My mother's funeral-- which I say not to be a downer, but because she taught Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" for many years, and she would have been quite pleased to have her funeral on that day
Money and numeracy...
I love getting things notarized. I love the stamp and the thing that crinkles the paper and the signatures and the Important Book, all the different physical traces. It's the best.
remember you can always burn Shein clothes for petroleum
A Flemish merchant samples the wine while a human treadmill loads casks in the town square
A nice comparandum for Roman illustrations of human powered cranes
This is true, if “the good life” means “drinking heavily and networking with other sons of the gentry, followed perhaps by an easy job in the Church,” and “the humanities” mean “Latin and theology.”
Imagine viewing this and concluding that academic Gender Studies is no longer relevant as a field of inquiry.
I like Denzel and all but he is TOO OLD to be Hannibal during the 2nd Punic War. Scipio should also be young but now if they make him young it will look weird. Napoleon also should have been young. Stop making everyone in historical epics old! Nevertheless, I will watch it.
Detail of a Roman tomb wall with a semicircular painted lunette showing faded red and blue figures on a white background.
New discovery: A large burial ground dating from the Early Imperial Age to Late Antiquity has been uncovered in Rome’s Ostiense Necropolis during pre-construction works.
cultura.gov.it/comunicato/2...
"Neglect of technological unemployment in academic circles has given rise to a common view in debates about the future of work that any negative impacts of innovation are short-lived...the scale and duration of unemployment question sanguine views about the consequences of technological change."
..."Revealed and Concealed: Carrying and the Sinus in Ancient Rome" and cited the Gellius version, but sadly hadn't noticed the contrasting Polybius one, and am sharing it here for my own satisfaction. For more, including how the sinus was and was NOT like a pocket: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
...right there in the Senate, and tear it up. By the time Gellius was writing, the sinus (fold of the toga) served as a carrying space in a way that it did not in the time of Polybius, which meant that Gellius could have Scipio be much more dramatic. I wrote about the development of the sinus in...
When Polybius tells the story of how Scipio Africanus was accused of embezzlement in the Senate (23.14.7-8), he says that Scipio sent his brother to get his account book (which Scipio tore up). When Aulus Gellius tells the story (Gell. NA 4.18.9), he has Scipio take the account out of his toga...
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out, focused on the closing of humanities depts. & museums. @otavano.bsky.social discusses the U. of Ottawa, @mokersel.bsky.social on the DePaul Art Museum, @meirazk.bsky.social & @vox-magica.bsky.social on shuttering religious studies depts, & Justin Vorhis on U. Iowa.
..."Revealed and Concealed: Carrying and the Sinus in Ancient Rome" and cited the Gellius version, but sadly hadn't noticed the contrasting Polybius one, and am sharing it here for my own satisfaction. For more, including how the sinus was and was NOT like a pocket: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
...right there in the Senate, and tear it up. By the time Gellius was writing, the sinus (fold of the toga) served as a carrying space in a way that it did not in the time of Polybius, which meant that Gellius could have Scipio be much more dramatic. I wrote about the development of the sinus in...
When Polybius tells the story of how Scipio Africanus was accused of embezzlement in the Senate (23.14.7-8), he says that Scipio sent his brother to get his account book (which Scipio tore up). When Aulus Gellius tells the story (Gell. NA 4.18.9), he has Scipio take the account out of his toga...
It’s ALWAYS someone like that
Allergic to anyone who uses the word “workflow”
Tchernia, "The Romans and Trade," 2016, p. 94
🏺 Nice study, though not surprising there are differences since cuneiform evolved out of symbols that seem related to administration, eg seals on jars.
Palaeolithic & Aurignacian markings maybe closer in context/meaning to Chinese late Neolithic/early Bronze Age symbols eventually used in pyromancy
Making Money in the Early Middle Ages by Rory Naismith
Now in #paperback, @rorynaismith.bsky.social's Making Money in the Early Middle Ages is an examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#History #ReadUP
Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.
...the costs entailed in off-loading and reloading and eventually brought down transport costs to a level that was almost economically negligible. For a mode of transport combining see and land, these costs had been masking those deriving from institutions and the drawing up of contracts."
This quote by Andre Tchernia is striking in light of the fascination of ancient historians with NIE: "It may not be coincidental that the transaction-costs theory emerged after the other transport revolution, the one caused by the advent of containers in the late 1960s. They drastically reduced...
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
And why is the “legionnaire” in the Colosseum?
I don’t know those programs, but I did the UT-Austin one back in the day & I heartily endorse summer intensive programs in general. It was amazing. Extraordinarily good foundation for my Greek.
The long 2010s are finally over
