Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Pinned
Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
Discovered in 2019, the 1,700-year-old merchant ship reveals details about early Christian trade.
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My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
The first rule of plutocrat AI competitions is 1. name your new company with a classical allusion or Tolkien reference. I see Bezos went with the former. How… great.
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The first rule of plutocrat AI competitions is 1. name your new company with a classical allusion or Tolkien reference. I see Bezos went with the former. How… great.
Words really can’t express how important @archive.org is in the world of information science, but it’s also pivotal to preserving digital histories targeted and then erased by the federal government as well. If you can?
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business
The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Words really can’t express how important @archive.org is in the world of information science, but it’s also pivotal to preserving digital histories targeted and then erased by the federal government as well. If you can?
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
A little obsessed with this new project on the world of fragrances in ancient Arabia. “The starting point is an investigation of fragrances from the Tayma oasis in NW Saudi Arabia – a central hub in the ancient trade network between the Med. region & South Arabia.”
www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...
www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...
November 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
A little obsessed with this new project on the world of fragrances in ancient Arabia. “The starting point is an investigation of fragrances from the Tayma oasis in NW Saudi Arabia – a central hub in the ancient trade network between the Med. region & South Arabia.”
www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...
www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...
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This week on the blog: Hoplites! We're taking a crack at explaining the long-running debate over the nature and significance of the ancient Greek heavy infantryman, the hoplite, and the phalanx in which he (mostly) fought.
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Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part I: The Othismos over Othismos
This week (and next) we’re looking at hoplites, the heavy infantry of the ancient Greek poleis in the (early? mid? late?) Archaic and Classical periods, into the Hellenistic. In particular, I…
acoup.blog
November 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This week on the blog: Hoplites! We're taking a crack at explaining the long-running debate over the nature and significance of the ancient Greek heavy infantryman, the hoplite, and the phalanx in which he (mostly) fought.
acoup.blog/2025/11/14/c...
acoup.blog/2025/11/14/c...
“Faces in the Crowds: The So-Called Fayyum Portraits and the Aftereffects of Photography” From @emuehlbe.bsky.social’s new book, Things Unseen, on UC Press’ website for free!
www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1... A few of my own pics of Fayyum portraits below from Yale University Art Gallery.
www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1... A few of my own pics of Fayyum portraits below from Yale University Art Gallery.
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“Faces in the Crowds: The So-Called Fayyum Portraits and the Aftereffects of Photography” From @emuehlbe.bsky.social’s new book, Things Unseen, on UC Press’ website for free!
www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1... A few of my own pics of Fayyum portraits below from Yale University Art Gallery.
www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1... A few of my own pics of Fayyum portraits below from Yale University Art Gallery.
“I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”
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ia600508.us.archive.org/13/items/the...
November 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”
ia600508.us.archive.org/13/items/the...
ia600508.us.archive.org/13/items/the...
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like, you might think the base shit on display is *separate* from the power these people have gotten, and I am here to tell you that making other people objects, not thinking of them as agents with their own futures, well, that is inherent in the model of power we have collectively said yes to
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
like, you might think the base shit on display is *separate* from the power these people have gotten, and I am here to tell you that making other people objects, not thinking of them as agents with their own futures, well, that is inherent in the model of power we have collectively said yes to
Also a T-O map
The earth, the moon, and the sun
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 396; Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; 9th century (end); Brittany or Wales (?); f.16r
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 396; Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; 9th century (end); Brittany or Wales (?); f.16r
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Also a T-O map
Why were there so many sculptures (36 marbles and 16 bronzes) in the Antikythera wreck (70-50 BCE)? A great new, open access article by Brian Martens for ABSA argues they were for a gymnasion. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A really interesting take 125 years after this monumental discovery.
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Why were there so many sculptures (36 marbles and 16 bronzes) in the Antikythera wreck (70-50 BCE)? A great new, open access article by Brian Martens for ABSA argues they were for a gymnasion. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A really interesting take 125 years after this monumental discovery.
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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This week Lawfare launched a new project aimed at tracking domestic deployments.
Loren Voss discusses the monthlong effort to track domestic deployments which revealed a troubling lack of transparency on why & how military forces are used on U.S. soil. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/coun...
Loren Voss discusses the monthlong effort to track domestic deployments which revealed a troubling lack of transparency on why & how military forces are used on U.S. soil. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/coun...
Counting the Boots: Tracking Domestic Deployments, One Missing Report at a Time
A monthlong effort to track domestic deployments revealed a troubling lack of transparency on why and how military forces are used on U.S. soil.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This week Lawfare launched a new project aimed at tracking domestic deployments.
