Re: battles and, well, the rest of that stuff

"DANIEL P. Tompkins" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.education.classics
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Frog:  41
Mice, Mouse: 47, 51, likely some overlap

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 8:25 PM Lorenzo Smerillo <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What are the figures for frogs and mice?
>
> feliciter.
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 02:20 DANIEL P. Tompkins <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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