Andrew Riggsby
@antiquethought.bsky.social
Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social
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Me on cognitive models in Roman land-surveying (OA):
www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...
www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...
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Out now in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics: My biblio on "Jews in the Roman empire." My goal was to invite classicists/ancient historians into the rich world of rabbinic literature, which can transform (if we let it) how we talk about the Roman empire
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November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Out now in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics: My biblio on "Jews in the Roman empire." My goal was to invite classicists/ancient historians into the rich world of rabbinic literature, which can transform (if we let it) how we talk about the Roman empire
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
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From the email from ASPROM, I read the sad news of the passing of Professor Roger Ling, Emeritus Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at University of Manchester.
Anyone engaging with the archaeology of Pompeii should read his two volume work on The Insula of the Menander - a superb study.
Anyone engaging with the archaeology of Pompeii should read his two volume work on The Insula of the Menander - a superb study.
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
From the email from ASPROM, I read the sad news of the passing of Professor Roger Ling, Emeritus Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at University of Manchester.
Anyone engaging with the archaeology of Pompeii should read his two volume work on The Insula of the Menander - a superb study.
Anyone engaging with the archaeology of Pompeii should read his two volume work on The Insula of the Menander - a superb study.
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A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!
Please spread the word: the 2026 application cycle for the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome is now live! (Yours truly as Director for my final year). www.aarome.org/apply/2026-c...
Classical Summer School
This five-week program is designed to provide participants with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary ...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!
Finished the individual research presentations in my graduate seminar this afternoon. #TheKidsAreAlright
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Finished the individual research presentations in my graduate seminar this afternoon. #TheKidsAreAlright
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Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
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Cambridge University Press
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
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Please spread the word: the 2026 application cycle for the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome is now live! (Yours truly as Director for my final year). www.aarome.org/apply/2026-c...
Classical Summer School
This five-week program is designed to provide participants with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary ...
www.aarome.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Please spread the word: the 2026 application cycle for the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome is now live! (Yours truly as Director for my final year). www.aarome.org/apply/2026-c...
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As semesters start and you find yourself repeatedly answering emails with the same questions from students, this is my annual reminder that you can make all your frequent responses email signatures and just select them from your signature list to respond. You're welcome. #academicsky
August 27, 2024 at 2:01 PM
As semesters start and you find yourself repeatedly answering emails with the same questions from students, this is my annual reminder that you can make all your frequent responses email signatures and just select them from your signature list to respond. You're welcome. #academicsky
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
This (Classics prof.; former Army officer) may be relevant to your interests @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This (Classics prof.; former Army officer) may be relevant to your interests @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social
I don't know the podcast, but perhaps of interest?
Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: [email protected]
🤗🤗🤗
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: [email protected]
🤗🤗🤗
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I don't know the podcast, but perhaps of interest?
Just signed a contract with Academic Studies Press for them to publish a Russian edition of my Roman information technology book. (Which is scheduled to appear 24-36 months hence. This is my amateur cover mock-up; I have no idea what it will actually look like.)
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Just signed a contract with Academic Studies Press for them to publish a Russian edition of my Roman information technology book. (Which is scheduled to appear 24-36 months hence. This is my amateur cover mock-up; I have no idea what it will actually look like.)
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CFP sure to be of interest to many: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience (for the Symposium Vesuvianum at the Villa Vergiliana) www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-ve...
Symposium Vesuvianum 2026 - The Vergilian Society
Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience Villa Vergiliana, Cumae (October 7 – 11, 2026) Organizers: John Bodel, Brown University; William Owens, Ohio Universi...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
CFP sure to be of interest to many: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience (for the Symposium Vesuvianum at the Villa Vergiliana) www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-ve...
Including a chapter of mine I wrote in large part for the last footnote: "Dissent in Terminello v. Chicago, 337 US 37 (1949)."
Very pleased that my book The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome, co-edited with colleagues in classical studies, and for which I contributed the opening chapter, will be published this week by Oxford. A splendid interdisciplinary endeavor.
academic.oup.com/book/61402
academic.oup.com/book/61402
The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome
Abstract. This volume brings together the study of the rule of law—the idea that the law should protect citizens from arbitrary exercises of power—and the
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October 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Including a chapter of mine I wrote in large part for the last footnote: "Dissent in Terminello v. Chicago, 337 US 37 (1949)."
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My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The base concept in number systems is realized differently across multiple representational modalities—frameworks that incorporate sensory channel, medium of expression and semantic structures into integrated semiotic systems. Because these three factors ...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.
Christmas came before Halloween!
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Christmas came before Halloween!
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This fellowship changed the trajectory of my career and my time on its committees is the most worthwhile professional service I have ever done. Please apply and help us spread the word
The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows.
Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.
For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025
Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.
For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025
October 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This fellowship changed the trajectory of my career and my time on its committees is the most worthwhile professional service I have ever done. Please apply and help us spread the word
I hadn't realized Daniel Kahneman had dedicated his final years to cooking.
October 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I hadn't realized Daniel Kahneman had dedicated his final years to cooking.
This is very interesting to me from a differences-between-disciplines point of view. I can't imagine these numbers (either the y-axis or the # of data points) in language or historical fields. And I would have guessed (wrongly) that she is a hard scientist.
October 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is very interesting to me from a differences-between-disciplines point of view. I can't imagine these numbers (either the y-axis or the # of data points) in language or historical fields. And I would have guessed (wrongly) that she is a hard scientist.
Please tell me this is true, @carlosfnorena.bsky.social !
my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
October 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Please tell me this is true, @carlosfnorena.bsky.social !
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Ok. If someone had three nights in Dublin and had never been to Ireland, what neighborhood should they book for accommodation?! RTs welcome.
October 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Ok. If someone had three nights in Dublin and had never been to Ireland, what neighborhood should they book for accommodation?! RTs welcome.
Is this for Alan, @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social ?
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Is this for Alan, @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social ?
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Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!
September 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!
Knowledge Commons question. I created an account long ago, and just went to check in on it. I then tried an upload, but it (a) asked me to re-login, then (b) gave me a “bad gateway” error. This happened on two different machines/operating systems/browsers. Anybody else seeing anything like this?
September 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Knowledge Commons question. I created an account long ago, and just went to check in on it. I then tried an upload, but it (a) asked me to re-login, then (b) gave me a “bad gateway” error. This happened on two different machines/operating systems/browsers. Anybody else seeing anything like this?
Me on cognitive models in Roman land-surveying (OA):
www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...
www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...
www.mdpi.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Me on cognitive models in Roman land-surveying (OA):
www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...
www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...