Andrew Riggsby

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Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. Never, ever speak for my employer. Also cook @foodoriented.bsky.social

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My book is down under $20 again on Amazon! www.amazon.com/Eusebius-Eva...

Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity (Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean): Coogan, Jeremiah: 9780197580042: Amazon.com: Bookswww.amazon.com Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity (Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean) [Coogan, Jeremiah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity (Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean)

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Texas Tech University Department of History is hiring a t-t historian of the Ancient Mediterranean World. Applications due Oct. 1. I'm not on the committee but I'm happy to try to answer any questions. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... 🗃️

H-Net Job Guidewww.h-net.org

Headed to Budapest for the Fall. ias.ceu.edu/article/2024...

IAS CEU presents its Fellows of 2024-2025 | Institute for Advanced Studyias.ceu.edu

Spot of lunch between museums today. isideristorante.it/menu/

A few fragments from the wonderful new Forma Urbis museum.

Fun with inscriptions at the AAR summer school.

As promised, part 2 of the standardization trilogy, this with more of an economic history emphasis. www.academia.edu/121183543/St...

Standardization as Economic Institutionwww.academia.edu Pp. 185-219 in Models, Methods, and Morality Assessing Modern Approaches to the Greco-Roman Economy, edd. S. Murray and S. Bernard (Palgrave) The contribution I hope to make to the standardization que...

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Making my SCS return in 2025 and excited that Dan-el Padilla Peralta and I will be presenting our paper “Cruelty Against Property: The Rescript(s) on Enslaver Violence,” in Philly!! See y’all there!

More Early Modern than Classics, but here's the CFP for a conference on "Reading visual devices in early books" I'll be speaking at next May in Finland: fmrsi.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/c...

CFP: Reading visual devices in early books, University of Turku, 22-24 May 2025fmrsi.wordpress.com Deadline: 15 October 2024 Visual or graphic devices, such as images, diagrams, charts and tables, often operate between visual and verbal modes to convey information. In books and documents these devi...

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And, finally, an Open Access link to the book doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquitydoi.org Cambridge Core - Ancient History - The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity

I don’t see a clear timeline in the article. I’m wondering if I will live to see this done?

Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum 🏺ClassicsBluesky BlueskyClassics AncientBluesky 🏛️ www.thecollector.com/work-begins-...

Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museumwww.thecollector.com Plans are in place for Naples’ brand new archaeological museum, which will include special displays dedicated to the ancient city of Pompeii.

8k of RAM on the desktop, long-term storage on punched paper tape.

Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy. When I was 16, you could get three tacos for a dollar at Taco Bell.

Part 2 of my "standardization" trilogy to appear shortly in this blockbuster of an edited collection: Table of Contents, S.C. Murray and S. Bernard, Models... (Palgrave 2024) www.academia.edu/120719797/Ta...

Table of Contents, S.C. Murray and S. Bernard, Models... (Palgrave 2024)www.academia.edu Table of Contents, S.C. Murray and S. Bernard, Models... (Palgrave 2024)

Call for abstracts for the 2024 and 2025 volumes of Privacy Studies Journal. Your chance to appear in a uniquely interdisciplinary open access journal. tidsskrift.dk/privacy_stud...

Call for abstracts for Privacy Studies Journal 2024 and 2025 volumes | Privacy Studies Journal tidsskrift.dk

Everything, as they say, has a history. Maybe this is one for @carlosfnorena.bsky.social to offer a class in.

A bit of Classical reception going on at the Kehinde Wiley show at MFA Houston.

People in Rome. I know I have to go see the new Forma Urbis installation. What else important is new in the last year or so? And are there important temporary exhibitions up?

This is a REALLY impressive project, but I was of course a little sad to read the second sentence here after reading the first: "Data visualization is not a recent innovation. Even in the eighteenth century..."

I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:

By the time I could easily afford them, I’d long gotten by well enough by borrowing that I just kept doing that until until I inherited my father’s (which, I think, his university had bought for him when he was a dean). I had rented when I walked.

Ok academics. Talk to me about your relationship to regalia. When I finished my PhD I was too poor to afford it & none of my family could afford to come to my graduation. So I just didn’t walk. I will regret that my whole life. Regalia is expensive and I finally bought it 10 years after I finished.

Classics honor society annual end-of-year cooking class (this year, pasta).

Important new award just dropped (from our campus chapter of ΗΣΦ):

Post a picture with your dog that doesn’t involve shooting them and throwing them in a gravel pit. I’ll start

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Is "what did they have in their pocketses" a burning question you have about Romans? Then read my article, out in AJP: "Revealed and Concealed: Carrying and the Sinus in Ancient Rome." If you're thinking, but Romans didn't HAVE #pockets, you're right. But... muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - Revealed and Concealed: Carrying and the <i>Sinus</i> in Ancient Romemuse.jhu.edu

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Get those SCS abstracts in! And remember: the committee *wants* to accept your abstract. Don't give them a reason not to! Make it intelligible to non-specialists; provide a sampling of evidence; and make it viable for a 20-minute paper. And no typos. That's literally all you need, and you're in. 👍

The SCS Program Committee is happy to announce a slight extension to the deadline for submissions for the Annual Meeting in 2025 (January 2-5, Philadelphia). Please note that all submissions are now due by the end of Sunday, April 7th 11.59pm EDT. classicalstudies.org/scs-news/202...

Review of the handy new collection of (most of) Talbert's collected geographical essays: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ROMAN VIEWS ON TIME AND SPACE - (R.J.A.) Talbert World and Hour in Roman Minds. Exploratory Essays. Pp. xviii + 308, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Cased, £71, US$110. ISBN: 978-...www.cambridge.org ROMAN VIEWS ON TIME AND SPACE - (R.J.A.) Talbert World and Hour in Roman Minds. Exploratory Essays. Pp. xviii + 308, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Cased, £71, US$110. ISBN: 978-...

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For all my linguistics buddies... www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/02...

Trying to do my part.

Traditional masculinity is in danger of disappearing forever, we need to return to a time when Real Men carried tiny babby kittens around everywhere. Ca. 1915. ehive.com/collections/...

I've long wanted to have a book in this series, so I'm very happy to have just signed the contract for _Information in the Roman World_ (too appear...hopefully soon-ish).