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.
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