@histodons I knew Kurt Raaflaub through the Association of Ancient Historians, at whose meetings he was a stalwart. I found him always polite and inquisitive, with insightful questions and comments. He was continuing to work on scholarship up to his unexpected death, and I remember hearing him speak two years ago at an AAH online meeting bringing modern theories to bear on understanding Julius Caesar and Roman perceptions of the Gauls within ancient ethnographic traditions.