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Andrew Riggsby
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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

Law 26%
History 19%
Pinned
Me on cognitive models in Roman land-surveying (OA):
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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

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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?

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.

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).

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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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.

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

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

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

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

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

Well done.

That's served hot?

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

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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 ...
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Thanks.

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

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

Fuller disclosure: mine took way more than a week.

Sumerian (but for metrological standardization across the ages).
Humanities where the cool jobs at

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

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Post Halloween experimental archaeology

How long are the individual tomatoes?

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

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

A reasonable position.