Roundtable

The Rest Is History

Ancient wellness, opinions concerning female exercise, and disaster cuisine.

By Jaime Fuller

Friday, August 13, 2021

Terracotta bell-krater, attributed to the Danaë Painter, c. 460 bc. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1923.

• “Anxiety about female exercise is at least a century old in the United States.” (JSTOR Daily)

• “Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public.” (The Guardian)

• Meet the physicist Marietta Blau. (Distillations)

• “Archaeologists Have Discovered That a Nonbinary Iron Age Warrior Likely Occupies This Mysterious Finnish Grave.” (Artnet)

• “Smithsonian Repatriates Sacred Items to the Siksika Nation.” (Hyperallergic)

• On Rahul Sankrityayan. (Sidecar)

• On ancient self-care. (Archaeology)

• “As James V came of age, his evil ex-stepfather and a counsel of unscrupulous gatekeepers hatched a scheme to keep him from power: distract him with an ungodly amount of intercourse.” (Narratively)

• The life of a student in Anglo-Saxon England. (History Today)

• This week in obituaries: Jon LindberghHung Liu, Siân James, Nach WaxmanToshihide MaskawaMarcia NasatirPeter Rehberg, Chucky Thompson, Ying-shih YuKaren Hastie WilliamsPaul JohnsonJane WithersJean “Binta” BreezeDennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, Elka SchumannJanet KennedyAsa BrunoTony EspositoMarc LiebermanJ.R. RichardNeal Conan, Kelli HandMargaret HooksPat Hitchcock, Walter Yetnikoff, John Rizzo, and Barry the Owl.