Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him “Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519https://bsky.app/profile/metalclassicist.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/metalclassicist.bsky.social/post/3mlt5s7wrbc25After I gave a virtual lecture last year on Mythological Adversaries in Heavy Metal for the Tampa Museum of Art, yesterday I finally visited there to see the bronze figurine of Typhon used for the promotional flyer, as well as a red-figure vase of someone with a shield device of a dog taking a dump.14 May 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:4t5ob6pfhoav3zmqpg3hl5il/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt5s7wrbc25https://bsky.app/profile/metalclassicist.bsky.social/post/3mlt5s7wrbc25After I gave a virtual lecture last year on Mythological Adversaries in Heavy Metal for the Tampa Museum of Art, yesterday I finally visited there to see the bronze figurine of Typhon used for the promotional flyer, as well as a red-figure vase of someone with a shield device of a dog taking a dump.14 May 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:4t5ob6pfhoav3zmqpg3hl5il/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt5s7wrbc25https://bsky.app/profile/metalclassicist.bsky.social/post/3mlsztpqgrk26Yes, because the German spelling is more accurate.14 May 2026 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:4t5ob6pfhoav3zmqpg3hl5il/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsztpqgrk26https://bsky.app/profile/metalclassicist.bsky.social/post/3mlqgjmf6u223Just submitted a chapter on Hadrian & Julian’s beards for an edited volume.13 May 2026 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:4t5ob6pfhoav3zmqpg3hl5il/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqgjmf6u223https://bsky.app/profile/metalclassicist.bsky.social/post/3mlog62i2j22zWho here will I see at MDF later this month?12 May 2026 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:4t5ob6pfhoav3zmqpg3hl5il/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlog62i2j22z