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Rhiannon Garth Jones

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Teaching Fellow, Uni of Leeds. PhD in early Abbasid visual language of power & relationship to Rome, general geek, chronically ill. 'Stealthily whimsical'. I want to live on a boat again. She/her. *All Roads Lead to Rome* out now with Aurum Press.

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · Feb 14

I can't quite believe I'm saying this but: I wrote a book! And it's being published this May!

It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly.

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Book cover for All Roads Lead to Rome by Rhiannon Garth Jones, in a mosaic frame like the one used on the book cover, with the text "Out May 2025"

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James Stafford @jpstafford.bsky.social · 7h

As an author in a world where it is so hard to get news about your books out there, it really does help when people take the time to support your books online.

If you like a book and you take the time to support it online, it really helps authors out. Thanks, Mick.
#booksky #writing

Mick Hoey @mickh75.bsky.social · 17h

James / just finished your wonderful book. For what it’s worth, I found the chapter on Koji Tokumasu a particular favourite of many great stories. Highly recommended to the any rugby fans I know

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

"In the images of the area, even the sunlight looks different and otherworldly. I couldn’t figure out why, until I realised it was because there were no structures to filter it. No shade, no shadows. A home returned to is just a plot on which to pitch another tent and wait for aid."

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23h

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 1d

‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead. Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead

Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains

www.theguardian.com

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I'd like to make that post a thread to touch on that and some related issues at some point but... I'm not tempting fates today!

Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 1d

History and memory are not the same thing (even when they overlap). As Prof Otele says, statues are about collective memory.

And people have always taken down statues and built new ones - statues mark who society wants to acknowledge as important (and why), something that changes over time.

historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 1d

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats, Cora! It seems great and I've shared with some people who might find it useful.

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Dr Cora Beth Fraser @corabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a tale for anyone who'd like to know what I've been up to over the last year... and if you're able to help/share, I'd really appreciate it.

Autistic StoryTime – Classical Studies Support share.google/0XfKZucMCoAr...

Autistic StoryTime

You may have noticed that I haven’t been around much this year. I used to post on this blog every week, but now I post very rarely. I used to be on all sorts of Classics-related committees, but ear…

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Joy is actually a shared experience if you let it be. It’s infectious and that makes it motivating. Even if it’s not happening directly to you, it’s a sign of possibility and hope.

And also, just, like, it’s nice when people are happy! That’s a state we should wish on everyone!

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 3d

It's so lovely!

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Azza. Before this Azza worked in a kindergarten and her husband owned a small coffee shop. They lost their home in the first two weeks of the war. They are trying to survive with their children Nisreen, 16, Layan, 14 and Ibrahim, 11.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

They're cutting religious studies programs so everyone can study tech, just when the tech world increasingly demands religious studies education to understand it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3d

One of those days where I feel like I typed the wrong words to help. Mahmoud’s wife has a baby on the way and they have two small kids- they’ve lost literally everything- any help is appreciated

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mahmoud. Mahmoud was a computer engineer doing web development before this. He’s lost his job and home (and many coworkers) and is in a tent with his family including his children Zeina, 6 and Zane, 2. His wife Malak is 7 months pregnant.

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 5d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 3d

My essay collection focused on ancient literature and translation will be available for pre-order in the UK in October.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 3d

👀👀 x8 excellent, funded PhDs in Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk

Proposals to align with:
- Culture, Creativity & Heritage
- Digital Humanities
- Environmental Humanities
- Medical Humanities
- Science-Humanities
- Social Justice, Communities, and Policy

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 4d

Curriculum Inquiry published a new open access article on scholasticide in Gaza & Palestinian higher ed before and during genocide

doi.org/10.1080/0362...

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. Social media is how I've made friends with other chronically ill people.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 4d

🪩*FOREVER*🪩

Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 4d

I am so so so so excited for you (and everyone who gets to read it when it's out)

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 4d

Same!

Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 4d

Having read it, I can confirm this is the correct take

Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 5d

I would vote for this

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 5d

(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 5d

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