Tom Elliott
@paregorios.bsky.social
Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Works for NYU's https://isaw.nyu.edu, but lives near Huntsville, Alabama. Editor/PI of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org).
Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
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Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
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Cambridge University Press
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
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view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
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The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
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I have been playing with the open source "UMap" along with CAWM & DARE Maptiles of the Roman Empire to help people make their own maps for websites, teaching, and books using ancient world data. Is there any interest in learning the basics of DIY maps? umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/ancie...
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have been playing with the open source "UMap" along with CAWM & DARE Maptiles of the Roman Empire to help people make their own maps for websites, teaching, and books using ancient world data. Is there any interest in learning the basics of DIY maps? umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/ancie...
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#CuttingEdge Epigraphy seminar today (17:00 GMT): Recording Inscriptions and Epigraphic Editions in Wikidata, by Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini & @maxguen.bsky.social.
This seminar is intended for both beginners + advanced participants with an interest in digital epigraphy ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
This seminar is intended for both beginners + advanced participants with an interest in digital epigraphy ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Recording Inscriptions and Epigraphic Editions in Wikidata
ics.sas.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#CuttingEdge Epigraphy seminar today (17:00 GMT): Recording Inscriptions and Epigraphic Editions in Wikidata, by Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini & @maxguen.bsky.social.
This seminar is intended for both beginners + advanced participants with an interest in digital epigraphy ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
This seminar is intended for both beginners + advanced participants with an interest in digital epigraphy ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Added "Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi" to "Very Clean URIs": wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Very_clean_U... #DigiClass #DigitalClassicist. #LAWDI
Very clean URIs - The Digital Classicist Wiki
wiki.digitalclassicist.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Added "Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi" to "Very Clean URIs": wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Very_clean_U... #DigiClass #DigitalClassicist. #LAWDI
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This is good but I would add, “ Having already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, mostly children, around the world, Republicans now want to starve American kids too.“
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is good but I would add, “ Having already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, mostly children, around the world, Republicans now want to starve American kids too.“
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The "Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi" website is very nice. Here's a link to "Classification". Click through to pages with individual examples. And click around the entire site. It's well done. I'd like to visit! statuestele.org/stele-statue...
Classification - Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi
Group A
statuestele.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The "Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi" website is very nice. Here's a link to "Classification". Click through to pages with individual examples. And click around the entire site. It's well done. I'd like to visit! statuestele.org/stele-statue...
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Last week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (3-10 November 2025), the Pleiades editorial college published 14 new and 634 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Ilaria Cristofaro, Stuart Dunn, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies […]
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November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Last week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (3-10 November 2025), the Pleiades editorial college published 14 new and 634 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Ilaria Cristofaro, Stuart Dunn, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies […]
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[Original post on hcommons.social]
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Since the "Replacement Theory" is back in the news, here is a short run-down on its history that I wrote for @hyperallergic.com—along with the pernicious quote of Cassius Dio uses by white supremacists to justify their beliefs.
hyperallergic.com/514034/the-o...
hyperallergic.com/514034/the-o...
The Origins of White Supremacists' Fear of Replacement
This fear of being replaced can be traced to the French far right, but racist fears regarding supposed White genocide, and invasion by varied ethnic groups, go back centuries.
hyperallergic.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Since the "Replacement Theory" is back in the news, here is a short run-down on its history that I wrote for @hyperallergic.com—along with the pernicious quote of Cassius Dio uses by white supremacists to justify their beliefs.
hyperallergic.com/514034/the-o...
hyperallergic.com/514034/the-o...
Just ran an out-of-cycle update to the #PleiadesGazetteer Linked Data Sidebar to take in the latest exports from our friends at itiner-e.org Roman roads project. More: hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
Tom Elliott (@paregorios@hcommons.social)
Now that the Roman Roads project https://itiner-e.org is live, daily exports are available so I've just updated #PleiadesGazetteer sidebar with the latest (first update in a year). Results: 59 Pleiade...
hcommons.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Just ran an out-of-cycle update to the #PleiadesGazetteer Linked Data Sidebar to take in the latest exports from our friends at itiner-e.org Roman roads project. More: hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
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Well this is fab - Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads: the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. Hasn't quite reached Scotland yet (plenty of Roman roads up here yet to be added), but fun to explore! itiner-e.org
itiner-e
itiner-e.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Well this is fab - Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads: the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. Hasn't quite reached Scotland yet (plenty of Roman roads up here yet to be added), but fun to explore! itiner-e.org
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Extreme abuse in ICE detention is a growing pattern across the nation — and increasingly, ICE is refusing to allow members of Congress to access these facilities.
We're calling on Congress to continue holding ICE accountable.
We're calling on Congress to continue holding ICE accountable.
Shut Down the ICE Detention Machine
Immigrant detention is inhumane, arbitrary, and rife with abuse. Take action to shut down ICE's supercharged detention machine now.
action.aclu.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Extreme abuse in ICE detention is a growing pattern across the nation — and increasingly, ICE is refusing to allow members of Congress to access these facilities.
We're calling on Congress to continue holding ICE accountable.
We're calling on Congress to continue holding ICE accountable.
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ICE is denying people their due process rights and endangering their lives in the process.
“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official who worked on oversight and detention issues. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”
“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official who worked on oversight and detention issues. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”
Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
ICE is denying people their due process rights and endangering their lives in the process.
“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official who worked on oversight and detention issues. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”
“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official who worked on oversight and detention issues. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”
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Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!
