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Founded in 1944, we publish scholarly articles on all aspects of the Classical world: its history, literature, philosophy, art and archeology.
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New issue of Phoenix Vol. 79, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55982 @phoenixjournal.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @cacscec.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Oedipus: Fate Comes for Us All - New York Stage Review
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Oedipus: Fate Comes for Us All - New York Stage Review
★★★★☆ Mark Strong and Lesley Manville deliver shattering performances in Robert Ickes’ modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy
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November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Tomorrow (Nov 17) at 6:00 pm CST, the University of Illinois welcomes Emily Hauser for a discussion and signing of her book, How Women Became Poets, which redefines the classical literature canon as a struggle to be heard through and despite gender.

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November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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ancient-tokens.bsky.social Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · Sep 19
The first Augustus themed coin box of enlarged 3D printed replicas is off the manufacturing line and ready to go into a school next week! 🙌 a joint project between classics and design studies at Warwick. ☺️
A picture of a box containing 6 enlarged 3D printed coins, as well as an information booklet
September 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The Roman emperor Titus only reigned for two years, starting in 79 CE, the year of the Vesuvian disaster. But he had good news the following year: the opening of the Colosseum in Rome. To commemorate it, he released this gold aureus with an African elephant on the reverse. 🏺 1/

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Gold aureus minted in Rome by the emperor Titus to celebrate the opening of the Flavian Amphitheater, better known today as the Colosseum, in 80 CE (some historians say 81 CE). The obverse has a profile portrait of Titus, and the reverse - seen in this photo - depicts a tusked African elephant, facing left, surrounded by an inscription: TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P. This means “Tribunician Power, Ninth Time; Imperator, Fifteenth Acclamation; Consul, Eighth Term; and PP means Pater Patriae, Father of the Fatherland”. Getty Villa Museum, long term loan
August 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Our managing editor Judith is retiring this month and would like everyone to know that she is hanging out her shingle as a freelance editor. In her time with us, she sent 39 of our 78 volumes to press, and typeset and edited 35 of them. She can be found on Bluesky at academic-editor.bsky.social.
July 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Just watched the leadership debate (Canadian federal election). Carney clearly has Singh’s respect, and I think the Liberals, Block and NDP will make a great team working together for our country.
April 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I see one calm and collected intelligent wartime leader on the stage and three volatile overly emotional clods.

You figure out which is which.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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The ONLY crisis leader on that stage is Carney.

Full stop.
Period.

I don’t need sound bites.
I don’t need fluffy.
I don’t need slogans.

I want calm and focus and brains in my crisis leader.
#cdnpoli #debate
April 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Imaginings of Greek Antiquity and the Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Cinema: International Conference, 27-28/9/2025 – School of Drama – Faculty of Fine Arts – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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April 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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This is one of the earliest depictions of the Colosseum, a bronze sestertius issued by the emperor Titus to commemorate the amphitheater's completion. Only ten are known to exist. You can see the spectators, the statues in the arches, even the quadriga over the entrance. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/

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A dark bronze sestertius from the reign of the Roman emperor Titus (79-81 CE), aka Titus Caesar Vespasianus, son of the emperor Vespasian. The coin depicts the Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre) in great detail - you can see the four arched stories, statues within the arches, and a two story portico (perhaps a connection between the Colosseum and Titus' baths) on the right side. It even depicts the alternating clypea, the huge circular bronze shields once placed on the cornice of the fourth floor, and in the center - facing us - the gilded quadriga sculpture over the north-east entry. On the left is the large conical monumental fountain - the Meta Sudans - which stood outside the Colosseum until 1936, when Mussolini had it destroyed to create a traffic circle for his fascist parades.
March 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Went to check on my new rose bush.. it got hot the past few days and I was blessed with 4 new blooms! #roses #photography
March 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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March 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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For the #IdesofMarch, here's one of the most famous coins to ever be minted: the silver denarius of M. Junius Brutus commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar. It depicts two daggers, a slave's cap of freedom (pileus), and the inscription EID MAR. 🏺 #ancientbluesky

