Amanda Pavlick
@akpavlick.bsky.social
Roman archaeologist (archaic central Italy, domestic religion, Pompeii), Adjunct Prof @ Xavier, UMass Amherst/Tufts/Cincinnati.
Wine, whiskey/bourbon, burritos, Red Sox, Bruins, 1 excellent tuxedo cat, maybe a few other interests thrown into the mix
Wine, whiskey/bourbon, burritos, Red Sox, Bruins, 1 excellent tuxedo cat, maybe a few other interests thrown into the mix
I'd been tipped off about it a few months ago but only saw it yesterday. I haven't spent time on this - don't have it, right now - but I am locked out of my profile atm
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I'd been tipped off about it a few months ago but only saw it yesterday. I haven't spent time on this - don't have it, right now - but I am locked out of my profile atm
I'm thoroughly enjoying teaching Ancient Egypt for the first time in something like 13 years, and I won't lie - a huge part of that enjoyment is finding all of the things they put legs and feet on
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I'm thoroughly enjoying teaching Ancient Egypt for the first time in something like 13 years, and I won't lie - a huge part of that enjoyment is finding all of the things they put legs and feet on
Well now I have to share my risoli, don’t I?
Amazing to see you, especially in such a wonderful place. Let’s do it again some year!!
Amazing to see you, especially in such a wonderful place. Let’s do it again some year!!
June 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Well now I have to share my risoli, don’t I?
Amazing to see you, especially in such a wonderful place. Let’s do it again some year!!
Amazing to see you, especially in such a wonderful place. Let’s do it again some year!!
Genuinely astonished at the Etruscan necropoleis I’ve been able to explore in northern Lazio the past few days - their scale, their extent - unbelievable. Pictures here is the Tomba Pola, Sovana, 3rd c. BC.
June 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Genuinely astonished at the Etruscan necropoleis I’ve been able to explore in northern Lazio the past few days - their scale, their extent - unbelievable. Pictures here is the Tomba Pola, Sovana, 3rd c. BC.
Looks like today's election caught all of us by surprise, including the Wikipedia editors
May 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Looks like today's election caught all of us by surprise, including the Wikipedia editors
This is an amazing achievement, and it's got to be second to the fact that this is the first time I've felt any hope, *at all,* since November 6
April 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is an amazing achievement, and it's got to be second to the fact that this is the first time I've felt any hope, *at all,* since November 6
Go, Cory, *GO*
(also, hat tip to Wikipedia editors who work almost as hard as Cory Booker)
(also, hat tip to Wikipedia editors who work almost as hard as Cory Booker)
April 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Go, Cory, *GO*
(also, hat tip to Wikipedia editors who work almost as hard as Cory Booker)
(also, hat tip to Wikipedia editors who work almost as hard as Cory Booker)
(There may be no audience for Bruins-centered hockey and Catullus content, but I stand by this post)
February 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
(There may be no audience for Bruins-centered hockey and Catullus content, but I stand by this post)
Spending time with Veii today means I get to visit the Tomb of the Roaring Lions and the eponymous creatures themselves, examples of some of the earliest tomb painting in Italy (ca. 690 BC; discovered 2006. For more, see Jacopo Tabolli, Veii, 2019).
Please, I beg of you: enjoy.
Please, I beg of you: enjoy.
February 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Spending time with Veii today means I get to visit the Tomb of the Roaring Lions and the eponymous creatures themselves, examples of some of the earliest tomb painting in Italy (ca. 690 BC; discovered 2006. For more, see Jacopo Tabolli, Veii, 2019).
Please, I beg of you: enjoy.
Please, I beg of you: enjoy.
Bonus of class prep this afternoon: the breathtaking detail of the eastern side of the Ara Pacis, showing the Tellus and Roma reliefs.
Bronze as of Nero (AD 62-68), minted at Lugdunum
RIC Nero #527
Bronze as of Nero (AD 62-68), minted at Lugdunum
RIC Nero #527
January 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Bonus of class prep this afternoon: the breathtaking detail of the eastern side of the Ara Pacis, showing the Tellus and Roma reliefs.
