I first met Steve Album in 1976, and got to know him reasonably well over the years. Probably the only guy I have ever met who I would call a...
Hello again Steve, Well - if you want to favour any of these further politicised efforts from the indefatigable @David Atherton (or indeed open...
Hello Steve Thanks for your generous response towards my error, and apologies again. I would be interested to find what parts of the Zaitchik...
Steve I discover I misread a mail some time back So I retract my previous comment, and apologise for that hasty and incorrect reading sincerely...
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? TSE
Here is a generalisation you can take to the bank Steve. I try always to put my case robustly, citing facts logically. I encourage people to reply...
It was self evidently a joke about dogs, with a bit of historical background This is an oxymoron Donna. It is an amusing joke to ask me to be...
How about some psychology instead? Perhaps imaging yourself a ‘King’ has something to do with this notion you can order folk about?
I noticed this thread went to the dogs some time back. So here is a John Maynard Keynes dog joke One of his merry japes at a weekend party (at...
Had not noticed this book before, so had a look at on-line summaries and reviews. Was not impressed. Surely ideas about reasons for the collapse...
Yes, a great book. You neglected to mention that he called all post hunter gatherer societies kleptocracies......... Rob T
Many thanks @Orielensis – in case of interest - I will explain the background to my question. I am looking at the etymology of the word Troy (and...
Found it - Sozoman c. 450 AD...
Many thanks @Orielensis. A great start. In Britain we have the well known parallel set of myths rooted in Troy, spread by Geoffrey of Monmouth in...
I recently came upon the suggestion that Constantine followed Octavian in claiming (a kind of!) descent from Jupiter via the Trojan royal line,...
Am not surprised. The 'overtype' is easy enough - a nice 307 from Period III But the reverse 'undertype' seems to me to be unpublished(?) The...
Let me add to my last my own understanding of the study of the gigantic MZ II hoard as a whole. I have been told that a private donor made the...
Hello Doug DS > Of all the punchmarked coins that have been found, what percentage are identifiable to GH number by someone familiar with the...
Yes - there is a tradition that after the collapse of Empire a remnant of the Mauryan line set up at Vidisha, just up the road from Ujjain....
Am not looking forward to your worst one :) It is 426. Issued al marco to a c. 3.43g standard. But to judge from the heavy wear, this specimen...
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