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Okay, let's see if I can do a /quick/ read of _Slavery: Antiquity & Its Legacy_ by Page duBois before I head home today. It opens with a quote from

I've been saying this in various replies, but might as well stop repeating and put it here, for my tiny audience of (let me check) 1086 people, of which I

Today's goal is to read as many Caesar lives as I can from Suetonius, and then go play a video game. Yesterday's meeting about Tacitus included the confession that I

It says something about Roman cognomens (cognomina?) that after Mucius heroically burned off his own right hand to demonstrate the intensity of purpose he came against the enemy with, he

A passing discussion of the Lord of the Flies discourse (such as it is) is reminding me that a lot of people's feelings about it are highly influenced by how

Dionysos class! The prof has a new puppy, and we are all cooing over him enormously. --also an elderly adoptive dog, and a new grandchild, so honestly that's a pretty

*points aggressively at this while nodding*https://twitter.com/NeolithicSheep/status/1246408189937168386 One of the most difficult things about discussing ancient religion in a casual/non-scholarly way is that we bring SO MUCH of our modern understan