Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
(1) /u/XenophonTheAthenian was on fire in Did the ancient Romans really eat only one meal a day?--debunking a flawed article, rolling out the primary sources, and explaining not only Roman diet patterns but also food policy, urban life, and, I'm pretty sure, the entire late Roman class structure in history and historiography.
(2) /u/NMW told us about an entertaining hoax in this week's Tuesday Trivia that seems light and fun but leads to a maze of questions about blackface in England vs. the US, and treatment of native versus colonized versus ally populations
(3) I kind of feel it would take up less space to list what /u/mikedash didn't answer brilliantly this week, but to pick out a few favorites:
In the preemptive spirit of this upcoming week's theme I answered the ever insightful /u/fishymcgee's question on How many Greeks lived in Cleopatra's Egypt? (The answer may surprise you) Along with follow up questions on the prevalence of bilingualism in Ptolemaic Egypt and how Greek immigration shaped the Ptolemaic military and social demographics.
/u/philip_schwartzerdt answered "What’s the deal with the 95 Theses? Why is that the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, and what was Martin Luther really doing?"
/u/steelcan909 on "What was the cultural connection between the Angles and Saxons of Britain to the those of mainland Europe?"
/u/cleopatra_philopater answered "How many Greeks lived in Cleopatra's Egypt?"