known as the Dirae. #ClassicsTober
Clytemnestra tries to awaken the sleeping Erinyes. Detail from an Apulian red-figure bell-krater, 380–370 BC.
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#EpigraphyTuesday – Hopefully an appropriate choice as we approach the heights of 'Spooky Season', with this triple statuette of Diana-Hecate: ca. Late 2nd Century – 3rd Century AD. #Halloween #Latin 🧵🏺

Image: British Museum (1805,0703.14); CIL VI, 9089. Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Marble triple statue of Diana. Latin inscription on the base recording dedication by Aelius Barbarus, freed slave of the Emperor. Modern restorations.
October 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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stephenwaldron.bsky.social
I've been meaning to share my review of @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social's The Violent Take It By Force on the Reading Religion site. Here it is: readingreligion.org/978150649778...

As I mention, the book is both well-researched and very accessible to a wide audience. Read it if you haven't yet!
The Violent Take It by Force - Reading Religion
A propulsive account of the network of charismatic Christians that consolidated support for Donald Trump and is reshaping religion and politics in the US.Ove...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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fromtga.bsky.social
Prague is now the capital of a normal country – alas!
My latest commentary…
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When populists win in Prague, that’s nothing peculiarly ‘east European’. It’s the new normal of the western world | Timothy Garton Ash
The likely new Czech government will add one more state opposed to the EU’s green deal and migration and asylum pact, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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October 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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stfisherhoyrem.bsky.social
Jeg vet lite om Subjektredaktørens faglige ekspertise, men det finnes mange religionsvitere og sosiologer mediene godt kunne spurt om eventuelle endringer i befolkningens varierende trosuttrykk. Dette er fagfelt med pågående samtaler, og det burde ikke være vanskelig å finne noen som er med i dem.
October 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social
Obviously millions of people turned out yesterday for the #NoKings protest so why isn’t that the headline on all the American papers?

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Millions across all 50 US states march in No Kings protests against Trump
Crowds of Americans, many in costumes, aligned behind message that US is sliding into authoritarianism
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October 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candida R. Moss, and Joseph A. Howley Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean Advances the interdisciplinary study of enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean, bringing together classicists and scholars of religion Bridges the fields of book history, modern slavery studies, and ancient Mediterranean studies Prompts readers to rethink ideas of authorship, credit, and the origins of ancient texts and ideas Offers a collection of essays that are thematically organized around specific topics--such as gender, justice, disability, and letters-for easy adoption across a wide range of courses and disciplines $99.00 Hardcover Published: 01 October 2025 384 Pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches ISBN: 9780197769966 Also Available As: E-book Bookseller Code (06)
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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katexe.bsky.social
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 8:45 AM
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christhard.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Carson shows us how extremism, when it takes hold, provides these young men with purpose, work, a narrative, hope and clearly defined roles. It also provides them with a set of people [...] to hate, to blame, to punish and, quite quickly, to beat and to kill."
A prophetic 1933 novel has found a surprising second life – it holds lessons for us all | Charlotte Higgins
Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross was written and set during the rise of nazism. It shows both how extremism takes hold, and the moral certainty needed to resist it, says the Guardian’s chief culture write...
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October 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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wmarybeard.bsky.social
On Instant Classics now, a deep dive into Cassandra, the Trojan prophet doomed to tell the truth but never be believed. We reflect on the story from Aeschylus to Taylor Swift & find more than meets the eye. tinyurl.com/mrymayzp
Cassandra: Prophet Of The Modern World?
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 09/10/2025 · 49m
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October 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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chancebonar.bsky.social
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!

I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!

Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
October 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM