Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Septembres 2772 AUC ~  29 Metageitnion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• Security forces seize Roman-era sarcophagus with Medusa figure in southern Turkey – Daily Sabah 
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• Campaign to Save Rare Synagogue Mosaics on Aegina Island, Greece | GreekReporter.com 
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Public Facing Classics

• [Peter Jones] For a solution to the backstop, team up like Rome and Carthage | The Spectator 

Fresh Bloggery

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• #38 – The Crash Of Rome | Life Of The Caesars 

Tiberius runs amok. Usury runs rampant. Drusus chews the stuffing.

• *Special Episode* – Barbarians with Dr Rhiannon Evans – The Partial Historians 

Dr Radness travelled to Melbourne recently and met with the fantastic and erudite Dr Rhiannon Evans from La Trobe. Dr Evans is one of the famous voices on the Emperors of Rome podcast. In this special episode, Dr Rad and Dr Evans explore barbarians!

• BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, Augustine’s Confessions (Summer Repeat) 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine’s account of his life, sometimes called the first autobiography, written around AD397 after he had been appointed as Bishop of Hippo

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Angelos Chaniotis, Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian. 
• [BMCR] Signe Krag, Funerary Representations of Palmyrene Women: From the First Century BC to the Third Century AD. Studies in classical archaeology, 3. 
• [BMCR] Keith Andrew Stewart, Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation. Studies in ancient medicine, 51. 
• [BMCR] Harry O. Maier, New Testament Christianity in the Roman World. Essentials of Biblical Studies. 
• MAKING AND RETHINKING THE RENAISSANCE: Between Greek and Latin in 15th-16th Century Europe – Classics for All

Dramatic Receptions

• The Cambridge Triennial Greek Play is Oedipus | Theatre | Saffron Walden Reporter 
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Alia

• Duolingo launches Latin course – Pittsburgh Business Times 
• Papyrus part of an ancient puzzle – The Arlington Catholic Herald 
• Dr. Seuss’s Last Book, “Horse Museum,” Is about Art History – Artsy 
• Follow the Ancient Amber Road | Travel | Smithsonian 
• Melbourne Philosophical Cafe and Greek mythology from a Greek perspective | Neos Kosmos 
• Boris Johnson’s leadership style resembles that of Caesar — and remember how that ended | CBC News 

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it should rain today, it does not portend a reversal of fate.

… adapted from the text and 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)