John Ma 🇺🇦
@nakhthor
Chinese-American anc historian, Columbia. Antiochos III & the Cities of W Asia Minor (1999), Statues & Cities (2013), Aršāma and his World (2020, co-ed), Polis: A New History (2024). Guggenheim Fellow.
Noted AA. Deniz Alonso, in BullEpig 2024, re an inscription from Naxos (SEG 58.898). Ἑρμῶ Ἐξαυλίο. Matthaiou says it's the boundary stone of a shrine of Hermes Exaulios, late C5. Interesting for three reasons: philology, religion, political history. (PTO)) grammateion.gr/sites/defaul...
And of course, one has to quote the famous review Millar wrote of Hopkins on Rom social history.
I've read some EP Thompson, not enough. I suppose you mean late Braudel on capitalism; and of course Marx; and de Ste Croix who would see Athenian democracy as defending what are in effect working classes, and the Roman empire as suppressing them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cla...
The Persian empire is for instance run for the interest of the ruling dynasty and its luxurious lifestyle, but also for a diaspora of Iranians in the provinces, who identify with the Persian empire. (Here the sarcophagus of a Persian "baron" in the western provinces, hunting down a hillsman). 5/