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Digital humanities project of the month: bestiary dot ca on medieval Latin bestiaries and their lore. Friends for @netkitty ? http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast213.htm #cancon #digitalhumanities

Ahah! I found the review of a book I wanted to look at and/or cite as an example of comparative research: Paul Halstead, "Two Oxen Ahead," on mid-20th-century Greek and South Italian farming as a model for ancient https://rogueclassicism.com/2017/03/20/cj-online-review-two-oxen-ahead-pre-mechanized-farming-in-the-mediterranean/

New Post: Sallets in 1406 https://bookandsword.com/2018/10/13/sallets-in-1406/ Viva Italia!

Wo findet man gute Podcasts auf Deutsch oder aus Europa? #podcast #deutsch

Stolen relief from Persepolis returned to Iran after 80 years https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-persian-sculpture-iran-1322945

New post: A Problem Interpreting Herodotus https://bookandsword.com/2018/10/06/a-basic-problem-in-interpreting-herodotus/ #herodotus #methodology #philosophy #ancientgreek

Post of the week: Innsbruck's tell https://bookandsword.com/2018/09/29/innsbrucks-tell/

Post of the week: The economics of publishing https://bookandsword.com/2018/09/22/the-economics-of-publishing/

Dean Dad argues that the key change in the United States was not the great recession, it was the law-school boom and bust and the replacement of low-level legal jobs with search engines. Until the 2010s many Americans majored in history or English or political science with vague plans to become lawyers. The law-school bust is a US phenomenon though, does international data support his theory? https://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-decline-of-humanities-enrollments.html

An Achaemenid-Period Lancehead from Deve Hüyük https://bookandsword.com/2018/09/16/a-lancehead-from-deve-huyuk/

Erik Kwakkel on Medieval Books https://medievalbooks.nl/2018/09/07/the-architecture-of-the-medieval-page/

The thesis has arrived from the printer https://bookandsword.com/2018/09/06/what-i-did-instead-of-my-summer-vacation/

The UBC PhD Career Outcomes Survey of 2016 https://bookandsword.com/2017/05/13/the-ubc-phd-career-outcomes-survey-of-2016/ #cancon #data

Socketed, Akkadian, epigrapher, archaizing as 'typos'? LibreOffice's English (Canadian) dictionary has some important gaps!

Episode 308 of the KARTAS podcast has cool scholarship on different versions of "Dracula" which reminds me of Alexander Romance variants, and crazy Sumerology presented with the tongue firmly in cheek http://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/episode-308-a-stargate-in-his-district/

https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ A few ancient historians are already there

"Hippias [the tyrant] of Athens offered for sale upper stories that projected over the public streets, together with flights of steps, railings, and doors that opened outwards. The owners of the buildings bought them, and in this way a large sum of money was collected." Pseudo-Aristotle, Economics, 2.1347a

Some thoughts on John Lynn's "Battle" (2008) and why Western Way of War theorists need to do their homework https://bookandsword.com/2015/08/15/some-thoughts-on-john-lynns-battle/