Hodie est a.d.  X Kal. Sextilies (Augustas) 2772 AUC ~  22 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

A bit more catching up scattered among the fresh stuff …

In the News

• Grave of ‘real life Asterix’ discovered at building site | Isle of Wight County Press 
• Chedworth Roman glass fish ‘exceptionally rare’ – BBC News 
• Noheda: How a 1,700-year-old find could turn a sleepy village into the ‘Spanish Pompeii’ | Telegraph
• Illyrian God of War temple found above picturesque Bay in Montenegro – The First News 
• ‘Important’ Iron Age settlement found at Warboys dig – BBC News 
• [Paywalled] Beautifully preserved mosaics and badly spelled inscriptions uncovered in ancient Hippos church – Archaeology – Haaretz.com 

In Case You Missed It

• Bonhams withdraw ancient Greek drinking vessel from sale amid accusations it was excavated illegally  | Telegraph
• Last Supper in Pompeii review, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: a feast of a show that reveals what the Romans really ate  | Telegraph

Public Facing Classics

• Dr Roslynne Bell’s lecture on ‘Alexander in Art: The Legend and his Legacy’ | Neos Kosmos

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Fascicule 10: Athenian Red-Figure Column and Volute Kraters 
• What Hephaestus Really Wanted from Thetis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Coffee and Circuses: a podcast with a difference – Institute of Classical Studies Blog 
• Cicero = Billy Badass, or “I’ll Never Change My Mind” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Diogenes se ha renovado · pompilo 

Fresh Podcasts

• Curia Julia by When in Rome | Free Listening on SoundCloud 

When the members of the Roman senate met they did so in the Curia Julia, an impressively decorated building in a prime position in the forum. It was named for Julius Caesar, and is one of the most intact Roman era buildings in the city today.

Guest: Dr Caillan Davenport (Roman History, Macquarie University)
Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Anna Cannavò, Ludovic Thély (ed.), Les royaumes de Chypre à l’épreuve de l’histoire: transitions et ruptures de la fin de l’âge du Bronze au début de l’époque hellénistique. BCH. Bulletin de correspondance héllénique: supplément, Vol 60 
• [BMCR] Christopher Burden-Strevens, Mads Lindholmer (ed.), Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome: The Roman History, Books 1-21. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 3. 
• [BMCR] Maurus Augustus, Sophoclis Oedipus Rex, New Edition. Bibliotheca utriusque linguae scriptorum Moscoviensis. 
• Review – Hadrian’s Wall: a study in archaeological exploration and interpretation – Current Archaeology
• Review – Hadrian’s Wall: a life – Current Archaeology
• Review – Hadrian’s Wall at Wallsend – Current Archaeology
• Review – Hadrian’s Wall: history and guide – Current Archaeology
• Review – Hadrian’s Wall: everyday life on a Roman frontier – Current Archaeology
• Book Review: In Search Of Ancient North Africa: A History In Six Lives – Tsarizm
• SNG Russland, Staatliches Historisches Museum Moskau. Münzen des Nördlichen Schwarzmeergebietes | Spartokos a lu

Dramatic Receptions

• Didaskalia 15.5 – Duncan on Medea 
• Didaskalia 15.4 – MOORE on HERAKLES
• Scenes from a Brummie Iliad – The STUDIO, Birmingham REP 
• The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema review – flesh-and-blood take on the Oedipus curse | Stage | The Guardian 
• [Bacchae] New interpretation of ancient Greek drama – Cyprus Mail 
• Tony-Winner Jennifer Ehle Joins Renee Fleming In PENELOPE At Ravinia 
• One Night Only Performance Of LYSISTRATA To Benefit Planned Parenthood And The ACLU Of Georgia

Professional Matters

• Convegno «The Forgotten Theatre 2019» | Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico 
• Assistant Professor, Princeton University 

Alia

• Why Are So Many Ancient Statues Missing Their Noses? | Mental Floss 
• Pool: The intimate artifacts of Roman Vindolanda | Opinion | news-journal.com 
• Early usage of schadenfreude in English and literature – Big Think 
• Dancing with the Ancients | by Alexandra Enders | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
• This Week in History – In 356 BC an ancient Greek arsonist destroyed a temple – Nightlife – ABC Radio 
• 50 Of The Best Greek Mythology Books For Adults, Teens, And Kids 
• Wonder Woman Faces Grail for the Fate of Themyscira | Den of Geek 
• [Paywalled] Another piece in strange saga of the Essex marble | Comment | The Times 
• As the Eagle flies: Ancient and modern: Roman ruins in the Perigueux | The Berkshire Eagle 

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If there is any thunder today, the dissension among the common people will come to an end.

