Eduardo García-Molina Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Eduardo García-Molina

For a brief second, every time I see the bello in Commentarii De Bello Gallico I think of the Spanish bello for “beautiful” and inadvertently transform Caesar’s account of the Gallic Wars into a gay rom-com with Vercingetorix.

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@cpimentel986 More broadly, cross-comparative approaches found in: Barbara L. Voss, Eleanor Conlin Casella. 2012. The Archaeology of Colonialism : Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects. Phoenix, Karen. 2021. Gender Rules: Identity and Empire in Historical Perspective.

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I am now asking myself how much nudity can I include in a formal academic presentation. Below is Teatro El Público's poster for their adaptation of Albert Camus' Caligula that ratchets up the queer aspects to serve as commentary on constructions of masculinity in Cuban society. https://t.co/QLRWVOUZJV

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Plutarch’s Parallel Lives are well-known in no small part due to his choice of pairing famous individuals from antiquity together. In other words, a Catalogue of Ships.

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Going to write a movie on Xenophon’s Anabasis and the long marches of the Ten Thousand, calling it Πούς in Boot.

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Everyone in the discourse: "But Homer's Odysseus..." Me, a man of culture: "Homer is Odysseus" https://t.co/t4AaLTpPH5

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Neat little quirk of some seals on documents (this one is from Hellenistic Uruk) is that facial features could be depicted with bird shapes. Here, a “pigeon” forms the man’s beard! From the catalogue in Wallenfels’ Seleucid Archival Texts in the Harvard Semitic Museum (1998) https://t.co/08dTzKIDv0

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If you want to know more about the many wonderful trials and tribulations of succession (at least on the Seleukid side of things), I highly recommend picking up "Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire: The Men who would be King" by Boris Chrubasik https://t.co/rpLKci1qhZ

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@BretDevereaux If I may add Bresson, Alain. 2016. The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States. Not only for the points pushed, but for the nearly limitless treasure trove of references.

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@cpimentel986 If you fancy the figure of Semiramis: Stronk, Jan P. 2017. Semiramis' Legacy: The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily. On Achaemenids: Morgan, Janett. 2016. Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire: Persia Through the Looking Glass.