Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
Sólveig Hrönn Hilmarsdóttir @solveighilmars.bsky.social Icelandic PhD student in Classics at Cambridge & Gates Cambridge Scholar. Working on the sociolinguistics of Latin literature and Latin epistolography.
Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social News about Classics, Antiquity and Religious Studies in Ottawa and beyond.
Actualités sur les études anciennes et les sciences des religions à Ottawa et ailleurs.
Joe Goodkin @joegoodkin.bsky.social Musician, Homeric epic enthusiast with song adaptations of the Odyssey and Iliad
Roy Gibson @gibsonroyk.bsky.social From Belfast. Fluent in Glaswegian. Tertiary education in England. Married to Wexford woman. Irish Citizen. British Citizen. Professor in Classics, Durham University. All views my own.
Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social Linguist & Programmer. The former makes me happy, the latter makes me money. I write about linguistics in media. Blog at https://gliese1337.blogspot.com/, donation box at https://ko-fi.com/loganrk
Chapps @chapps.bsky.social Former tech drone, living in L.A. I now create digital reconstructions of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. No, really. 🏳️🌈
Flickr account (museum photos, mainly, free to use and high res): https://www.flickr.com/photos/125386285@N02/
Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social Antiquity. Cats and kids. Books. Humanities. Education. NY/MA/TX
contact JoelChristensen @ gc.cuny.edu
Check out Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things:
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269239/storylife/
avatar by Beverly Beverung
@sofiatorallas.bsky.social @sofiatorallas.bsky.social
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports
https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social Critic, scholar, translator and poet in Paris. Recent reviews in the TLS and The Friday Poem. Most recent books from CUP & Palgrave. Poems in various places. Weekly substack on poetry & translation https://vamoul.substack.com/ https://www.victoriamoul.com
Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg.
McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com Canada's largest, most eventful independent bookstore.
https://linktr.ee/mcnallyrobinson
Jess Tilley @jltilley.bsky.social Roman Archaeologist living in Athens. Decolonialism/funerary studies/public history. In my civilian life I’m into LOTR, cats, DnD, tzatziki with fries, and dismantling systems of oppression.
Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com Mostly Tolkien most of the time
https://www.TolkienGuide.com
Ray Laurence @raylaurence1.bsky.social Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University.
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU @isawnyu.bsky.social Old world. New vision.
https://linktr.ee/isawnyu
Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Working class academic tweeting about Classics/Papyrology.
Forgotten Words Publishing @forgottenwordspubs.bsky.social Publisher of rupestrian literatures and accompanying materials. Book 124290000 due out 2027. #LostLanguages #UndecipheredScripts #ForgottenWords
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Lupus Alatus Latin @lupusalatus.bsky.social Latin language, proverbs, old prints, mosaics, bees. We just published Erictho, Tartarorum Terror, an intermediate-advanced Latin reader: https://a.co/d/695MdQr
Learn Latin with us. lupusalatus.com; lupusalatus.etsy.com; lupusalatus.substack.com
Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social @J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels.
#Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
Dr. Melissa Funke @melissakafunke.bsky.social Classicist and lover of fragments. Winnipegger. she/hers
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
dr. keftiugal @keftiugal.bsky.social PhD, Archaeologist/Egyptologist, ancient Egypt/Bronze Age Greece, random moments of fangirling, Marvel fan, D&D player, nerd... IG: http://instagram.com/ladysekhmet
C.M. Sampson @samosafuz.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Classicist and papyrologist @ umanitoba.ca |
papyri.info | papyrology.org | Pylon: Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts
Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social Archaeology PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & the Minoans🏺💀
Archives volunteer @ Griffith Institute & Ashmolean Museum
In Oxford/from Dublin
Reading: Queen's Play, Dorothy Dunnett
John T Psaropoulos @johntpsaropoulos.bsky.social Independent journalist, Greece, Southeast Europe, East Mediterranean, Al Jazeera, Liberties, Hellenica
johntpsaropoulos.substack.com
https://www.aljazeera.com/author/john_psaropoulos_2012510204426705651/
Elizabeth Marlowe @lizmarlowe.bsky.social Art History & Museum Studies Prof. Ancient Rome, object biography, epistemology, museums, display, looting, provenance, forgery.
