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Sissel Undheim
@unsissel.bsky.social
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Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools.


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unsissel.bsky.social
Have a happy and relaxed #Caturday!
#CatsofPompeii
Tabby cat sleeping in the middle of the Pompeii street (via Consolare, at the porta Ercolano). Photo: me, 17.11.2025
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
unsissel.bsky.social
More Stabia beauty for #FrescoFriday, with this reader immersed in his scroll. From Villa Arianna.
Profile, 3/4 of man reading in central panel, with light background and delicate architectonical features, flanked by red and yellow mostly monochrome panels, partly framed by architectonical elements. Villa Arianna (Ariadne), Stabia
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
unsissel.bsky.social
Suffering severe #sblaar / #aarsbl fomo, but spending some days in Stabia and Pompei do help.
And it's #FrescoFriday!
#VillaSanMarco
Part of wall fresco at Villa San Marco in Stabia. Lower part of the panel in dark red background, small female figure dressed in yellow over blue long dress standing at the bottom, holding the partly veiled Palladium (?) and a downward pointed rod. Upper panel:light background, female, semi-dressed, sitting with her back and face turned towards the viewer, holding a lyre. Panel framed by delicate gold pattern on left side and a slim solid golden column on the right.
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
✨Hephaestus and Thetis✨

This #FrescoFriday we drop in on Hephaestus who has just finishes forging the armour for Achilles. Thetis, Achilles’ mum, is right on hand for the pick up! This piece is held in the MAN Napoli.

#AncientRome
The scene shows Hephaestus on the left, seated and holding out a large shield to an attendant. Below Hephaestus sits another blacksmith working on the final details of the helmet. The pile of armour in vivid golds sits in the lower middle of the scene. Thetis sits to the right watching on with another attendant. Image credit to Sebastià Giralt via Flickr.
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#ReliefWednesday - I'm feeling the love today, so here she is in person, with this beautiful polychrome representation of Aphrodite from Dura-Europos, Syria: ca. AD 200-256. #Love #Archaeology 🏺

Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
Plaster niche-relief showing Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and sexuality, brushing her hair and gazing into a mirror. She sports bracelets, anklets, and breast ornaments, with surviving traces of the ancient red pigments still showing.
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
✨The Seasons✨

This #FrescoFriday we travel to Block 10, Regio IX of Pompeii to enjoy some of the details from the blue room unveiled during archaeological work in 2024. The room is thought to have been a sacrarium — “a shrine devoted to ritual activities and the storage of sacred objects”.
Depicted on the luminous blue walls are personifications of the seasons amid architectural motifs. Here we see a figure identified as related to Autumn.
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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supercamilla.bsky.social
"Det er alt for farleg å bruke det i yrke der kunnskap er viktig, og det gjeld veldig mange yrke: Journalistikk, utdanning, forsking, prosjektarbeid og mykje anna."

Takk for at du bruker den faglige tyngden din til å si klart i fra @jilltxt.bsky.social 💚
KI-forskar Jill Walker Rettberg vil ha KI ut av kunnskapsarbeidet
Nyheter | Kunstig intelligens KI-forskaren som seier stopp Kunstig intelligens høyrer ikkje heime i kunnskapsarbeid, seier Jill Walker Rettberg. Ho meiner det må bli slutt på å unnskylde språkmodell-s...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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kristadalton.bsky.social
I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project!
fordhampress.com/theoria
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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jilltxt.bsky.social
Du hørte kanskje at NTB publiserte en KI-generert melding sist uke. Visste du at KI-sammendraget endret sikkerhetstrussel fra fiendtlige statlige aktører til ekstemvær og aldrende teknologi? Slik ideologisk vridning viser at KI-bias kan være en sikkerhetsrisiko. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
Teknologien truer kunnskapssystemet vårt. Men den norske staten har slukt tekgigantenes PR rått.
Les kronikken.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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wmarybeard.bsky.social
Catch our real life Roman ghost story on Instant Classics tinyurl.com/7t2kpzuh On Thursday we are dropping the follow up episode on the underworld in epic. Come and meet the ghosts of the Odyssey and the Aeneid.
Roman Ghostbusters
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 30/10/2025 · 38m
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November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Huge LEGO Roman City Has One Million Pieces - Give Bread and Circuses - Bell of Lost Souls
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Huge LEGO Roman City Has One Million Pieces - Give Bread and Circuses
Step back in history with this massive LEGO Roman City, including hundreds of thousands of pieces and detailed buildings.
www.belloflostsouls.net
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Sleeping Cupid Unearthed in Pula: A Rare Masterpiece of Ancient Roman Art - Arkeonews
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Sleeping Cupid Unearthed in Pula: A Rare Masterpiece of Ancient Roman Art - Arkeonews
During excavations in the historic center of the Croatian, archaeologists uncovered a finely carved marble sculpture of a “Sleeping Cupid,”
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November 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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janeskj.bsky.social
Happy to be editing the book series Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan) with Kees de Groot!

