Hodie est  Kal. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 5 Poseideion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Elizabeth I revealed as secret scribe of historic manuscript – BBC News
• Tracing Back the Potters of Pompeii | CNRS News
• [possibly paywalled] Roman shipwreck full of 2000-year-old jugs found on Greek sea floor | New Scientist
• 2,000-year-old shipwreck containing Roman jugs found in Greece
• Bone Revealed To Be From Ancient Warrior Who Revolted In Egypt
• Palestinian deny archaeological evidence of Jews in Israel – Israel News – Jerusalem Post

Classics and Classicists in the News

• Boris Johnson on Professor Jasper Griffin, who taught him about heroes, life, death and glory – and the genius of Homer
• Nota Bene: Latina non mortua est; Latin is not dead – The San Diego Union-Tribune

Greek/Latin News

• Nuntii Latini mensis Novembris 2019 – Latein-Monatsnachrichten – Bremen Zwei – Radio Bremen
• Radiogiornale Latino 30.11.2019 – Vatican News
• [Ephemeris] DONALDVS PROGRESSIVVS 
• [Ephemeris] CAEDES MALENSIS. 
• [Ephemeris] ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ELIGITUR 

Public Facing Classics

• [Peter Jones] Socrates would have made the leaders’ debates real interrogations | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: November 29
• “Like the Full Moon…” Some Greek Proverbs on Gratitude – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• A Remedy for Thanksgiving Ailments – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Girls: Son et Lumiere – Ancient Portents by Elisabeth Storrs
• Podcasting Sophocles’ Antigone at UT Austin – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Xerxes achterna – Mainzer Beobachter
• Kidnapping and Theft – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Static Image Temporal Locations in the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Discovery Tour – Archaeogaming
• Karthago – Mainzer Beobachter
• A Banquet of Learning; A Dinner No-Show – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Weekend Reading: Elizabeth or Elissabeth? – Classical Studies Support
• The Wrong Monkey: Ciceronianism
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Thinking Through Thucydides
• Death Declarations: The Bureaucracy of Death in Roman Egypt – Papyrus Stories
• Maybe Just Sparknotes for Aristotle? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The causes of the Hannibalic War – Novo Scriptorium
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Open Access Journal: Pericles at Play: a Literary Classical Receptions Journal
• Unani medicine – Hippocratic medicine – Novo Scriptorium
• Plato and Friends on Why We Need to Partay – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Edithorial: How To Virtue-Signal Like a Roman
• Death Declarations: The Bureaucracy of Death in Roman Egypt – Papyrus Stories
• Roman coins in China – Novo Scriptorium
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Modern Classicisms
• Leaden Footwear for the Skinny Gentleman – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hercules Project
• Book Club | Winter 2020 | The Kosmos Society
• From The Iliad to The Irishman – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Fresh Podcastery

• The Story of Achilles and Patroclus, from Homer

In this episode, Achilles has avenged the death of his partner Patroclus, but still he struggles to let him go and his dreams are disturbed…. This story has been adapted from Homer, Iliad, various sections from Books 23 and 24. I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on Homer and my book (Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire) on ancient dreams, so this is a story very close to my heart.

• Episode T12 – Sar Matati

Synopsis: After Mithridates is struck down by an illness, his son Phraates II defends Parthian gains against the army of Antiochus VII.  Forced to retreat to Hyrcania, Phraates sets events in motion that result in the deaths of both kings.

• De Aqua Alta | Sermones Raedarii

Ante nonnullos dies Venetiis illam “aquam altam” adfuisse auscultatores auscultatricesque certiores facio.

• De Palmis Misellis | Sermones Raedarii

Actum est de meis Palmis?

• Venetiis | Sermones Raedarii

Ecce me! Venetiis versor!

Landscape Modery

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Richard Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Astrid Möller (ed.), Historiographie und Vergangenheitsvorstellungen in der Antike: Beiträge zur Tagung aus Anlass des 70. Geburtstages von Hans-Joachim Gehrke. Alte Geschichte. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Anne-Maria Wittke (ed.), The Early Mediterranean World, 1200-600 BC. Brill’s New Pauly. Supplements, 9. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018. 
• [BMCR] Nicholas Denyer (ed.), Plato: ‘The Apology of Socrates’ and Xenophon: ‘The Apology of Socrates’. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 
• Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture Around the Black Sea | Spartokos a lu

Professional Matters

• La politica è verità? Vera vocabula rerum amisimus — Centro interuniversitario di studi sulla tradizione

Alia

• Ajanta’s Roman connection: How trade with the Empire made India rich | Research News, The Indian Express
• Chester to head back in time for Winter Watch and Roman Saturnalia events | Chester and District Standard
• The Kachrylion Kylix: A Major Loan from the National Archaeological Museum, Florence | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

‘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 general well-being and cooperation.

… 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)