Thrilled to share that our article, An Island through Time: Surface Survey and Selective Occupation on Strongylo (Antiparos), has been published in a new volume on small island archaeology 🇬🇷🏝️
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Candida Moss
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Professor. Writer. Columnist. Erratic historian. Typo Queen.
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@earlychristiantexts.comReposted by @candidamoss.bsky.socialWe know the names of apostles. What about the people who copied their words and read them aloud? In this Bible and Beyond Podcast, Candida Moss explores the overlooked enslaved workers who helped shape the Bible. earlychristiantexts.com/candida-moss...
@yaleclassicslib.bsky.socialReposted by @candidamoss.bsky.socialOctober 8 2026 4:30PM BST = 11:30 AM EDT Online @ics.bsky.social Jessica L. Lamont @yale.edu Magic in Roman and Late Antique Corinth ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
@candidamoss.bsky.socialOkay but also this looks amazing.
@candidamoss.bsky.socialNew Stones and Bones is out on Polar Bears and new Odyssey fragments. Featuring Michael Kulikowski, @sarahebond.bsky.social, Christopher Epplett, Nandini Pandey, and @sentantiq.bsky.social
@sarahebond.bsky.socialReposted by @candidamoss.bsky.socialwell, I enjoyed @candidamoss.bsky.social’s new Nat Geo edition of their ‘Stones & Bones’ newsletter, not because I make an appearance but because we get to hear from Nandini Pandey and Michael Kulikowski about polars bears and exotic animals in the Colosseum as a colonialist tactic. 🐻 🦒 🦛
nationalgeographic.comPolar Bears in the Roman Colosseum?It isn't as far-fetched as it sounds.
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@sarahebond.bsky.socialReposted by @candidamoss.bsky.socialαἰαῖ! The latest Pasts Imperfect is out. @sentantiq.bsky.social discusses new work on Homer & a book on the Iliad's gendered voices. Then, Jefferson's children with Sally Hemings, mapping coin circulation in the Roman Empire, new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more. ἄγετε!
pasts-imperfect.ghost.ioPasts Imperfect (9.24.26)This week, noted ailurophile and Homerist Joel Christensen sings to us about new scholarship helping us to make sense of Homer and highlights a new book on lamentation and glory in the Iliad. Then, re...
@candidamoss.bsky.socialSo many congratulations! Let’s celebrate every announcement!
@candidamoss.bsky.socialAmazing review of @sarahebond.bsky.social 's new book in the AHR (you probably need sign in credentials to view) congratulations to Sarah!
@drewjakeprof.bsky.socialReposted by @candidamoss.bsky.socialnew (open access!) article from Brent Nongbri redating some "early" gospel papyri (or "Nongbriing" them)
@candidamoss.bsky.socialRead Cate's article in PEQ here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@candidamoss.bsky.socialMy latest for National Geographic is on the Pilate Ring and Cate Bonesho's article arguing that it belonged to a low-status posisbly enslaved worker. Featuring work by @tonyk.bsky.social and a quote from @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social
@candidamoss.bsky.socialDude. When do you sleep?
@candidamoss.bsky.socialIt lives. I was honored to deliver the Hans Lietzmann lecture in Berlin and Jena a few years ago. And I am excited to see the results in print!
@dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.socialReposted by @candidamoss.bsky.socialIn just over 50 pages, @candidamoss.bsky.social challenges modern assumptions about who counted as a slave trader and demonstrates that the entire apparatus of Roman medicine, commerce, and education was complicit in the manufacture and sale of human beings.
Link below 👇🔗
@sarahebond.bsky.socialReposted by @candidamoss.bsky.socialMy 1st article for National Geographic is out now. It is on Cleopatra’s & Antony’s surviving children after their parents’ deaths—especially Cleopatra Selene. Thanks to Jane Draycott (and her book, Cleopatra’s Daughter) & @candidamoss.bsky.social for their help. And @bresnick.bsky.social for edits.
@sarahebond.bsky.socialReposted by @candidamoss.bsky.socialA new, open access 📖 : _Monastic Manuscripts from the Eastern Mediterranean (Sinai, Jerusalem, Antioch): Production, Use & Contexts_ ed. Giulia Rossetto. This book “is dedicated to monks, priests and priest-monks (hieromonachoi) as copyists, readers, and owners of manuscripts in the Christian East.”
vr-elibrary.deMonastic Manuscripts from the Eastern Mediterranean (Sinai, Jerusalem, Antioch) | V&R eLibrary
@killgrove.bsky.socialReposted by @candidamoss.bsky.socialI need an animated cartoon about Emerald and Ocean and all the hijinks they got up to 1,800 years ago in this massive Roman villa. 🏺🧪🐈🐕