Looking forward to future book proposals!

@drrachelwagner.bsky.social @unsissel.bsky.social @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social

link.springer.com/series/15420
Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture
Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (CRPC) invites renewed engagement between religious studies and media studies, anthropology, literary studies, art ...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
Small blue glass bottle with a round base and a long narrow neck, decorated with white swirling patterns. The bottle rests on a textured dark surface, reflecting light across its glossy finish
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Happy #Halloween
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.

Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper

#RomanArchaeology
Oval intaglio engraved with a skeletal human figure resting on an amphora and holding a jug, carved in translucent amber-colored stone.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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wmarybeard.bsky.social
What better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Roman Ghostbusters
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 30/10/2025 · 38m
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October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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nyashajunior.bsky.social
Gospel According to the Klan
The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
by @kellyjbaker.bsky.social
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700624478/
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Packed-out audience for @lucygrig.bsky.social's inaugural lecture @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...
Inaugural Lecture - Professor Lucy Grig | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
Professor Lucy Grig - Professor of the History of Late Antiquity - will give her inaugural lecture on 'A slow history of Late Antiquity'.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
✨The Eleusinian Mysteries✨

Demeter and Persephone flank a young youth thought to be Triptolemos. This beautiful Augustan era rendition based on a Greek relief is our pick for #ReliefWednesday and #ClassicsTober25.
Description from the Met: “Demeter, the goddess of agricultural abundance, stands at the left holding a sceptre. At the right is Persephone, her daughter and the wife of Hades, the god of the underworld. Each goddess extends her right hand toward a nude youth. The boy is thought to be Triptolemos, who was sent by Demeter to teach men how to cultivate grain. The original marble relief was found at the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis, the site of the Eleusinian mysteries, a secret cult that was famous throughout antiquity. The original Greek work and a number of Roman copies survive. Here the ten Roman fragments are embedded in a cast of the Greek relief.“
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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protik.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
unsissel.bsky.social
Hell - the most obvious conference venue.

#iahr #easr #aar #sbl #acrel
Photo of hallway with text indicating direction: "Hell Congress Hall". Taken in the lobby of Scandic Hotel Hell, Norway.
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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ullamr.bsky.social
@classicstober.bsky.social Day 27 of #ClassicsTober25: The Erinyes were chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Their Roman counterparts are the Furies, also known as the Dirae. #ClassicsTober
Clytemnestra tries to awaken the sleeping Erinyes. Detail from an Apulian red-figure bell-krater, 380–370 BC.
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#EpigraphyTuesday – Hopefully an appropriate choice as we approach the heights of 'Spooky Season', with this triple statuette of Diana-Hecate: ca. Late 2nd Century – 3rd Century AD. #Halloween #Latin 🧵🏺

Image: British Museum (1805,0703.14); CIL VI, 9089. Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Marble triple statue of Diana. Latin inscription on the base recording dedication by Aelius Barbarus, freed slave of the Emperor. Modern restorations.
October 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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stephenwaldron.bsky.social
I've been meaning to share my review of @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social's The Violent Take It By Force on the Reading Religion site. Here it is: readingreligion.org/978150649778...

As I mention, the book is both well-researched and very accessible to a wide audience. Read it if you haven't yet!
The Violent Take It by Force - Reading Religion
A propulsive account of the network of charismatic Christians that consolidated support for Donald Trump and is reshaping religion and politics in the US.Ove...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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fromtga.bsky.social
Prague is now the capital of a normal country – alas!
My latest commentary…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When populists win in Prague, that’s nothing peculiarly ‘east European’. It’s the new normal of the western world | Timothy Garton Ash
The likely new Czech government will add one more state opposed to the EU’s green deal and migration and asylum pact, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM