Dan-el Padilla Peralta
@platanoclassics.bsky.social
He/his. Dominican Diaspora classicist. Undocumented (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions (Princeton 2020); Rome, Empire of Plunder (CUP 2017) and Making the Middle Republic (CUP 2023). Father of Boots the Corgi (rip) + Romulus and Remus.
Finally the article that I'd been hoping someone would write on the Allegory of the Cave has appeared...
September 30, 2023 at 7:21 PM
Finally the article that I'd been hoping someone would write on the Allegory of the Cave has appeared...
A first: I autographed a book, its owner eventually put it back in circulation :), a student bought it as a used copy ... and I autographed it again. The ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiircle of life.
September 29, 2023 at 2:20 AM
A first: I autographed a book, its owner eventually put it back in circulation :), a student bought it as a used copy ... and I autographed it again. The ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiircle of life.
@profbernard.bsky.social has left the empire for the blue blue skies! welcome him and get a hold of his latest:
September 6, 2023 at 8:52 PM
@profbernard.bsky.social has left the empire for the blue blue skies! welcome him and get a hold of his latest:
Today's reading: Melania Luisa Marte's "Plantains and Our Becoming." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707145...
August 31, 2023 at 10:33 PM
Today's reading: Melania Luisa Marte's "Plantains and Our Becoming." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707145...
πάθει μάθος / I am made to watch this movie almost on the daily:
August 26, 2023 at 1:03 PM
πάθει μάθος / I am made to watch this movie almost on the daily:
"Prospective" I'm not sure, but on gynecological examination of wives there's Ulpian Ed bk 24 = Digest 25.4.10: a rescript issued in response to a striking request:
August 25, 2023 at 1:48 PM
"Prospective" I'm not sure, but on gynecological examination of wives there's Ulpian Ed bk 24 = Digest 25.4.10: a rescript issued in response to a striking request:
New candidate for most entertaining (?) footnote in a Loeb:
August 24, 2023 at 6:04 PM
New candidate for most entertaining (?) footnote in a Loeb:
Come to me over snail mail, my (approx.) 25 quid...
August 17, 2023 at 1:05 PM
Come to me over snail mail, my (approx.) 25 quid...
Gimme that classical reception Empire State
August 13, 2023 at 8:44 PM
Gimme that classical reception Empire State
Watch out for Morality and Models (eds. Seth Bernard and Sarah Murray), to appear in Palgrave's Studies in Ancient Economies series! With contributions from @antiquethought.bsky.social, moi-même, and others not (yet) in these blue domains.
August 7, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Watch out for Morality and Models (eds. Seth Bernard and Sarah Murray), to appear in Palgrave's Studies in Ancient Economies series! With contributions from @antiquethought.bsky.social, moi-même, and others not (yet) in these blue domains.
Coming to a courtroom near you: illocutionary acts!
August 6, 2023 at 11:29 PM
Coming to a courtroom near you: illocutionary acts!
And Bellerophon wept.
August 5, 2023 at 3:50 PM
And Bellerophon wept.
Coming out in December: Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics. Mathura Umachandran and Marchella Ward put together a dream team! https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Ancient-World-Studies-The-Case-for-Forgetting-Classics/Umachandran-Ward/p/book/9781032120119#
August 1, 2023 at 2:59 PM
Coming out in December: Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics. Mathura Umachandran and Marchella Ward put together a dream team! https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Ancient-World-Studies-The-Case-for-Forgetting-Classics/Umachandran-Ward/p/book/9781032120119#
I spent the other week going through the two thick volumes of Cien Años de Feminismos Dominicanos, and I keep coming back to this one poem by Carmen Natalia Martínez Bonilla, "Llanto sin término por el hijo nunca Llegado." Sharing in the hope it finds a reader who needs it.
July 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM
I spent the other week going through the two thick volumes of Cien Años de Feminismos Dominicanos, and I keep coming back to this one poem by Carmen Natalia Martínez Bonilla, "Llanto sin término por el hijo nunca Llegado." Sharing in the hope it finds a reader who needs it.
more a health-giving tonic than a proper reading recommendation: here's Eric Wolf in "Europe and the People Without History" (1982):
July 28, 2023 at 5:43 PM
more a health-giving tonic than a proper reading recommendation: here's Eric Wolf in "Europe and the People Without History" (1982):
