#Thelxinoe ~ Your Morning Salutatio for September 11, 2019

Hodie est  III Id. Septembres 2772 AUC ~  13 Boedromion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Major fortress-settlement in Armenian Highlands excavated — ScienceDaily 
• Bones of Roman Britons provide new clues to dietary deprivation | EurekAlert! Science News 
• Israeli archaeologists discover 1,700-year-old underground passage in Roman theater – China.org.cn 
• Ancient Settlement Uncovered on Greece’s Evia Island | GreekReporter.com 
• [paywalled] Silchester dig suggests Brits beat Romans to the baths | News | The Times 
• Public urged to unite to protect antiquities in Yeroskipou – Cyprus Mail

In Case You Missed It

• Ministry Speeds Up Works on Greece’s Amphipolis Site – GTP Headlines 
• Ancient Greek Ram’s Head Statuette Found in Bulgaria – Archaeology Magazine 

Public Facing Classics

• [“Clare Quinn”] How to Survive Teaching Latin at a Catholic All-Girls School 

Fresh Bloggery

• Memorabilia Antonina: You be my Hercules, I’ll be your Athena. 
• Mutual Literary Flattery – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Getting colourful and creative at ‘Diversifying Public Engagement’ during FIEC/CA 2019 | Mythology and Autism – Susan Deacy 
• The Last Mythic Hero – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Core Vocab: nomos | The Kosmos Society 
• The Erotic Madness That Has No Cure – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 

Fresh Podcasts

• Medieval Fact and Fiction, with Winston Black — The Endless Knot 

We talked to Winston Black about his new book, The Middle Ages: Facts & Fictions, which addresses the most common myths and misconceptions about the Middle Ages. And we touch on video games, D&D, and Game of Thrones in the process!

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Isabelle Torrance, Euripides. Understanding Classics. 
• [BMCR] Noel Lenski, Catherine M. Cameron (ed.), What is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective.
• [BMCR] John Granger Cook, Empty Tomb, Resurrection, Apotheosis. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 410. 
• THE HOUSE OF AUGUSTUS: A Historical Detective Story – Classics for All

Dramatic Receptions

• Stephen Fry tells tale of Gods at first of three Birmingham shows – review | Express & Star 
• Yale Rep Presents the World Premiere of GIRLS 
• BWW Review: Greek tragedies are recounted in BAD NEWS! I WAS THERE… at NYU Skirball Center 

Professional Matters

• Duke University, Three Tenured/Tenure Track positions in Classical Studies 
• Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Professorship Tenured and Tenure Track
  University of Notre Dame: College of Arts & Letters: Classics 
• Assistant Professor of Classics Grinnell College – Tenure Track (Start Fall 2020) | ChronicleVitae 

Alia

• Lack of space at the British Museum sees major loan of Assyrian collection to Getty | The Art Newspaper 
• The ancient world teemed with birds; now we think with them | Aeon Essays 

‘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 it should thunder today, “the underlings of the well born will foment revolution in the state”.

… 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)