Hodie est pridie Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 4 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Community Excavation Reveals Ancient Jewish Village with Mikvehs, Oil and Wine Presses, in Galilee | The Jewish Press -| JewishPress.com 
• Newly-found petroglyph in western Iran may have link to Mithraism – Tehran Times 
• Melrose Roman museum secures funding towards expansion – BBC News 
• ‘Please, help us save Horncastle’s Roman wall’ – Horncastle News 
• 11,300-year-old Neolithic-era temple unearthed in southeastern Turkey’s Mardin – Daily Sabah 

In Case You Missed It

• How Do You Say Trick-Or-Treat in Latin and Greek? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 

Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Ὁ Ποῦτιν εἰς τὴν Κοῦβαν πορευθήσεται 

Public Facing Classics

• [Peter Jones] Could a sex-strike solve Brexit? | The Spectator 

Fresh Bloggery

• Ritual Sacrifice and Lycanthropy: Pausanias for Werewolf Week – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• On cripantiquity and becoming an ancientist 🙂 | Mythology and Autism – Susan Deacy 
• Werewolf Week, Religious Returns: St. Augustine on Lycanthropy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Imperial Decrees, Animal Sacrifices, and Christian Persecution – Papyrus Stories 
• Terrors and Affrights, Causes of Melancholy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Example of Simonides 
• Mykale en de Feniciërs – Mainzer Beobachter 
• Gory, gruesome, and grotesque: two ancient vampire tales | The Petrified Muse 
• Arrian I.6-1-11 | The Second Achilles 
• A fresh coat of paint – Marking two years of Ancient World Magazine – Ancient World Magazine 

Fresh Podcasts

• Caligula #3 – The Movie (Part 3) | Life Of The Caesars 

We continue and finish our live commentary on the 1979 epic film, CALIGULA. Picking up where we left off last week, Caligula is fisting the married couple and he doesn’t even remove his ring. A dark and stormy night leads to night terrors, a super hot threesome between Caligula, his sister and Helen Mirren, a gratuitous but welcome sultry Italian lesbian scene, spinning plates, a Helen Mirren does Madonna dance scene, some torture, a horse in a bed, death, crazy, an orgy on a fake ship, and we close with brains being bashed out on the stairs. It’s one helluva film.

Dramatic Receptions

• Sam Shepard’s last play, ‘A Particle of Dread: Oedipus Variations,’ gets Bay Area premiere — Berkeleyside 

Professional Matters

• Assistant Professor – Humanities (Roman History) – Carleton University 
• Contractually Limited Term (Professoriate), Latin Literature ~ University of Toronto 

Alia

• How Artifacts From Tell Halaf, Syria, Ended Up at the Met | Observer 
• In Mark Zuckerberg’s World, “Provenance” Means Nothing 
• Inside Kent State’s Experimental Archaeology Lab 
• Out of the Glass Case: Museum Heists and Repatriations – Los Angeles Review of Books 
• Decolonising the Hunterian – How museum will confront its dark imperial legacy and links with the slave trade – Glasgow Live 
• Halloween and the Greeks, reviving a pagan tradition | Neos Kosmos
• NGC Ancients – Coin Themes – Bridges on Roman Coins 

‘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:

No entry for October 31!

… 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)