Bret Devereaux Twitterissä: "And of course I do that as a historian, but it isn't like archaeologists aren't already making those broader connections or that philologists can't (in many cases I came to those texts because philologist mentors said, "oh, you think that's cool, look at *this*)... 13/15"

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

But as our understanding of the past has improved, we've come increasingly to understand that, contrary to the 19th century notion of Greece and Rome as singular pillars alone in an empty field, they existed as part of an interconnected system. 3/15

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

I see that system - defined by connection to the geographic Mediterranean Sea - as my field of study. Greece and Rome, sure, but equally (and I mean 'equally' not 'as junior partners') Carthage, N. Africa, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Persia... 4/15

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

...and also non-state peoples in Spain, Gaul, etc. I think we can identify a more-or-less interconnected region, including much of Europe, the Near East, and North Africa, as a functional, useful unit of study (ofc with connections outside to other places!) 5/15

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

And that's what I mean when I say I study the 'Broader Mediterranean.' I've tried to express in my scholarship, where I aim to treat the different component societies (state and non-state) of this Broader Mediterranean with equal weight, in so far as the evidence allows. 6/15

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

So my diss./book project is pointedly comparative discussing military costs and systems. Likewise, "Strategy and Cost" (https://doi.org/10.25162/historia-2020-0020 …) is trying to get us to think at the First Punic War in a more equal way that allows Carthage more agency. 7/15

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

I can imagine in my mind what a Classics department aiming to embody that approach might look like; rather than dismantling existing institutions, it might seek to widen them to include more fully new texts and new languages. 8/15

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

At the graduate level, maybe rather than mandating Greek and Latin, it might present a number of languages (Greek, Latin, Egyptian, Akkadian, etc) and base requirements on a 'choose two' system. No less linguistic rigor, necessarily, but a broader base of languages. 9/15

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

Since, for now, specialists in ancient near eastern languages are scarce, it might be worthwhile - since we all know how to teach remotely now - at first for departments to band together to provide those learning opportunities. 10/15

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

And of course it means that, in undergraduate teaching, pulling non-Greek and Roman texts (in translation) into teaching. Which there are enough translations to begin doing! (the more we teach it, the more the need for teaching texts will motivate new translations). 11/15

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

I've taught with chunks of the Book of the Dead (Egypt), the Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian/Akkadian), the Enuma Elish (Babylonian), the Song of Kumarbi (Levantine), the Code of Hammurabi (Babylon again) and the Kadesh Inscription (Egypt), alongside Homer, Hesiod, Livy, etc. 12/15

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 24. tammik.

And of course I do that as a historian, but it isn't like archaeologists aren't already making those broader connections or that philologists can't (in many cases I came to those texts because philologist mentors said, "oh, you think that's cool, look at *this*)... 13/15

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