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Annual Atopia: The Not Top 10

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Here are the posts that didn’t quite make the top 10 but we loved anyway. See here for 2019’s list, followed by 2018, and 2017.

  1. The Second Best of the Achaeans? Introducing the NANAIHB — it seems like a decade ago that we ran a multiweek bracket for the “non-Achilles Non-Atreid Iliadic Hero Bracket. Follow the recaps, the outcome was the right one.
  2. We’ve Been Doing This for 10 years: A Personal History of Sententiae Antiquae — A longer essay telling the story of this blog.
  3. Keep Your Hands Clean With this One Easy trick! — thematic silliness on unclean hands for no particular reason
  5. Stoicism is Bullshit —Sure, Erik’s post sounds like mere clickbait, but Bartolomeo Scala has something to say in his Dialogue of Consolation §19
  6. Re-use Suggestions for Toppled Statues — again, nothing at all topical in suggesting that statues of historical criminals be turned into chamberpots…
  7. “Full of Ticks and Fleas”: The Odyssey and a Life of Pets–-A personal reflection on living with and losing pets
  9. Civilization and its Dissed Contents — Erik spits some fire on conservatism, the Medici, and reckless punditry
  10. A Life of Reading — in a moment of repose from before the break of the pandemic, Erik reflects on reading every day.

Annual Atopia: the Not-Top 10

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Yesterday I posted a list of the top 10 posts on the site based on page-views. Sometimes we can guess which posts are going to generate some traffic; other times, we are surprised both by those that are popular and those.

Here’s a list of some of my favorite posts that didn’t make the top 10 (for comparison, last year’s list).

1. Brillionaire’s Club

An essay about the labor practices of academic publishing and the economics of exploitation. Also, I paean to open access.

2. An Unlikely Hybrid: Medusa, Miley Cyrus, and the Politics of the Female Tongue

Amy Lather’s post on the modern and ancient iconographies of the tongue

3. The Vanity of Virtue: Contemporary Pseudo-Stoicism

We mocked modern Stoics in an Eidolon piece, but this essay by Erik is less amused.

4. Shitizens United

When Erik gets on a roll, we all just want to tag along. One of a few essays on the curmudgeonly creep masquerading as a Classicist named Victor Hanson

5. A Hero Shot A Man, Just to…

So, one day we asked the question whether Odysseus or Achilles was more likely to “shoot a man in Reno /  just to watch him die”. Feelings happened.

6. The Aeneid‘s Pot Brownie, Commentary on 6.420

I just don’t know why this title alone did not win the Internet. Another fabulous piece by Dani Bostick

7. “Our Culture” Anatolian Edition

Ari Akkermans’ balanced and thorough overview of appropriations of Classical culture in Turkey.

8. Ipse Dixit: Citation and Authority

Hannah Čulík-Baird’s essay on quotation and authority–kind of her specialty.

9. Give Your Money to the Sportula

Just read the title and do it.

10. Aeriportus Virumque Cano: Trump’s Revolutionary War Airports

11. Emolument’s Claws

Please read this essay. It is really fucking smart (Joel said this. Erik wrote it)

12. Counting Matters: The National Latin Exam and the Politics of Record Keeping

Some of Dani Bostick’s great public work for Classical Studies.

13. The Future of the Past

People didn’t get into this essay on how we should be thinking about preserving our work for the coming civilization collapse. I wonder why?

14. A New Musical Papyrus

Christopher Brunelle’s “discovery” is hilarious and deeply learned. This should have broken the Internet. You know, if more people knew about papyri and ancient music…

 

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Thanks to our friends Deborah Beck, Christopher Brunelle, Amy Coker, Brandon Conley, Hannah Čulík-Baird, Ari Akkermans, Dani Bostick, Amy Lather, Alexandra Ratzlaff for making this year fabulous.