Dan-el Padilla Peralta

@platanoclassics.bsky.social

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He/his. Dominican Diaspora classicist. Undocumented (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions (Princeton 2020); Rome, Empire of Plunder (CUP 2017) and Making the Middle Republic (CUP 2023). Father of Boots the Corgi (rip) + Romulus and Remus.

Bakewell, "Mining Plato's cave: silver mining, slavery, and philosophical education," Polis 2023

Cover of Seth Bernard's Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy (Oxford 2023)

INEED$, from Melania Luisa Marte's "Plantains and Our Becoming"

Bowser: "Pain is the best teacher"

Ulpian Ed bk 24 = Digest 25.4.10: dispute ensues when a husband alleges that his (now-ex) wife is pregnant, but she denies; imperial rescript summarizes case and disposition.

Shackleton-Bailey footnote on Martial 11.16.8: "Uda does not refer to drinking."

Shot of road sign Homer-Cortland-Ithaca (NY State)

Table of Contents for Morality and Models edited volume (Seth Bernard and Sarah C. Murray, editors)

Paragraph in New York Times describing "large Pegasus painted on the back" of Supreme Court Justice Thomas's luxury RV

Cover and Table of Contents for Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics

Page grab from Wolf's "Europe and the People Without History": "We have been taught, inside the classroom and outside of it, that there exists an entity called the West ... Many of us even grew up believing that this West has a genealogy, according to which Ancient Greece begat Rome, Rome begat Christian Europe..."

Screenshot from Redman's "Let's Get Dirty"