Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics

Documenting and responding to appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups

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Pharos Director @CurtisDozier was interviewed on Kahlil Greene's "History Can't Hide" about white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity https://t.co/xki5fh9Cuh

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New post at Pharos: "When Hate Memes Teach History." What do our students learn about antiquity online before they ever make it into one of our classes? https://t.co/TfzhOoummV

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It's fun to dunk on Mike Johnson for his claim that homosexuality caused the fall of Rome but let's not forget how something like that idea appears in ancient sources and popular history books. https://t.co/iZiuAgRuO4

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Mike Johnson isn't even the highest ranking politician to make this claim https://t.co/fL3qNpBPKB

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Prior to launching his political career, Speaker Mike Johnson worked hand in hand with a group promoting “conversion therapy” for gay teens and the criminalization of gay sex. He even blamed gay sex for the downfall of the Roman Empire. https://t.co/cZw8Slydae

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Seen in the latest Pasts Imperfect, an open access special issue of the Journal of the Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA) on "The Fate of Antiquities in the Nazi Era." https://t.co/mZtvcxJRj0

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Scholars of the Ancient Near East: Signal boosting a position in @UMBC 's Ancient Studies dept focusing on "the language, archaeology, history, and culture of civilizations on the continent of Asia in the context of the ancient Mediterranean." https://t.co/7DovnBcgLQ

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Did you hear about the openly transphobic campaign video from the FL governor that got deleted after a few days? It had Achilles in it https://t.co/RIZrhinNPA

[Alicia E. Stallings @ae_stallings]

Hey--Classicists who write about the coopting of Classics (especially Laconophilia) by the extreme right: please note that Greece's brand-new far right party the Spartans (largely revamp of banned Golden Dawn) got between 4-6 % of the vote and will have 13 members in parliament.

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Upcoming talk from @pharosclassics collaborator and inspiration @isisnaucratis

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@abcnews reporting that our former president is still out there pushing his plan to "get rid of bad and ugly buildings and return to the magnificent classical style of western civilization." We know whom he's talking to. https://t.co/SY29zPjdne

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Neofascist admiration for neoclassical architecture didn't go away in 1945. The sites @pharosclassics documents are welcoming the "Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again" exec order & have a lot to say about how classical architecture fits their worldview https://t.co/d0UlZrpsED

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A prominent site for Incels has a repository of "Timeless quotes on women" featuring classical authors from Pythagoras to the church fathers. Read about it on @pharosclassics
https://t.co/0k22gn6paW

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@pharosclassics director @curtisdozier quoted at @BuzzFeedNews in a piece about a popular "tradlife" account with a Classical avatar

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

Big scoop on the breast milk ice cream beat. The carnvniore/trad account that people thought last week had been revealed to secretly be a girlboss wellness influencer (whew).... isn't https://t.co/dkp27jwdik

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A certain editor turned white house advisor's classical obsessions received a lot of attention a few years ago but he's back in the news facing jail time & @pharosclassics has collected the most comprehensive list to date of his forays into antiquity
https://t.co/VbxPOGZz9X

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@pharosclassics contributor Stephen Hodkinson's discussion of "Recent Far-Right Appropriations of Spartan Militarism in the USA and their Historical Roots" is now availavble open access from @sidestonepress in "Classical Controversies" https://t.co/hcT7dW31iY

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#AIASCS 2024 CFP for "Representations of Ethnicity in the Ancient World and Museum Displays", cosponsored by @eosafricana. Submission deadline Feb 15, 2023

[Danielle Smotherman Bennett @AthenasVases]

Happy to be sharing this #callforpapers for #AIASCS 2024 in Chicago on the topic of "Representations of Ethnicity in the Ancient World and Museum Displays." Full text can be found here: https://t.co/3GmJN0zRcb.

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Call for papers from @Frontiere_s_ on "Politicized Past. Political Uses of the Ancient and Medieval Past in the Twenty-First Century"

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H/T @isisnaucratis, homophobic Italian senator for the nationalist Lega party using a Greek vase to promote his idea of the "naturalism" of the nuclear family. Reply by "Le Bimbe della RP" (from FB) points out the real sexual politics of Athens from the period of this vase

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Here we have a LA Cty sheriff's deputy displaying the logo of an anti-govt extremist group along w/ (surprise) a Spartan symbol. Thks to @CacactaCarta for the tip. One of @pharosclassics most read articles: profile of apparel marketed to law enforcemnet https://t.co/O5ATcS7p8t

[Kate Cagle @KateCagle]

SCOOP: a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy openly displays an affiliation with the Three Percenters extremist movement on a locker at the East LA Sheriff’s station, supporting Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s claims.

Sources confirm IG Max Huntsman took this photo last Monday.

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Thanks to @isisnaucratis for citing several @pharosclassics pieces in this important thread about widespread Candidian belief in a white supremacist conspiracy theory. We also wrote about Camus' use of Plato to legitimize his Great Replacement theory https://t.co/f0SJSF78E1

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The racist conspiracy theory that is promoted in mainstream media and keeps turning up in terrorists' manifestos goes back to a French book that begins with an analysis of a Platonic dialogue. https://t.co/f0SJSFoJvz

[Guardian US @GuardianUS]

Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting https://t.co/Z3YdOtEuhu