A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
A look at history and popular culture
Hey folks, Fireside this week! The new semester is starting up next week, so things may be a little more fireside-y than usual over the next few weeks, but I do promise we will get to the end of "Life, Work, Death and the Peasant" eventually. That said, since I am teaching Latin rather than … Continue reading Fireside Friday, August 15, 2025 (On Latin Pronunciation)
Hey, folks, fireside this week! As this is going up, I am preparing to appear digitally on a panel on "History and the Public, Now and in the Future" at the University of Maryland. March may end up with more than the usual number of firesides, because I actually have three of these invited talks … Continue reading Fireside Friday, March 3, 2023
This week we're going to take a long look at Expeditions: Rome, a turn-based tactics RPG by developer Logic Artists, set in the first century BC Late Roman Republic. In particular, we're going to look at how the game both constructs and uses its historical setting. This is a particularly important topic to discuss because … Continue reading Collections: Expeditions: Rome and the Perils of Verisimilitude