#Thelxinoe ~ Your Morning Salutatio for November 7, 2019

Hodie est  a.d. VII Id. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 11 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Underwater excavation findings in Portitxol bay * Euro Weekly News Spain 
• New revelations about life on the edge of the Roman empire almost two thousand years ago – Chronicle Live 
• First Roman-era cemetery discovered in Saqqara – Egypt Today 

In Case You Missed It

• Ancient Shipwrecks Found Off Coast of Kasos – Archaeology Magazine 

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Arms and A Man | Theatre | Ely Standard 
• The future is now: Gonzaga professor utilizes VR in classroom | News | gonzagabulletin.com 

Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Ἡ Νοτία Ἀφρικὴ τὸ παγκόσμιον τρόπαιον κτᾶται 

Public Facing Classics

• The Greens’ New Deal – EIDOLON 

Fresh Bloggery

• A Slave Revolt in the Bath – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• The Edithorial: 10 Tips for Aspiring Academics Learned Since 1989 
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The King of Podical Sternutations 
• Early Christian Letter Collections | cahaeresearch 
• Uncle Menelaos: Longhair, Clever Words, Just Don’t Care – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Birthday Parties on the Roman Frontier – Papyrus Stories 
• Read Homer and Vergil – Everything Else is Crap – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Conventiculum Dickinsoniense 2020 | Dickinson College Commentaries 
• Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop: Ovid, Heroides | Dickinson College Commentaries 
• Divani Palace Acropolis Fortification Wall – Athens, Greece – Atlas Obscura 
• DH at Dickinson, 2019 | Dickinson College Commentaries 
• Butcherly Feare in Making Latines – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Memorabilia Antonina: Britannia, Season 1, Episode 2 
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Medical Papyri: Text, Context, Hypertext 
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: HORACE’s SERMONES BOOK 1: CREDENTIALS FOR MAECENAS 
• Achilles’ Other Son, a Dream – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Lycians – Lydians – ‘Luwians’? – Novo Scriptorium 
• Arrian I.11.1-8 | The Second Achilles 

Fresh Podcasts

• *Special Episode* What Does Your Toga Say About You? – The Partial Historians 

Dr Amy Place from the University of Leicester sits down with Dr Rad to discuss the humble Roman toga, fashion and social identity, and everyday life in late imperial Roman North Africa!

Book Reviews

• The Ingenious Language by Andrea Marcolongo review – nine epic reasons to love Greek | Books | The Guardian 

Dramatic Receptions

• Theatre program runs Antigone as first production of the semester – The Runner 

Professional Matters

• Annual Meeting Early Registration Deadline Approaching | Society for Classical Studies 

Alia

• Excavating the CA archive: Roman villas – Current Archaeology 
• Why the alt-right loves ancient Greece and Rome – Vox 
• ‘Heroes & Hoplites’ display explores ancient Greek warfare at the Hellenic Museum | Neos Kosmos 
• Take your journey through Homer’s Odyssey – Greek City Times 

‘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 disease for both humans and beasts in the west.

… 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)