… adapted from the translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)

Hodie est a.d.  XI Kal. Sextilies (Augustas) 2772 AUC ~  21 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

Some major catching up …. some more catching up tomorrow I think (it’s been a busy few days in the Classical interwebs)

In the News

• Bulgaria’s Plovdiv erects columns at ancient Roman Forum site | The Sofia Globe 
• Roman artefacts in frontier tunnel could be shipwreck remains 
• The second cohort was here: Roman marker found near Valkenburg – DutchNews.nl 
• Mystery of Chedworth’s 1,800-year-old Roman glass shard solved | Science | The Guardian 
• Work underway for £5m Roman Baths project – Somerset Live 
• Rome cracks down on illegal trading at Colosseum – Wanted in Rome 
• Murcia Today – 6th Century Graves Found At Villaricos Roman Villa In Mula 

In Case You Missed It

• 4,600-Year-Old Greek ‘Pyramid’ Found in the Aegean Sea … Is Not a Pyramid at All 
• Decorative ancient mosaic discovered in Alexandria – Greco-Roman – Heritage – Ahram Online 
• Last Supper in Pompeii | Apollo Magazine
• Pompeii row erupts between rival scientific factions | Science | The Guardian 

Latin/Greek News

• Radiogiornale Latino 20.07.2019 – Vatican News 
• [Ephemeris] VERBA DUCIS 
• [Ephemeris] SILESNE BELLUM?

Public Facing Classics

• [Mary Beard] The first moon landing: second century AD – TheTLS 
• [Stephen Dando-Collins] Can Donald Trump Be Compared to Caligula, the Mad Emperor of Rome? | History News Network 

Fresh Bloggery

• Trimming down Greek Vocab – Amy Pistone 
• A Tale of Two Scholars, and the Center for Minoan Linguistic Research that never came to exist 
• AD 119 – Hadrian visits Campania to aid the towns by gifts and benefactions (#Hadrian1900) – FOLLOWING HADRIAN 
• Catullus’s model boat » Armand D’Angour
• The Cyclops Had Three Eyes and They Were His Brothers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Comix from Crete: Talos guards Crete from the Argo | Greek Myth Comix 
• The History Girls: The Wrong Caesar by L.J. Trafford 
• The Jealousy and Play of Alexander the Great – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: July 18 
• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: July 21 
• Dancing With The Lion – an interview with Jeanne Reames, Part One | The Second Achilles 
• Dancing With The Lion, an interview with Jeanne Reames, Part Two | The Second Achilles 
• Blog: Anti-Catholicism, Classical Curriculum, and the Beginnings of Latin Drama in the United States | Society for Classical Studies 
• Dickinson Classics China-related activities | Dickinson College Commentaries 
• Weekend Reading: Myth and Mermaids – Classical Studies Support 
• The Curriculum Vitae of Telephos of Pergamon – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• SIAC Newsletter 175 (7/2019) | Tulliana News 

Fresh Podcasts

• Dr Janina Ramirez – Art Detective – #66 – Professor Dame Mary Beard – Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos 

Dame Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of multiple books, including Confronting the Classics, and most recently, the manifesto, Women & Power. Dame Mary is a respected blogger and television personality. She is Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books

Book Reviews

• Rure vivere in Moesia Inferiore. La population dans le milieu rural d’une province périphérique de l’Empire romain | Spartokos a lu
• [BMCR] Anton Powell (ed.), A Companion to Sparta (2 vols). Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: Ancient History.
• [BMCR] C. Harlaut, J. W. Hayes, Pottery in Hellenistic Alexandria: Aux origines d’Alexandrie et de sa production céramique; Hellenistic Pottery Deposits from Alexandria. Études Alexandrines, 45. 
• [BMCR] Duccio Chiapello, Laura Bellani, La decifrazione della Lineare A. 
• [BMCR] Lillian Larsen, Samuel Rubenson (ed.), Monastic Education in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Classical ‘Paideia’. 
• [BMCR] Maria A. Liston, Susan I. Rotroff, Lynn M. Snyder, Andrew Stewart, The Agora Bone Well 

