@thethirdrichard.bsky.social
Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, Ancient Greek student, historical preservation, poetry and human nature expressed through Art and War
@judithherrin.bsky.social has arrived, your book, The Formation of Christendom, has been excellent so far. I’m looking forward to, and dreading, completing it
February 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
@judithherrin.bsky.social has arrived, your book, The Formation of Christendom, has been excellent so far. I’m looking forward to, and dreading, completing it
The holy, the horny, and the heady. A little theology, a little scandal, and a whole lot of footnotes. 📚 #SaintsAndSinners #FoucaultMadeMeDoIt
January 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The holy, the horny, and the heady. A little theology, a little scandal, and a whole lot of footnotes. 📚 #SaintsAndSinners #FoucaultMadeMeDoIt
The transition of power has officially occurred... the Dems are now concerned about the deficit and the Repubs want to lift the debt cap.
January 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The transition of power has officially occurred... the Dems are now concerned about the deficit and the Repubs want to lift the debt cap.
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Footnotes. Never endnotes. If you disagree see my citations, which I could’ve put here but instead put at the bottom of my Bluesky account.
January 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Footnotes. Never endnotes. If you disagree see my citations, which I could’ve put here but instead put at the bottom of my Bluesky account.
My morning procrastination reading
January 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My morning procrastination reading
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A very good boy guarding his family home for 2,000 years!Roman mosaic in the entrance passage of the House of Paquius Proculus at Pompeii
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
December 30, 2024 at 12:06 PM
A very good boy guarding his family home for 2,000 years!Roman mosaic in the entrance passage of the House of Paquius Proculus at Pompeii
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
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How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their crochet-trimmed circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented).
Season's greetings to you all!
Season's greetings to you all!
December 24, 2024 at 4:45 PM
How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their crochet-trimmed circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented).
Season's greetings to you all!
Season's greetings to you all!
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For #MosaicMonday, from the Archaeological Museum of Sparta, a mosaic depicting Perseus slaying Medusa. Athena stands behind Perseus holding up her reflective shield and Pegasus springs from Medusa's severed neck. Dated to the 3rd century CE.
#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Greece #AncientBlueSky
#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Greece #AncientBlueSky
December 23, 2024 at 4:10 PM
For #MosaicMonday, from the Archaeological Museum of Sparta, a mosaic depicting Perseus slaying Medusa. Athena stands behind Perseus holding up her reflective shield and Pegasus springs from Medusa's severed neck. Dated to the 3rd century CE.
#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Greece #AncientBlueSky
#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Greece #AncientBlueSky
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#MosaicMonday - Sometimes you've got to embrace the brilliance of a delightfully dapper cephalopod. This little fella is one of a few surviving fragments of a huge mosaic from Villaquejida: ca. Early 3rd Century AD. #Octopus #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Madrid (3615)
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Madrid (3615)
December 23, 2024 at 12:38 PM
#MosaicMonday - Sometimes you've got to embrace the brilliance of a delightfully dapper cephalopod. This little fella is one of a few surviving fragments of a huge mosaic from Villaquejida: ca. Early 3rd Century AD. #Octopus #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Madrid (3615)
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Madrid (3615)
I’ll forgive myself because I’m an amateur at best, but why has it taken me this much time to hear about Hellenistic Judaism and Jewish Koine?
December 23, 2024 at 12:59 AM
I’ll forgive myself because I’m an amateur at best, but why has it taken me this much time to hear about Hellenistic Judaism and Jewish Koine?
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Historian: Some call those years the Dark Ages but in reality that was a time of great intellectual ferment.
Historian: Some call those years the Dark Ages but in reality that was a time of great intellectual ferment.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Historian: I was lost in the archives.
Historian: I was lost in the archives.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Rare book cataloguer: [1] i, from 1-9 (8), took a break at [2] I-III8, IV10, then was Cited In and had to Bound-with 2°: πA⁶(πA1+1, πA5+1.2), A-2B6, 2C2, x4, “gg3.4″(±”gg3″), ¶-2¶6, 3¶1, 2a- 2f6, 2g2, “Gg6“, 2h6, 2k-3b7. But eventually, [n.d.]
