Hodie est  XII Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 24 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Roman-era sarcophagus with skeleton found in Turkey 
• British Museum Separates Legend From Reality In This Huge Troy Exhibition | Londonist 
• Unknown Chainmail Armors Discovered in Roman Colony Deultum near Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond 

In Case You Missed It

• Diving the Mentor: revealing the secrets of Elgin’s ship with the support of the Greek Australian community | Neos Kosmos 

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Top historians and authors to speak at free Warwick University Ancient Worlds Study Day | The Coventry Observer 

Public Facing Classics

• [Mary Beard] Blog News – TheTLS 

Fresh Bloggery

• If Philosophers Could Talk… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Time and Archaeological Legacy Data | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World 
• Sure, I’ll Read Your Manuscript On Vacation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Pindar – The ‘most vain race’ among humans – Novo Scriptorium 
• Autism and Classical Myth: Mythical Hope 9 – Cultural heritage or cultural baggage?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Gildersleeve on Luther and the Classics 
• The determined Romans expel the Celts/Gauls from the plain of the Po – Novo Scriptorium
• Paul of Aegina’s Innovative Tonsillectomy (7th century AD) – Novo Scriptorium 
• Looting Matters: Buying and Selling Papyri 
• Piraeus, Heterotopia – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Delectabilis Veterum Elegantiarum Cura – In Medias Res – Medium 

Fresh Podcasts

• Itinera Podcast: Bonus Episode: Endless Knot at SoundEdu19 

Enjoy this bonus episode of the Endless Knot with Aven McMaster and Mark Sundaram recorded at Sound Education 2019!

• Episode 42: The end of Arminius 

Hello everyone! Despite the title of the episode we will wrap up the lives of Germanicus, Maroboduus, and Arminius.  Three important characters who played a significant role in the reestablishment of the Roman Northern border and only one of them will live 10 years afterwards.  We will be discussing the price paid by these three and the immediate aftermath within Germania after the Roman threat is no more.

• QDP Ep 152: De Hieme Adveniente – Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast 

Tres amici de signis hiemis advenientis colloquuntur.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Sabine Panzram (ed.), Oppidum – civitas – urbs. Städteforschung auf der Iberischen Halbinsel zwischen Rom und al-Andalus. Geschichte und Kultur der Iberischen Welt, 13. Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2017. 
• [BMCR] Sabine Panzram, Laurent Callegarin (ed.), Entre civitas y madina: El mundo de las ciudades en la península ibérica y en el norte de África (siglos IV-IX). Collection de la Casa de Velázquez 167. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2018. 
• [BMCR] Justin R. Howell, The Pharisees and Figured Speech in Luke-Acts. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, 456. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. 

Dramatic Receptions

• Bringing a Greek tragedy to 21st-century Japan | The Japan Times 
• Thinking Iliad: Solon High’s fall play promises a fast-paced Odyssey – cleveland.com 

Professional Matters

• CFP: Vergilian Society Symposium in Italy | Society for Classical Studies 
• University of Sydney – Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature 
• University of Sydney – Lecturer in Ancient History 

Alia

• Christian destruction of the classical world – Frank Robinson: The Rational Optimist 
• Opinion: Ancient Rome’s lesson for Washington – Opinion – Burlington County Times – Westampton, NJ 

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a brief famine.

… 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)