Loren Voss discusses the monthlong effort to track domestic deployments which revealed a troubling lack of transparency on why & how military forces are used on U.S. soil. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/coun...
Loren Voss discusses the monthlong effort to track domestic deployments which revealed a troubling lack of transparency on why & how military forces are used on U.S. soil. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/coun...
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
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#OtD 15 Nov 1971 a series of rolling strikes began at the Alfa Romeo car plant in Portello, Italy over a new contract. The bitter struggle of workers against the employers, the police, and sometimes the unions and the Communist Party, lasted until Feb stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8724...
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#OtD 15 Nov 1971 a series of rolling strikes began at the Alfa Romeo car plant in Portello, Italy over a new contract. The bitter struggle of workers against the employers, the police, and sometimes the unions and the Communist Party, lasted until Feb stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8724...
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The CFP for the Association of Ancient Historians meeting is up and abstracts are due on December 1. Please look at all the panel themes and apply! aah.conference.uiowa.edu
AAH Annual Conference 2026 | The University of Iowa
CFP: Association of Ancient Historians Meeting 2026: Iowa City: The 2026 AAH Annual Meeting will take place in person at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA from April 16-18, 2026. We invite abstr...
aah.conference.uiowa.edu
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The CFP for the Association of Ancient Historians meeting is up and abstracts are due on December 1. Please look at all the panel themes and apply! aah.conference.uiowa.edu
The NEH is showing favoritism to projects in alignment with the administration. As we have known for many months now. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The NEH is showing favoritism to projects in alignment with the administration. As we have known for many months now. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
The CFP for the Association of Ancient Historians meeting is up and abstracts are due on December 1. Please look at all the panel themes and apply! aah.conference.uiowa.edu
AAH Annual Conference 2026 | The University of Iowa
CFP: Association of Ancient Historians Meeting 2026: Iowa City: The 2026 AAH Annual Meeting will take place in person at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA from April 16-18, 2026. We invite abstr...
aah.conference.uiowa.edu
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The CFP for the Association of Ancient Historians meeting is up and abstracts are due on December 1. Please look at all the panel themes and apply! aah.conference.uiowa.edu
It came out last year, but circled back to BICS to read “Domestic violence & vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene*” by Eleanor Cowan and @senex64.bsky.social. Definitely wanted to engage after reading about Augustine’s mother Monnica’s abusive marriage academic.oup.com/bics/article...
Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene*
This volume arises from a project born in part of statistics, or rather of the reality those statistics reveal. Globally, one in every three women in the t
academic.oup.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It came out last year, but circled back to BICS to read “Domestic violence & vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene*” by Eleanor Cowan and @senex64.bsky.social. Definitely wanted to engage after reading about Augustine’s mother Monnica’s abusive marriage academic.oup.com/bics/article...
I’m married to a Joyce professor. And I feel our 17 copies of Ulysses mocking me from our bookshelves every day.
I am reading Ulysses by James Joyce and as it turns out I don't know how to read
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I’m married to a Joyce professor. And I feel our 17 copies of Ulysses mocking me from our bookshelves every day.
The eyes (of the Alexander sarcophagus) have it 👁️ 👁️
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The eyes (of the Alexander sarcophagus) have it 👁️ 👁️
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Patrick Dixon spoke to the University of Iowa's Sarah Bond about her recent book 'Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire' on last week's episode of the Labor Heritage Power Hour.
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Strikes Across Time — Casa Bonita to the Washington Post to Ancient Rome | Labor Heritage Power Hour
On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: three stories of strikes and solidarity in the arts. Casa Bonita performers in Denver walk out for fair pay and safety; journalist Pete Tucker revisits the 19...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Patrick Dixon spoke to the University of Iowa's Sarah Bond about her recent book 'Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire' on last week's episode of the Labor Heritage Power Hour.
yourrightsatwork.podbean.com/e/strikes-ac...
yourrightsatwork.podbean.com/e/strikes-ac...
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Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
press.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Law can preserve Roman and medieval anxieties in a weird (but intriguing) type of amber.
Is it illegal to wear a suit of armour in Parliament in your country?
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Law can preserve Roman and medieval anxieties in a weird (but intriguing) type of amber.
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slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
November 14, 1152 BCE: the first recorded workers' strike occurred in ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Ramses III. Artisans and laborers working on the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina stopped working in protest of delayed and insufficient rations, a form of wages. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi...
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
November 14, 1152 BCE: the first recorded workers' strike occurred in ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Ramses III. Artisans and laborers working on the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina stopped working in protest of delayed and insufficient rations, a form of wages. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi...
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.