sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book š Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
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For folks who enjoy archival photos, Texas Highways did a nice #Juneteenth piece documenting celebrations over the past 160 years. #TexasHistory #BlackHistory #BlackTexasHistory
texashighways.com/travel-news/...
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I mean they typically contradict Unicode, but there are a few: xahlee.info/comp/unicode... Unicode: Ligature
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I mean I have directed a phalanx in class, but prefer a cohortial legion of I am honest š
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So true. My nerd brain is a mess, but a consistent one.
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Pringles inventorā¦ www.npr.org/2008/06/03/9... Inventor's Ashes Buried in His Creation: Pringles Can : NPR
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Definitely worth reading @candidamoss.bsky.socialās stenography article if you havenāt! I learn a lot about enslaved writers. It OA I believe. academic.oup.com/jts/article/... Secretary: Enslaved Workers, Stenography, and the Production of Early Christian Literature
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To read more, I teach with Jean Andreauās _ Banking and Business in the Roman World_ archive.org/details/bank... and with @antiquethought.bsky.social 2010: 245-6 in_ Roman law and the legal world of the Romans_ see below.
Also? Always guarantee loans with chickpeas.
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Tons of papyri with this phrase as well. Definitely makes me want to go reread Camodeca and also @gregwoolf.bsky.socialās literacy work.
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The waxen tablets of the Sulpicii are a treasure trove of info on banking logistics and contracts at Puteoli on the Bay of Naples (near Pompeii). @trismegistostm.bsky.social has all of their citations: www.trismegistos.org/arch/detail.... + the EDR: db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_er... Epigraphik Datenbank
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Well, the herbs are often ground into ingredients for perfumes. Some are eaten too! But things like rose water are for wearing.
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As I have written on for @hyperallergic.com: ancient smell history is fascinating! sites or museums reconstructing ancient perfumes is a great way to immerse people in the past through the olfactory. hyperallergic.com/998360/archa... Archaeologists Reconstruct the Scents of Ancient Mummification
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It also dovetails nicely with the DH project gardens of the Roman Empire. roman-gardens.github.io/home/ Gardens of the Roman Empire
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But my favorite book on this is a slim volume from Carlo Giordano (also available in Italian). catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00568... Catalog Record: Perfumes, unguents, and hairstyles in Pompeii... | HathiTrust Digital Library
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First, āPompeii in Picturesā has some great excavation photos of the house (II.8.6): www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic... www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/r2/2 Also note map of Pompeii at the Graffiti project: ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/sea... Ancient Graffiti Project
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Thank you. This is great! And you are jumping in before I send the inevitable email that asks you and Richard to look at the draft š
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Absolutely. Iād pay $10 a month to take the NEH private now as a consortium to redistribute money, and I know millions of others would too.
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Thatās awesome.
And the lead developer of GIS was a former Royal Air Force pilot, so believe me this chapter has a lot of veterans in it (you included)
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Yes! Thank you š So, this combined with the NEH award for the History of Cartography in 1981 really is what helped bring about the start of the geospatial turn in Classics in the following decades. The NEH is so so clutch to so many of these humanities āturns.ā
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Omg š³ this is amazing! Love this computing history
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Oh, this is amazing. I definitely wanna hear more. I am having the hardest time finding the very first mapping project online for classics, but I think it really is just Perseus posting various digitized maps.
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I love the paths icon too. So cute. Graphic design ftw
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Of course! Packard is in my pantheon of computing deities.
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These are really important pointsāand I agree, Dr. Davies! You are the expert.
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The larger stakes of dismissing both empathy and judgement is that societies will re-define what they mean by human. in ways that deeply impoverish what "human" means and dehumanizing all of us even easier. An excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY:
lithub.com/were-already...