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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 7h

That is very strange. A lot of my good information contacts are still people I met at a conference there like a decade ago.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 23h

That would be my bet. Talarico and Abbott, both by narrow margins.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's not an allegation; it's Science!

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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Inaugural lecture: "Empire and the Gods: How the Romans Lost Control of Their Religion". Prof. Greg Woolf (Leon Levy Director, ISAW, NYU). How did the shift to autocracy coincide with a religious free-for-all in Rome? Tues Oct 13, 6:30pm, MHN 509 #AncientHistory #RomanHistory #uOttawa #ottawa

Poster for an inaugural lecture by Friends of Classics & Religious Studies in Ottawa. Maroon banner across the top with the university crest and organization name in English and French. Below it, a wide sepia-toned photograph of a Roman relief sculpture depicting a procession of robed figures and a sacrificial bull. The lower half of the poster has a dark maroon background with white and gold text reading "Inaugural lecture," the title "Empire and the Gods," subtitle "How the Romans lost control of their religion," and "Prof. Greg Woolf, Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University." A paragraph describes the lecture's subject. Event details on the right: Date, Tuesday, October 13; Time, 6:30 p.m.; Location, Room MHN 509, Hamelin Hall, 70 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa; and a note that the lecture will be given in English. Text at the bottom credits the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, as host.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Update: I don’t know who, but someone fixed it. Cool site.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve been wondering about that. It comes in “steaks”? If so, have you had the similar Beyond product? (I attach a Thai curry made with that [lower].)

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I imagine this is true of applications to fill in lacunose texts, but I wonder if the case of literary one w/MS traditions is less determinate? I can imagine that you could tell the software about the LD and that would affect its sense of likelihood. (but your later points here would still hold)

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And here, in this glum days, is an actual tenure-track job in our department! careers.historians.org/jobs/rss/226...

careers.historians.org

One moment...

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 28/09/2026

A fun episode on one of my favourite topics, cognitive offloading. Offloading (to our body, culture, technology, environment!) is one of the human superpowers, if you may. And now, for better or for worse, it's being taken to the extreme.

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Dr Alex A. @dralexa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s publication day! It’s a pleasure to finally see this edited volume in print. A massive thank you to my co-editors and to all the collaborators to the volume. It’s a pleasure to bring together a wealth of scholars from across the world, all asking questions about the Roman Censorship.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A number of Germanophone papyrological collections joined forces for the online Papyrus Portal project (now I think under the aegis of something called Organa Papyrologica). But all links seemingly send you to this music site out of Leipzig. Anyone know anything about this?

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ah, that makes sense. (The line of research I was thinking about had to do with how denominations are represented.)

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m struck by the ancient coin in that image array. Is that from Olivier Morin’s group?

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I take it this is Sept. 15 both years?

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do you want any of the above or rather someone who thinks of the whole as a package?

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I confess that in my head, I had retconned cell phones into the story, and I’m more than old enough to know better.

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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My book has a face! 🥹📚 So excited to finally share the cover of The Nile Flows with Gold. Forthcoming, Spring 2027 with Princeton University Press.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hi Homer, I recently came across The Iliad and was blown away by its expansiveness, its humanity, and its complex use of . Have you considered new ways to promote your book and expand its reach across various platforms? I would love to connect and hear your ideas. Kind regards, Apollonius

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Had no idea he was working on this.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thus his chair, but see his CV: www.hillsdale.edu/faculty/wilf...

hillsdale.edu

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Was there going to be an example here?

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Conversely, even if you did accept the most generous possible account of mentorship, the mentors still don’t control crucial aspects of the student experience.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That’s very fair, but does that mean that, say, gang conflict within a modern state is war?

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Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The high-end version of the latter here involves a couple of classes, a bunch of bespoke seminars, behind the scenes meetings, and (IIRC) $50,000!

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