Better late than never, the tweetstorm on the latest essay. If you haven't read it, it's here ( https://acoup.blog/2019/08/29/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-iii-spartan-women/ … ). 1/12
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Finally, it encourages students to 'buy' the idealized 'before-fore time' version of Spartan equality and cohesion which - I must stress - we know to be false. But no undergrad - much less a high schooler - is prepared to marshal 8th century archaeology to make that point. 5/12
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The section in this essay on the lives of helot women is actually a good example of how I like to think about history: "How can I use (demography/economic models/material culture) to talk about this group of 'invisible' (to our sources) people?" 6/12
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I think it is important because it creates a *something* that we can begin to empathize with. When a people are reduced to an unknowing shrug, it is too easy to read them out of the story altogether. History becomes a story of the travails of rich, literate people. 7/12
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By using, in this case, agricultural economic modeling, you can begin to stipulate a very probable picture of what daily life looks like for these folks - the farming, spinning, weaving, etc. It creates a person in the mind who can command empathy... 8/12
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...which in turn brings home the horror of the system. The main regret with this essay is that I couldn't do more for them - I'd love to have been able to talk about Messenian religion and culture, but 1) our evidence is poor and 2) that's far from my expertise. 9/12
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I hope, fervently, that no one takes word count as a marker of my interest. To be honest, I am far more curious and care a lot more about what it was like to be a helot (male or female) than about the lives of the spartiates. After all, the helots produced things of value. 10/12
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Finally - predictably, but very frustratingly, this essay has gotten noticeably less circulation than the others in the series. Fewer views, fewer shares, etc. If you find that as frustrating as I do, well - these posts only go as far as word of mouth carries them. 11/12
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And again at the end, the essay is here: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/29/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-iii-spartan-women/ … end/12
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