#Thelxinoe ~ Your Morning Salutatio for December 20, 2019

Hodie est XIII Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 24 Poseideion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In Case You Missed It

• Gold Pendant Depicting Ancient Egyptian Goddess Discovered in Greece
• Tornos News | Greek authorities greenlight restoration of Ancient Amphipolis Monument

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Classics course uses Greek tragedies to provide war insights | Illinois

Public Facing Classics

• Maiden, Interrupted – EIDOLON

Fresh Bloggery

• “The Criminal We Selected”: A Fable for Our Time – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Wicker Man | Sphinx
• Rediscovery & Reception of Gandharan Art: CARC, Oxford « [quem dixere chaos]
• Update to the Onomasticon of Classical Pseudonyms and Avatars – December 2019 :: Pharos
• Customary Triviality and the Second Most Beautiful Danaan – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Hēraklēs and the Sea | The Kosmos Society
• The Effect of the Classics on Young and Old – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Here’s What Happens When You Report Plagiarism To A Journal Editor
• The Universe of Elementa – In Medias Res – Medium
• Spiritual Exercise: Consider How Much You Suck – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Fresh Podcasts

• Caligula #8 – Shamelessness – Life Of The Caesars

According to Suetonius, Caligula was quite proud of his “adiatrepsia” – shamelessness. He lived in habitual incest with all his sisters and was especially fond of Drusilla. He made her divorce her first husband and marry his friend and lover Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. In 37 he interrupted the wedding of Livia Orestilla so he could marry her himself – and then kicked her to the curb 24 hours later. Then he made Lollia Paulina divorce her husband and marry him – but he tired of her in six months. Then he married Caesonia, “a woman of reckless extravagance and wantonness”. Six months into his rule, Caligula fell seriously ill.  While he was sick in bed, Macro and Silanus apparently prepared for the worst. They started the wheels in motion for Gemellus to be declared the successor.

Professional Matters

• Special Tours For AIA / SCS – Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt And Cotsen Textile Traces Study Center | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Numéro 9 | 2019 | Revue EuGeStA
• Opinion | How the Superrich Took Over the Museum World – The New York Times
• Can’t Read Roman Numerals? We Can Teach You | HowStuffWorks
• ‘The Greeks Tried To Kill Us’ And Other Hanukkah Myths Debunked – The Forward

‘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 a shortage of necessities.

… 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)