'It’s this complex combination of showing your classical knowledge but also your cosmopolitanism to have been at, say, the theater festival in Syracuse [Sicily]'
Photo: Eileen Darby/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images Status can be a funny thing. Of course, it is most obviously expressed through shiny hardware and easily recognizable logos, but it gets far more interesting when you start to observe the more subtle signals — the way you tuck your shirt, or what you eat for breakfast, or your particular brand of notebook can mark you as in or out. And, of course, what counts as a status item varies wildly across human tribes.
$30 at Eidolon Buy Veduta interna del Pantheon by Piranesi This is a bit more of a traditional thing you’ll see in classicists’ homes or offices. It’s always some 18th-century engraving of a view of the city of Rome or the ruins of Greece. These tinted, kind of colored-in ones are really popular presents that people give to classicists. I was just cleaning out my drawers and I found I had accumulated three 18th- and 19th-century maps of Athens that people had given me over the years.
$38 at Houzz Buy REI Co-op Sahara Hat $24 A friend of mine and I were just talking about how many classics faculty pictures have people standing in front of ruins in one of these sun hats. To be completely fair to archaeologists, the Mediterranean countries do get very hot and it’s very prudent to wear them, but I will never own one, because I think they’re too dorky.
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