Hodie est XIV Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 23 Poseideion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• The Parthenon that is not the Parthenon – Mainzer Beobachter
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Fresh Podcasts

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For the fifth time, listeners provide questions and Rhiannon and Matt answer!

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: The role of contests and rituals in ancient battle

With Jasper away, Murray is MC for this episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine Podcast. He is joined by Marc Marc DeSantis, Mark McCaffery and Lindsay Powell. Taking listener questions they discuss the role of contests and rituals in ancient battles.

• ‎Ancient History Fangirl: Badass Women Make Ancient History (With Kate the Exploress) on Apple Podcasts

Why were Civil War-era female spies so successful in smuggling guns across enemy lines? What secret superpower gave Scythian women an edge in battle? In heavily patriarchal ancient Greece, what made athletic, confident Spartan women so exceptional?

Badass women have existed throughout ancient history. In this bonus AHFG episode, Kate from the Exploress Podcast joins us in a freewheeling conversation that finds those women throughout the ages–from Civil War battlefields to ancient Egyptian bathrooms.

• Episode 100 – The Consulship – The Partial Historians

We’ve reached a huge milestone! One hundred episodes is quite something and we’re super chuffed to have made it this far. To celebrate we’ve put together a very special episode for you on the consulship.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Gwynaeth McIntyre, Imperial Cult. Brill Research Perspectives/Ancient History. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Response: Moore and Raymond on Miller on Moore and Raymond, Plato. Charmides. 
• [BMCR] Margalit Finkelberg, The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato’s Dialogues. Brill’s Plato studies series, volume 2. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 
• [BMCR] Jan Driessen (ed.), An Archaeology of Forced Migration. Crisis-Induced Mobility and the Collapse of the 13th c. BCE Eastern Mediterranean. Aegis, 15. Louvain-La-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2018. 
• [BMCR] Anna Cannavò​, Sabine Fourrier, Alexandre Rabot, Kition-Bamboula VII. Fouilles dans les nécropoles de Kition (2012-2014). Travaux de la maison de l’Orient, 75​. Lyon: MOM Éditions​, 2018. 

Dramatic Receptions

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Professional Matters

• CFP: “Food: Sacrificial, Spiritual, and Secular” (14th Annual TACMRS) | Society for Classical Studies
• ASPROM: Grants for the Study and Conservation of Ancient Mosaics
• People in Motion in the Ancient Greek World – 26-27/11/2020, Madrid (Spain)
• Latin Lexicography Summer School, 2020 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• How breastfeeding sparked population growth in ancient cities
• Jordan, US ink agreement to curb artefact smuggling | ZAWYA MENA Edition
• How to Walk Like a Stoic – The Good Men Project
• Archaeology’s Trojan War: The artist who took on Schliemann
• Should Herod’s Record Be Expunged? – The Santa Barbara Independent
• Should museums hand back plundered art?

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a prolongation of hostilities.

… 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)