Ready for a mega #gratitude thread for a book out this month from @CornellPress?

Here we go.

This is the 9th thanksgiving without my father. I would love to be able to talk about this book with him. But I'd gladly trade it just to talk to him again. he was, well, complicated

I don't think I' have written this book if he hadn't died when he did. I dedicated it to him

Books come from people. people live in families. My family help me understand the world better, they get first billing in the acknowledgements

Institutions help make work possible! I did a lot of this research while supported by either @utsa or @brandeisU and could not have written without the library professionals at @brandeislib and @UTSA_Libraries

While we are speaking of libraries, I need to shout out to public libraries like @BPLBoston esp @bpllmlibrary and Quincy’s @ThomasCranePL where our kids read and played while I finished this book

I started this work while on a fellowship from @HellenicStudies. The library and staff there is amazing and the assoicated kosmos society and @AncGreekHero welcomed a lot of early work

I am going to talk with @dugankp and @rmavirumquecan about maintaining longterm research projects on Monday (DM to join) but using professional talks to explore work is crucial: here’s some love to @camwsclassics and @scsclassics where work from at least 5 chapters was presented

Departments like @CHC_Classics @UTClassics along with University of Texas, the University of Tennessee, the University of Arizona, Harvard College of the Holy Cross, and NYU invited me to give talks on this work

Colleagues who gave me suggestions for argumentation and bibliography like Marina Haworth, ( @RMitchellBoyask), Stephen Scully, Jonathan Ready, Mary Ebbot, Deborah Beck, Richard Martin, Peter Meineck, Sheila Murnaghan, @caseyduehackney), Jennifer Deveraux, Thomas Caldwell Rose

Special thanks to the Psycholgoy and Classics Conference and the Cognitive Science and Classics Conference where this work was presented, and some published in conference proceedings

Others were supportive early on, like Eve Browning, Norman Sandridge, Joe Ledoux, William Short, Derek Delisi, Rosanna Lauriola, Nicholas Unger, David Jacobson, @globalclassics, Alexander Forte

Thanks to a crew of young(ish) Homerists who have supported my work and shared their own like Emily Austin, Suzanne Lye, Alex Loney, William Duffy, David Elmer

Students from @utsa and @brandeisU who entertained my ideas in class and out of class and gave me inspiration too, like @cryptobotanas @youdontgettorun, Eli Embleton ( @eliembleton), Donald Karr and More

Here’s to #classicstwitter and people who gave me support and suggestions like @danibostick @MykeCole @nhmeems, and @Lollardfish who responded to a cold-call email with a great bibliography

The whole crew of @BrandeisCLAS, my colelagues Cat Gillespie, Ann Koloski-Ostrow and other @brandeisU friends like Allyson Livingstone and Vinodini Murugesan

Laurel Fulkerson ( @FulkersonLaurel) and Erwin Cook heroically read the book’s first draft and made it better

Thanks to funds from @brandeisU I was able to hire William Califf, Zachary Elliott, Taylor
G. Mckinnon, and Joey Kornman to help with bibliography and indexing over the past 3 years. @zbradleyelliott will never forgive me for shunning zotero

The @hellenicstudies publication crew, Jill Curry Robbins, Bruce King, and Dan Cline did fabulous copy-editing, index improving, type-setting, and more

everyone at @CornellPress for putting this book together, making it look so good, and supported its launch. The editorial board was one of the most professional and kind I have ever worked with

back to @hellenicstudies crew, Greg Nagy has been supportive for many years. Lenny Muellner, taught me Greek, was on my dissertation committee, at our wedding, and was the first person to cheer this book’s completion. He also told me I was capable of writing it 8 years ago.

Friends who have supported me over the years and shaped my work through our conversations, like Erik Robinson (the other half of sententiaeantiquae) Elton Barker ( @eltonteb) and Justin Arft ( @ArftJustin)

Individuals may have ideas, but books come out of conversations, communities, and develop over time. https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/03/17/a-new-book-and-its-many-authors/

may everyone on this list and reading it have a safe week and find some moments for happiness in what's left of 2020.

P.S. If you are thanked in the acknowledgements, I am going to try to send you a copy before the end of the year

Bonus pic: here's Hermes preparing to review the book