Dimitri Nakassis

Congratulations to Dr. @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social , the recipient of the Early Career Research Excellence Award in Humanities! Learn more! www.sfu.ca/fass/news/20...

I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"

I just called my US senators to voice my concerns about this bill

Listened to Pres. Kotlikoff’s message. I’m glad he included reexamining Greek life -that’s no small thing for a place like Cornell to say to alumni. Im glad to hear him acknowledge that Jane Doe is not unique but that many had similar experiences b/f. Alumni have been sharing their stories. /1

TAPA Vol. 156, No. 2 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/57717 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @scsclassics.bsky.social Languages and Classics: Past, Present, Future @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social

2026 fellows of the MacArthur foundation, including one Boulderite(!!):

"A rich group of 15 plundered marble, bronze and pottery antiquities... that were confiscated in the US has been handed over to Greek officials in New York, the Culture Ministry said Monday" including this awesome Archaic helmet from Afrati, Crete: www.ekathimerini.com/news/1315885...

Sarah Morris has written a comprehensive review of the Pylos exhibits at Kalamata, Malibu, and Athens, and the accompanying exhibition catalogue:

"One mistake university-based academics - including me - often make is we try to say things that are new, and then move on to the next thing. If you want to publish, you've got to advance the field. But in public-facing communications, simple, basic repetition is very important." Do they not teach?

My department is organizing a panel discussion of Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" with colleagues in Classics and Cinema Studies:

Hybrid #EpiDoc workshop today: Encoding the Bronze Age: Digital Approaches to Cypro-Aegean Epigraphy ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

I truly hope the courthouse is just called Zeus’ law.

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l... Fascinating interview on the making of Nolan’s Odyssey.

Good Lord I'm old

As I'm waiting for a big video to export, I shall tell the story of how I nearly died in a Greek trireme.

Not necessarily a Nolan dialog defender but not too bothered by "our age of bronze is collapsing." It's not hard for me to imagine getting into some sort of hijinks and then solemnly telling my wife that "our age of digital is collapsing."

"If Odysseus’ voluntary exile and final sailing into the setting sun is the actual ending of his tale, Nolan’s movie can be read as an apologetics for the violence that the U.S. and its allies have meted out upon the world since 9/11." blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

An extensive set of geoglyphs discovered in southwestern Brazil suggests the civilization that lived there nearly 2,000 years ago may have had millions of people. 🧪🏺

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I was interviewed for this story (apologies for my contribution, such as it is, to the discourse): www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

An interview with the only Greek actor in Nolan's Odyssey (h/t Alicia Stallings): www.news247.gr/magazine/cul...

Looks pretty cool, this "The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies": doi.org/10.1093/9780...

My favorite take on the interminable Helen of Troy casting controversy. (Those who know about ancient Greek theater will get this.)

The first review of the Palace of Nestor IV has been published in Classical Review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I laughed while reading this sentence from AC Hogarth's anti-new archaeology article from 1972 ("Common sense in archaeology", Antiquity): "most of all is caution needed when adopting techniques from America"

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

www.ertecho.gr/radio/trito/...

Available free to download for the next two weeks: www.cambridge.org/core/element...  doi.org/10.1017/9781...

This week many of our colleagues are sharing memories of Dr. Lynne Goldstein, who passed away Saturday, April 18. She was a leader in community engaged archaeology and fierce advocate and ally to students and women.

The south gate of Gla lookin' so pretty

Delighted to be part of this new special issue of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on “Kinship Trouble” (link to full Table of Contents in next post) with perspectives from archaeology, archaeogenetics, and social anthropology. Critical as data from archaeogenetics becomes pervasive.

I'm gonna ride my llama from Peru to Texarkana

Updated historical Elo chart for the newly crowned men's basketball National Champion, Michigan. Greatest Michigan team of all time? They have a strong argument.

Public comment is closing tomorrow, so click the link and let your voice be heard. This is one of the most significant sites in North America

Bye bye, archaeology funding. 🧪🏺😢

Oxford Journal of Archaeology Vol. 45, No. 2 (2026) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680092... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

“the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth’s resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles rattling around in space. Let's move on.”

The interlibrary loan librarians at my university are amazing; I gave them what I knew about an article, put a ? in the fields I couldn't fill in, and within the day I had a PDF of the article (from Jahrbuch der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften)!

"all writers use AI" nope, get the entire fuck out of here with that

Open access from the École française d’Athènes: "Pencil and Dust. Women who shaped archaeology in Greece and the Greek world" books.openedition.org/efa/20128

"Arizona is like AI. They gather data. It modifies their gameplan. And then they become deadly." - Jim Jackson #MarchMadness

I visited Ann Arbor over the summer; my father always maintained that I went to Michigan because of the basketball team (the Fab Five)...

Bluesky friends, I am happy to advertise a conference on ancient and medieval slave trading in the Mediterranean, co-organized by myself and Elizabeth Fentress, to be held in Toronto next month (April 15-17, 2026). Contact me via email (rather than here) or the email on the poster for more info!