Hodie est  a.d. III Id. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 15 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

… another slow Monday

In the News

• British scholar takes aerial glance at Jordan’s past | Jordan Times 

In Case You Missed It

• Ancient Greek and Roman Cemetery Discovered in Egypt | News from Greeks in Africa, Asia, and Latin America 

Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Ἤδη τριάκοντα ἔτη ἄνευ τοῦ τείχους 

Fresh Bloggery

• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: November 10 
• Nature’s Judgment – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Metal sources and Trade networks in Bronze Age Europe – Novo Scriptorium 
• Tell Me Ancient Sages: Should I Take a Nap? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Arrian I.14.1.17 | The Second Achilles 

Fresh Podcasts

• The History of Ancient Greece Podcast: **Special Guest Episode on Mesopotamian Medicine w/Moudhy Al-Rashid** 

This is the seventh episode in a series where I converse with Classicists (and now Assyriologists) about either books or articles that they have published, their current research interests, or just unique classes and topics that they are teaching and exploring further. 

In today’s special guest episode, I am joined by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid, Post-Doc at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Her current research focuses on the use of metaphor in descriptions of mental distress in cuneiform medical texts, and she teaches classes on the Akkadian language and the history of science and medicine in ancient Mesopotamia.

• 034: Ptolemaic Egypt – The (Incestuous) Lion’s Brood by The Hellenistic Age Podcast 

With the death of Ptolemy I Soter, the Hellenistic World would be subject to a collection of his formidable children: Ptolemy II Philadelphos, Arsinoe II, Magas, and Ptolemy Ceraunus. We also spend considerable time discussing the incestuous royal sibling marriages that would become standard policy of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.

Dramatic Receptions

• NewVIc students perform Greek tragedy with leading classics professors | Latest Newham News | Newham Recorder 

Professional Matters

• Teaching Associate in Classics (Greek Language and Literature) at University of Bristol 
• Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography Tickets, Mon 16 Dec 2019 at 13:00 | Eventbrite

Alia

• David Nightingale: Some Roman Writings | WAMC 
• Who Will Be America’s Brutus? | History News Network 

‘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, men will give thanks to the gods because an easterly wind will blow.

… 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)