I can’t believe Sappho invented totinos
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on a Honda Odyssey, of course
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relationship goals
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is it me or do ancient iranian gazelles look like lawn chairs
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am I a JSTOR fanboy? (yes)
(500 million thanks to jstor!!!)
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“hey, can i use your phone for a moment?”
“sure, just wait a second”
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GAIUS VALERIUS CTHULHU
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classical archaeologists often create nicknames for vase painters or vase-painting workshops that have distinctive styles but lack any other means of identification
here are some of my favorites (for more, visit The Classical Art Research Centre):
Boot Painter
Brown Egg Painter
Cactus Painter
Cat and Dog Painter
Club Foot Potter
Crawling Boy Workshop
Dwarf Painter
Elbows Out (literally just called “Elbows Out”)
Fat Boy Group
Fat Runners Group
Kiss Painter
Long Nose Painter
Long Chin Group
Maenad-on-Goat Painter
Maenads-on-Bull Painter
Mule Painter
Painter of the Woolly Satyrs
Pointed Nose Painter
Red Line Painter
Scorpion-Fish Painter
Scythian Patrol Painter
Class of Seven Lobster Claws
Group of Skinny Griffins
Straggly Painter
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rigorous archaeological methods
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"In more personal terms, [archaeology] is a subject in which one can thoroughly enjoy one’s work, and meet or be in close touch with scores of friendly and like-minded people around the globe, particularly at conferences. Conversely, the degree of territoriality, bitchiness, backstabbing, and vicious infighting for some reason goes way beyond what is normally encountered in other disciplines. If you are planning to enter this field, you need the hide of a rhinoceros. There are inevitably a few archaeologists who are pompous, hypocritical, dishonest, pretentious, self-promoting, and unprincipled, but that does not stop them doing well in the profession. Quite the contrary, in fact. (Alas, I’m unable to name some examples here, much as I would like to, but they know who they are.)"
strong words in Paul Bahn's Very Short Introduction to Archaeology (Oxford, 1996)
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“Legit had no idea what was going on except that they were all horny”
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a lil brag
my senior thesis, “Constructing Antigonid Kingship: Monarchy, Memory, and Empire in Hellenistic Macedonia”
-- i.e. the reason that I’ve barely been blogging for the past 10 months --
received Highest Honors
and
the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize (best ~70 theses at Harvard in any field)
and
the Herbert Weir Smyth Prize (best thesis on a Greek topic)
...
so please excuse me while I cry in a corner for the next two weeks
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(Lucretius voice) Atoms and fish? I think you mean like, creative bodies or the seeds of things and the bearers of scales or scaly shiners. We don’t use the words atoms and fish.
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periodic photo update
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