i fail to see how this has anything to do with Rome, patrick.

That means he has scholarflower ear.

I have to second the request for a book. There a a lot of us who prefer text to aural info. Bonus: we are happy to pay actual damned money for it. 😀 GET TO WORK AND TAKE MY MONEY.

Thanks! Love the podcast!

Couldn’t someone with hearing disabilities purchase voice to text software and play the podcast into it? He’s under no obligation to transcribe his own work. He’s already said he’s working on a book that hopefully publishers will be interested in.

These are really cool Patrick. As a fellow PhD-holder, it’s really cool to see people who are as excited about their work, and who are as talented in sharing both he info and excitement with others.

Jews had a long-established & tested group identity & uncompromising/non-compatible religious tradition, tho. So many of the iron age peoples Rome met in the provinces were still at Clan Longtime-residents-of-this-valley stage & open to aggregating. Local spirits & polytheism? Just change the name of yer thunder…

Yes; Rome made a very attractive offer, particularly to the people who were already in local power. Roman cultural hegemony was seductive, particularly in the parts of the Empire that had never been under Greek influence, and in the parts that HAD been Greek, seemingly nobody was going nuts trying to de-Greek…

I am just in love with your podcast and would buy your book in a hot second if you ever decided to write one. Possibly two copies as I’ve found I prefer ebooks to read (easier to take the bus) but if there’s any sort of illustrations or maps I want a physical copy so I can more easily flip back and forth. So yeah,…

I wake up in the morning worrying that the President will get us into a war I will have to fight in, or that the factory my dad works in will be closed, or that my mom wont have health insurance to help pay for her meds, or that my siblings won’t be able to afford their student loans. This guy worries about how he…

I’d love a book, except I’d probably end up listening to the book on tape, and this getting too meta to wrap my head around.

Somewhere, people are having sex without Ross Douthat’s permission. And he will funnel his rage over this situation into milquetoast bleating about morals and sin and be so very concerned.

***Kind of stole the tenor of this joke from Charlie Pierce***

I have some 6-9 hour drives pretty regularly. Thanks for making them easier.

From my very shallow education on Roman colonialism, it seems Rome’s policy was usually to proffer a carrot roughly the same diameter as the stick. They became very good at co-opting existing leadership structures, or perhaps replacing stroppy chieftains with a plausible alternative (his son, or brother, or head of…

Oh come on, his column couldn’t have been that ba...

If I end up doing a book, I don’t want to circulate transcripts beforehand.

I was thinking, “I just listened to all this last night!” and was about to go a little bit crazy on some on stealing all of Patrick Wyman’s hard work without credit. Then I read the byline and saw the podcast link at the bottom.

I think most people making the comparisons do not possess the requisite knowledge of history to meaningfully differentiate between those two.

I got to what I thought was halfway through the article and thought to myself, “this should be a movie, or at the very least a podcast…”