Abandoned Footnotes
Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.
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Hellenistic kingship
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Hellenistic kingship
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Flattery Inflation
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Reading Aloys Winterling’s entertaining revisionist biography of Caligula (which combines my interests in crazy dictatorships and the class...
Sunday, August 08, 2010
The most surprising sentence I read today
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...while philosophers mandated self-control for kings in regard to both alcohol and sex, the Antigonid king Demetrius the Besieger appropria...
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