Dr. Jeremy Swist

Hi Bluesky! I post on Greco-Roman (late) antiquity, metal music, & especially combinations thereof. 🏺🎸 My 1st book, "Julian Augustus" is out 26 September. Preorder here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... Lastly, I'm undertaking a challenge to cook a dish from every country in alphabetical order. 🌍🍴

Please join us on the First Friday of November for a workshop with Lydia Bremmer-McCollum! @nasscal.bsky.social

🎓 Pour vous aider à préparer le #CAPES, découvrez nos 18 notices pour la question d'histoire ancienne, dont la mise au point de Sylvain Destephen sur la Tétrarchie 👇 ehne.fr/fr/encyclope... 🤝 @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social @aphg.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr #Concours #Histoire

"The Dangerous Spindle: Women, Work, and Conflict in Late Antiquity" Kate Cooper (RHUL) 🗓️ 16 October, 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) Centre for Late Antique Studies - Annual #Lecture #allwelcome

By the end of the 470s, the raison d'etre of the Delian League was gone. So why was it not dissolved, and why did it morph into an empire for Athens? Our full episode on the Athenian Empire with Christy Constantakopoulou is out now!

The conversation elucidates Julian’s inspiration from #Greek and #Roman religion as well as #Platonism and also touches on #Christian #polemics. Connections are made to heavy metal!

This month, Rose Su compares depictions of Adonis on a Roman sarcophagus to a Peking opera to provide a new perspective on the motif of departure scenes. You can read Rose's blog 'Eternal Waiting: from an Adonis sarcophagus to a Peking opera' here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla... #AncientBlueSky

“A small bronze figurine preserved at the Hierapolis Archaeology Museum in southwestern Turkey is shedding new light on how Egyptian religious beliefs changed as they spread through the Greek and Roman worlds nearly 2,000 years ago” 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology

*Christofascism in South Carolina

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I received the most wonderful care package from @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social the other day. An old Modern Greek comicfication of Julian along with some real bronze coins of Julian (plus a pin based on a gold coin)!

Julian lives!

Julian Lives! A Discussion on Myth, Theurgy, Gods, and Demons with Dr. Jeremy Swist The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism Episode 48 What an inspirational conversation! palinode.substack.com/p/julian-liv... #philsky #philosophy #religion #classics

Now in #paperback, Helen of Troy in Hollywood by Ruby Blondell examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film & television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems & dynamics of gender & idealized femininity. Learn more: buff.ly/PekmLHD

I received the most wonderful care package from @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social the other day. An old Modern Greek comicfication of Julian along with some real bronze coins of Julian (plus a pin based on a gold coin)!

If anyone still doubted what AI is doing to the kids' brains, the average on the objective portion of my (closed-note, handwritten) midterm is down almost 10% since 2024. This is with very little change to the content covered, same format, similar questions, and same quizzes/reading guides, etc.

Julian lives!

Hey, want to be colleagues for a little while? My department at MSU is hiring a resident artist/scholar in Classics for the next academic year! Happy to answer any questions if you’re interested. Otherwise, please help us spread the word!

What do Herodotus and Thucydides tell us about the Athenian Empire? Was it a force for good, or a necessary evil? Our full episode on The Athenian Empire with Christy Constantakopoulou is out now!

Am I just hallucinating or does anyone else see some kind of anime character for a split second when loading the Perseus scaife viewer?

Taught another Greek class today and yada yada yada my students want me to write Athenaze fanfiction where Xanthias causes Dicaeopolis to be trampled to death by the oxen then escapes to Delium where the Spartans grant him asylum and freedom, and he finds his way back to his family in Thrace.

My colleague’s partner is a state elections worker and just brought in a roll of the winners of this year’s Michigan “I Voted” sticker contest. The fairy frog was the overall winner.

The Battle of Gaugamela takes center stage in the latest Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast. Listen to the team break it down. https://bit.ly/3Vf7sgc

AESCHYLUS: my play is 1500 lines long with operatic, sprawling choruses SOPHOCLES: my play is also 1500 lines long with beautiful, sprawling choruses that are central pieces of dialogue EURIPIDES: here. this fucker is 1160 lines long and includes a reverse peripeteia

If you're a @cornelluniversity.bsky.social alum, please sign this.

Country #124 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is NICARAGUA 🇳🇮 Gallo Pinto is rice & black beans plus onions, peppers, & garlic cooked in avocado oil, then topped with queso fresco. Served with fried plantains and fresh avocado.

New video Sunday is back at last - this time we look at the rise of Odaenathus, Rome’s King of Kings, and how this Palmyreme warlord saved the Roman East at a time when all seemed lost. youtu.be/TIiPG-enbJg?...

Really thrilled to be co-organizing this conference with @politephilosopher.bsky.social on the work of Marcia Muelder Eaton next summer (July 23-25). Please submit, and share widely! philevents.org/event/show/1...

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

As of today the original #HoPWAG series has reached 500 episodes! Thanks to all who have listened and the many who have supported the series over the years, not least all the interview guests. #philsky #podcast #philosophy

Les antiquités italiques du Louvre (ancienne présentation des œuvres)

I wrote up a blog post on what it was possible to do because people are publishing open data in Digital Classics. I ended up creating a serviceable digital edition of Nonnus -- who would not have been on top of my list -- because of work that David Chamberlain did 1/

The remains of the #Roman amphitheatre at Pozzuoli (Italy), built during the reigns of Vespasian & Titus (probably by the same people as the Colosseum). It had a capacity of some 40-50,000 spectators #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #AncientSiteSunday

It’s the Kavenagh Class. Fraternities should have been banned decades ago.

These are the 7 Cornell fraternity boys who ruined that young girl's life. Matthew Ingalls Jonathan Newell (also spelled Johnathan Newell) Winston Lee Gillio Lopes Diego Sarabia Scott Norris Scott Kretzschmar www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Here's a thought: shut down Cornell University. Revoke whatever privileges the university has to exist and burn it to the fucking ground. All of it.