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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...

www.mdpi.com

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 22h

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

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

www.oxfordbibliographies.com

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 2d

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?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 2d

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).

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Dr Colin Runeckles @colinruneckles.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 5d

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

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 6d

!!!!

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 6d

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

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 7d

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

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 7d

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

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 7d

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

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 8d

Well done.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 9d

That's served hot?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 11d

Me too!

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman, Andrew M. Riggsby, Annette Yoshiko Reed

Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 14d

Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access

view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...

Cambridge University Press

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 15d

Please spread the word: the 2026 application cycle for the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome is now live! (Yours truly as Director for my final year). www.aarome.org/apply/2026-c...

Classical Summer School

This five-week program is designed to provide participants with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary ...

www.aarome.org

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15d

He also has a second piece on the topic that will hopefully be appearing fairly soon.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15d

I can't find that workshop on their schedule page. Do you have a more direct link?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 16d

Fuller disclosure: mine took way more than a week.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 16d

Sumerian (but for metrological standardization across the ages).

Reposted by Juan Cole, Margot C. Finn, Eric D. Knowles , and 5 more Juan Cole, Margot C. Finn, Eric D. Knowles, Mark Rice, Andrew M. Riggsby, Catriona Seth, Daxton R. Stewart, David Lay Williams

Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 21d

Humanities where the cool jobs at

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 21d

This (Classics prof.; former Army officer) may be relevant to your interests @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 21d

Post Halloween experimental archaeology

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Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 21d

Post Halloween experimental archaeology

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 22d

How long are the individual tomatoes?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 23d

Presumably his escape route is to declare everything he doesn’t care for “deconstruction”?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 23d

I don't know the podcast, but perhaps of interest?

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 23d

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe

Pitches to: [email protected]
🤗🤗🤗

Reposted by Andrew M. Riggsby

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 23d

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 23d

A reasonable position.

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