Dramatic Receptions

• ‘Penelope’: A world-premiere at Tanglewood | The Berkshire Eagle 
• The Bacchae Review: Euripides Tragedy Becomes Harlem Entertainment – DC Theatre Scene 
• Prometheus Theater to perform “Hippolytus” at Arcate d’arte Festival – Tehran Times 
• Finding the Greek Tragedy in Netflix’s ‘Dark’ | Film School Rejects 

Professional Matters

• CFP: Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song | Society for Classical Studies 
• Conference: Seneca 2020 | Society for Classical Studies 
• CFP: Classics and Civic Activism | Society for Classical Studies 
• CFP: Classical Representations in Popular Culture | Society for Classical Studies 
• Assistant/Associate Professor, Greek Literature and Culture (JPF04704) – UCLA Academic RECRUIT 

Alia

• Watch: Protester dressed as ancient Roman jumps into Trevi fountain | Euronews 
• Latin is not just for encyclicals. For all Catholics, it is our living history. | America Magazine 

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If there is any thunder today, it portends good things for the common people, but bad things for those at the top [I very much adapted this one]

… adapted from the translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)

Hodie est a.d.  XV Kal. Sextilies (Augustas) 2772 AUC ~  17 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

Apologies for lateness this a.m. … probably will be late tomorrow too!

In the News

• [You really need to watch the video … 45 minutes] The Apollo of Gaza | Gaza | Al Jazeera 
• [dating issues?] Vandals spray paint 3,000-year-old sarcophagus – Turkey News 
• Kayaker finds rare Roman glass and pottery off Kent coast | UK news | The Guardian 
• Pompeii Archaeologists ‘Committing Vandalism to Volcanology’ by Destroying History of Vesuvius Eruption, Scientists Claim 
• On the trail of the Minoan civilization: Crete, June 2019 | The Kosmos Society 

In Case You Missed It

• Eva Palmer Sikelianos, the American Artist Who Lived Like an Ancient Greek | USA.GreekReporter.com
• Women are bringing ancient male canon to the modern world – Alton Telegraph 

Latin/Greek News

• [Ephemeris] INITUS DONALDI 

Public-Facing Classics

• [Philip Walsh] What College Instructors Can Learn From the Front Lines of Classics Education | Eidolon 
• [Peter Jones] Roman plebs would have known how to tackle Corbyn’s cabal | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Defending the Edge of the Empire | Summertime Fragments 
• Marcus Cato, Literary and Cultural Critic – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• A curriculum for all, autistic imaginations and a bit of Percy Jackson – notes from “Engagement for All in the History Classroom” | Mythology and Autism – Susan Deacy 
• “Someone Has to Play Patroclus!” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Comix from Crete: Theseus in the Throne Room | Greek Myth Comix 
• F**k This Job, and F**k Classics Too! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Literature and History: Episode 67: Jaws Dripping Blood (Seneca’s Thyestes) on Apple Podcasts

Seneca’s Thyestes, probably written around the 50s CE, is one of the most horrifying and influential plays ever written.

• Cleopatra and the Urban War – Ancient History Fangirl 

When Cleopatra met Julius Caesar, sparks flew. The daring Egyptian queen beguiled the conquering Roman general—and then enlisted him to fight her battles.

Outnumbered five to one in a city full of ancient wonders, Cleopatra and Caesar spent the next ten months barricaded in a luxurious palace while outside, the enemy howled for their blood. The two fought a deadly urban war for Cleopatra’s throne–and both of their survival.

• #36 – The Fall Of Sejanus | Life Of The Caesars

Sejanus decided to remove the next in line of Germanicus’ heirs, Drusus, and finally married Livia Julia, the widow of the other Drusus, son of Tiberius. He also became Tiberius’ official partner in power – in 31CE Tiberius took his fifth consulship, with Seianus as his colleague. But before the year 31 would come to a close, Sejanus and all his family were dead, his statues thrown down, his name erased from the public records.
Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Peter E. Pormann (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates. Cambridge companions to philosophy. 
• [BMCR] Michel-Yves Perrin, Civitas confusionis: de la participation des fidèles aux controverses doctrinales dans l’Antiquité tardive (début IIIe s. – c. 430). 
• [BMCR] Ruth M. Léger, Artemis and Her Cult. 

