Thinking about the various scandals in academia regarding data fraud and broken peer review. First, I’m incredibly grateful for the network of friends and colleagues who read my work, improve it, and save me from errors. A good editor is an amazing gift.
Finally the article that I'd been hoping someone would write on the Allegory of the Cave has appeared...
A first: I autographed a book, its owner eventually put it back in circulation :), a student bought it as a used copy ... and I autographed it again. The ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiircle of life.
I will take 5584 (the collection of short biographies) and the Manetho (5588-90) if it's not too tedious to scan... this is delightful
Yes. Progressive voices trained in antiquity have been talking about this for *years* and *years*. There are unfortunately still folks in Classics that will jump on any bandwagon that gives Classics as a field more attention in the hopes of helping “save” Classics +
If anyone already has a hard copy of Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. LXXXVII and wants to scan me a few pages, let me know... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/oxyrhynch...
And here’s the schedule of speakers: uclaclassicsgradconference.wordpress.com/2023-confere...
