Okay #classics Twitter, I need your help. The AIA is looking to develop new mentoring and career building opportunities for grad students and early career scholars at the Annual Meeting and we want to hear from you. What kind of offerings would you be interested in? 1/2

So you want to teach with pigments, dyes and lakes in your class but haven’t (yet). A short thread on things I hear from academics who say they want to incorporate more experiential work in their classes but haven’t (yet), with the hope that you might reconsider.

Another reminder if you're free and want to hear me speak about intersectional characters in Latin text. It's going to be a fun one! ✨

One way that Untangling Black Antiquity is challenging modern understandings of the ancient world is through translation.

Here, she explains why she defines 'Aethiopia' as 'sun-kissed.'

Learn more from Prof. Derbew + Dr Nandini Pandey 🌈 🌏 🏛 in this week's episode, at apple.co/jvn 🌞

How soothing are these color palettes made by students in my Ancient Color class? All [known to be] ancient pigments and lakes, mixed in egg yolk or gum arabic. So much one can do with ochres, carbon black, green earth, chalk, madder lake, and yes, all the BLUES!

Trying to find a picture of a Roman sarcophagus with a hole in the lid for offerings for a class. I know I had at least one good one on my computer but can't remember in which museum I saw it(I thought the Glyptotek) so I can't find it anywhere. Does anybody maybe have one?

🚨CFP for #ResDiff4 is now available!🚨
Res Difficiles 4 will take place on 24th March 2023 with Professor Jackie Murray as our keynote speaker.

Submit an abstract by 6th January 2023:

resdifficiles.com/cfp-2023/

Today, we address a historic injustice by returning the Benin Bronzes, magnificent examples of Benin's culture and history. Through this repatriation, we acknowledge a legacy of cultural theft and do our part to return African culture to Africans.

Shown here: bronze plaque.

🚨Join the AIA SF Society virtually in welcoming N.S. Olya! He will discuss depictions of Africans in Athenian vase-painting and interrogate modern scholarly discourse surrounding them🏺🏺
📆TODAY: Friday, Oct. 7 @ 4:00pm PDT.
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I DID IT! Yesterday, I taught my first undergraduate seminar - in Latin no less! I am so proud of myself, albeit online, the class made me remember by I love teaching and sharing the knowledge that I have with others. 🥰

What if I got a PhD just because I want one and not because I want to have a job with it???

Job Alert! 🚨 The Dept of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a TT Asst Prof specializing in ancient cultural history. We welcome candidates who approach ancient Greece and Rome as part of a multicultural ancient Mediterranean. #ClassicsTwitter

The Terme boxer in full color! The scars, the blood, the cauliflower ears were all amazing to see in polychromy The Metropolitan Museum of Art #chroma

Check out a brand👏new👏 BIPOC feature written by Najee Olya (N.S. Olya ), a PhD candidate in Mediterannean Art at UVA and Bothmer Fellow in the Dept of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art!! notesfromtheapotheke.com/bipoc-feature-…

Hearing FOLLOW @YITTY play some of the Library's priceless antique instruments on Monday was such a gift, and we were honored and happy to help her share that gift with her concert audience Tuesday night. Here is some more behind-the-scenes footage of her Library tour. #LizzoAtLOC