Society for Classical Studies @scsclassics.bsky.social The Society for Classical Studies promotes study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations. https://classicalstudies.org/
Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
Piers Kelly @pierskelly.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist at the University of New England, and the Australian Museum, Sydney
Graphic codes in Australia, Southeast Asia, West Africa
Book: The Last Language on Earth
Research project:
https://messagesticks.com.au/
Trismegistos @trismegistostm.bsky.social https://trismegistos.org
New Classicists Journal @newclassicists.bsky.social Digital, academically peer-reviewed & OA journal for PG and ECR students and researchers of Antiquity.
https://www.newclassicists.com/
Sponsored by @ics.bsky.social
Managed by @giuseppeficocelli.bsky.social
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social The Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) in the School of Advanced Study. Promoting and supporting research into all aspects of Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond.
Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social Classicist, archaeologist, sci-fi and horror nerd and, most importantly, ginger. Oh, and... "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". #EdgyPedlar #AncientStuff
Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social Archaeology, University of Cambridge | The Globe, University of Copenhagen
Ancient Proteins | Medieval Manuscripts | Proteomics and AI | 🇺🇦
David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social History and Religion on TV, PhD student (Classics) at KCL Fond husband, father, yes, and grandfather! Not very good gardener, though...
Bill Caraher @billcaraher.bsky.social Editor (https://ndquarterly.org/), publisher (https://thedigitalpress.org/), blogger (https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/), pseudoarchaeologist.
Errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social /'dʑowɪn/
• taalkundige | linguist
• schrijver van 'Die goeie ouwe taal' en 'Woord voor woord' | author
• all graphics and videos: http://tumblr.com/yvanspijk
• Patreon: patreon.com/yvanspijk
• photo by Dirk-Jan van Dijk
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Daisy Dunn @daisydunn.bsky.social Author and Classicist. Catullus' Bedspread; In the Shadow of Vesuvius; Homer; Of Gods and Men; Not Far From Brideshead; and most recently The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
Lucia Nixon @lucianixon.bsky.social Classical archaeologist working on Crete, feminist, passionate about equality issues. Also very keen on museums, poetry, and bees. Canadian 🇨🇦
portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/collections/The_Sphakia_Survey_Internet_Edition/6816405
Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes.
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social Roman and Byzantine Archaeology from Athens GA.
Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social I’m an academic labour activist, professor, Classical philologist, and sports historian living and working in Winnipeg.
Charles Sturge @charlesjsturge.bsky.social Cretan pottery enthusiast. Gentleman archaeologist, pot measurer and amateur. Minoanist, Prehistorian, Aegean Prehistory.
Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social Ancient Historian. Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. PhD UChicago. Seleukid Empire, ancient archives, Hellenistic law, inscriptions, coins, antiquity in video games, & otters. 🇵🇷 (Bayamón) & 🏳️🌈
Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social Latin lexicographer at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (Bavarian Academy of Sciences & Humanities) ✡️
Richard Bott @richardbott.bsky.social ECR at Macquarie University writing about fakes, forgeries, provenance, museums, and the antiquities trade
Jane Sancinito @janesancinito.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Ancient History at UMass Lowell. Research: Roman merchants, ancient numismatics, greed, stereotypes. Self: embroidery, tea, long walks, and ice hockey.
Author of: https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Reputation-of-the-Roman-Merchant
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Whovian • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, and many other things
📍 Britain • 📖 Whitewalls • 📺 Trotters' Flat
Finn Conway @finnconway.bsky.social DPhil Ancient History, Trinity College, Oxford | Hellenistic Miscellany | he/him
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Jennifer Sacher @jennifersacher.bsky.social Publisher in classics/archaeology. Currently Editor, Hesperia @ American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Formerly INSTAP Academic Press
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social Journalist, recovering academic
Alex West @ajw87.bsky.social Cosmopolitan in Portugal. PhD. Middle Ages in Afro-Eurasia; Columbian exchange; manuscripts, Malay, Tupi...
Old site: https://indomedieval.medium.com/
New site: https://medium.com/@WestsWorld he/him/ele
Book: https://brill.com/display/title/68202
Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social Historian of the ancient world. Working on imperialism, elite competition, Global Assyria. North Carolinian.
Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI) @vaseinscriptions.bsky.social The social media account of the Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI) project and database at the University of Basel, curated by Georg Gerleigner.
Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC UK and WIASN. Blogging (intermittently) at http://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her
Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social Historical Linguist, Indo-Europeanist (especially interested in Greek, Italic, Vedic, Tocharian, Old Irish, Anatolian). Cornell Linguistics
Mark Thakkar @brunellus.com Medieval Latinist · Postdoc in the History of Maths, Logic and Philosophy, working on Cardano, the impossible and the medievals: https://i2erc.wordpress.com
Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social An online, open access book review journal that prioritizes emerging and underrepresented scholarly voices in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Website: rheaclassicalreviews.com
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Leah B.-C. @lbciddio.bsky.social Mediterranean archaeologist and sherd nerd. Independent researcher. Casual knitter.
Working on matt-painted pottery; ancient & modern Adriatic, Puglia, W. Balkans; Italian colonialism & archaeology.
📍 Dish With One Spoon Treaty land.
she/her
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social ⛏️ Archaeologist. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment
Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛
2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism
Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos
It's my real name | he/him
www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
Seth Bernard @profbernard.bsky.social Romanist who has just left the empire, prof at U of Toronto
Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social Archaeologist, ancient historian, author of 1177 BC, After 1177 BC, Three Stones Make a Wall, and other books
https://cnelc.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-h-cline
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
jenna 🌥 @vitrumexurans.bsky.social • all manner of thing? well 😤 • ttu classics ma ‘21 interested in elegy, nationalism, reception • ea/ista
Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social Classics & Ancient History at Exeter (at risk of redundancy), Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats, bats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Incunabula @incunabula.bsky.social
This is a dormant account which I only very occasionally update, follow me on X at https://x.com/incunabula.
Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social Professor of Greek
Chasing Aphrodite @chasingaphrodite.bsky.social Researching the illicit antiquities trade for two decades as an investigative reporter, author, blogger, tweeter, investigator, founder @MuseumofLoot and now...skeeter?
https://ChasingAphrodite.com/
https://MuseumofLoot.org/
https://AchillesResearch.org/
Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social Historian of religions, paganism and esotericism.
Website: https://www.robindouglas.org
Posting in a personal capacity.
Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Bijan Omrani @bijanomrani.bsky.social Author, Caesar's Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul; Afghanistan. Co-director of Shute Festival.
Roel Konijnendijk @roelkonijn.bsky.social Ancient historian (Greece, Persia, war, history-writing). Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford. Moderator at r/AskHistorians. Ditch guy on YouTube.
Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social Lover of words, player of music
μηδεὶς ἄμουσος εἰσίτω
Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social Archaeologist and linguist working on the Bronze and Iron Age Levant. Research Associate with the VIEWS Project at the University of Cambridge. Formerly with the CREWS Project. Geek.
Chukurchuk △ chukurchuk@kolektiva.social @chukurchuk.bsky.social
Dr Neil Alexander Walker (𐐝𐐰𐑌𐐼𐐲𐑉) @nawalker.bsky.social Vice President, Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation (California, USA); Adjunct Research Fellow, College of Arts Society & Education, James Cook University (Queensland, Australia)
www.wieldoc.org
R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social Ancient Historian and Professor. First gen, public school, state college kid teaching at a SLAC. PhD OSU, BA UCSD. “Come on down here, third string. Let me show you how outclassed you are.” ~Full Metal Alchemist
Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social PHILOGLOSSA (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101108732) was a Marie Słodowska-Curie Actions funded project hosted by the Roots of Europe Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen (July 2023 – August 2025). Posts by @mattitiahu.bsky.social.
Simon Pulleyn @simonpulleyn.bsky.social Read LitHum at Balliol, Oxford. Sometime Lecturer in Classics at Merton, Oxford. Honorary Research Fellow at Dept of Greek and Latin, UCL. Retired solicitor, non-practising. Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. 🏳️🌈
Robin Meyer @rbnmyr.bsky.social Historical linguist and linguistic typologist, mainly working on syntax and language contact.
Asst.Prof. at the Université de Lausanne.
Dwi'n dysgu Cymraeg 🏴
Website: rbnmyr.eu
VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a Cambridge Uni project funded by UKRI, and host of the Endangered Writing Network.
For more information please visit our websites: https://linktr.ee/viewsproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share