battles and, well, the rest of that stuff
"DANIEL P. Tompkins" <[email protected]>
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Someone just announced pub of yet another book on ancient battles. These were clearly meaningful events! But so many books! (And how many say new and meaningful things?) Going to JSTOR and searching the "classical studies" category from 2010 reveals what might be called an imbalance. Others may disagree. But findings are below. Best, Dan 1532 battle refs 1128 food 1086 sex 499 agriculture 349 disease 240 elections What's the proper proportion? What's more important? On other hand: 2345 women 1564 water From a quick glance, I'd say "water" gets the best titles.