gabrielbaker.bsky.social
Ancient History PhD. Teacher. H-War Network Editor. Author of Spare No One: Mass Violence in Roman Warfare. Views/opinions are my own.
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I'm a one-trick pony, but happy to help on those few occasions when I can!
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Lol where did this come from?
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Oops sorry, i didn't see that you had recommended this too! And totally agree, Ziolkowski is more historically minded, but he makes some philological arguments along the way, so perhaps still useful?
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There's more good bibliography at Parabaino, too -- www.parabaino.com/resources/bi...
Hope that helps.
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Paul, "Urbs capta: Sketch of an Ancient Literary Motif" (1982)
Laurence, “Ritual, Landscape, and the Destruction of Place in Roman Imagination” in Wilkins (1996)
Assenmaker, “Poids symbolique de la destruction et enjeux idéologiques de ses récits" in Driessen (2013)
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Hi - a few recommendations:
Ziolkowski, "Urbs direpta, or How the Romans Sacked Cities" in Rich & Shipley (1993)
Barrandon "Les massacres de la République romaine: De l’exemplum à l’objet d’histoire" (2018)
Hulot, "La violence guerrière des Romains: discours et méthode" (2019) ...
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In fairness, given the way they plummet to earth, they do seem to be "land range."
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More senior and smaller, and in some cases quite ready to pull up the ladder.
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Lol for real though! You're out here interacting with like NYT columnists and yet still manage to engage meaningfully with "small" accounts, EC folks, etc. That's not necessarily the norm and it's pretty awesome.
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Hello as well! The platform remains inscrutable to me (which is probably why I don't use it well!). Thanks for responding though, and preventing me from lapsing into pure digital solipsism.
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Well thanks! That's exciting. Maybe I should post more!
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If we are going to weather this night - hopefully a short one - we are going to need to summon some sincerity and be willing to be 'cringe' in committing, in public, to the ideals we hold.
You cannot keep a republic with apathy and nihilism. You can't do good history with it either.
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Same.
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Some good suggestions so far.
Obviously, what I am going for is the need to reframe liberalism from pleasant discussion in faculty lounges to its more element form - the movement that cracked crowns and freed slaves.
We need our fire back.
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That's awesome! And I know what you mean about pitching to them!
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I suspect more people on here are *people*, too. Though in fairness to the twitter bots, they have the important job of spamming random posts all day.
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Love this question! I try to do each of those things simultaneously. I get bored and enjoy stepping outside my subfield, but my curiosity tends to ramp up the workload quickly. Teaching a more familiar course for my other prep, at the same time as something new, always feels like a good balance.
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Because right now, we are *pantsing* our other adversary for the cost of intelligence support and the collected junk of our military’s garage we had to get rid of anyway. We are sitting on the greatest geopolitical bargain IN HISTORY and we don’t have the patience to let *someone else* fight for it
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I believe they experienced several cruel summers between 218 and 216.
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Oh, so many people suck, where do I begin
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Ordered! Very excited for this, Owen.