Andrew Riggsby
@antiquethought.bsky.social
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
Just signed a contract with Academic Studies Press for them to publish a Russian edition of my Roman information technology book. (Which is scheduled to appear 24-36 months hence. This is my amateur cover mock-up; I have no idea what it will actually look like.)
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Just signed a contract with Academic Studies Press for them to publish a Russian edition of my Roman information technology book. (Which is scheduled to appear 24-36 months hence. This is my amateur cover mock-up; I have no idea what it will actually look like.)
Christmas came before Halloween!
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Christmas came before Halloween!
I hadn't realized Daniel Kahneman had dedicated his final years to cooking.
October 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I hadn't realized Daniel Kahneman had dedicated his final years to cooking.
I was still using this technology for research more recently than that!
October 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I was still using this technology for research more recently than that!
Do it, Carlos. You know she's right.
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Do it, Carlos. You know she's right.
In my case 3 months, but on of their virtues is that they have several different lengths of fellowship. And for those who didn't see the "magic," this, for instance, is the view out the front door of the provided housing.
September 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
In my case 3 months, but on of their virtues is that they have several different lengths of fellowship. And for those who didn't see the "magic," this, for instance, is the view out the front door of the provided housing.
August 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
E.g. sticky toffee pudding.
August 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
E.g. sticky toffee pudding.
Purportedly (StackExchange):
August 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Purportedly (StackExchange):
As always: imgs.xkcd.com/comics/thesi...
July 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
As always: imgs.xkcd.com/comics/thesi...
Meanwhile over on the other site:
![Fascinating 100% hallucination — claims, numbers, references, everything…. [Followed by a Grok post which purports to cite demographic figures from various sources, including one supposedly by Scheidel himself.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugoh2f7qwbzy2jnjzc2hrhsp/bafkreibzuikcycgyvjreccob3zvkwz6y2vcsb4kpt3edanyl5gasall7uu@jpeg)
July 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Meanwhile over on the other site:
Many, many points for Prof. Hays here:
July 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Many, many points for Prof. Hays here:
And the rest of the panels. I’m not sure I recognize all of these.
July 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
And the rest of the panels. I’m not sure I recognize all of these.
A bit of Classical reception at the MFA in Houston. The titular Zmyrina is seemingly in fact a barmaid known from a couple of (mock?) electoral programmata.
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db.edcs.eu/epigr/ae/ae1...
July 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A bit of Classical reception at the MFA in Houston. The titular Zmyrina is seemingly in fact a barmaid known from a couple of (mock?) electoral programmata.
db.edcs.eu/epigr/ae/ae1...
db.edcs.eu/epigr/ae/ae1...
“Segmentation in Roman Documents,” University of Turku, Finland.
May 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“Segmentation in Roman Documents,” University of Turku, Finland.
Two questions for my Latinist colleagues:
May 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Two questions for my Latinist colleagues:
This looks like it's really going to be quite the volume (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean: 100 BCE – 300 CE. Edited by @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social , @illdottore.bsky.social , and @candidamoss.bsky.social, forthcoming OUP).
April 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This looks like it's really going to be quite the volume (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean: 100 BCE – 300 CE. Edited by @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social , @illdottore.bsky.social , and @candidamoss.bsky.social, forthcoming OUP).
