Three Things Thursday

It’s the end of the semester, and I’m sick. I had planned to write a rambling post on the book I’m reading or something about teaching or maybe some kind of proto-book review, but I’m out of gas. Instead here are three things: Thing the First Next semester, I’m teaching Greek History and have decided to read Herodotus. I haven’t taught Herodotus for many years and despair a bit that I’ve lost track of what folks are saying about Herodotus these days. I figure I’ll read K. Scarlett Kingsley’s Herodotus and the Presocratics: Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century BCE (2024), Jennifer Roberts, Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction (2011), and Emily Katz Annhalt’s Ancient Wisdom for Polarized Times: Why Humanity Needs Herodotus, the Man Who Invented History (2026). I’m open to other suggestions within reason as the ramp up to next semester is steep and looming. Thing the Second My colleague Cindy Prescott has decided to bring the Agricultural History Society annual…

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