Dramatic Receptions

• ‘Mojada’ Theater Review | Hollywood Reporter
• ‘Mojada’ Theater Review: Euripides’ Medea Now Lives and Murders in Queens 
• ‘The Bacchae’: Free summer theater courtesy the Classical Theatre of Harlem | abc7ny.com 

Professional Matters

• Harvard Academic Positions | Tenure-Track (Assistant or Associate) Professor in Classical Archaeology
• CFP: SAGP Central and Pacific Divisions | Society for Classical Studies 
• Seneca 2020. International Conference 
• Workshop: Bringing Latin to Life in the Classroom | Society for Classical Studies 
• Getty Scholars Program (2020/2021) | Society for Classical Studies 
• FIEC: CAMWS ENDORSEMENT: GREEK AND LATIN INTANGIBLE WORLD HERITAGE 
• CfP: Regional Epigraphic Cultures across the Ancient Globe – Panel at Classical Association Annual Conference (Swansea 2020) – Deadline 7 August 2019 – Current Epigraphy 

Alia

• Louvre Removed Sackler Name From Its Walls and Website 
• Largest Neolithic Settlement in Israel Uncovered. Up to 3,000 People May Have Lived There.
• US Educators Strengthening Greek Studies in Schools | USA.GreekReporter.com 
• Greek Mythology Tells Us “The Little Mermaid” Can Be Any Skin Color – Artsy 
• Harvard’s General Education curriculum encourages broad and deep examinations of Big Questions – Harvard Gazette 

Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If there is any thunder today,  a crop shortage may come due to wet weather.

… adapted from the translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)

Hodie est a.d.  XVI Kal. Sextilies (Augustas) 2772 AUC ~  16 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• [paywalled] Busted: builders arrested for theft of Hadrian’s head | World | The Times 
• Excavation reveals complex story of ancient Tas-Silġ site 
• Rome’s Capitoline Museums display stolen treasures recovered by Italy’ 
• Archaeology Festival | Laconia | July 19-21 | What’s On | ekathimerini.com 
• Austin College digs up stunning mosaics in ancient Galilean synagogue 

In Case You Missed It

• Women are bringing ancient male canon to modern world | Newsfeed | wvnews.com 

Public Facing Classics

• [Mary Beard] Remembering Fergus Millar — on how to disagree – TheTLS 

Fresh Bloggery

• In memoriam Fergus Millar | Georgy Kantor’s blog 
• Things I learned from Fergus Millar – Liv Mariah Yarrow 
• Farewell J.-B. Piggin, of ” Piggin’s Unofficial list” of Vatican manuscript releases online – Roger Pearse 
• Breaking News | Sphinx 
• Beginning with the End in Mind for 2500 Years – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• The Page | Summertime Fragments 
• Comix from Crete: Zeus and Amalthea | Greek Myth Comix
• Pliny on the Utility of Gossip – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• The Colosseum and a Cluster of Charming Accidents – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Classics at the Intersections: E Pluribus Plures: Identities in a Multiethnic Ancient 

Fresh Podcasts

• Episode 72: Dispatches from VidCon 2019 — The Endless Knot 

While at VidCon this year, we sat down and chatted with a few of our fellow educational YouTubers: The Cynical Historian, Knowing Better, 12tone, and Step Back History. This is a compilation of our discussions about their channels, their reasons for making videos, and their experience of VidCon and its educational companion event, EduCon. If you don’t already watch their videos, we strongly recommend you check them out. Thank you to them all for taking part!

• Sermo Raedarius 97 | Sermones Raedarii 

Sermo 97, quo uti conor libro Nicolai Flocchini c.t. “Verba Manent”, sed bonis rationibus.

• Coffee and Circuses/ Mai Musié (Oxford University) 

Mai joins David to discuss her work on outreach, particularly her project on the 4th century Eritrean Gospels from Ethiopia. Mai talks about the importance of broadening our understanding of the ancient world to include regions outside Greece and Rome – the Mediterranean didn’t exist in a bubble, but was well connected to areas like Sub-Saharan Africa, China and India – and she reflects on how such projects encourage diverse participation in Classics by highlighting this inter-connectivity…

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Francesco De Angelis, Miti greci in tombe etrusche : le urne cinerarie di Chiusi. Monumenti antichi. Serie monografica, 8. 
• [BMCR] M. C. Bishop, Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East 

Dramatic Receptions

• Euripides’ The Suppliants to become clear for English speakers – Cyprus Mail 
• New York Euripides Summer Festival Presenting Two Plays – The National Herald 
• The Bacchae: Fierce and Uncompromising, Nothing to Condemn – Times Square Chronicles 

