As anyone who follows me on Twitter might have gathered, I’ve spent the last couple of days at a conference in Cambridge on (Re)approaching Roman Frugality, organised by Cristiano Viglietti; this is part of the explanation for the silence on this blog over the last month, as I went straight from a couple of weeks’ exhausted collapse and catching up on sleep over Christmas to hasty re-reading of Varro in order to pull together something more or less coherent on the theme. As often happens, I’d invented a title for the paper and scribbled a short abstract on the basis of limited thought and more or less no research – the conference theme appealed not because it was a topic I was working on but because it’s something that fits with possible future work – and it rapidly became clear that this was not one of my most successful bits of intellectual improvisation…
Posts Tagged ‘parsimony’
Taken for Granted
Posted in Research in Progress, tagged Cicero, frugalitas, mentality, parsimony, Roman economic thought, Varro on January 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »
