Pompeii’s Graffiti and the Ancient Origins of Social Media

rustynails wrote: post #5

Mary Beard crafted a brilliant series with BBC, meet the Romans. It superbly covers the topic of graffiti and many other modern behaviours. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Romans_with_Mary_Be... I really can't recommend any of Mary's work highly enough (and my recommendation has nothing to do with her gender).

I second, and really enjoyed her recent book "SPQR".

Re: Pompeii’s Graffiti and the Ancient Origins of Social Media

#7

Post by B1FF_PSUVM » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 9:45 PM UTC

> advertisements for Gladiatorial games,

What is it with the random word capitalization these days?

Re: Pompeii’s Graffiti and the Ancient Origins of Social Media

#8

Post by dang » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

B1FF_PSUVM wrote: post #7

> advertisements for Gladiatorial games, What is it with the random word capitalization these days?

I've been noticing that too. It's the Return of the 18th century.