Inspire 100,000
for Ancient Studies
SASA is developing a year-long social media campaign to engage 100,000 people about the Ancient World while raising awareness that Ancient Studies produces our knowledge of all things ancient.
Please contact us if you would like to volunteer to help.
Description
This summer, SASA will create a year's worth of daily posts for the year-long Social Media Campaign that will begin in September. Posts will be developed in seven series that will each run on a particular day of the week. The seven series are:
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“A Day in the Ancient Life of…” - 1st person historical fiction short narrative of an important event in the life of an ancient person.
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“What’s that artifact?” - A quiz with multiple choice options of unusual objects to guess what their ancient function was.
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Culinary Connection - Recipe of an ancient dish or a dish that derives from ancient tastes.
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#IheartAncient - Features from our members' stories from the SASA website forum
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Famous People Dig it Too - Videos/posts of famous people saying why they love ancient studies
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Ancient English - Ancient etymological roots of modern English words
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DDD: Deities, Demigods, and Demons - highlighting specific entities in ancient lore
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Ancient & Modern - pop culture that derives form the ancient world
In addition, each post will link to a semi-popular online article about the item, person, or event featured in the post. This will link the interest in viewers of the post to the scholarship that stands behind our knowledge of the featured item or event.
Please contact us if you would like to volunteer to help.