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Tobias Fulton 🔱
@31bce.bsky.social
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PhD candidate, @Uni_Newcastle 🏛 Education and Public Programs, @Hellenic_Museum🏺Pagan ✨ Queer Theory, Classical Reception, Museology, Horror
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After interviewing @belovedofoizys.bsky.social for about 3 hours for my PhD, where we talked about working class classics and queer perspectives, she kindly put my name forward to be a part of this incredible project 💜 I am so proud to be among my fellow working class peers. Thank you WCC!
ANNOUNCING...

A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉

📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social
👇 Read more...
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Last day or two to submit an abstract to the ACANS/Macquarie University Ancient Societies and Ancient Artefacts conference if you are so inclined! A great exchange on how we use material culture in the classroom awaits! :-)
May 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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We’re thrilled by this development. A lot of hard work by some very good people has gone into creating this new society.

If you love the ancient world but want to be challenged and inspired to explore things through a less colonial lens, do give this a read.
February 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Related to my work on pathologizing Orpheus’s sexuality: It’s been disturbing to be going through so many university websites in recent months & noticing how many still do similar work of pathologizing LGBTQ+ students and resources
My article “Depathologizing the Bisexual Orpheus” is out in Helios!

It’s my first piece specifically on the classical canon, and uses a mix of psychology of sexuality, queer theory, and translation theory to make sense of how scholars have treated Ovid’s Orpheus as bi.

Hit me up for a copy!
February 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Sharing the CFP for the LCC-sponsored panel at next year's SCS. "Queerness Beyond Identity," organized by Nicolette D'Angelo (UCLA) and Erin Lam (UCSB).

Deadline for abstracts: March 1.

Please share widely!
February 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Calling researchers in Queer & Trans Histories ⚧️🌈

This #LGBTplusHM25 we want your proposals for our new series.

Ed. by the UK’s first permanently endowed professor in LGBTQ+ History, Matt Cook, @psimonetto.bsky.social & Jennifer V Evans.

Find more info here: https://buff.ly/4hoB1lo
February 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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When I tell people abt white nationalist classicism some colleagues sometimes say they're skeptical that anybody rly holds such uncritical views of the ancient world. Then a style mag calls "all things Classical" the next "hot trend" (they dont mean counternarratives) www.tatler.com/article/chri...
Do as the Romans do: as Christopher Nolan sets to work adapting The Odyssey, here’s why all things Classical are high society’s next hot trend
First Gladiator II lit up our screens, now a raft of Greek plays are ablaze on the West End. But gone are the days of toga parties: all things ancient are more dazzling than ever
www.tatler.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊
February 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Attended a colouring workshop and panel discussion about queer antiquity today at the @ausqueerarchives.bsky.social
with @31bce.bsky.social @jessicamckenzie.bsky.social and Eli Farrow who you may know from @queerasfact.bsky.social as the panelists. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🥰📚
February 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Utterly depressing news. Last night there was a burglary in the museum of Assen in the Netherlands. Several prized ancient Dacian artifacts, including the golden helmet from Cotofenesti, were stolen. These were on loan as part of the Dacia exhibit which had been touring Europe the last few years.
Archeologische topstukken buitgemaakt bij inbraak Drents Museum
Een van de topstukken is de gouden helm van Cotofenesti. Het stuk is van bijna zuiver goud.
nos.nl
January 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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My article on sensory deprivation and the so-called Ploutonian at Eleusis has been published!

This is a deeply personal and vulnerable article - establishing a route into Sensory Archaeology as an Autistic researcher. I’m very proud of it.

#ClassicsBluesky
The Cave of Laughlessness, sensory deprivation, and cognitive depletion at Eleusis*
ABSTRACT. This article explores the intersection of sensory perception, emotional experience, and ritual practice within the ancient Eleusinian Mysteries,
https://academic.oup.com/bics/article/67/1/53/7977041?login=true#no-access-message#no-access-message
January 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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if you made art this year, you did well. a sketch, even if it was scrapped ; a poem, even if it was deleted — mattered. you put thought to paper, you engaged with the creative alchemy of turning feeling to something tangible. doesn't matter if you weren't productive "enough." or good "enough."
December 26, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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“Anger, they say, anger
goes like a wild bull.
It constantly leaps forth like a dog,
like a lion”

From a spell to expel anger, impressed with a reed stylus into clay almost 4,000 years ago in a beautiful Babylonian dialect of the Akkadian language cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/27...
January 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Clearly, this was a global issue.
December 30, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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Jan 6-10 hybrid Melbourne - Hellenic Museum Summer School with Dr Christopher Gribbin: Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans and Natives in Ancient Spain; Greek Architecture and its Legacy; Minoan and Mycenaean Greece; Athenian Democracy in Practice www.hellenic.org.au/whats-on/sum...
Summer School 2024 | Hellenic Musuem
The Hellenic Museum annual Summer School returns in January 2024. Five days, four short courses, 8000 years of Greek and Roman history!
www.hellenic.org.au
January 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
After interviewing @belovedofoizys.bsky.social for about 3 hours for my PhD, where we talked about working class classics and queer perspectives, she kindly put my name forward to be a part of this incredible project 💜 I am so proud to be among my fellow working class peers. Thank you WCC!
ANNOUNCING...

A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉

📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social
👇 Read more...
January 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Very excited about this… one of my favourite projects I’ve ever contributed to ✨✨
We're announcing something big on the 2nd of January 2025, so once you've recovered from your Hogmanay celebrations check back for a surprise 👀

IYKYK...
December 31, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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We're announcing something big on the 2nd of January 2025, so once you've recovered from your Hogmanay celebrations check back for a surprise 👀

IYKYK...
December 31, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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Join us for our joint AIA/SCS panel and submit you anonymous questions today! forms.gle/Pc2omtsJxoez... @scsclassics.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Cleveland's behavior is an unusually visible example of the Faustian bargain many museums make in order to acquire & hold onto looted antiquities. Better to erase historical knowledge than have to give up a treasured possession. hyperallergic.com/760120/when-... 5/5
When Will Museums Tell the Whole Truth About Their Antiquities?
Some US museums will overlook the dubious origins of acquisitions if it suits their purposes.
hyperallergic.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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I just ordered this fine book and that discount code worked a charm. Looking forward to this book.
Happy book birthday Appalling Bodies!

To celebrate, people can get your paperback twin now (and until Dec 10?) from Oxford University Press @oxunipress.bsky.social

AND with their #SBLAAR24 40% off discount — code EXAAR24 — it’s under $30!

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
December 4, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Everybody say Happy 1,894th Birthday, Antinous!

May you all never mysteriously drown in a river and be turned into a god by your homoerotic situationship (or do, if that’s your thing)

Thank you for all that you’ve done for me, my special little guy 🫶💜
November 27, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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Decided to add to the ever growing list of #AncientBlueSky🏺 Starter Packs with one of people that have plenty of photos of the ancient sites and museum collections.

Give me a shout if you would like to be added to it!

go.bsky.app/AQCsDTt
November 26, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Would love to reconnect with old mutual from tw*tter, and follow new friends!

If you are ancient world historians, museum folks, or interested in queer histories at any capacity, please say hi!
November 26, 2024 at 10:28 PM