Month: December 2016

• ‘Pie Zeses’: Toasting To A New Year

  

  Another year of blogging is almost in the proverbial books and I must say that while 2016 was a wretched year socio-politically, it was professionally quite satisfying. My first book, Trade and Taboo was published and I even began writing for Forbes regularly. There is no doubt that I have much to be thankful for as […]

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  December 31, 2016

  food, Forbes, Uncategorized, women

  drink history, drinking, epigraphy, food history, Forbes, Greek, Latin, medieval, mosaics, new years eve, Roman History, toasts

• ‘The Eagle Huntress’ And The Ancient History Of Falconry

  

  Over at the Forbes blog this week, I discuss the ancient and medieval history of falconry in the Mediterranean. After seeing the new documentary film ‘The Eagle Huntress,’ about a 13-year-old girl named Aisholpan learning to become an eagle hunter with her father in Mongolia, I went back to some class notes on Greco-Roman attitudes towards the […]

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  December 12, 2016

  film, Forbes, Uncategorized

  aquila, eagle huntress, eagles, falconry, hawking, Late Antiquity, medieval history, medieval manuscripts, Roman History, Roman military

• Numbering The Stars: Remembering the Contributions of Medieval Muslim Astronomers And Catalogers

  

  This week over at the Forbes blog, I discuss the International Astronomical Union (IAU)‘s publication of an official catalog of 227 star names. The list was published this week in order to further standardize how we reference stars and constellations, since each one has had numerous monikers in Greek, Roman, Chinese, Arabic and many other languages over the many millenia that […]

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  December 2, 2016

  Art and Graphics, Forbes, maps, text

  ancient history, astrology, astronomy, digital manuscripts, gis, islamic history, mapping, medieval history