43-42 CE. #MetMuseum
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The Ides of March denarius, issued by Marcus Junius Brutus, is one of the most famous and historic coins ever minted. It commemorates the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BCE, an event that later inspired many works of art, literature, opera, and film. Caesar had declared himself "perpetual dictator" at the beginning of that year, thereby directly prompting the assassination plot by Brutus and a group of other senators who feared for the survival of the Republic under his tyrannical rule. The reverse of the coin shown here not only bears the inscription naming the day of the murder but also depicts two daggers representing the weapons used to stab Caesar to death, as well as a cap usually worn by slaves who had earned their freedom, symbolizing here the liberation of Rome. Inscription: BRVT IMP L PLAET CEST (Brutus, Imperator, Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus), head of Brutus, EID MAR (Ides of March), pilleus (felt cap), and two daggers. Rome, 43-42 BCE. Met Museum (L.2012.74, (ANS 1001.1.24742 Private collection, on loan to the American Numismatic Society)
March 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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“A World Without Caesars”
March 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Historian likens Trump to Nero and Caligula / The New Voice of Ukraine
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March 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Say hello to my little friend, the infant Bacchus. Bronze, with silvered eyes (he once had irises of stone/glass) and copper, he wears an ivy leaf wreath tied with a ribbon, which falls onto his shoulders. He once held a wine cup in his outstretched hand. 🏺

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The wreath of ivy leaves and berries encircling this chubby toddler’s head identify him as the wine god Bacchus (previously identified as Cupid). The son of Jupiter and the mortal woman Semele, Bacchus was raised by nymphs in a mountain cave in the mythical land of Nysa. The objects he may have been carrying in his outstretched hands are now missing, but he probably once held a drinking cup. The young god wears a leafy wreath entwined with a fillet, or ribbon, the copper ends of which fall over his shoulders. The hollowed-out irises of his eyes would have been inlaid with colored stone or glass and the whites covered in silver. In the Hellenistic period, the creation of genre scenes led to an interest in depicting children, which in turn inspired images of the gods and heroes as infants. Roman artists continued this practice, with Bacchus a favorite among these representations. Bronze statues like this one were popular decorative additions to the gardens and courtyards of Roman houses. Roman, bronze with silver and copper, 1st century CE. His patina is kind of wild, very mottled, with brown, orange, yellow, pale green, and very vibrant darker green; he looks like he's wearing a camo outfit! Getty Villa Museum, Pacific Palisades, California (96.AB.53) *Note that this was formerly in the possession of the notorious looted antiquities trafficker Robin Symes, who sold it to Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman in 1987. The Fleischmans then sold it to the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1996. No provenance exists before Symes sold the statuette, and no findspot is known.
March 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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National Greek and Latin Sight Translation Competitions (Scheduled March 24)/ Concours national de versions grecque et latine (Prévu pour le 24 mars) - The Classical Association of Canada
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March 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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The Largest Harbor in Ancient Greece Is Centuries Older Than We Thought
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Lechaion, ancient Greece's largest seaport, was the heart of the region's commerce. A new study reveals it may be even older than we thought.
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March 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Breaking digital silos to share cultural heritage collections
The LUX search tool, which facilitates research across Yale’s collections, now can be replicated by cultural heritage institutions worldwide.
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March 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics job with Colgate University | 37798354
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Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics - Hamilton, New York, United States job with Colgate University | 37798354
The Department of the Classics at Colgate University invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor position in Classics,...
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February 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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felicityhannah.bsky.social Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · Feb 22
The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it
Three marble statues all holding their hands up to their faces
February 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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The Light of the Patara Lighthouse will Shine Again After Centuries

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The Light of the Patara Lighthouse will Shine Again After Centuries
The ancient lighthouse in Patara, built by Roman Emperor Nero and destroyed by natural disasters, has reached the final stages...
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March 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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See the Stunning Frescoes of a Mysterious Dionysian Cult Discovered in Ancient Pompeii | Smithsonian
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See the Stunning Frescoes of a Mysterious Dionysian Cult Discovered in Ancient Pompeii
Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman city
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February 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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How Ancient Greek Physicians Redefined the Understanding of Epilepsy.

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Ancient Greek physicians, including Hippocrates, challenged myths about epilepsy, shifting from divine to medical explanations.
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