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Sarah E. Bond

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  • Blogger, Author & Assistant Professor of Classics - The University of Iowa
Iowa City
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Sarah E. Bond is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. She is interested in late Roman history, epigraphy, late antique law, Roman topography and GIS, Digital Humanities, and the socio-legal experience of ancient marginal peoples. She received her PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2011) and obtained a BA in Classics and History with a minor in Classical Archaeology from the University of Virginia (2005). Her book, Trade and Taboo: Disrep…

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Opinion | What men are thinking about when they think about the Roman Empire

Opinion | What men are thinking about when they think about the Roman Empire

The Roman Empire is one of the most renowned in history, and men on TikTok claim to think about regularly. Bu…

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Human DNA in Cave Paintings Can Survive For Millennia, Study Finds

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By Sarah E. Bond
| Hyperallergic Verified
News — 3 min read Bison depicted at the Cave of Altamira in Cantabria, Spain, dated to the Upper Paleolithic period (c. 40,000–10,000 years BCE) (photo Cristian Violatti, public domain via World History Encyclopedia) What can the pigments of Paleolithic cave paintings tell us about the artists who painted them? Deep in the ancient caves of Spain and Portugal, scientists have discovered evidence of ancient human DNA on cave walls.
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Pasts Imperfect (6.18.26)

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By Sarah E. Bond, Stephanie Jade Wong, Colin McCaffrey
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This week, classicist Erika Valdivieso discusses new directions in Latin American classical reception, Virgil, and her new book, Empire’s Companion: Virgilian Epics from Colonial Iberoamerica.
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Archaeologists Discover Mummy Buried With Lines From Homer’s Iliad

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By Sarah E. Bond
| Hyperallergic Verified
Archaeologists excavating at the Ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, near modern El-Bahnasa, announced the discovery of a papyrus containing lines from Homer’s Iliad on the abdomen of a Roman-era mummy. The papyrus dates to the late Roman period, around the fifth century CE, about 1600 years ago. Over 1,500 papyri quoting Homer’s works survive today, but only an extremely small number were placed in burials. Why would a Romano-Egyptian want to take Homer with them to the afterlife?
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