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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

@platanoclassics.bsky.social

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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.

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Finally the article that I'd been hoping someone would write on the Allegory of the Cave has appeared...

Bakewell, "Mining Plato's cave: silver mining, slavery, and philosophical education," Polis 2023

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

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.

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

@profbernard.bsky.social has left the empire for the blue blue skies! welcome him and get a hold of his latest:

Cover of Seth Bernard's Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy (Oxford 2023)

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Today's reading: Melania Luisa Marte's "Plantains and Our Becoming." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707145...

INEED$, from Melania Luisa Marte's "Plantains and Our Becoming"

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

πάθει μάθος / I am made to watch this movie almost on the daily:

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

"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:

Ulpian Ed bk 24 = Digest 25.4.10: dispute ensues when a husband alleges that his (now-ex) wife is pregnant, but she denies; imperial rescript summarizes case and disposition.

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

New candidate for most entertaining (?) footnote in a Loeb:

Shackleton-Bailey footnote on Martial 11.16.8: "Uda does not refer to drinking."

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Come to me over snail mail, my (approx.) 25 quid...

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

Gimme that classical reception Empire State

Shot of road sign Homer-Cortland-Ithaca (NY State)

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

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.

Table of Contents for Morality and Models edited volume (Seth Bernard and Sarah C. Murray, editors)

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Coming to a courtroom near you: illocutionary acts!

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

And Bellerophon wept.

Paragraph in New York Times describing "large Pegasus painted on the back" of Supreme Court Justice Thomas's luxury RV

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Coming out in December: Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics. Mathura Umachandran and Marchella Ward put together a dream team! www.routledge.com/Critical-Ancient-…

Cover and Table of Contents for Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics

Table of Contents and Editor Biographies, Critical Ancient World Studies

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

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.

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

more a health-giving tonic than a proper reading recommendation: here's Eric Wolf in "Europe and the People Without History" (1982):

Page grab from Wolf's "Europe and the People Without History": "We have been taught, inside the classroom and outside of it, that there exists an entity called the West ... Many of us even grew up believing that this West has a genealogy, according to which Ancient Greece begat Rome, Rome begat Christian Europe..."

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Screenshot from Redman's "Let's Get Dirty"

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