In other news today, I climbed 23 27 steps up to my office today. I also walked in an elevator and pushed a button marked "PL" when leaving the parking garage.
My office is on the 12th floor of the building. For the past few months, I've been trying to take the stairs at least once a day, in lieu of any sort of normal exercise regimen. It just occurred to me, however, that if my office is on 12, and 1 is the ground floor, that I'm only walking up 11 flights. I feel cheated!
Bob has taken a very boring article and turned it into a laugh riot, unlike those jerks at FJM who don't make fun of articles so much as present us with articles that are fun to begin with.
7 Remember. You are the one with the pleasant historical anecdotes. Leave the boring ones to the professionals-- oh how I desire not to be a professional historian.
9 What I like to do: "Look at the lovely story in book XXV of Livy in which is recounted the story of a second meeting between Scipio Africanus and Hannibal, and Scipio's inquiry as to Hannibal's ranking of the great generals of all time. Hannibal says himself to rank third among them behind Alexander and Pyrrhus, but pressed by Scipio, he says that he would rate himself to be the greatest general ever, if he had beaten Scipio. What does this mean? Why does Livy include this story, though he won't attest to it directly (he puts it in the mouth of the non-extant historian Claudius Quadrigarius)? What does it mean for Livy? How did the ancient reader absorb this kind of story? Etc."
What my advisor likes to do: "How do we attest for the dramatically different census results between 64 and 29 BCE?"
I feel very good about it. I feel like I could go out and eat a whole bag of starburst.
Good point. I'm betting that the ground was not perfectly level. Especially with the earth being round and all that.
Thank you.
I can include a boring historical anecdote if you would like.
What my advisor likes to do: "How do we attest for the dramatically different census results between 64 and 29 BCE?"
Those were not the episodes he mentioned.
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