Rebecca Futo Kennedy 🏛️ 🏺
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Cleopatra wasn’t White, though she was descended from Macedonians. She wasn’t Black, though she was African and maybe descended from an indigenous Egyptian. She wasn’t Arab, though she was Egyptian.
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1/ There have been lots of threads about the job market and Ivy PhDs recently, one of them discussing why Ivies don't get jobs at 'teaching' schools. The suggestion was
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1. I have been avoiding reading the latest conversation published in Eidolon on the state of classics, not the awesome in The first gen series, but the one interviewing people
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It’s Mother’s Day! And as both a mother and an Ancient historian, I thought I would make a somewhat #unpopularopinion thread on how we celebrate women and talk about them
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Ima gonna wade into the recent .@wmarybeard tweet issue on work hours. It starts with this: is it possible she is working 100 hours a week? Yep. I was married
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