I presented to a general education course titled "Stories from the End of the World", which focuses on how the genre of apocalypse has been used to discuss critical moments in history related to social, political, and personal (opportunities of) transformation.
in classics we often write in anticipation and defense of hostile interlocutors, but what if we wrote to the imagined reader we’d most like to have
A fascinating thing I've been learning about in writing/researching this potential novel is just how much the city of Boston has physically expanded since its founding, both through annexation and by literally filling in the goddam sea. (h/t mapjunction.com, an amazing tool) #author #writing
Even if you consider the much lower population density, this is still freakin' impressive.
Haven’t self-promoted over here in a while! You should read my stuff!
Preparing some materials to discuss Neo-Assyrian capitals. Here, we have the area of Nineveh during the time of Sennacherib (705-681 BCE) in comparison to downtown Boston:
