Discussion of the racist backlash against the casting of a Black actor as Achilles in BBC’s Troy: Fall of a City.

Discussion of reception of ancient Hippocratic environmental theory by Smithsonian anthropologist Otis Mason in his technogeography theory of human cultural development.

“Chapter 7: Maintaining the City Enslaved Labor and Trade in Roman Philippi” in Philippi, From Colonia Augusta to Communitas Christiana: Religion and Society in Transition, edited by Steven J. Friesen, Michalis Lychounas, and Daniel N. Schowalter (Leiden: Brill, 2021).