Hodie est  Non. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 9 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• 3 ancient shipwrecks discovered off Aegean island of Kasos 

In Case You Missed It

• 2000-year-old chariot found in Croatia sheds light on unknown facts about ancient Rome 
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Public Facing Classics

• Special Issue on the Papyrus Thefts – EIDOLON 
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Fresh Bloggery

• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: November 5 
• “Damn Homer With All My Heart!” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Saturday Afternoon Treats – Classical Studies Support 
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Links Galore: links to collections of books of interest to classicists, medievalists etc. in the public domain 
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• Theological views of Thales from Miletos – Novo Scriptorium 
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Mistake 
• Introducing Euripides Trojan Women | The Kosmos Society 
• Mythical Hope 6 – Hope: gateway between worlds, from Pandora to Iago… | Mythology and Autism – Susan Deacy 
• Even Kings and Emperors Aren’t Above the Law – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Homer; the roots of civil wars – Novo Scriptorium 
• Frigidus Lusus | Curculio – Michael Hendry 

Fresh Podcasts

• Ubi Sum? (1) | Sermones Raedarii 

Hodie primum ainigma vobis propono: ubi sum nunc?

• The British Museum Membercast: The Story of Troy – The British Museum Blog 

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Lucia Raggetti, ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī’s Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts: Edition, Translation and Study of a Fluid Tradition. Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures, 6. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018.
• [BMCR] Emanuele Berti, Lo stile e l’uomo: quattro epistole letterarie di Seneca (Sen. epist. 114; 40; 100; 84). Testi e commenti, 22. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 2018. 

Dramatic Receptions

• Euripides play on SLU stage in Canton | NorthCountryNow 
• The GreekTragedy, “Medea,” Presented by the Montverde Academy Theatre Department – Clermont Report 

Professional Matters

• Reminder: 2020 Annual Meeting Seminars | Society for Classical Studies 
• ASCSA – The Jacob Hirsch Fellowship | CAAS-CW 

Alia

• British Museum is world’s largest receiver of stolen goods, says QC | Culture | The Guardian 
• The mystery of brass Roman dodecahedrons / Boing Boing 
• A ‘ready-made’ collection of museum replicas, fakes 

‘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 thunders today, it portends a storm for the state and disease for both humans and animals.

… 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)