Stanford Classics Professor Scheidel presented "City-State, Republic, Empire: What Was the Roman Republic Really Like?” during the Humanities West 2014 Roman Republic program.
you can create scripts, write stories for movies, games, be supervisor in tv, movies or games about specific history period, you can do all creative work that requires language skills and history knowledge.
Politician, author, screenwriter, advisor and TH-camr (see Lindybeige) are the first that come to my mind for history, and I'm pretty sure that I'm having a rather narrow focus there. For humanities in general, the field opens up wide; John Holdren made a rather good case for them during the FY15 budget meeting.
If you know something about how previous states, empires and city-states rose, where governed, expanded, declined and failed, it gives a broader perspective on current events. It makes for more informed broad thinking citizenry for voting and interacting with Government and the powers that be. Very useful for careers in politics, government, diplomacy, NGOs, international business and investing.
garouHH no author I know of recommends the humanities. usually the advice is: if you want to have something to write about, join a fire department. if you want to learn how to write: just do it. under no circumstances do you get a degree in creative writing or gender studies ... pure nonsense to waste your money like that.
Andrew Shannon you can learn all those things from the above lecture as well as other free lectures posted on youtube, or just books on the subject. getting a degree entails payment and is rather costly
Brilliant! Thank you for your extremely lucid and pertinent lecture.
He nailed it.
Great talk!
Prof Schneidel is a great speaker! Is there more of this Roman weekend?
I have A silver coin from the consul era Marcus Marcius etc.
is there a video of the other roman presentation he kept referencing?
I crave more content on the republican period. Thank you for this bit.
"soft" = independent, healthy, progressive, liberal, peaceful, democratic, educated
lonely, decadent, shallow, pretentious, weak, vulgar, effete
What can I use History and Humanities for in general, except for becoming a teacher or professor?
you can create scripts, write stories for movies, games, be supervisor in tv, movies or games about specific history period, you can do all creative work that requires language skills and history knowledge.
Politician, author, screenwriter, advisor and TH-camr (see Lindybeige) are the first that come to my mind for history, and I'm pretty sure that I'm having a rather narrow focus there. For humanities in general, the field opens up wide; John Holdren made a rather good case for them during the FY15 budget meeting.
If you know something about how previous states, empires and city-states rose, where governed, expanded, declined and failed, it gives a broader perspective on current events. It makes for more informed broad thinking citizenry for voting and interacting with Government and the powers that be. Very useful for careers in politics, government, diplomacy, NGOs, international business and investing.
garouHH no author I know of recommends the humanities. usually the advice is: if you want to have something to write about, join a fire department. if you want to learn how to write: just do it. under no circumstances do you get a degree in creative writing or gender studies ... pure nonsense to waste your money like that.
Andrew Shannon you can learn all those things from the above lecture as well as other free lectures posted on youtube, or just books on the subject. getting a degree entails payment and is rather costly
When he was talking about modern settlements being like roman settlements was he referencing israeli settlements in gaza
+john li Yes, he was.