Hodie est  a.d. VI Id. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 12 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• Ancient Pinocchio unearthed in western Turkey 
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• Researchers lay out first genetic history of Rome 
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In Case You Missed It

• Minoan Purple Dye Workshops Excavated on Greek Island – Archaeology Magazine 

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Students, archaeologists uncover artifacts at ancient Greek site 

Public Facing Classics

• The Green Fiasco in Context – EIDOLON 

Fresh Bloggery

• Autism and Classical Myth: Mythical Hope 7 – But Hercules is horrible…
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• Vergil Was a Sycophantic Hack – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Gent, June 21-24, 2017) 
• Arrian I.12.1-10 | The Second Achilles 

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: The Rise of Septimius Severus 

The team are back to discuss Ancient Warfare Magazine XIII.3 The Rise of Septimius Severus.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Justina Gregory, Cheiron’s Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 
• [BMCR] David Frankfurter, Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity. Martin Classical Lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 
• [BMCR] John Boardman, Alexander the Great: From his Death to the Present Day. Lawrenceville: Princeton University Press, 2019. 
• What We Are Reading Today: How to Be a Bad Emperor by Josiah Osgood 
• [Review of Dunn, Of Gods and Men] A grown-up guide to the Classics | Catholic Herald 

Dramatic Receptions

• Britannia review — Life in ancient Britain just got even madder | Times2 | The Times 
• Portland theatre company produces a modern-day rendition of 2500-year-old Greek play – Vanguard 

Alia

• [Lucretius] The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge | The New Yorker 
• Tombs of Vergina: When Definitive Proof of Macedonia’s Greek Origin Was Uncovered | GreekReporter.com 
• The secret words from Oxyrhynchus – The Irish Catholic 
• Progressives Now See the Classics as a Gateway to the Alt-Right 
• Ancient coins – The Secular Games of The Circus Maximus 

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends an outbreak of gluttony stemming from horrible diseases.

… 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)