Professional Matters

• [Course] Living Latin in Paris 
• FIEC: L’ANNÉE PHILOLOGIQUE – GUIDELINE FOR ABSTRACTS 
• Placement Maintenance Complete and New Publication | Society for Classical Studies 
• Open Rank Teaching Faculty, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies – HigherEdJobs 

Alia

• British Museum trustee resigns over BP sponsorship and repatriation – BBC News 
• Time Travel – Ancient Rome blog Mind the Cap: London’s Mithraeum 
• Christie’s Intractability on Tutankhamun Statue Lays Bare Auction Houses’ Greed 
• How the Ancient Greeks Designed the Parthenon to Impress—And Last – HISTORY 

Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If there is any thunder today, a great ruler will come to power.

… adapted from the translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition

Hodie est a.d.  XVII Kal. Sextilies (Augustas) 2772 AUC ~  15 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Gladiator arena found at ancient city in Turkey to shed light on region’s history – Daily Sabah 
• The Legionary Marc Antony Denarii: A Featured Group in the Stack’s Bowers World & Ancient Coin ANA Auction 
• Scientists believe they can now reproduce Ancient Roman concrete 
• «A Versailles in the heart of Rome». A Journey inside the splendid Domus Aurea, the immense palace of Nero – Corriere TV 

In Case You Missed It

• Researcher Identifies ‘Oldest Handwriting of a Christian’ In Ancient Papyrus Letter From Roman Egypt 

Fresh Bloggery

• Roman Mysteries & Western Mysteries: Roman Mysteries Themes and Topics 
• Classics at the Intersections: E Pluribus Plures: Identities in a Multiethnic Ancient Mediterranean 
• Buried Under Mountains of Philology – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Pliny Goes on A Campus Tour – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Albarracín-Cella Roman Aqueduct – Gea de Albarracín, Spain – Atlas Obscura 

Fresh Podcasts

• Episode 82 – ‘Western Civilization’ and White Supremacy: The Right-Wing Co-option of Antiquity by Citations Needed Podcast 

The term “Western civilization” has long been a staple of the American Right, but with the recent resurgence of white nationalism, it is having something of a comeback. Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly are hosting a two-week Mediterranean “cruise thru history” to “explore the roots of Western civilization.” The Intellectual Dark Web’s Jordan Peterson tells us “The West is Right,” while The Daily Caller and Fox News are busy “celebrating the West.” Neo-Nazi Matthew Heimbach hails “Youth for Western Civilization.” Both the traditional and so-called alt-right ground their worldviews in a fictional moral arc of “The West” that bares little resemblance to reality.

Learning from the past and applying those lessons to the present is a good thing. But in pop political discourse, the Classics have been misused and abused to promote an origin story that never was – a white Greco-Roman world birthing our noble, so-called “Judeo-Christian” American empire to gloss over a history of exploitation, imperialism, slavery and conquest.

On this episode, we’ll explore the right-wing obsession with the ancient world, it’s influence on neoconservative empire-building and alt-right white nationalism alike, and how our common cultural understanding of the ancient world has been perpetually white-washed to promote a clash of civilizations narrative and racist pseudo-science.

We are joined by Dr. Sarah E. Bond, Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, and Dr. Cord Whitaker, Associate Professor at Wellesley College.

• ‎That’s Ancient History: S.3 E.5 Ancient True Crime: Cleopatra VIII with Harriet Scott  

Today Jean is joined by ancient history enthusiast and my favourite murder fangirl Harriet Scott (from season one episode one and eight). Harriet brings the true crime genre to antiquity through discussing the various theories and unsolved questions surrounding the death of Cleopatra VIII – lover of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, ruler of Egypt, and fierce, intelligent woman. Was it suicide or was it murder?

Dramatic Receptions

• Newton Theatre Company’s ‘Helen’ in the limelight – News – Wicked Local Middleton – Middleton, MA 
• Euripides Summer Festival Returns to New York City 

Professional Matters

• Assistant/Associate Professor, Greek Literature and Culture (JPF04704) – UCLA Academic RECRUIT
• FIEC Statement on the Format of Abstracts and Keywords for the Submission of Articles | Society for Classical Studies 

Alia

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Rome in Egypt: Roman Temples for Egyptian Gods
• British Museum Trustee Resigns, Citing Oil Funding and Restitution Inaction 

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If there is any thunder today, [something about a king in the east falling in war?] and the hot weather will bring disease.

… adapted from the translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)