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The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context
The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context is the second round of the Pahlavi Papyri Workshop to be held in Innsbruck: Tuesday, 25 November – Wednesday, 26 November 2025. The workshop is organized by Bernhard Palme, Robert Rollinger and Touraj…
The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context is the second round of the Pahlavi Papyri Workshop to be held in Innsbruck: Tuesday, 25 November – Wednesday, 26 November 2025. The workshop is organized by Bernhard Palme, Robert Rollinger and Touraj…
The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context
The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context is the second round of the Pahlavi Papyri Workshop to be held in Innsbruck: Tuesday, 25 November – Wednesday, 26 November 2025. The workshop is organized by Bernhard Palme, Robert Rollinger and Touraj Daryaee. Address: Seminar rooms 04K100/04M100 (4th floor) and 14 (1st floor), Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck To see the program, click here.
www.biblioiranica.info
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context
The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context is the second round of the Pahlavi Papyri Workshop to be held in Innsbruck: Tuesday, 25 November – Wednesday, 26 November 2025. The workshop is organized by Bernhard Palme, Robert Rollinger and Touraj…
The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context is the second round of the Pahlavi Papyri Workshop to be held in Innsbruck: Tuesday, 25 November – Wednesday, 26 November 2025. The workshop is organized by Bernhard Palme, Robert Rollinger and Touraj…
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Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis
www.cambridge.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Another 448 #PleiadesGazetteer place resources have just had ToposText and/or Wikidata references added to them as supplied by Brady Kiesling and checked/adjusted by me.
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
Tom Elliott (@paregorios@hcommons.social)
Another 448 #PleiadesGazetteer place resources have just had ToposText and/or Wikidata references added to them as supplied by Brady Kiesling and checked/adjusted by me.
hcommons.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Another 448 #PleiadesGazetteer place resources have just had ToposText and/or Wikidata references added to them as supplied by Brady Kiesling and checked/adjusted by me.
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
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There are now 500 figures in GAERHF. And counting... Long way to go before it's anything like comprehensive. This face from Argentina captures my mood as I think about where this all will end up. gaerhf.org#condorhuasi-... (Pic of Mask from Met Museum, Public Domain.)
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
There are now 500 figures in GAERHF. And counting... Long way to go before it's anything like comprehensive. This face from Argentina captures my mood as I think about where this all will end up. gaerhf.org#condorhuasi-... (Pic of Mask from Met Museum, Public Domain.)
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Semi-functional UI development: "Keyword Highlighting". See pic. There's a small textbox at top left with "Gold". Green rings are figures with that keyword. I've clicked on a S. American beaker, highlighted in red, details in top pane. Pop-up is on hover over green marker. gaerhf.org#beaker-figur...
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Semi-functional UI development: "Keyword Highlighting". See pic. There's a small textbox at top left with "Gold". Green rings are figures with that keyword. I've clicked on a S. American beaker, highlighted in red, details in top pane. Pop-up is on hover over green marker. gaerhf.org#beaker-figur...
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Struck by the admission in this that Johnson doesn't think the GOP could ever really win a majority of voters in its current form and so relies on minoritarian rule to wield power.
That is a significant - I'd argue defining - difference from the Reagan-Bush era GOP.
That is a significant - I'd argue defining - difference from the Reagan-Bush era GOP.
Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Struck by the admission in this that Johnson doesn't think the GOP could ever really win a majority of voters in its current form and so relies on minoritarian rule to wield power.
That is a significant - I'd argue defining - difference from the Reagan-Bush era GOP.
That is a significant - I'd argue defining - difference from the Reagan-Bush era GOP.
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Quick reminder that @isawnyu.bsky.social is having a VIrtual Open House for Prospective Students day after tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 5th, 10AM US Eastern time). Info and registration at isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please share if you think someone who would be interested hasn't signed up. Thanks!
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Quick reminder that @isawnyu.bsky.social is having a VIrtual Open House for Prospective Students day after tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 5th, 10AM US Eastern time). Info and registration at isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please share if you think someone who would be interested hasn't signed up. Thanks!
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#ISAW invites submissions for the graduate student conference: Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World held March 5-6th. Submissions are due by December 19th and should be emailed to isawstudentconference@gmail.com.
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#ISAW invites submissions for the graduate student conference: Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World held March 5-6th. Submissions are due by December 19th and should be emailed to isawstudentconference@gmail.com.
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
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Last week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (27 October - 3 November 2025), the Pleiades editorial college published 15 new and 466 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Sean […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Last week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (27 October - 3 November 2025), the Pleiades editorial college published 15 new and 466 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Sean […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
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Caucasus Heritage Watch has started crowdfunding. Anyone unfamiliar with their work should devote some time to their website.
Satellite monitoring is currently the only way to track the condition of hundreds of Armenian cultural heritage sites in Azerbaijan. Monitoring supports accountability.
Satellite monitoring is currently the only way to track the condition of hundreds of Armenian cultural heritage sites in Azerbaijan. Monitoring supports accountability.
Caucasus Heritage Watch
Help Cornell University raise $10,000 for the project: Caucasus Heritage Watch. Your gift will make a difference!
crowdfunding.cornell.edu
November 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Caucasus Heritage Watch has started crowdfunding. Anyone unfamiliar with their work should devote some time to their website.
Satellite monitoring is currently the only way to track the condition of hundreds of Armenian cultural heritage sites in Azerbaijan. Monitoring supports accountability.
Satellite monitoring is currently the only way to track the condition of hundreds of Armenian cultural heritage sites in Azerbaijan. Monitoring supports accountability.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching