Who is Who?
Like many people of my generation, the so-called Pop culture has left a very clear stamp in my everyday language and even in my way of thinking. Phrases and titles of films, songs and TV shows are interwoven in my writings in a virtually subliminal attempt to please those readers who lived the revolution of television and, when we had not yet recovered from it, the internet one. An obvious example of this is found in the name I have given to this section and its iconography. As you may know, the 1960’s British police box is a clear reference to the long-lived science fiction TV Show of Dr. Who, whose success since the beginning of the second half of the 20th century has converted it into a cultural reference both for the United Kingdom and, to a lesser extent, for the rest of the world.
The title, on the other hand, is a loan from the popular board game designed by Ora and Theo Coster in the late 70's which main purpose was to try to find out which character had your opponent by asking simple questions (yes or no) and thus discarding innocent candidates. Although it would be tempting to put a silhouette, a phrase or an image of some of their papers and then leave it to you to find out who it is, since the Internet makes things very easy and that would also require your participation and my time, I have decided that in its place we will devote this section to briefly describe the life and work of some friends who, coincidentally, are well-known researchers on the human sciences. I will take advantage of the fact that some of them have accepted my invitation to make an educational visit to Ghent University over the last few months to make them be the ones to occupy the first posts of this section, which I have to warn you, will be an irreverent one. My idea is not only to speak of its important contribution to historiography but also to allude to the people behind such eminent surnames and initials. However, don’t look here for a space suitable for malicious gossip, but a place devoted to praise great researchers through modest odes and apologies.
The first one is a man, I don’t know him with beard or mustache, doesn’t wear glasses in his workaday, his eyes are brown and he has devoted most of his research to dealing with different aspects of Phoenician and Punic studies.
The title, on the other hand, is a loan from the popular board game designed by Ora and Theo Coster in the late 70's which main purpose was to try to find out which character had your opponent by asking simple questions (yes or no) and thus discarding innocent candidates. Although it would be tempting to put a silhouette, a phrase or an image of some of their papers and then leave it to you to find out who it is, since the Internet makes things very easy and that would also require your participation and my time, I have decided that in its place we will devote this section to briefly describe the life and work of some friends who, coincidentally, are well-known researchers on the human sciences. I will take advantage of the fact that some of them have accepted my invitation to make an educational visit to Ghent University over the last few months to make them be the ones to occupy the first posts of this section, which I have to warn you, will be an irreverent one. My idea is not only to speak of its important contribution to historiography but also to allude to the people behind such eminent surnames and initials. However, don’t look here for a space suitable for malicious gossip, but a place devoted to praise great researchers through modest odes and apologies.
The first one is a man, I don’t know him with beard or mustache, doesn’t wear glasses in his workaday, his eyes are brown and he has devoted most of his research to dealing with different aspects of Phoenician and Punic studies.
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