Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 📖 **From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond**
"_This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond._"
Bay, C., Avioz, M., and van Henten, J. W. (eds) (06 Jun. 2024). From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004693296 [Accessed 06 September 2024]
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (90)
🔴 **Romans’ siege wall in Masada may have been built in a fortnight, study finds**
"_The researchers estimate that the siege wall could have been completed by the 6,000-8,000 soldiers in less than two weeks, leaving them free to concentrate on building a ramp that ultimately breached the fortress._"
🔗 **https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/04/romans-siege-wall-masada-archaeology-israel**
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Israel #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia #Roman #Imperium #History #Histodon #Histodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean authorship in the sixteenth century**
"_Despite Foix’s stated intention to ‘restore’ the text he – ironically – enjoyed an unusual success as a Euclidean author: few other writers, if any, in his or the succeeding century inserted into Euclid’s Elements new material of such bulk and longevity._"
Wardhaugh, B. (2024) ‘François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean authorship in the sixteenth century’, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, pp. 1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.2384819.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #C16th #16thCentury #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Geometry #Euclid #HistSci #Academia #Academic #Academics
🔴 📖 **John Eldevik on Reading Prester John**
"_Much of the interest in Prester John appears to have been driven by apocalyptic theology and ideas about the Crusades, the culmination of history, and Christianity’s conflict with Islam. As for where this thing originated, one of the things I do is show how it’s really a composite text that was woven together out of several pre-existing traditions about this priest-king John, the emperor Manuel, and Christian lands in Asia._"
🔗 **https://www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2024/09/02/john-eldevik-on-reading-prester-john/**
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Medieval #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🏴 🇮🇷 **Amazing’ Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland, analysis finds**
"_It is a star object of the Galloway Hoard, the richest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland, buried in AD900 and unearthed in a field in Scotland. Now a lidded silver vessel has been identified as being of west Asian origin, transported halfway around the world more than 1,000 years ago._"
#News #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Scotland #Iran @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?**
"_Ultimately, a lack of conviction in the Confederate cause, unwilling compatriots, and fear of battle influenced his decision to withdraw from the military._"
Stoyack, Aaron. "Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/mark-twain-civil-war-confederate/ (accessed August 30, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Confederacy #MarkTwain @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The curious origins of four English expressions – including will-o’-the-wisp and against the grain**
"_The origins of English expressions are often obscure and require deep linguistic and documentary research to be explained. Being phrases, not single words, their intrinsic meanings can be reconstructed by studying old texts and their earliest use._"
#Linguistics #History #English #Langauge #Etymology #Idioms @linguistics
🔴 📖 **“The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present” by Allen James Fromherz**
"_Fromherz focuses on two main characteristics that have framed and formed the Gulf as a region: first, it was open to commerce, people and ideas and, second, that it mostly managed to wriggle out of the grip of larger empires. Both were very much functions of geography._"
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **How the South Became Republican**
"_Over the course of the 1952 campaign Eisenhower made three swings through the South, visiting every state except Mississippi. He cajoled audiences and slammed politics in the capital. At times, he courted controversy. When ‘Dixie’, a pro-Confederate song and relic of the Civil War, was played during a visit to South Carolina, Eisenhower commented: ‘I always stand up when they play that song’, drawing cheers from the crowd._"
🔗 **https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/how-south-became-republican**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Republicans #GOP #Eisenhower #TheSouth @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Her gift launched four centuries of Harvard financial aid**
"_As a woman, Anne Radcliffe wouldn’t have been able to attend the University when she donated its first scholarship in 1643_"
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Harvard #Education @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎙️ **Episode 308 – The Fall of Anatolia**
"_The arrival of the Mongols in Anatolia would eventually lead to the expulsion of the Romans. Mongol dominance of the plateau sent waves of tribes into Byzantine territory. It was a crisis which the Emperor Andronikos was not equal to._"
🔗 **https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/2024/08/28/episode-308-the-fall-of-anatolia/**
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎙️ **Podcast with Rachel Kousser, author of “Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great”**
"_But what drove Alexander to keep marching? What was the kind of empire Alexander wanted to build? And why did he eventually turn back at the Indus River, his soldiers begging for him to return home?_"
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #Histodons #AlexanderTheGreat #Empire #Imperialism #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
🔴 **What's the farthest place the Vikings reached?**
"_Lesser-known is the Vikings' southward expansion, around the northern coast of Francia (now France), the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and, finally, along the north coast of Africa in the early 11th century. However, because of the challenging arid conditions and lack of waterways, they never attempted to cross the Sahara and expand further into Africa._"
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/vikings/whats-the-farthest-place-the-vikings-reached
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ **History professor examines Nelson Rockefeller’s career as a lens for Republican Party’s rightward shift**
_“When Ronald Reagan left office, people like Newt Gingrich were more antagonistic and had a more ideological approach to conservatism. They kept pushing the party further and further to the right. What we see now in the Republican party is part of this long tradition during the 20th century,” Barrett said. “It will continue down this path as long as enough voters find this version of conservatism attractive.”_
🔗 https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1960461744
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Rightwing #Republicans #Conservatives #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Elections @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Phoenician Trade Associations in Ancient Greece**
"_Such associations were a Phoenician invention of the 4th century BCE that emerged in migrant communities in Athens to represent their interests and provide them a social and physical space for maintaining religious and other cultural ties to their home state._"
🔗 https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2024/08/phoenician-trade-associations
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Greece #Phoenicia #Trade @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Geometric Haircuts**
"_A Knightsbridge hair stylist uses Geometry to design haircuts of the future (1956)._"
#Video length: forty three seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/9SR963yYjOY
#Geometry #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Fashion #HairStyles #C20th #20thCentury #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #London #Knightsbridge
🔴 🎥 **Why we say “OK”**
"_Young intellectuals in Boston came up with several of these abbreviations, including “KC” for “knuff ced,” “OW” for “oll wright,” and KY for “know yuse.” But thanks to its appearance in Martin Van Buren’s 1840 presidential re-election campaign as the incumbents new nickname, Old Kinderhook, OK outlived its abbreviated comrades._"
#Video length: five minutes and twenty one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/1UnIDL-eHOs
#History #Word #Words #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 ⁉️ 🎥 **Where does punctuation come from?!**
"_In this episode I trace the punctuation we use every day as far back as I can._"
#Video length: eighteen minutes and fifty five seconds.
🔴 **Detectorists’ finds rewrite history by unearthing the real story of money**
"_A study of ancient coins has shifted the focus of Europe’s economic history from the Greeks and Romans to the Arabs_"
#Opinion #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archeology #Money #Economics #EconHist #Europe #Arabs @histodon @histodons @econhist
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **The Story of British Pathé – Around the World**
"_A fascinating introduction to the history of the pioneering newsreel company British Pathé, which documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world in the 20th century._"
#Video length: fifty nine minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/eOqy744ViSc
#Documentary #History #Histodon #Histodons #BritishPathé #News #Archives #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Britain #Europe @histodon @histodons
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
