Ancient Studies professor at UMBC. Mostly Roman things. Views my own.
Melissa Kutner
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If you only read Onion headlines but never the body copy, make one exception right now. My face is covered in tears. I haven’t laughed this hard in years.
This is true *but* we have also seen an increase in archaeological research on inequality/lack thereof that I think is interesting and productive…so something genuinely to be said for it as “provocative”
The magic of America
In my high school AP US History class, I was taught that the Civil War was not fought over slavery but over States’ Rights. (This was in Texas & I suddenly had the depressing thought that what Erin says might not be true there anymore, at least at certain universities).
My daughter's beloved child is the one I hold here.
The one that I held on my lap
While we looked at the light of the sun when we were alive,
And that I still hold, now that we are both dead.
- inscription on this c. 400 BCE Greek grave marker, carved with a grandmother holding a swaddled baby
Proofs day for the published version of my 2024 Hans Lietzmann lecture on Marcion as Slave Trader.
there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care
Wondered this myself. Not sure I’m convinced by this methodology.
Wait, this was 16 professors commenting on other professors and no students involved at any time?
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Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Every time I've seen Graeber and Wengrow discussed in an academic context, it's the same thing: everyone agrees that it is 'stimulating' and 'timely' because you are required to say something nice and then everyone also concludes that it utterly fumbles their specific period of expertise.
