Andrew Riggsby

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This was my last year on the committee, and we were once again hit with an overwhelming wave of great contenders. Very happy with the results.
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In the right light he looks a little like you.

My student @javalac.bsky.social just advanced to doctoral candidacy. He's writing on how the existence of human property inflects the ideas of both "human" and "property" in Roman lawmaking (broadly understood).

Excellent.

This all looks very important for something I’m working on. Are you anticipating published proceedings?

The Ancient Roots of Doing Time The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state.

A New Yorker fact-checker contacted me with some questions about my 1st book, so I was curious what the article was going to be about. Turns out it’s a review of Letteney and Larsen’s exciting new book (including a nice little look back at mine near the end).

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I think also of archaeological work like that of Chris Motz on the diffusion of procedural knowledge via similar mobility.

⭐ The inaugural RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TRANSLATION from the Society for Classical Studies has just been announced ⭐

C. Luke Soucy, *Ovid's Metamorphoses* (University of California Press, 2023).

Can you say a little more about your procedure?

IIRC, the preface to mine suggests the author thought of it as a conversation with his wife (who's a high-powered lawyer, but not an academic). And it does have a genuinely conversational feel.

Re: humor. If you ever stumble on the original dissertation, keep a constant eye on the footnotes. Wicked.

Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome (Classical Culture and Society) Amazon.com: Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome (Classical Culture and Society): 9780195336078: Kaster, Robert: Books

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Not dumb.

I have two accounts on here, this one for "work" and the other for food and (mostly local) politics. I can see a difference between the two in terms of how much national politics filters in, but not as much as I would like.

Out now in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics: My biblio on "Jews in the Roman empire." My goal was to invite classicists/ancient historians into the rich world of rabbinic literature, which can transform (if we let it) how we talk about the Roman empire

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I didn't know you did non-map diagrams (which I use a lot more in my work than actual maps). What kinds of things?

Interesting. On the one hand, I think you’re right to be skeptical about that as a “name.” On the other hand, it could maybe be a literal/concrete description of that style. 🤷. Hopefully someone on here (Laura up-thread?) is connected in hair world.

I suspect there may be particular influence from Ovid AA 3.138-40: Sic erat ornatis Laodamia comis. Exiguum summa nodum sibi fronte relinqui,.Ut pateant aures, ora rotunda volunt (which still doesn't actually give that as the name of the style as a whole).

OLD s.v. (3) has "a mass or bunch [of something] secured by a knot," with 4 examples specifically to do with hair. That does make me suspect that any usage to denote a specific tied-up hair style is a modern narrowing of that usage.

From the email from ASPROM, I read the sad news of the passing of Professor Roger Ling, Emeritus Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at University of Manchester.

Anyone engaging with the archaeology of Pompeii should read his two volume work on The Insula of the Menander - a superb study.

This is an algorithm I could use in so many situations.

A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!

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Which plan do you have? I just checked mine, and I think I'm still grand-fathered into some that is no longer available.

I thought this was familiar, but couldn’t place it. I think she must have had this idea already in grad school.

This may be a little reductive, but without those fields, what is the point of the New School?

Finished the individual research presentations in my graduate seminar this afternoon. #TheKidsAreAlright

Well done.