A Work in Progress.
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Professional Musings
Political Essays
“_____ Lives Matter” Lawn Signs
Electoral College and Anti-Democratic Intentions
State of the Discipline, Then, Now and Future
Controversies in Classics – discussion of Holt Parker, Thomas Hubbard and others
Skin Color in the Ancient World
Bread and Circuses (post 1, post 2)
Advice to Mentees
Things I learned from Fergus Millar
Cracking the Personal Statement (Job App Letter)
How to be (or not be) on the Job Market
Writing Styles, Finding your Voice
Should I put part of my dissertation in a conference volume?
How to write an abstract by Cora Beth Knowles (original post), – archived copy
Tips on coping with Learning Disabilities
RRC issues
14 – context considered
100-101 – Date and Mint Re-Assessed
123/1 – moneyer’s symbol re-assessed
213 – head on prowstem
316/1 – canting pun
356/1 – canting pun
414/1 – historical contextualization of iconography
427/1 – new identification (not mine) of reverse type
480/21 – contextualizing iconography
526 – used for comparative iconography
Other Mints
Locri
Nuceria – Oscan Legends
Suessa Aurunca – revised identification of iconography,
Other Numismatic Topics
Sestos Inscription – why do communities make coins?
Specific Iconographic Questions
Horned Helmets
Sea Nymph seen from back
Elephant Headdress
Fasces – Cicero, de leg. agr. fear mongering about Capua, Royal symbol in Livy,
Modius – Lucilius and related vocabulary,
Other Historical Topics
Agrarian Issues – land distribution in the early third century,
Liv Mariah Yarrow 