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Amanda Pavlick
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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
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'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
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!!
June 24, 2025 at 8:33 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.
June 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Looks like today's election caught all of us by surprise, including the Wikipedia editors
May 8, 2025 at 5:38 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
April 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Go, Cory, *GO*

(also, hat tip to Wikipedia editors who work almost as hard as Cory Booker)
April 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
😉
March 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
(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
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.
February 13, 2025 at 7:45 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
January 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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
Part of me: Oh! Matinee Bruins game today!

Other part of me: please, no. no more.

Other other part of me:
January 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I'm somewhat confident I won't, but ok
December 20, 2024 at 3:53 PM
ClassicsBlueSky is delivering in more ways than I could have realized.... @simontrafford.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 7:56 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)
December 16, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college (university).

(I’m so hungry now!!)
December 5, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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
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
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
Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with.
November 18, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Finally caught up on 70s week on Bake Off!
November 17, 2024 at 4:34 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.)
November 13, 2024 at 7:25 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!
November 12, 2024 at 6:14 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:
November 11, 2024 at 10:06 PM