#Thelxinoe ~ Weekend Edition for September 15, 2019

Hodie est pridie a.d. XVII Kal. Octobres 2772 AUC ~  17 Boedromion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Police: Possible rare coin found | Local News | record-eagle.com 
• Roman bronze cauldron unearthed in central Norway burial cairn 
• The Griffin Warrior unlocks the secrets of the Mycenaean civilisation | Neos Kosmos 
• The enigma of bronze age tin | EurekAlert! Science News 
• Art Athina: Greek President says British Museum’s failure to return marbles is offensive to the UK as it is to Greek Culture | Neos Kosmos 
• Greek President Slams British Museum on Refusal to Return Parthenon Sculptures (Video) – The National Herald 
• Greece: Latest Proof silver coin in “Greek Culture” series features ancient poet Alcaeus | Coin Update

Public Facing Classics

• [Peter Jones] Tacitus knew how to handle stories from ‘insiders’ and ‘sources’ | The Spectator 
• [Mary Beard] Roman precedent? – TheTLS 

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] QUISPIAM LEGIT? De indoctis totius orbis 
• [Ephemeris] PROELIA APUD FINES Palaestini et Israeliani inter se acriter contendere non desinunt 
• Radiogiornale Latino 14.09.2019 – Vatican News 
• [Ephemeris] DEMONSTRATIO CATALUNENSIS Multi descenderunt 
• [Ephemeris] ITALIA NOVUM IMPERIUM HABET De rebus Italicis 

Fresh Bloggery

• Guest Post: Discovering The Queen of Warriors with author, Zenobia Neil | 
• The Edithorial: Of Mice, Men, and Classical Time 
• Theological approach to Aeschylus’ tragedy “Agamemnon” – Novo Scriptorium 
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Reading Slowly and Rereading 
• Forget Aristotle, Julian Founds the Lice-eum – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Blog: How Can We Save Latin in our Public High Schools? | Society for Classical Studies 
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Servius Mangled in Translation 
• More Casual Misogyny in the Homeric Scholia – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics 
• Love Theoretically – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• A little-known museum in Rome – the Case Romane del Celio. – Roger Pearse 
• Weekend Reading: Too Much News – Classical Studies Support 

Bingeworthy Past Podcastery

Legendary:

• ‎The History of Rome on Apple Podcasts 

Landscape Modery

Book Reviews

• [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Prostheses in Antiquity 
• [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Troy: Myth, City, Icon 
• [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Trophies of Victory 
• [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade 
• ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK SICILY: A Social and Economic History – Classics for All

Dramatic Receptions

• Revisiting ‘The Iliad,’ 3,000 Years Later | Georgia Public Broadcasting 

Alia

• Women also competed for status superiority in mid-Republican Rome 
• Science in the Sanctuary: The Life of an Acropolis Restorer – Greece Is 
• Bruce Springsteen: an Aristotle for our times 
• ‘Intellectuals should get out more’: Mary Beard on overtourism, popularity and silencing her Twitter trolls 
• Classical-era Shipwreck off Greek Island of Alonnisos Accessible to Visitors Next Summer | GreekReporter.com 
• Our cultural roots are in Latin and Greek | Catholic Herald 
• Inside the ‘Pompeii of Uzbekistan’, Alexander the Great’s forgotten city 
• We Who Are About to Die Do Not Salute
• The Parthenon Marbles are Greek: No Loan – The National Herald 
• Pericles for PM: Boris should forget Augustus and stay focused on his hero | Spectator USA 

‘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, it portends a period of wet weather and prosperity.

… 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)