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I've been taking listener questions on the Pax Romana Podcast, and today's was a big one!
Was the assassination of Julius Caesar justified?
Listen to the episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/2KI…
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I’m an ancient historian, not a political pundit, but my two cents. With the richest man failing to earn political prestige at home, I expect Musk will now attempt to lead an army into Parthia.
One of the greatest.
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Chris Wickham (1950-2026): A Past & Present Virtual Issue (with all his contributions to that journal) academic.oup.com/past/pages/…
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Where the Romans fought: 1,709 land and sea battles, from Romulus (753 BCE) to the fall of Theodoro (1475), in 44 of today’s countries. Rome won 916, drew 41, lost 512; 236 more were civil wars.
Interactive map, full list, the Roman armies, sources:
iosiflazaridis.github.io/bat…
And not tinkering around either. Sweeping total curricular reinvention. There are a few universities doing it, but not nearly enough.
Never met Chris, but was a huge admirer of his work. A massive loss for the field.
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There were signs. In my review of an otherwise excellent book published by Oxford University Press about ten years ago, the production was so bad I included the following:
I am sure will be insightful as Alan's work always is, but it gives me pause about ordering anything from OUP ever again. buymeacoffee.com/ayjay/the-l…
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here it is open.substack.com/pub/markko…
September 11, 2001 was the day before my 19th birthday. I only remember a few things.
1. At around 6:45am, I was driving on a rural road in Lane County, Oregon, on my way to my summer job at the grass seed warehouse, when the radio station announced that some kind of attack had occurred in New York City. Minutes later, when I reached the warehouse, my boss and the guys on the previous shift were all glued to a small tv in the office. I remember the grainy image on the screen. Within a couple minutes of my arrival, one of the towers collapsed. No one talked. We just started at the screen for I can't remember how long. At some point, maybe hours later, who knows? I think we tried to get on with work.
2. At one point in the work day, I remember 'waking up' on my feet in front of the hopper, realizing I had been just standing in silent shock. I can still remember seeing the hopper almost completely full, which meant I had been standing there vacantly for perhaps an hour or more.
3. I remember that by the end of the day, I was seriously considering unenrolling at the University of Oregon, where I was to start classes in a few weeks, and signing up for the military. I remember watching the coverage with my family, and my father saying that the attacks were not entirely unprovoked. I remember being furious at such a suggestion.
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I've added an extra discussion on my substack looking into some of the empirical economic history claims made by some advocates of degrowth: that "capitalism" lowered living standards in early modern Europe markkoyama.com/p/more-on-deg…
These claims are both influential but also disconcerting. Disconcerting because they cite data collected by economic historians like Robert Allen to draw conclusions that are directly opposed to those any economic historians would draw from them.
Read more from @MarkKoyama: humanprogress.org/should-we-…
Marxist accelerationism if I ever saw it.
A statement from LSU System President Wade Rousse regarding last night's ruling.
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What a tremendous honor to have the great Prof. Dr. Mischa Meier review my book.
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Inspired @EpicHistoryTV segment: what 1 lost ancient work hurts the most? Epic cycle (Emily Hauser); Agrippina II's Memoirs (Caitlin Gillespie); Seneca Jr’s deathbed treatise (James Romm); Tacitus’ Histories gaps (@barrystrauss); Callimachus’ Pinakes (me) youtube.com/watch?v=-jF5w6nd…