Bronze as of Nero (AD 62-68), minted at Lugdunum
RIC Nero #527
Bronze as of Nero (AD 62-68), minted at Lugdunum
RIC Nero #527
This was in mine, too, from the same weekend - it’s the interior of our hotel room, at the beginning of its sheeting in ice
January 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This was in mine, too, from the same weekend - it’s the interior of our hotel room, at the beginning of its sheeting in ice
Part of me: Oh! Matinee Bruins game today!
Other part of me: please, no. no more.
Other other part of me:
Other part of me: please, no. no more.
Other other part of me:
January 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Part of me: Oh! Matinee Bruins game today!
Other part of me: please, no. no more.
Other other part of me:
Other part of me: please, no. no more.
Other other part of me:
I'm somewhat confident I won't, but ok
December 20, 2024 at 3:53 PM
I'm somewhat confident I won't, but ok
ClassicsBlueSky is delivering in more ways than I could have realized.... @simontrafford.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 7:56 PM
ClassicsBlueSky is delivering in more ways than I could have realized.... @simontrafford.bsky.social
Finished up my semester on Saturday and for some reason I just can't get on top of the fatigue. Feeling even more like this woman's eye bags as time goes on...
(Mosiac from Pompeii: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Photo my own)
(Mosiac from Pompeii: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Photo my own)
December 16, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Finished up my semester on Saturday and for some reason I just can't get on top of the fatigue. Feeling even more like this woman's eye bags as time goes on...
(Mosiac from Pompeii: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Photo my own)
(Mosiac from Pompeii: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Photo my own)
Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college (university).
(I’m so hungry now!!)
(I’m so hungry now!!)
December 5, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college (university).
(I’m so hungry now!!)
(I’m so hungry now!!)
Totally agree! This is the visualization of the Temple of Jupiter Anxur at Terracina - loved seeing what had been through delightfully low-tech plexiglass. Effective and useful!
November 27, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Totally agree! This is the visualization of the Temple of Jupiter Anxur at Terracina - loved seeing what had been through delightfully low-tech plexiglass. Effective and useful!
The photos with this article are really stunning work, and worth the click-through alone, but the urns are also in amazing shape. Look at the gilding on her necklace!
November 19, 2024 at 3:32 PM
The photos with this article are really stunning work, and worth the click-through alone, but the urns are also in amazing shape. Look at the gilding on her necklace!
Political news, frantic test grading, and the current Bruins score have my blood pressure up, so here is a picture of my favorite little nugget, Gatsby, to chill everything out.
November 19, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Political news, frantic test grading, and the current Bruins score have my blood pressure up, so here is a picture of my favorite little nugget, Gatsby, to chill everything out.
Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with.
November 18, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with.
Finally caught up on 70s week on Bake Off!
November 17, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Finally caught up on 70s week on Bake Off!
What an amazing influx: hello, everyone! I'm an adjunct professor of Classics, New England native (NH, VT, and MA), lover of coffee, wine, burritos. Content here will skew archaeological, primarily Roman and Etruscan, unless I need to yell about the Bruins or Red Sox (it's a bridge year. Again.)
November 13, 2024 at 7:25 PM
What an amazing influx: hello, everyone! I'm an adjunct professor of Classics, New England native (NH, VT, and MA), lover of coffee, wine, burritos. Content here will skew archaeological, primarily Roman and Etruscan, unless I need to yell about the Bruins or Red Sox (it's a bridge year. Again.)
Visualizations of Roman imagines in the home are hard to come by (alas), but this grave stele (Nat'l Museum of Denmark) shows a bust of a man and of a woman, each in cupboards, seeming to indicate they are imagines. Images, more info hard to come by; a shame for something so spectacular!
November 12, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Visualizations of Roman imagines in the home are hard to come by (alas), but this grave stele (Nat'l Museum of Denmark) shows a bust of a man and of a woman, each in cupboards, seeming to indicate they are imagines. Images, more info hard to come by; a shame for something so spectacular!
While I do love the writing group I am a part of and it helps so very much, there are some days when the grind will only grind and never flow, and I end my writing with a note such as this:
November 11, 2024 at 10:06 PM
While I do love the writing group I am a part of and it helps so very much, there are some days when the grind will only grind and never flow, and I end my writing with a note such as this: