Happy birthday, book!

*The Mind of the Slave: The Limits of Ownership in Roman Law and Society* is the most original and most compelling contribution to our understanding of Roman slavery that I have read in a long time. The Q: How were the subjectivities of enslaved persons imagined by the slave-owning class? 1/4

NEW SCS Blog Post by Nathan Pilkington: "The Importance of Names: The Carthaginian 'Tophet' at 100" ⬇️

I will use Zotero for the new project, I will. I will. I…

Kid has snow day. Apropos of nothing, I hate play dough.

…👾?

Ever the optimist as I start revising my intro I think well maybe it won’t be as bad as revising the epilogue…

It’s going really well, thanks for asking.

THE LAST GENERATION OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AT 50 YEARS A conference at UC Berkeley to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Erich Gruen's landmark study, *The Last Generation of the Roman Republic* (University of California Press, 1974). September 26-27, 2024 [we hope to livestream/record]

Guess who enticed their parents to bring their grandchild to the zoo in Syracuse with the promise that there would be nice pizza for lunch…apparently closed on Saturdays for lunch who knew?

🙊(thanks to brilliant admin)

Have gotten to the “let’s just delete that” stage of book revisions…

So sad to farewell _Ramus_ - daring, risk-taking, and influential. And a start-up in Melbourne in 1972. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy to come back to the office to this! Thanks very much to Sinclair Bell, Dorian Borbonus, and Rose MacLean for all their hard work getting this to the finish line.

Just saw a Tesla truck. I was…unprepared. Still, CA bingo complete.

"Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii" is finally out, co-edited by Molly Lester, Jamie Wood and myself. You can check the table of contents here. If you want a copy of my chapter, please send me an email. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

I will now look calmly and rationally for a picture of this inscription.

Spouse asked 3 year old if she wanted to make granola and she said it’s not granola it’s Nicole Giannella, thus proving Microsoft Word spelling suggestions correct…

Super excited to take part in Res Diff 5!!!!! Can’t wait to hear everyone’s super ideas

And here’s the schedule of speakers: uclaclassicsgradconference.wordpress.com/2023-confere...

Earlier today while my 3 year old was idly kicking me in the arm she asked, “You? Are you a person?”