adventures in my head
It would be so much easier to write these damn captions if I could stop thinking about the coins…
This is 291/1. And Crawford says its an aqueduct. And then I go read some Wiseman 1998 (“Rome and the Resplendent Aemilii”) hoping for a reference and I get none, but I do get references to other things done by the cens. 179 including building the pons Aemilius.
Wouldn’t Rome’s first stone bridge be more worthy of commemoration than an aqueduct that didn’t even bear the family name?!
Very grateful for blog comments, twitter feedback, and discussion board wisdom that has helped this graphic evolve. Keep it coming!
Mint operation, coin production ‘infographic’
Timeline of serrated types and control marks combined
Built off this but with an eye to HW/HBM/Holl. re-dating. I broke 50,000 words for the book manuscript. The press upper limit, they said. But Rowan took 60,000+ so I’m worried but not too worried. Still pics = 1000 words.
Perhaps not. I’m worrying about how RRC 234/1 differentiates its oath swearing scene from its prototype and whether those differences are meaningful or just ‘sloppy’. So for instance the two figures present less different on 234/1. Does the left hand figure have beard? Is he not wearing armor? Why was the right hand figure’s spear pointing down on the original? etc…
I’m pleased to have contributed to this piece of journalism written by the super smart Sarah Bond. Click image to read full article.
To be updated periodically
Mostly targets at those at elite humanities programs in the US
Cato’s own words, as follows: “And I really think that the Rhodians did not wish us to end the war as we did, with a victory over king Perses. But it was not the Rhodians alone who had that feeling, but I believe that many peoples and many nations agreed with them. And I am inclined to think that some of them did not wish us success, not in order that we might be disgraced, but because they feared that if there were no one of whom we stood in dread, we would do whatever we chose. I think, then, that it was with an eye to their own freedom that they held that opinion, in order not to be under our sole dominion and enslaved to us. But for all that, the Rhodians never publicly aided Perses. Reflect how much more cautiously we deal with one another as individuals. For each one of us, if he thinks that anything is being done contrary to his interests, strives with might and main to prevent it; but they in spite of all permitted this very thing to happen.”
I want to think about this more in future as it relates Polybius’ project in extending his histories by 10 books and in the debates over the destruction of Carthage found in other authors…
Liv Mariah Yarrow 