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I fondly remember the ITT Bronze Age Collapse thread. Someone posted lines of the Illiad along with pictures of Mycenaean armour and it was really cool to see that the descriptions of boar tusk helmets and the like were dead on. It was pointed out that the only part of a Mycenaean noble (i.e Achilles) that wasn't covered in bronze armour was the heels. Very cool.
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Randaconda posted:The book by the same title is really good. Seconding. One of the best books on the period. Can someone briefly explain how Palace-based economies worked? It's one of the things from the period I can't wrap my head around.
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Oct 15, 2017 02:30
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How did temple prostitution work? Durrant says that in Babylon all women had to go to the temple and whore themselves out before before being married. Was that a real phenomenon?
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Oct 18, 2017 03:59
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hakimashou posted:Yeah it was like volunteering. Was it sincere religious devotion or a way to get a dowry? Maybe both?
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Oct 18, 2017 12:40
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I wish there was more popular history on Assyria that wasn’t based on work done in the 20’s and 30’s. Authors know that the Assyrians exaggerated their atrocities as a form of intimidating propaganda and yet history books are still full of pages and pages of descriptions of mutilating prisoners which while exciting, overlooks how Assyria worked as a functional society.
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Nov 17, 2017 16:57
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I know social history is usually seen as not very exciting, but it drives me crazy that there are hundreds of English language texts on everyday life in Rome or Medieval England but every other civilization might get a quick blurb on their staple food and mention that peasants were poor.
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Nov 17, 2017 17:10
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Osprey illustrations are pretty great.
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