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Andrew Riggsby

@antiquethought.bsky.social

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Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · Sep 21

Me on cognitive models in Roman land-surveying (OA):
www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 10h

This link worked for me yesterday, but there seems to be a problem now.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 1d

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2025 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit | Society for Classical Studies

The C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit Committee is delighted to announce the three recipients of the 2025 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit. The Goodwin Awards honor outstanding contributions to classical ...

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 1d

So this reminds me of a general question about digital tools. This seems like it could be really valuable to a huge swath of the field. But I fear that anything that starts with going to GitHub is a non-starter for most. Is there anything the field in general could do to close that gap?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 2d

Sad! I still remember that place from my year in Madison, fairly early in their run.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 2d

I'm multiply dis-qualified, but for others, what time zone?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 3d

Top level of research focus based on classification by the Carnegie Foundation:
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Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education®

The Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education® are the nation’s leading framework for categorizing U.S. higher education institutions.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 3d

What’s John’s name doing there in the upper left?

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 3d

Partus Sequitur Ventre—“that which is born follows the womb.” In 1662, Virginia passed legislation to make enslaved children follow the status of the mother, just as it had been in Ancient Rome. Katharine P. D. Huemoeller has an important new book on this law, how it supported sexual assault & more

The Child Follows the Womb

A new and incisive exploration of female slavery and reproduction in ancient Rome One of ancient Rome’s most significant legacies is a legal framework for...

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 4d

You cannot grasp the joy this brings me. :)

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4d

On Feb 27th, 7pm ET, I'll do a public webinar Q and A, designed primarily for high school students and their teachers who may be using my translations of the Odyssey or Iliad in class. You can register here: www.emilyrcwilson.com/resources-fo...

Resources for Teachers — Emily Wilson

www.emilyrcwilson.com

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, yes!

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 5d

Here's something I don't think I've seen elsewhere before. BICS is looking specifically for emerging scholars to join the editorial process.
academic.oup.com/bics/pages/c...

Call for Emerging Editors Board Members

Background The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (BICS) is the journal of the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) at the School of Advanced Study

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 6d

In memoriam

Text: Please join the Department of Classics for
A service in Memory of
Michae C.J. Putnam
Wednesday March 11 2026
12-1:30PM
First Unitarian Church of Providence
1 Benevolent St
Providence, RI
Reception to follow immediately on the church grounds
To be simulcast. details to follow

Image: Elderly man in suit in tie with hand on his chin and an open book in front of him.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, about property in general. NG has her topic nailed down.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 7d

To be serious for a second, a cultural-historian-who-knows-a-lot-of-law in fact needs to write a book with that subtitle.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 8d

That's about how the Texas ones are unless you're as old as I am.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 9d

And note that the publication is open access.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve used others of her recipes, but I’ll have to try this!

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 11d

That bread looks fantastic. How did you leaven it?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, no!

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Cristina Rosillo López @lordscribonius.bsky.social · 13d

He escrito un libro. ¿Os cuento qué hay en él?
- 25 años de lecturas
- 9 meses de escritura
- muchas ganas
- bibliografía consultada en 6 idiomas (italiano, francés, inglés, español, alemán, latín) de bibliotecas nacionales e internacionales.

Resultado: 384 páginas de historias alucinantes.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 14d

I'm not his #1 fan (even though I've written on him a fair bit), but yes that's nonsense.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 16d

Just got a request for an interview about Roman migration, I think especially (though they don't use the word) the (non-)integration of "barbarians" in the later Empire. The outfit seems legitimate, but for that reason I'd like to suggest someone with more actual expertise than me. Suggestions?

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 18d

After reindexing the Roman Republican coins in the ANS database, there are 350 (up from 123) objects featuring architecture, after NLP-derived concepts in descriptions like 'temple' link to Wikidata. The 123 previous objects contained the word 'architecture' explicitly in the textual description.

Search results in the American Numismatic Society database for 'architecture' from natural language processing-derived concepts of coin descriptions that may include 'temple', 'altar', 'column', etc.

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Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social · 19d

If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI...

I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.