dimitrinakassis.bsky.social
Greek archaeologist, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder; Michigan (BA 1997) & Texas (PhD 2006) grad
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Out of curiosity I looked and the gallery still exists! www.zoumboulakis.gr
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Agreed but with the caveat that the "distinct periods" are also (to some extent) a modern fantasy. For example: Walter Donlan remarked in 1997 that Mentes the pirate-trader is “eminently suited to a chiefdom society, but an anachronism in the city-state” -- uh, what?
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I also LOLed at "Statue of Aristotle, founder of political science. Degree of similarity to the real Aristotle is not known."
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I dunno, this is kinda helpful: "Monaco, a modern city-state on the south coast of France. Monaco bears no resemblance to any aspect of an ancient Greek polis."
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youtu.be/YA1J-raGinQ?...
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And it's 6.5% of the revenue at CU Boulder. Absorbing a 5% cut is no joke
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It's almost 30% of the revenue at CU Anschutz (which is the campus for the med school)
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There are hints of contacts already in the Late Bronze Age, too: there's a person at Pylos ca. 1190 BCE named ai-ti-jo-qo /Aithiokws/ or /Aithiōkws/, cf. Αἰθίοψ. He's a land-holding official of the estate(s) at pa-ki-ja-ne, located near the palatial center.
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HELLAS CHINA ONE CULTURE:
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Now I want to go to a coffee shop and tell them my name is Thucydides to see how they spell it on the cup
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Also: "the Greek Classical Age...was the era of Euripides, Theusidades and Socrates"
Theusidades is new and horrifying... have you ever seen this, @nevillemorley.bsky.social?
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Not what you asked for, but like so many of us I DIY it; usually I'll start with a base map in GIS, export it, and trace the things that I want to show in Illustrator
If you wanted to pay someone to make your maps, I've heard good things about this person: mossmaps.net
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Not looking good so far
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I created a lot of embarrassment (for myself and others) because after graduating from Michigan I assumed that everyone wearing Michigan gear was an alum
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I went to a USC-Colorado game and was talking to some USC fans who complimented the CU campus. I said, "USC must have a nice campus too" and they looked confused and said that they wouldn't know
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Both are in the volume of the 5-yearly Mycenaean conference that sadly didn't happen in Athens in 2020 as planned. Thanks to editors John Bennet, Artemis Karnava & Torsten Meissner & to all my co-authors! Print volume still forthcoming, will be via www.phl.uoc.gr/ekdoseis/ari...
#AncientBluesky 🏺
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2: "The date of the final destruction of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos", in which a team of archaeologists & epigraphers use a variety of evidence (my contribution is ofc the Linear B palaeography part) to disprove a recent attempt to re-date this #AncientBluesky🏺
works.hcommons.org/records/jpcb...
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I attended the 2009 SAA (Society for American Archaeology) meetings in downtown Atlanta (at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis) and there was lots nearby, and there still seems to be
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I think Olsen is good (and FWIW Robert Mays agrees); agreed that Brady's bad but it doesn't really bother me bsky.app/profile/robe...
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Last semester, one class was pretty enthusiastic about using it, the other class not so much, and it wasn't clear to me why. Partly I like it as a way to give opportunities for participation for students who are unwilling to talk in class; this gives them another way to contribute
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I use Perusall, I started doing it during the pandemic. It's kind of a pain to set up the assignments & link to Canvas, and I keep it low-stakes in terms of grading , but when students use it, it really seems to help (whether or not they use it seems to be kind of random, though)
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weirdly, college football loves faceless NFL stadiums and fears bowl games played in cold weather
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I feel like Egyptians might have felt a lot of pressure to be cool
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The Acela too
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The thing is, the comment-rather-than-a-question, when it goes bad, goes VERY bad. Like all the way to ten.
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That's the "Combat agate": www.jstor.org/stable/10.29...