The Nazi airship Hitleriffic! burns over New Jersey.
I mentioned below that Prof. Diane Lipsett delivered a wonderful lecture on the conversation currently taking place between New Testament scholars, family historians, social archaeologists and the like. The title of this post is actually the title of en entire semester-long course taught by Prof. Lipsett, so for our, geez, ninety minute session she condensed her focus to Men, Women, and Children in Ancient Rome. With her permission, I am posting my notes from this lecture below, tweaked a little for readability. Prof. Lipsett is interested in studies of gender formation among non-elites as well as elites, those people about whom we know much less because they did not have the resources or clout to commemorate and study themselves, generally speaking. Roman households were much broader than we conceive of in modern terms, with a wide spectrum of people connected by family and employment living under one roof (the terms domus/eikos/ikea capture this idea of an indiscriminate household
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(and sadly, I still have not figured out a catchy brand-name for that [hopefully] imaginary and disgustingly enticing [enticingly disgusting?] state-fair-bound product...Maizen-braten-shticken? The "Wurst" Corn You Ever Had? Baron Corny von Bratwurst's Sticky Surprise? Goethe Treats? I'm scraping bottom here...)
And yeah, I've got some hard-hitting birthday buddies: Phil Ochs, New Orleans music legend Professor Longhair, and three of the four starting defensive linemen of the Super Bowl Champion 1996 Green Bay Packers: Santana Dotson, Sean Jones, and Reggie White (RIP).