Rare book cataloguer: [1] i, from 1-9 (8), took a break at [2] I-III8, IV10, then was Cited In and had to Bound-with 2°: πA⁶(πA1+1, πA5+1.2), A-2B6, 2C2, x4, “gg3.4″(±”gg3″), ¶-2¶6, 3¶1, 2a- 2f6, 2g2, “Gg6“, 2h6, 2k-3b7. But eventually, [n.d.]
December 21, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Historian: Some call those years the Dark Ages but in reality that was a time of great intellectual ferment.
Historian: Some call those years the Dark Ages but in reality that was a time of great intellectual ferment.
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Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com
I've read the books, but these are such lovely covers...
In 1933, an 18 yr old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out to walk from Holland to Constantinople (as it was then). These books detail his journey, and unfold a lost world of Dutch peasants, snowy Austrian villages, Mitteleuropean barons and a stay on Mount Athos. If you love books, you should read them.
December 17, 2024 at 4:45 PM
I've read the books, but these are such lovely covers...
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Books are a total scam.
Every single word is already in the dictionary—they’re just selling them back to you in a different order.
Every single word is already in the dictionary—they’re just selling them back to you in a different order.
December 17, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Books are a total scam.
Every single word is already in the dictionary—they’re just selling them back to you in a different order.
Every single word is already in the dictionary—they’re just selling them back to you in a different order.
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New issue of Journal of Late Antiquity Vol. 17, No. 2 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/53367 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
New issue of Journal of Late Antiquity Vol. 17, No. 2 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/53367 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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December 9, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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Checking this manuscript for work and was delighted to find a surprise owl, silver skies, and silly monkeys (Besançon, ca. 1470; MS M.28)
December 9, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Checking this manuscript for work and was delighted to find a surprise owl, silver skies, and silly monkeys (Besançon, ca. 1470; MS M.28)
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XXL transport containers: Two huge #Roman wooden barrels in an outstanding state of preservation, found in Xanten. Both had a capacity of approx. 1250 l and were used to transport #wine from the Mediterranean region to the Lower Rhine. They were recycled for lining wells.1/2
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
December 7, 2024 at 7:37 AM
XXL transport containers: Two huge #Roman wooden barrels in an outstanding state of preservation, found in Xanten. Both had a capacity of approx. 1250 l and were used to transport #wine from the Mediterranean region to the Lower Rhine. They were recycled for lining wells.1/2
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
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A 3rd c. fresco from the catacomb of Praetextatus thought to be the earliest depiction of Jesus healing the woman with the flow of blood (Mk 5:25-34).
Jesus is the fragmentary figure on the right. The woman can be seen in the background reaching out to touch his robe. (Wilpert watercolor)
Jesus is the fragmentary figure on the right. The woman can be seen in the background reaching out to touch his robe. (Wilpert watercolor)
December 7, 2024 at 5:06 PM
A 3rd c. fresco from the catacomb of Praetextatus thought to be the earliest depiction of Jesus healing the woman with the flow of blood (Mk 5:25-34).
Jesus is the fragmentary figure on the right. The woman can be seen in the background reaching out to touch his robe. (Wilpert watercolor)
Jesus is the fragmentary figure on the right. The woman can be seen in the background reaching out to touch his robe. (Wilpert watercolor)
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Brilliant stuff - about my clever colleague Ine Jacobs @OxfordByzantine @UniofOxford. Move over, Indiana Jones !
www.development.ox.ac.uk/impact-stori...
www.development.ox.ac.uk/impact-stori...
Unearthing the secrets of the Byzantine world
With support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Dr Ine Jacobs is digging into the history of an empire that sat at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa for over a millennium.
www.development.ox.ac.uk
December 6, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Brilliant stuff - about my clever colleague Ine Jacobs @OxfordByzantine @UniofOxford. Move over, Indiana Jones !
www.development.ox.ac.uk/impact-stori...
www.development.ox.ac.uk/impact-stori...
No, I had no idea. But that’s one of the coolest things I’ve heard in a while
Did you know: the engagement ring of the last Byzantine emperor survives?
December 7, 2024 at 12:32 AM
No, I had no idea. But that’s one of the coolest things I’ve heard in a while
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8 of Horns, from The Cloisters Playing Cards https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/475531
November 27, 2024 at 11:35 AM
8 of Horns, from The Cloisters Playing Cards https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/475531